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 [...]
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 [...]
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’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 [...]
I spent a few days at CES and while i didn’t get to walk the floor as much as i had hoped, i did get around enough to figure out what the themes were this year. Here are my thoughts: Televisions. The TV’s were amazing. In the years past, it had all been about getting [...]
2009 was a fun year. I traveled to 42 cities, 4 countries and logged over 100k miles. I also found time to stay at home and do stuff. Looking back on the year, some things really stand out. For instance: Up’s tear-jerking silent vignette. With each new film, Pixar finds some way to top itself. [...]
Raduchel recently did a post that inspired me to speak up as I’ve been carrying around both an iPhone and a Droid for the past few weeks (since Droid’s launch) and comparing the two. I’ve set the Droid as my main phone so i’m forced to use it more and get used to it. My [...]
Was watching this video today (below) with the Twitter COO. When asked about the advertising strategy, he says: You will see an advertising strategy from us in the very near future. And i think that it will be…um…fascinating and completely non-traditional and people will love it…. The genuis of Google when Google first rolled out [...]
Image via CrunchBase Just was reading about Google Maps, specifically their turn-by-turn, and its impact on the maps market. As many people know, there are 2 main players in the map market: Tele Atlas and NavTeq. Google licensed both of them for Google Maps for years. While they licensed, they also sent cars all around [...]
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