This month, competition in the highly-coveted mobile messaging space became fierce. In response to the rising popularity of standalone messaging apps like WeChat, WhatsApp and LINE, Google launched Google Hangouts, taking personal conversations out of the existing Google+ platform and unifying all chat systems in a brand new app. In...

The more I read, the more I'm convinced that the content strategist is key to making the Internet kick butt. Unfortunately, her name contradicts her number one promise: to be clear.

So... what is content strategy? And what does the content strategist do?

Let's start with the basics. At it's...

With his arms outstretched and his face tilted slightly skyward, Fito, a 13-year old Honduran, flaps his hands through the air as he balances atop the most deadly freight train in South America. Dubbed "The Beast" by the thousands of Latin American migrants who illegally climb aboard in hopes of...

So most of us have read (or seen) the Stepford Wives, Ira Levin's dark satire that dispels any romantic vision of suburbia, revealing it instead as a carefully concocted patriarchy whose robotic-like women are literally all wire and spark. A more hilarious and disconcerting scenario? Suburbia unplugged.

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I wasn't sure quite what to expect but this certainly wasn't it. When I pushed open the large glass door into what appeared to be an expensive Madison Avenue jewelry store, I paused fearing I had the wrong address. Two couples stood scratching their chins, eyes locked to items in...

My seat by the crimson wall in the back room of Jimmy's 43 in the East Village became increasingly uncomfortable as people packed in, shuffling into line to taste perhaps the only alcoholic beverage that is difficult to come by in this great city of New York: mead. Made from...

High noon in Touba, Senegal at the country's most holy Islamic site and the air is thick and hot. Through it, the thousands of bodies bent in prayer flicker as the Imam projects a melodic chant over the loudspeaker. It's almost impossible to picture Director Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi with a...