How do these two seemingly unrelated themes come together? Through Conde Nast Traveler's "Where Are You" content. I am a long-time subscriber of Conde Nast Traveler, one of the two (along with Travel+Leisure) top-class travel magazines. In every issue, Traveler publishes a nice photo and asks for the readers to guess where the photo is [...]

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Kindle is such an amazing device. Yesterday, I was flying from New York City to San Francisco, a 7-hour flight. I didn't plan ahead for the red-eye, but the Hudson News shop in the airport came in handy. I took a look at the "best-sellers" rack and found many great novels to buy. Yet, I [...]

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I realized that I have been spending a lot of time thinking about why some content rental markets are better developed than others – both in terms of content type and geography. As I thought deeper, I started collecting enough data to put my thinking into a framework-like approach, where I analyze the tendency of [...]

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There are strange things happening in Facebook’s “Suggestions” box. While it has worked quite nicely in the past few months about finding some “real” friends, the suggestions started expanding into some dangerous territory. There are a number of people that keep coming up to my Suggestions list even though I cross them out one by [...]

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For 2008, my picks were these. While I change the format slightly, most of my faves remain on the list:   Devices Web Products/Services iPhone Apps iPhone Amazon AroundMe Livescribe Del.icio.us Dropbox Macbook Pro Dropbox ESPN ScoreCenter Playstation 3 Flickr Flight Control   Gamefly Flixster   Gilt/Jetsetter iPod   Gmail iStanford   Google Docs Kindle [...]

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