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Regardless of the privacy, paranoia, and stalker issues, geolocation apps aren’t going anywhere. As a matter of fact, they’re getting more invasive — or better, depending on how you look at it. And to drive the point home, it was also one of the bigger noises coming out of SXSW (The South By Southwest Interactive [...]
After working in the digital world for 16 years, I realize every now and then that I take some things for granted. One of those things is that everyone has finally embraced digital as the new standard medium. They haven’t. Of course, I also thought this in 2007, when I went to a big agency. [...]
A few months ago, I turned on the TV in the background as I got ready for work. A report came on that caught my ear. “Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore are splitting up,” it announced. While I’m a big fan of Demi Moore from years ago, I’m not exactly a celebrity news junkie. It’s [...]
A few days ago, Talent Zoo’s Miranda Miller posted a great article about why we should call BS on Facebook’s response to a recent post by a hacker called Nik Cubrilovic. Our buddy Nik offered some interesting information: Facebook is stealing sucking in data from us users. Miranda warned us, but we probably won’t [...]
I'm going out on a limb here, but this whole Netflix mess? It's not Reed Hastings' or his company's fault. It's bigger than that. But let's take a look at how we got here. A few years ago, I saw an interview of Reed Hastings and I thought he was a visionary. He grew his business organically, [...]