So, we’re getting the first look at medium.com It’s a new concept from Ev Williams, who is the brilliant guy behind Blogger, and then Twitter. Will Medium become as big as the previous two “inventions”? It sounds intriguing as a concept – a space situated somewhere between a blog post, a Facebook status update, and a cross-pollination […]
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Comparing Private Social Networks (Kibits, Glassboard, Everyme)
July 12, 2012 
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Here is a short comparison of the three apps/platforms I originally posted on Quora: I have been looking at a few similar apps in order to choose one to use for a university course I’ll teach this fall (2012). I don’t want to use Facebook for obvious reasons (advertising, privacy issues, and potential mishaps with […]
Read more Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 – An online experiment in social reading
June 2, 2012 Comments Off
NYTimes announced that Oprah is returning with a new, 21-century version of her book club (here is her intro video). The core of the undertaking are the customized, electronic editions of the club selection, available as e-books on all popular reading platforms (Kindle, Nook, and iOS – iBooks for iPad and iPhone). This is going […]
Read moreKibits.com – a promising app, uncomfortable ToS [updated: new good ToS!]
March 30, 2012 2 Comments
Kibits is an iOS app (and related online service at kibitz.com) that creates ad-hoc, social mini-networks, and enables sharing of a wide range of materials within these groups, including chat messages, photos, videos, links, locations, notes, and even documents – the latter through direct iCloud and Dropbox integration (in this area, it clearly beats the […]
Read moreLet’s reform education!
March 10, 2012 Comments Off
What’s the French word McNugget sold on eBy for for $8000? Well, in this article, “a piece of chicken-scented cardboard shaped like the first president of the US.” The whole article is hilarious (and not only because it’s in French). It also contains a splendid idea for promoting history in schools: the author proposes using […]
Read more I want my Dashboard back!
March 8, 2012 Comments Off
In Mac OS X Lion, the default settings change the way in which the Dashboard behaves. In older OS X versions (Leopard, Snow Leopard), the Dashborad widgets were “suspended” on a transparent layer that could be activated to float on top of the desktop (or any running app), with either a keyboard press (of the […]
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P&G Ad – Spectacular video editing
Whether you like it, and find it touching; or think that it’s just an example of manipulative Hallmark-ey malarkey, this P&G ad (2 minutes), with Ludovico Einaudi’s emotional soundtrack, released in May for Mothers’ Day, and anticipating the Olympics, can be appreciated for being a spectacular tour de force of the art & craft of […]
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