Current Editorials

I want you to picture this: someone walks into Best Buy, sashays over to their pile of (mostly horrible) notebooks, finds a salesperson, and asks for the HP Envy Spectre XT. Did  you laugh? You should have. Look at that name. Write it down. Say it. Anyway you approach it, HP Envy Spectre XT is … Continue reading »

Asking a consumer to love you first is a horrible way to build a business. Disclaimer: I wanted to write this blog post because I wanted to publish @Demo’s photo of Dave McClure flipping off someone in the crowd. It’s a good thing your mother wasn’t at Startup Weekend Mega. There was a lot of … Continue reading »

A new way to do social media arrives with Storify by creating automatic stories from a user’s chosen social sources. They recently won the top award for social media at this year’s SXSW Interactive Festival. Their contribution includes more than 1,000 stories built in five days about SXSWi. After coming out of private into public … Continue reading »

The biggest story coming out of SXSW is the utter destruction of battery life by Highlight. Farhad Manjoo believes the impending 4G smartphone overload will become a conundrum for smartphone makers, and MG Siegler says smartphone battery space needs to be disrupted. Gruber doesn’t think it’s a “slam-dunk” that the next iPhone will receive LTE … Continue reading »

After the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, strict regulations were imposed on startups and smaller companies by the Securities and Exchange Commission, limiting their access to capital and information that could be provided to their investors.  These tighter regulations limited the ability of companies focused on innovation to successfully scale up quickly.  The Jumpstart Our … Continue reading »

Hey! Did you hear that Apple announced a new iPad on Wednesday? Of course you did, you’re alive! Yes, Apple finally unveiled their latest tablet on Wednesday, and no, it’s not called the iPad 3 or the iPad HD. It’s actually just called “The new iPad”, but we’ll get to that. The device itself was … Continue reading »

Revised: 02.14.2012   Everybody likes free stuff, because getting something for free makes us happy. Be it a sample of a product at a store, or winning a prize in a contest, there isn’t a single person out there who would tell you they do not like getting things for free. In today’s modern internet … Continue reading »

Some hate them. Some love them. Regardless of your position on them, they are here, and they are powerful. Anonymous, a collection of hackers and activists, have essentially become the Internet’s bouncer. Some question their effectiveness, and belabor their techniques. Others swear by them, hailing them as 21st century activists. One thing is certain; they aren’t … Continue reading »