It's 5AM NYC time but 11AM in Geneva, Switzerland where I am sitting by a window looking out at the Alps and blogging furiously. On this particular over-cappucinoed and slightly xanax-induced morning I want to listen to some music in my new noise-canceling obnoxiously packaged but oh-so amazing Bose headphones....
Posted October 21, 2010 | 18:32:01 (EST)
For the first week of November in New York City, "drinks are on us," says meetMoi, a dating site hoping to lure users to their new location-based savvy iPhone app with rounds of free drinks.
Location-based you say? Yes, they are all the rage these days. But this isn't...
Posted September 24, 2010 | 16:34:16 (EST)
Searching for new music, and finding new music blogs, just got a lot more awesome. Shuffler.FM, which launched August 17th 2010, launched a new version this week with updated functionality and 1,000 new music blogs worth of sweet tunes. The site works by allowing users to pick channels...
Posted September 21, 2010 | 17:27:14 (EST)
Where is the little man behind the curtain of flight search? There has to be a cheaper flight, right? What's the trick? When to book? Where to book? Which airports? Are layovers worth the saved cash if they give you gray hairs?
MIT-grad Adam Goldstein and Reddit Co-founder Steve...
Posted September 15, 2010 | 19:19:05 (EST)
uTest, a leader in crowdsourced software testing announced September 13th that they've closed a $13 million C round investment, one of the largest investments ever made in a crowdsourcing company.
According to TechCrunch this brings the company's total funding up to $20 million. The round was...
Posted July 22, 2010 | 16:58:56 (EST)
25 years after the launch of .COM, there are more than 90 million domain names registered in the .COM extension. The .com domain space is crowded and choosing a recognizable, short domain name can be very difficult. For example, how do you think the name Yipit was born?...
Posted July 16, 2010 | 13:30:55 (EST)
The first real e-mail was sent in 1971. By the 1980s, e-mail was replacing traditional letter writing at astonishing speeds. Thirty years later, services like Gmail and Yahoo have made letters and stamps obsolete. In perhaps much more time than it should have taken, hundreds of services offering local bargains...
Posted July 7, 2010 | 11:44:32 (EST)
In case you needed one more virtual assurance that you have online friends, Fast Company has introduced "The Influence Project."
The project is an attempt to produce a quantitative social media metric, and from a marketing angle, it will undoubtedly draw more eyeballs and clicks to the Fast Company
Posted June 30, 2010 | 11:55:28 (EST)
A new extension for Google's Chrome browser has made it 100 times more enjoyable to search for and play free music on the web.
"ExtensionFM is a browser extension for Chrome that finds every MP3 file on pages you visit and automatically creates a library of those songs for you...
Posted June 23, 2010 | 13:44:05 (EST)
A smart way to organize media files launched yesterday; Libox, a portmanteau of library and inbox, is a free, all-in-one media storage solution that allows users to sync, share and access files like music, photos, or videos on any computer or smartphone with or without the Internet.
Libox...
Posted June 15, 2010 | 15:20:04 (EST)
Disruption by Design is the theme of the annual Wired Business Conference, which took place yesterday in New York City. But this year's conference wasn't about disruption as much as it was about technological evolution. We've come to yet another crossroads where we have to ask, technology is awesome and...
Posted June 14, 2010 | 16:14:08 (EST)
Today at Wired's Business Conference in New York City, Starbucks' Chairman, President and CEO Howard Schultz announced that starting July 1st, Starbucks will offer free WiFi to customers nationwide.
According to WIRED's Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson, "Starbucks is the biggest Wi-Fi network in the country."
Schultz followed this announcement with...
Posted May 27, 2010 | 13:30:10 (EST)
Soluto is looking to disrupt the software and hardware industry with its "anti-frustration" software that can "map the PC Genome." Soluto's Chief Product Officer, Roee Adler, hopes its terrific technology will "make the world a happier place." Unlike almost every other startup at TechCrunch Disrupt, Soluto presented a...
Posted May 25, 2010 | 18:29:12 (EST)
"My name is Andrey. I made this little thing which everyone liked -- well, many people liked -- and that's why I'm here. It's a little website for video connection between people."
-Andrey Ternovskiy, CEO, Chatroulette
It's not news. Traditional print media is dying and is in desperate need of...

Posted October 22, 2010 | 12:48:55 (EST)