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Clever. (the ad and the post 🙂

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About Me

Mr. Watson is the Enterprise User Experience marketing lead at Adobe, where he is primarily responsible for elevating the user’s status in the craft of enterprise platforms. He has spent many years working for companies like Yahoo!, Adobe (yes, this is his second round at Adobe) and Microsoft in senior product management and marketing roles for products such as Adobe LiveCycle, Adobe Flex, Microsoft.NET, as well as driving adoption and awareness of Web Services, AJAX and other standards and technologies related to development, security, and privacy. His work has ranged from being on tour with Bill Gates presenting to media and large audiences, working with Don Tapscott on the future of the connected car and defining the strategy for the world’s major advertisers and marketers to deliver ads on the Yahoo! Network. His work defining the strategy and delivery of media and technology solutions with various levels of government, education, law enforcement and media properties includes a broad portfolio of companies such as GM, Toyota, Sprint, Purina, American Express, Spin Magazine, Proctor & Gamble and Canadian brands such as Toronto Life, Fashion Magazine, Canadian Geographic, Bell Canada, Telus, MSN Sympatico and a few startups. His background in development technologies, software applications, media, advertising and design have taken him around the world, evangelizing technology, community and a connected life. In 2008, he was named one of the Top 10 Men in Social Media in Canada.

Areas of Expertise

Online media, video, advertising
Enterprise solutions, web services, SOA
Adobe technologies

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Adobe

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Enterprise User Experience

Position Responsibilities

User Experience
Product marketing
Community development
Product strategy

Industry

UX, technology, media, web 2.0, collaboration

Company Website

http://www.overlay.tv

Work History

Adobe – Principal Product Marketing Manager, Enterprise User Experience
First Peoples Plus – Vice President, Strategy and Business Development
Overlay.TV – Vice President, Marketing
Yahoo – Senior Director, Product Strategy
Adobe – Senior Director, Technical Evangelism (Product Management)
Microsoft – Director, Product Marketing
Key Media – Chief Technology Officer
Vickers and Benson – Account Director

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Fragmentation of Aggregation

Over the past few years, we have witnessed the emergence of a new trend that is ultimately driven out of the need for more consolidated access to data records, integration between disparate systems and the goal to provide users of systems with single access points that can share profile data across different service types.

As we as users move to aggregate our feeds and integrate our desktop experiences, the emergence of new services vying for attention simply means we have an inverse trend of f… Continue

Posted on September 16, 2009 at 7:08am —

If product placement is blatant, why is it not clickable?

I will let the video below do the talking. Feel free to turn the Overlay off using the second button on the top left, but I propose that if product placement is going to be integrated into the storyline of a video then the advertiser should be able to assert that the video/product be clickable.

I love Black Eyed Peas, and I love this video – so I added a few links to the various CDs that I could find with Overlay.TV affiliate partners. Feel free to edit this video, share it, or add the products… Continue

Posted on September 23, 2008 at 6:04pm — 2 Comments

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At 12:21am on September 21, 2009, Tomato said…: Thank you for adding me as your friend. All the best to you and welcome to Singapore.:)

At 9:23am on February 23, 2009, Amber said…: Thank you for the ad.

At 8:23pm on February 21, 2009, Steve Cropper said…: Yes I do Ben. I play the sitar – very, very poorly! Ravi Shankar I ain’t. But I love it.

At 4:36am on November 19, 2008, Anca Deac said…: Hey, thanks for the add.

At 2:44pm on October 31, 2008, Kelly Zimmermann said…: Hey thanks Ben!

At 2:20pm on October 31, 2008, Steve Hall said…: An AdGabber meetup at ad:tech would be great. I’m just not sure when. All my nights are full. Hmm. I’ll need to think about that.

At 6:35pm on September 24, 2008, Christie Cordes said…: Hi Ben (thank you for the add) I look forward to networking with you~ Christie Cordes

At 6:06pm on September 24, 2008, E Milley said…: I think you the guy i want to talk to more regarding Brightcove.tv video rankings.

At 1:57pm on May 14, 2008, Mónica Ortiz Duarte said…: Hey Ben,
I would love for you to look at my work. Check out my website: monicaortizads.com … soon… I will be doing a total face lift on my website… I want to make it scream my name lol. Let me know what you think of my work;)

Best,
Monica