Location, location, location… Now what?

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I eagerly (too eagerly) hopped on the Highlight app bandwagon back in January when it was briefly the rage where I live in San Francisco. I wrote about this phenomenon here. There are a LOT of great things about location based services that I pointed out in my previous article. I strongly believe that any technology [...]

The Future of Mobile

Where are we in the mobile revolution

So what does the future of mobile look like? Last year, the number of smart phones sold exceeded the number of PCs sold – this is a first! And it’s still early days. Mobile will dwarf PC rapidly over the next few years. 2011 was the year half of americans ditched “dumb” phones for smart [...]

Highlight App Is A Game Changing Location App

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The Highlight App is a perfect example of a new breed of applications that is freaking people out… Most of these extended permission apps freak out privacy-wary people who are afraid to login to anything with an email or a social login due to potential ramifications of being over-identified, located, retargeted, followed, spammed, etc… The [...]

What G+ really about (pst!!! it’s not social)

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Interesting look at how Google’s implementing of Google Plus is a trojan horse. Not for the social network space, but as a land-grab for the massive growth of applications and cloud computing. (I personally disagree and think Google needs to catch up with FB on authentic identity and a web built around people). What G+ [...]