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Kevin is a journalism geek who hails from Chicago, Illinois. He spent more than three years working in New York City’s “Silicon Alley” building the content enrichment firm Inform Technologies. He is now a second-year master’s candidate at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School in Los Angeles. He is executive editor of Neon Tommy, a Web-only news organization devoted to innovating in the Web media space and serving its community. Kevin is drawn to opportunities where budding technologies intersect with reporting and information sharing. He makes many of his decisions based on the relative proximity of good coffee shops.
People like to be rewarded for things they would probably do anyway. Hence it stands to reason that sooner or later someone would capitalise on this.And that is what entertainment check-in network GetGlue did -- by offering real and virtual incentives for consuming media online.GetGlue, founded in 2009 by New York City entrepreneur Alex Iskold, has pioneered the media check-in space, piggybacking on the Foursquare phenomenon with more than one million users earning stickers and discounts as they ...
Apple CEO Steve Jobs made a surprise appearance at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on Wednesday as Apple debuted the iPad 2.
"We've been working on this product for awhile, and I didn't want to miss it," Jobs said before launching into the presentation.The iPad 2 features a new, faster OS (iOS 4.3) with dual-core processor, two cameras (front and back), offered in two colours (black and white) and 1/3 thinner (making it thinner than the iPhone 4). It ...
Rupert Murdoch is the biggest man in media. Apple is one of the hottest companies in tech. The two have teamed up to make a run at a new kind of news organisation, creating a tablet-only paid product that could reinvent the news subscription model.Called The Daily, Murdoch’s brainchild staffs more than 50 top-tier journalists and will only be available as an iPad app through at least 2012. The News Corp. CEO introduced the product to mixed ...
Quora is not a brand new site but it is surging out of the gate like a massively hyped startup. After a few influential tech bloggers saved it from obscurity in December, Quora now has the momentum to make a run at greatness.At its core, Quora is a "questions and answers" site, but its ingenious use of Twitter-inspired social connections and user-generated tagging has the company on a winning path towards finding critical mass.If it is to win the battle ...
By now, the illustrious “fourth screen” is a common term--that of the mobile device, still the holy grail for media companies and advertisers.At the North American International Auto show(NAIAS) in Detroit, it became clear that the era of the “fifth screen” is upon us: The one inside people’s vehicles. Unfortunately for consumers, these "mobile" systems tend to have substantial usability problems.Ford, once known for classics like the Mustang, Cobra and GT then emerging with the family-friendly (and dull) Taurus in ...
The audience at Le Web in Paris was stunned last week when Jason Goldman, the beloved VP of Product at Twitter for the last four years, announced he is leaving the company.He tweeted afterward: “Thanks so much everyone at Twitter for the best job I could ever imagine. It's been amazing and I think the future will be even brighter.”Goldman’s departure, hot on the heels of former CEO Evan Williams’ resignation, has revealed a growing schism between the product side ...
Diaspora, the open source social network that puts user privacy above all else, is now rolling out in private alpha. The question is: can it hold its own against Facebook, or MySpace, or even Ning? Early indications seem to indicate that the answer is no.Although Facebook has run into backlash several times over its approach to users’ information, it continues to grow like gangbusters, surpassing more than 550-million unique users in October, according to ComScore.Clearly, privacy concerns are something plenty ...
Reporting from the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco.Project Titan is a secret no longer.Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Monday that the company will begin rolling out a "modern messaging system," a tightly-integrated experience that will enable users to manage their e-mail directly from Facebook.com.Zuckerberg was clear that e-mail is only a part of the new offering, however.Young people find email 'too slow'"We don’t think that a modern messaging system is going to be email,” he said. Facebook's existing ...
Way back in February of 2010, Michael Arrington wrote on TechCrunch that "Facebook is completely rewriting their messaging product and is preparing to launch a fully-featured webmail product in its place, according to a source with knowledge of the product. Internally it’s known as Project Titan. Or, unofficially and perhaps over-enthusiastically, the Gmail killer." Facebook has been in lockdown all summer long developing a range of new features, and commentators are expecting big things from the event.
Memeburn's San Francisco correspondent ...
