In early September, we got the unfortunate news that the San Francisco Port Authority was closing Pier 38 (home to Dogpatch Labs San Francisco).
Read the full story »Yesterday Living Social ran a promotion with McDonald’s: $13 for 5 Big Macs and 5 large fries.
With 15 hours to go, they have already sold ~260,000 deals… which equates to 1.2 million Big Macs.
~35,000 people …
I logged into Starbucks’ wifi this morning and was presented with the below screen. I find it fascinating that Starbucks has an ad for “full behind-the-paywall access. Free.” This strikes me as very much an …
Editor’s note: Guest contributor Andrew Machado is the founder of Open Home Pro, which empowers real estate agents to give their clients a new type of experience when shopping for a home with just …
This week we learned of Facebook’s internal project (code-named Buffy) to build a Facebook Phone. Much of the tech press laughed: it’s too late! It’s too crowded! Facebook isn’t a hardware company! And so on.
Can you tell that there is a sale?
Can you tell it’s Black Friday?
Even though this is a screenshot from Sunday evening?
Sports fans today got a Black Friday present: the 149 day NBA lockout is on the verge on ending.
And the result is a good thing for fans: the season will be 66 games (a better …
I Found the article, Groupon horror: Bakery must make 102,000 cupcakes, via Washington Post Social Reader app (written about here).
The bakery, based in Woodley, received 8,500 requests for a dozen cupcakes, far above the normally …
ESPN is getting closer! I have written a lot about ESPN’s usage – and potential usage – of Twitter. I have criticized and applauded. Here is an example of ESPN continuing to improve.
mer·chan·dis·ing/ˈmərCHənˌdīziNG/
Noun: The activity of promoting the sale of goods.
I love Evernote. It’s one of the few products I use daily and on every device I own. I also love their homepage because it is super simple and focuses on two single actions: learn …
I give Twitter a lot of credit for rolling out their new Activity Stream.
Sure, it’s quite ugly… that can be fixed.
And sure, it’s a glorified newsfeed / timeline… but it’s core to Twitter.
If you read me regularly, you know that I have a major pet peeve around unoptimized (and often dysfunctional) mobile experiences. So often mobile is treated an extension of the web experience and that results …
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