Inside The Facebook Funds Scam

Yahoo!’s Facebook Suit is Bogus — And Yahoo! Knows It

The patents that Yahoo! is suing Facebook over are a crock of shit. None of them represent unique and new ideas at the time of the filing. I supect they all can be thrown out over prior art if Facebook takes the time and effort to do…

One day while I was waiting in line for my daily one free cup of coffee – a perquisite of my job of being an adjunct college professor — a colleague of mine surreptitiously stuffed this into my (enormous, paper-laden) book bag. Although the noise and confusion in the busy cafeteria and the…

How Reddit and Vimeo Make Corporate Ownership Work

These were the most defining moments for the markets in 2011, as decided by me – someone who’s relentlessly documented every event this year online, on the radio and on television.  I’ve deliberately left out certain major world events like the Fukushima earthquake, the Arab Spring, the…

Kindle Fire Review:

When Amazon opened up pre-orders for the kindle fire, I bought one immediately. I received mine on Tuesday and I’ve been playing with it for a few days. So I thought I’d post a few thoughts.

A lot of what you think of kindle fire will depend on what your use case…

Taking the Foursquare Photo Checkin to the Next Level

I’m a huge fan of the photo checkin on Foursquare. When I see a friend checkin somewhere interesting to me, I always leave a comment on that checkin saying “photo checkin pls” and I usually get one back.

The check-ins with the photos…

Thanks to the New York Times’ new architecture critic’s columns hoisting the flag for civic-minded urban design, folks have been asking me if design’s social moment has dawned. Design has always reflected social pressures and tried to express social values, but it probably is true that the…

(Disclosure: I have worked with or sought work from every entity in this column, and I’m friendly with most of the principals. So I must mean what I say.)

With shirtsleeve temperatures and trenchfuls of rain, autumn in New York this year gets me thinking about autumn in New York in 2040. …