I am a huge Foursquare users. I registered the day that it launched at SXSW, I’m mayor of sixteen places and have checked in over 450 days. Whenever i go to a place, i immediately think of checking in. I’ve also tried out all of the competitors, such as Loopt and Gowalla. While those are [...]
The future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed. – William Gibson I did see the future this summer – just in bits and pieces. Let me explain…. As many of you know, i had an amazing experience at Techstars this summer. Not only did we evolve our company Kapost in a new and [...]
I read a great post that opened my eyes to something interesting going on about Facebook’s privacy issue. The issue has to do with how they position themselves in regard to being either a communications platform or a content platform – and how this impacts how they treat privacy. If you look at this chart: [...]
This past weekend i watched this video from Fred Wilson about what are the 10 Golden Principles of a Web application. Fred has been an investor for over 20 years and is on the board of some of this decade’s premier companies such as Twitter, FourSquare, Tumblr, Etsy, Delicous, and more. The 10 Golden Principles [...]
This month, The Daily Beast pointed out in “Tech’s 29 Most Powerful Colleges” and it had Dartmouth at the top. As The Beast says, Our goal was to identify which colleges, compared student-for-student, have turned out the most undergraduates destined for high-tech greatness. While our results included many prestigious names, the rankings produced surprises as [...]
There’s been lots of talk about how Apple’s market cap is about to equal Microsoft’s. People love to discuss this because of the battle the two companies have fought over the past 3 decades. Microsoft famously beat out Apple for PC dominance in the 80′s and 90′s by being open while Apple remained stubbornly closed. [...]
I went to the International Symposium on Online Journalism this past Friday and Saturday. There were a variety of speakers at this conference. I noticed that there were three types of participants. There were: Traditionalists Journalists Pioneers looking for new ways to publish. The current revenue model in publishing is changing and the traditionalists [...]
There was an announcement today from Last.fm that read: CBS-owned (NYSE: CBS) social music discovery and radio service Last.fm announced on Tuesday that it is discontinuing the on-demand song streaming service on its website, which had been available for the past two years in the U.S., U.K. and Germany, and will no longer host music [...]
There’s an intersting advertising network that i learned about at SXSW this week called The Deck. They do one thing differently and it substantially impacts everything else: they get rid of the CPM. Selling ads by the 1000 holdover from the days of print media and TV where companies wanted to align ads to circulation [...]
I’m not sure if you’ve heard about the iPad. Unless you’ve been under a rock, you can’t avoid the Apple madness. I’m up in San Francisco this week and couldn’t help but feel the Apple riptide and get drawn into the hype. So I watched the announcement and here are my thoughts The iPad is [...]
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