(Many of you who read this blog may be too young to be able to relate to this but read on. It’s not complicated and you may actually like the idea.) For those of you have been to this thing called a “bookstore” or an airport recently you will understand the joy that is felt, standing in front of the magazine rack and letting the visual sensory overload, wash over you. Hundreds...
I have a standard joke about leaving your liver at home in a jar on the nightstand if you intend on getting faced – as we used to say. Imagine my surprise when @jaylynstoesz, one of my students, forwarded me this app. Once you get beyond the novelty of this app, it’s actually pretty interesting for several reasons. Shared experience – Connecting you with other people are...
200 enterprise execs were asked how they were going to tackle mobile applications in 2014 and this is what they said!
$19 billion!??!?!?!!? That’s what I first thought when I heard about the WhatsApp acquisition and to be quite honest – I’m still thinking that. How in the hell are you going to monetize a messaging service?!!?!?  You can’t charge for it? It’s free now and the barriers to leave the service are nonexistent. (500k users left the first day after the announcement.)...
I love the Tiles concept and the only thing I wish it would do is pull it up on a map instead of waiting for other community members be contacted. Enjoy!
Refresh is an app that provides an amazing level of social context to any social situation. I love the tag line, You’ll never talk about the weather again. Enjoy!
If you use Flipboard or Pulse, Facebook Paper will feel painfully similar. Except I assume you can only get content from Facebook. #walledGarden
Jelly is a pretty good idea and how many of us use our network. What @biz has done is put that mechanism into one interface. Think Localmind, but for everything. (Actually this is how a lot of people that I know use Twitter.) Enjoy!
Yahoo bought them! They are one of the many cool little companies Yahoo has acquired over the past year.  Below is a list of some of them and you definitely get a feeling that Marissa had many to-do’s on her list. Stamped Summly Tumblr (not so little) Evntlive Rockmelt IQ Engine Imgur (maybe) “What was Ptch?”, you may ask. If Instagram allowed you to create vignettes with...
Check out this app from Super Pedestrian. Pretty cool! Enjoy!