Aside from the technology, the clients, the gambling and the smoke-filled hotel lobbies, JESS3 came to CES to be together. As a highly distributed company (22 full time team members and 150+ part time team members in dozens of countries all over the world), we took the opportunity to break pretzels and down spicy Thai […]

3D televisions and tablets aside, the countless number of people clustered around power outlets throughout the Las Vegas Convention Center shows that a gadget recharge may be the most in demand commodity at CES. Fortunately, Stephane Derrien, the sales and marketing director of Oyama Mobility, tagline: took pity on me. For the past day I’ve […]

While wandering through NBC’s booth at CES 2011 we discovered that NBC’s Scifi channel Syfy is launching a Massive Multiplayer Online Game called Rift to accompany a new sci-fi show they’ll be unveiling in the next 2 years. They refused to say nearly anything about the details of how the game will integrate and influence […]

After spending the last few weeks demoing the Samsung Galaxy Tab (which I have come to really enjoy due to its large pocket-sized form factor), I’ve been excited to come to CES to preview some of the new innovations in the tablet area. After all, reports indicate that there will be close to 80 tablets […]

Nearly 12 years ago in July 1999, ABC Nightline brought a “redesign the shopping cart” challenge to famed (and JESS3-beloved) product innovation shop IDEO. They also gave them just 5 days to do it in. After having posted about some of the ingredients to success at JESS3 (see: You Are Only As Good As Your […]

Bravo made its understanding and love for geosocial known back in early 2010 by launching a deeply involved branded foursquare page, one of the first of its kind. To end the year, the network invited their followers on foursquare to check in for a chance to see their profile name and picture appear live on […]

(illustration via ft.com) After having the honor of sharing his predictions for the digital advertising world in 2011 on both Mashable and AdExchanger late last year, JESS3’s Founder and CEO Jesse Thomas rounded out his tour of precognition with a guest spot on The Engage Show with Patrick Ruffini today. Also making a debut on […]

Think you know everything there is to know about the wonderful world of Twitter apps? Since its debut in 2006, Twitter has grown to be an invaluable tool both professionally and socially for its millions of users. In Spring of 2009, we partnered with Brian Solis to create a graphic which mapped out the dozens […]

It’s one of our greatest dreams at JESS3 to someday have a fashion empire – we saw great success with our Hometown lettering shirts at the Arlington County Fair earlier this year, and love to spend time exploring and sketching design possibilities may it be fantastic creatures, crests, nods to our favorite sports teams, or […]

As a follow up to our award-winning marketing work with Eloqua (The Content Grid, The Social Media Playbook, and A Case for Content), we have released an exciting new graphic today: The Blog Tree. The Blog Tree maps out the marketing blog structure from the most prominent blogs at the roots through the leaves which […]