No Making Money if You’re Broke: Coffee & Power

A white coffee mug with the coffee and power logo

Update: According to Becky, Coffee and Power Product Manager, the restrictions that prevent un-sponsored users from doing work will soon be lifted. She says, “I think everyone understands why we want to create a gated community, but I think we need to do more thinking about how people prove themselves worthy of entering the gate.” A Note: …

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Worst. Friend. Ever.

Three people on a beach, looking across the lake.

You read and hear a lot these days about how Facebook is causing a change in the way we understand the word “Friend.” It’s ever so slight and gradual – of course we all understand that the Facebook Friend we made because we lol’d at the same cat photo isn’t a real friend of ours, …

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The Social Phone

a girl squats and texts while ice cream drips down her fingers as it mealts off of her cone.

Let me introduce those of you who don’t know what it is to the website OkCupid.com. Awesome dating website dropped onto the internet for use for free made with science and lots of awesome. I was there a few weeks ago when I stumbled upon the profile of a single straight male who spent an …

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Your Phone Controls Interactive Sprint 4G Ad in Times Square.

A towering digital advertisement in Times Square

  I spent Foursquare Day today checking in just about anywhere I legitimately could. I was caught up in the excitement of what had been declared an official holiday in NYC Starting in Rockefeller Plaza, and needing to get to Christopher St in the West Village, my friend Rachel indulged my need for Foursquare venues …

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Facebook Question: Windows or PC?

Two men, representing each a Windows Machine and an Apple Machine, sit in boxes.

The other day, I asked my friends a question with the new questions feature on Facebook: Windows or PC? Understandably, many of my friends were confused. The most popular answer was actually neither option, as the majority of respondents selected the response: I’m not really sure what you’re asking. The fact is, though I asked …

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The Secret To Social Media

Four sizes of Starbucks Coffee Cups

I really am not fond of Starbucks. To start with, I’m the kind of guy that likes to support local, sustainable, fair trade businesses. What’s more, Starbucks waters down a number of their drinks. Then they go about adding milk and caramel to a Macchiato without changing the name giving their large audience a misunderstood …

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