Can Civil Comments Kill The Internet Troll?
To paraphrase an oft seen Internet trollism, ‘Internet comments are the worst thing since Hitler’. By which I mean: they suck. They suck bad. No,…
October 2015
An Inside Look At Upthere, The Company Aiming To Be Your Personal Cloud
The year is 2015 and yet the promise of the “personal cloud” has failed me. There are tons of drag and drop and syncing “backup…
How To Extract More Than Capital From Your VCs
The relationship between VCs and their portfolio companies has changed significantly over the past five or so years. In many ways it is still the…
Apple’s testing the waters with rare discount on Apple Watch and iPhone bundle
Generally speaking, Apple doesn’t believe in discounts. Save for its back-to-school and stingy Black Friday sales, Apple’s devices cost a certain price, and that’s the…
The History Of Gaming: An Evolving Community
Since its commercial birth in the 1950s as a technological oddity at a science fair, gaming has blossomed into one of the most profitable entertainment…
How to be human: how do I win back my high school friend?
Leah Reich was one of the first internet advice columnists. Her column “Ask Leah” ran on IGN, where she gave advice to gamers for two…
Sacca To Shark Tank: “I Will Not And Cannot Do It If I Have To Wear A Suit”
If you’re not familiar with Shark Tank, it’s ABC’s show that drops companies in front of investors from all walks of life, including the very…
VSCO Takes On Instagram’s Boomerang With Its New GIF Creation App DSCO
VSCO, one of the few apps to give Facebook’s Instagram solid competition with a photo editing application aimed at more serious mobile photographers, is today releasing…
Liquid Bitcoin
Happy Halloween! Let’s talk about the scariest thing in the tech world today. No, no, not bubbles, drones, or unicorns: Bitcoin. Seriously. (Mostly.) Whether you…
RushCard says it will compensate card holders for losses during weeks-long outage
RushCard, the pre-paid debit card company owned by hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, said yesterday that it would compensate the tens of thousands of customers whose cards…