My first reaction seeing the movie posters for Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close in the subways was: "Huh, it's not September." That's because the 9/11 story has been given a very narrow piece of public space to be explored. August is off limits. So is...

If you're like me, Facebook is both a blessing and a curse.

As more and more people that I'm connected with join Facebook, the more I find Facebook both valuable and noisy.

The truth is some of my actual friends are folks who I'm glad to be connected with, but...

This year's massive consumer electronics show had plenty of shiny new screens, tablets, and ultra-books.

But if you looked closely, the star of the show wasn't the hardware -- it was the emergence of the connected world that is changing the way we live.

We've all expected our TV's...

If you look at the data, New York is - today - the center of the media universe. Headquarters for 29 of global media companies - New York is 2.4x larger than the next 'HQ' city (Paris with 12 HQ's).

NYC has the largest share of US media jobs....

Each year begins for technologists and geeks with the annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas for CES. It's easy to write off this massive technology trade show as an outdated, overrated, and overhyped gizmo-fest. But I think it's incredibly valuable, and often results in real marketplace knowledge ahead of the curve.

Business used to be so simple.

Manufacturers made things. Stores stocked them. Consumers bought them. Rinse and repeat.

Ah, it sounds so quaint standing in the marketplace madness that is 2011.

Brian Solis brings to this topic his unique mix of entrepreneurism, diligent observer, and engaged analyst. He begins...

You know that feeling on a clear blue sky day. The air is crisp, the sun is shining. Everything seems right in the world.

Well, on the Web - it isn't one of those days. And we haven't had one in a while.

We wake each day to a thick,...

It sounds kind of crazy (or crazy awesome) -- a company banning email for all its employees. But this is no item from News of the Weird. Far from it. The company that banned email is Europe's largest IT company, one with 75,000 employees and $13 billion in...

The thing about customer service is that we've all had experiences where something didn't work out quite right. The first thing we wonder -- is it us? Did we do something wrong that engendered a bad customer experience? The next thing we wonder -- maybe it's an isolated experience? Perhaps...

Over the past three years New York has shifted from being a sleepy backwater of tech innovation to a red hot center of startup activity.

There are a number of reasons for this shift -- among them, the completion of the construction of the web 1.0 world... giving innovators the...

For as long as anyone can remember, Google's video personality has been deeply bipolar.

On one hand, there's YouTube, the massive consumer video storage and delivery platform that has grown so fast, and so dramatically, that its come to define what web video is. In just the 12 months ended...

Honestly, I've seen a lot of cool video stuff in the past year. Amazing social software. Cool new ad solutions. And content creators who are breaking all kinds of rules shooting music videos in moving cabs and in virtual reality.

But last week - I saw the future of video...

The early reviews are in, and Kindle Fire has gotten a few knocks. Some deservedly, some not.
As a long time Apple loyalist, and the proud owner of an iPad 2, it didn't take me more than three seconds to know that I needed to own a Kindle...

I've known a lot of writers in my life. They tend to have strong feelings about the subjects they choose to write about, and once their book is published they're even up for a good debate.

But make no mistake about it -- writing is an essentially solitary enterprise....

The next ten years of tech promise to be entirely different from the decade just ending.

Why? Does it matter? And how can we embrace the shift from tools to what tools can do?

It turns out that Steve Jobs knew this all along -- and the devices he...

For as long as I can remember, anyone with a passion for building a tech company from the ground up would have to head west. Silicon Valley was where the money, talent, and exits were.

But what do startup founders really need? And where can they best meet those needs?

Listening to Mary Meeker present to the Web 2.0 conference last week, I was trying to figure out why I like her take on the Web so much. Then it came to me: she's driven by data, for sure -- but unlike some analysts who just add up columns of...

Well, kids these days. It's easy to write off the changes in the digital world as the result of behavior that is relegated to the age of adolescents and young adulthood.

But that's wrong -- very wrong.

What's changing for young people is changing for all of us. How we...

At first blush, DATA seems like a relatively recent idea. But after spending time at the THINK exhibit at Lincoln Center, you begin to understand that data isn't something that is created by computers. Rather, it's information made more useful by computers.

The journey into the history of data is...

Hey, is that a robot in your pocket?

Robots. We all know what they look like, right? Human-shaped metallic creatures that walk around and fetch coffee and sweep the house. Whether you're thinking of C3PO from Star Wars or Rosie from The Jetsons, it's pretty clear that the future of...