The chart above is from (unfortunately) the last AdMob report on phone trends.  It is built based on the number of times each OS made a request to AdMob, which until Apple’s iAds get moving, is a fairly accurate measure.  The entire report can be accessed here. You can look...

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all....

There’s a question I’ve been wrestling with a lot over the last few years, can a ground swell of talented, motivated individuals without the profit motive seeking to do what is right take on the behemoth corporations.  It’s a battle that’s been fought a number of times and will continue...

The picture above is of my friends and I making sure that the referees in Tampa saw Santonio’s toes dancing in the endzone.  I love the Steelers, but I think many Pittsburghers have taken Big Ben’s troubles too seriously.  Ben Roethlisberger’s actions do not tarnish the image of this great...

Image via Wikipedia Chris Dixon is fond of calling the VC industry the R&D department of the US.  He did so on his blog, just a few days ago.  I don’t mean to catch him up in a technicality, but I have to disagree with the D.  The true power of...

The appeals for a dislike button on Facebook are mostly emotional. People want to be able to dislike their ex’s new relationship. From an entrepreneur/business perspective of making a better internet (something I discuss here), this serves no purpose. I can learn little about a person from a marketing perspective...

At the end of last month, Erik Schonfeld of TechCrunch noticed a Sysomos report that included the graph above.  He noted that it gives evidence to an important trend.  People tend to pick up their use of Twitter, months after they first start.  Schonfeld, explains this by suggesting that people...

Sometimes technologists are in the worst position to tell wether a particular technology will change the world. This is because we can only tell whether it will change our world, a world that’s often very different from that of “normals” (the term “normals” is borrowed from a brilliant blog post...

If you’ve been reading this blog long, you know that I generally post my relevant tweets on Sunday in a post I call, “Sunday Sauerkraut”.  Yesterday I used a content post instead.  Why?  Because I already had the content post written and all I had to do was click publish....