The 8 Questions You Need to Answer to Decide if You're a Curator
An excerpt from the new book: Curate This! The Hands-on, How-To Guide To Content Curation As the word curation moves to the center of the content world, I get asked every day... "should I be a...
View ArticleTime to Redefine and De-Silo Online Safety Efforts
I'm in Washington DC to attend the Family Online Safety Institute's (FOSI) annual conference that gets underway on Wednesday. This year's theme is Redefining Internet Safety, and while I don't yet know...
View Article(VIDEO) Virool Expands from Self-Service Video Marketing Tool to Programmatic...
Virool, the San Francisco-based video programmatic ad company, which launched in 2012 with a self-service platform for small producers, has expanded its offering  to include to big ad agencies, trading...
View Article'Text to Ya Later!': In Defense of the Phone Call
Remember the days when you'd fall in love with someone and talk on the phone late into the night? Staring up at glow-in-the-dark stars on the ceiling, you believed those effortless hours of...
View ArticleSocial Media's Ugly Shadow: When Greater Visibility Hurts
photo credit Kristy Hom / Flickr In this season of All Hallows Eve, when what normally stays in the shadows comes out for all to see, I want to bring up a topic that we don't often talk about. Namely,...
View ArticleFirefox's New 'Forget' Button Erases Specific Pieces Of Your Browser History
Have you been searching for the perfect birthday present and don't want your significant other to find out? Or perhaps you share a computer and don't want anyone to know you spent half a day trying to...
View ArticleRejoice! Instagram Now Lets You Edit Captions
Instagram announced on Monday that you can now edit photo captions after you've posted them. Many of us need only one word to summarize our feelings about this: FINALLY. This is huge news for the app's...
View ArticleThe Netherlands Gets The World's First Solar-Powered Bike Lane
This story was originally published by City Lab and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It's tough to make cycling any greener, but the Dutch have done just that with a bike...
View ArticleSnapdeal -- the Flourishing Company America Passed On -- Offers a Lesson...
After graduating from Wharton in 2007, Kunal Bahl wanted to become an entrepreneur. He couldn't get a visa, so he had to return home to India. He started Snapdeal in February 2010 with the ambition of...
View ArticleReader's Digest Will Now Pay You For Your Clever Tweets
Reader's Digest will now pay you for your clever, 140-character musings -- $25 to be exact. After the magazine printed a tweet from comedian Dan Wilbur without his permission, this past September, the...
View ArticleThis Is What It's Like To Fly Above Manhattan
George Plimpton once wrote, “From above, the city looks empty: so little moves that is discernible. All the descriptive adjectives about New York -- ‘teeming,’ ‘bustling,’ ‘cacophonous,’ and so forth...
View Article70 Best Apps For Families
The Parents team tapped moms, dads, and kids to test tons of apps and find the ones that are most intuitive to use, best priced, and super helpful. These are our favorites to help with everything from...
View ArticleNavigating Relationships in a Digital World
This article originally appeared on TheChalkboardMag.com People, we have an information problem. Every week, I field text messages and calls from friends and clients in a state of panic with their...
View ArticleKids Attempt To Use Film Cameras, Have No Idea What's Going On
Who's ready for an "old-time selfie"? In the latest Kids React episode, comedy duo The Fine Bros. present a group of kids with point-and-shoot cameras. Overall, the kids are not too impressed with the...
View ArticleHacking the Law: Apps That Protect Legal Rights
Twenty years ago, I cut my teeth as a young legal aid lawyer representing tenant associations in tenement buildings in Harlem and Washington Heights in New York City. Landlords, sometimes...
View ArticleThere Is No Such Thing as Free WiFi: Understanding the Business of the Internet
As someone who has been in the technology space for some time, I've always thought about how ironic the term "free WiFi" is and how we really don't understand that it's not really free. Don't get me...
View ArticleFCC Chairman Tom Wheeler: 'We Must Take The Time' To Get Net Neutrality Rules...
WASHINGTON, Nov 10 (Reuters) - U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler on Monday welcomed President Barack Obama's comments on his work on new Internet traffic, or "net neutrality,"...
View ArticleBye Whatsapp, Hello Telegram (And Later... Bye TG, Hello WhatsNext)
It started casually enough. A group of Young Global Leaders, a community established by the World Economic Forum, were going to the annual conference in Davos in Jan 2014. With over one hundred of the...
View ArticleThe New Yorker To Premiere Docu-Series On Amazon Instant Video
The New Yorker has teamed up with Amazon to produce a half-hour documentary series titled "The New Yorker Presents," Amazon announced in a statement on Tuesday. Slated to premiere exclusively on Amazon...
View ArticleGoogle's Eric Schmidt: Robin Hood or the Big Bad Wolf?
Google, Google, Google. Is the glass half-empty or half-full? To the world at large, Google and its executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, position the company as an Internet Robin Hood. Google takes the...
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