If I've learned anything in the past few months, I have learned that sometimes it is crucial that you replace a few hours a day where you would be (mini)feeding yourself with everyone else's junk and sit with that hunger inside you.
Through the years I've found that trends can come from some unlikely sources. But never was I more surprised than when I discovered my (then) 8-year-old son would turn out to be a technology trendsetter.
Today, it is not at all uncommon for an artist to accumulate thousands of social networking "friends," in hopes of finding support, encouragement and exposure. The problem is that many, if not most, of those "friends" are really strangers.
We get it: you're engaged, you're happy, and you want to tell the world. Who can blame you for that? In the age of social media, however, there's a fi...
Like everyone else, my original feed was a rag tag line up of cocktail shots, playground photos, late night blurs, about-to-be-eaten dishes and Roman monuments, contributed by anyone who showed up in my friend directory and yours truly.
Just like grumpy editors wielding red pens, a burgeoning category of sites and apps are battling the share-everything trend with offerings that actually limit what we can say about ourselves.
It started with a simple message from Facebook: "Shawn Hayes has sent you a friend request. Click Confirm or Not Now." Definitely now, I thought as I clicked to accept.
Like The Tonight Show, the App Store is not just about blockbusters, but also more niche titles that appeal to a variety of tastes.
We drove west from San Sebastian scaled the mountains of Cantabria then descended through Asturias on the way to the Galician coast. Finally, we hopped a train for Portugal.
For many companies, that "native versus HTML" is almost a religious debate. "Forcing a channel is a mistake," says GrubHub's founder Mike Evans.
A world where we're surrounded by alerts -- everywhere, anyplace, anytime -- suggesting ideas for what we might want to do or buy next. Sure sounds a lot like advertising, doesn't it?
When pre-revenue startups with less than 15 employee, such as Instagram, have 10-figure exits in less than two years, it's reasonable to ponder how today's app economy compares to the dot-comedy of the late '90s.
There's a lot of noise to sift through to find the good stuff. But rest assured, there are certain chefs, writers, photographers, and others who go above and beyond with the quality of their shots.
The same week news broke that Facebook would acquire Instagram, two travelers used the app to shoot their Baja California expedition, capturing a $1 billion memory of a gorgeous wilderness.
Shooting with Instagram on the iPhone is far from an ideal way to capture dance. Especially the way I like to capture it.
I can definitely sense that the second we mention the words "social" or "cloud" our objectivity in judging businesses dissipates.