Legacy Archive

"It's a ghost town." "I'm used to Facebook." "I already have all of my pictures and stuff on Facebook." "The mobile apps are getting better. They promised...

Someone should have seen this coming. Someone should have said something. After forking over $200 million to buy OMGPOP for the singular purpose of...

There was a time not too long ago when the only employees who could be considered "mobile" were the high-powered executives with cellular phones in their...

Had I known it was going to be the last ROFLcon, I would have made it my first. Unfortunately for those such as myself who have never made it out to MIT...

There is value in Yahoo. It's real and tangible. While conventional wisdom would look at the trends and the follies of the beleaguered tech firm as a sign...

Sensitive data has always been a challenge to deliver securely. Even in the days of the Spartans, military commanders would use ingenious encryption...

When a product becomes synonymous with the general term for the item itself, it can own the market. To paraphrase Ra's Al Ghul from Batman Begins, "If you...

Facebook was started in a dorm room at Harvard, so it's fitting to see that the social network is most popular there when compared to other Ivy League...

The dorm rooms that are often the most visited by friends are the ones with a fridge, a Playstation, and a Bose stereo. The gadgets and features of the...

May the Fourth be with you! Its Star Wars day and there is no better day than this to let your nerd hang out and go see Marvel’s Avengers this weekend....

They say you have to spend money in order to make money. The problem for Yelp is that they may be spending too much money compared to what they're...

Identity and insights meet at the junction of LinkedIn and SlideShare as the professional social network just purchased the presentation sharing site for...

If there's one thing that everyone can agree on when it comes to mobile technology, it's that the industry is huge and growing. Smartphones, tablets, and...

At some point, nearly every social media startup intends to make money. Tumblr has held off for quite some time, but now they are about to roll out their...

Most advances in technology are synonymous with increased costs and unclear effects on liability exposure. However, that is not necessarily the case...

Marketing execs drinking midday highballs on Madison Avenue are posh and glamorous. No wonder then that some businesses still hold traditional media...

Less-useful than a laptop, less-awesome than a tablet, the netbook market has suffered the most in the past two years with the rise of the iPad (and other...

There's a reason why mothers shouldn't judge their children in beauty pageants, why chefs rarely run the business side of restaurants successfully, and...

Merchant tools on Foursquare are free and the company claims to want to always keep them that way. It's challenging for Foursquare to make money when they...

Samsung is knocking off the top players in mobile. First, they ousted Nokia to become the top mobile phone vendor in the world for Q1 of 2012. Then they...

There was a time not too long ago when technology bloggers and pundits (myself included) believed that email was going away. We thought that the system...

We knew the day was coming. Ever since Google announced the discontinuation of the failed social media... something... that they launched 3 years ago, the...

There are two reasons to never watch trailers of movies that you already know you're going to watch. You get to see things that make you worry that it...

The days of middle-aged caucasian males running American businesses are behind us. Today, it takes talent from around the world of every race, gender, and...