By far the most interesting part of Google’s new URL shortener (Goo.gl) is that, in addition to a bundle of real-time stats, the URL’s Goo.gl page includes a unique QR code. Clearly Google has plans …

Gilt Group has rolled out their new group-buying / coupon site Gilt City to six cities (New York, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami and Chicago). With it comes the Gilt City iPhone app.
There isn’t …

Last night I saw a screening of The Social Network and it lived up to the hype / great reviews (100% on RottenTomatoes.com). The movie was well done, well acted, fun, and actually very inspiring …

A big congratulations to Thing Labs, the makers of Brizzly, who were acquired by AOL today. Brizzly will continue to exist and be a part of AOL. (Thing Labs is a Polaris company and Dogpatch …

I have written about the design of promotion and notification units several times – pointing at examples from Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, etc.

Facebook’s news feed is crowded (and more crowded with each passing day).
Consequently, visuals play a big role is drawing attention and driving clicks / conversions. This includes feed pictures, profile pictures, thumbnails, etc. With Facebook’s …

Yesterday I wrote about the evolving importance of Facebook’s “Like Graph”. And today related news appeared from Facebook in a blog post named Discover Facebook Pages
In essence, Facebook has rolled out a more substantial way …

You might have noticed that Facebook profiles now include a “Likes” box below the “Friends” box. It includes a count and list of which pages each user likes:

In May of 2008 I wrote that statistics – specifically around referrals and influencers – could be a sizeable business model for Twitter.

I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Robert Scoble of Building43.com and taking about Dogpatch Labs, entrepreneurship and Polaris Venture Partners.

Over the last couple weeks, I have selectively included excerpts form relevant Quora conversations – specifically about Dogpatch Labs, Polaris Ventures, etc.

Earlier today rumors / news broke of Facebook building a phone (more thoughts to come). See TechCrunch, AlleyInsider, Gizmodo, etc.