Brett Greene

The latest buzz around Facebook revolves around General Motors dropping their annual Facebook advertising spend of $10mm. This news comes on the heels of weeks of speculation on whether Facebook can improve its weak position with mobile internet users to validate its pre-IPO valuation. Facebook has...

Every day we go online, read news, share on social media sites, listen to music, research everything from how to cook a recipe to how the latest health fad can slim our waistlines. Each click of the mouse as we do these things leaves breadcrumb trails of our interests, needs...

Dick Clark passed away Wednesday. My first reaction was, "Wow, Ryan Seacrest, who has idolized Dick Clark, has officially filled those shoes for younger generations." Dick Clark started with American Bandstand on the national level as Ryan Seacrest started with American Idol...

Government surveillance of citizens has been going on for decades. In fact, the most current example is John McCain's cybersecurity SECURE IT Act. The ACLU's Michelle Richardson has said of the bill, "This is a privacy nightmare that will eventually result in the military substantially monitoring...

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House of Representatives and the Protect IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate are well meaning, but if passed, will be destructive to internet freedoms we've all come to expect as well as forces that have helped innovation on...

Recently I attended the one-year anniversary of House of Genius. Not surprisingly, I wasn't invited because I'm a genius, but to offer me an opportunity to help create genius with others.

House of Genius is an entrepreneurial community service that assembled 380 professionals from various fields to...

While many people are finding it challenging to make time to manage multiple social networks, many businesses are faced with even steeper challenges. Connecting with friends is one thing, while managing customer service, marketing, consumer experiences, research and development, community management and more through social media is a larger affair....

After writing an article on forgiving student loan debt as a way to stimulate the economy I was alerted to the fact that Robert Applebaum has a website dedicated to this cause. The following interview with Robert Applebaum takes us deeper into what millions of Americans...

The only thing that seems to be as popular as the Occupy Movement these days is bashing Netflix. A lot of this upset is warranted in how they increased prices 60%, announced splitting the company into two separate services for streaming video and DVDs, and backtracked...

All attempts so far to create economic policies to stimulate the economy have failed. The economic stimulus act of 2008 proved to be a partial success or absolute failure depending on whose opinion you agree with. Regardless of how this act affected banks like Goldman Sachs and Bank...

News and speculation about Google+ is flowing faster than the Boulder creek during this monsoon season. We're not even three full weeks into the release, you still have to receive an invite to get in, and Google+ users are already expected to hit 10...

ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers just approved extending top-level domain names. Currently, there are 22 general top-level domains and, with this historical vote, that number will now increase to as many as our imaginations can create.

What this means is...

Yesterday the Federal Trade Commission took the first steps towards creating a Do Not Track feature to allow internet users to opt-out of having companies obtain data on their online surfing habits. This mechanism is being designed in the spirit of the Do Not Call registry...

Do you remember life before fax machines, email and searching online? Do you remember making an appointment to see your doctor to get an opinion without being able to Google professional and everyday opinions on your computer first? It's like a movie you watched years ago with a plot that's...

Before you read the full story, I want to start with the fact that Vonage gave me great customer service, but getting there was an unnecessary adventure.

Back in August of 2009 I signed up for a Vonage phone line when AT&T dumped their VoIP service in...

On Wednesday, Thomas Frey, executive director of the DaVinci Institute, serving also as the organization's Senior Futurist, announced what may be the world's most challenging competition, a contest that will involve sending a probe to the center of the earth.

The "Race to the Core" competition is being...

Last week was the week of 'instant.' It began with the launch of Google Instant, which added a new evolution to online searches. And then almost instantly, we saw the birth of Google Instant : Maps, Google Instant: Images, YouTube Instant,...

Labor Day 2010 will forever be remembered in Boulder as the day the Four Mile Canyon fire began to burn. Today, two days later, over 7,000 acres and 140 structures (including 9 homes owned by fire fighters) have been consumed by the fire that is still burning.

In...

There are great articles all over the web about the amazing new features of the iPhone 4. There are also almost as many articles about the problems the iPhone 4 has.

But what's more interesting from a psychological perspective is how each new iPhone release ups...

In Louisville, Colorado it's common to run into Thomas Frey in the grocery store, working out at the rec center, or greeting people at events hosted by the DaVinci Institute. But outside the mundane city life in Colorado, Tom has emerged as one of the world's...