It has been a full generation since the last time I can remember the definitive, most credible perspectives on a major tech news story happening across multiple...
People are wrong on the Internet every day; generally I don’t try to fuss about that too much. But when Sam Lessin, a former VP of Product Management at...
Today, for about half an hour in the afternoon, pretty much every app that you might try on your iPhone would likely have crashed upon opening it. It's probably...
We don’t do nearly enough to examine what it means when we perform common actions on our social networks. These aren’t just guttural, reflexive responses! They...
Late on Wednesday, just as Americans were taking off for the Thanksgiving holiday, Facebook announced its intention to change the feedback process for the...
Today marks the launch of The Internet Association , a laudable effort from a number of prominent Internet technology companies to address our industry’s...
Most users on the web spend most of their time in apps. The most popular of those apps, like Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Tumblr and others, are primarily focused...
Well, it seems like my post on how Facebook is gaslighting the web struck a nerve with a lot of folks. I have to give first priority to publishing the responses...
Facebook has moved from merely being a walled garden into openly attacking its users’ ability and willingness to navigate the rest of the web. The evidence that...
Today, ThinkUp is out of beta and available for free . If you have a presence on Twitter, Facebook or Google+ and know how to run a PHP/MySQL app on a web...
I’m quoted in today’s New York Times , talking about how politicians in this year’s election have had to confront their pasts, as shared through social...
As ever, the best thing about blogging is the conversations it kicks off. Some nice responses to recent posts here and around the web: In a follow-up to Gourmet...