I’m late to the Instagram party (I define late as discovering my first name has already been claimed as a username; if you’re curious I’m grabbed Tylda instead) and I’m hooked. Its simplicity makes discovering images a joy and its community is overwhelmingly positive, lacking the anonymous trolls that usually…
I love the World Cup. I love how nearly every bar and restaurant brags about airing all the games, and seeing which ones attract the die-hard fans. I love the fans’ passion and energy and hearing bursts of cheering from my window even when I’m not watching the game. During…
I was stuck in a traffic jam yesterday while heading back to New York from a wedding in Virginia. We passed a sign in Maryland announcing the last exit until the state line and regretted not taking it when we stopped moving shortly after. Because I had an iPhone, I…
MobileBehavior has a smart post on geolocation and how knowing where someone is doesn’t tell you why they’re there. If networks were to push advertising based on location alone, it would most likely be spam. This is because location isn’t the same as context, or the set of circumstances or…
Research firm Gartner says mobile phones will overtake computers as the most common web access device by 2013. That’s coming up quickly, but not entirely unfeasible on a global scale, given how quickly mobile has grown. New devices, like Apple’s rumored tablet, will foster the habit of web browsing on…