Getty Time to tell us what you’re planning to do. Mitt Romney has been remarkably successful in not committing himself to specific policy proposals that might worry certain voters, especially with respect to the economy. As a result, until now, he has been able to position himself primarily as Not Obama, even though the...
Instacube is a digital picture frame that wirelessly puts Instagram photos on display, and it’s currently raising money on Kickstarter. Use it to view any type of image you want, whether they’re your photos, your friends’ photos, or pictures with a specific hashtag attached to them. The device costs $149 and you can pick...
Instacube is a digital picture frame that wirelessly puts Instagram photos on display, and it’s currently raising money on Kickstarter. Use it to view any type of image you want, whether they’re your photos, your friends’ photos, or pictures with a specific hashtag attached to them. The device costs $149 and you can pick...
Editor’s Note: Nir Eyal writes about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business at NirAndFar.com. He is the author of the forthcoming book “Hooked: How to Drive Engagement by Creating User Habits”. Step 1: Build an app. Step 2: Get users hooked to it. Step 3: Profit. It sounds simple and, given our umbilical ties to cell...
Uriel Sinai/Getty Images Legal experts continue to crawl through the massive cache of Mitt Romney’s Bain fund documents that Gawker published on Thursday. And one law professor, Victor Fleischer of the University of Colorado, believes he has found a tax-avoidance trick used by the funds that is illegal. As expected, the Bain funds appear...
Pixate is trying to make native mobile development easier. The company’s Kickstarter campaign to fund initial development recently passed its funding goal of $25,000. But some of those backers have never seen the original campaign, which was cancelled before it reached its goal of $200,000, nor did they realize that the project was given...
Editor’s note: Rick Kelly (@_rickkelly) is an adjunct political science professor at BYU-Idaho and MBA student at UNC-Chapel Hill. Remember SOPA? In case you’ve forgotten already, earlier this year some Congressional legislators attempted to protect intellectual property through the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The language in the bill was far-reaching and ambiguous; thus prompting...
Earlier this month, Google announced that its most successful Google+ feature – Hangouts – would be breaking free of the confines of Google’s own sites and making its first external appearances on NFL.com. On launch, Google Hangouts represented an evolutionary advancement in the way we do video chat. We’ve long been able to chat...