Social Ed. Some thoughts on the next generation's facebook obsession.

New tumblr post: On Path: What Were You Expecting?

Last week, Arun Thampi, a programmer in Singapore, discovered that the mobile social network Path was surreptitiously copying address book information from users’ iPhones without notifying…

“All this social media nonsense is destroying our community,” a prominent venture capitalist told me on the phone a couple of weeks ago. It was a throw away comment in a larger…

Location based service Gowalla is going to shut down at the end of January. The two founders, Josh Williams and Scott Raymond, will be heading off to Facebook. Loyal Gowalla users will be stranded…

If you use Twitter, you are no doubt familiar with the hashtag, #firstworldproblems. It's used to convey a sense of ironic perspective as in "Ever since getting my iPhone 4S, I keep trying to talk…

Editor’s note: Guest contributor Nate Bolt runs the UX firm Bolt | Peters, teaches design research at SVA iXD, and made that one SF to Paris time lapse. I…

New tumblr post: Foursquare On The Big Screen

This guest post was written by Joe Green , the Founder and President of Causes . Causes is the largest online…

Instapaper’s (anti-)social network …

I’m fascinated by Dan Lyons’s take on Google acquisition of Motorola today, “ Suck on It, AppleSoft — Google Pulls a Rope-a-Dope ”: Everyone was baffled when Google made those crazy bids for the Nortel patents last month. Remember? They bid things like the distance from the earth to the sun, the number pi, and some other wacky…