As the American attention span while consuming media gets more and more distracted, it’s interesting to check in on how various folk are finding ways to capitalize on the two-screen experience. For there’s always a motive beyond keeping people entertained. For the Breaking Bad StorySync experience, the goal was to discourage DVRing your way...
Twitter’s Bootstrap, an open-source framework for quickly building web sites and apps, has been a massive success. It’s even starting to spawn its own ecosystem of related services now. Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton, the two developers behind the project, however, have now decided to leave the company to pursue new opportunities at GitHub...
Last year Italy’s official statistics bureau, ISTAT, produced a report on the state of the internet in Italy. It found that in world terms, Italy was below average in terms of Internet usage. The European average is 73% usage by population, but Italians were hovering around the 63% mark. But official statistics can be...
Thanks to the rise of in-classroom technology, the focus in education tends to be on student engagement and how to improve learning. It becomes easy to forget the importance of great teachers. Startups, entrepreneurs, businesses (and the rest) need to remember that technology doesn’t have to put teachers in jeopardy; it can help them...
Shocked by Apple CEO Tim Cook’s admission that the Apple Maps application falls short of expectations? Don’t be. Apple may not be a company accustomed to making public apologies for lacking products or services, but it does own up to its missteps on occasion, especially when its prized creation, the iPhone, is at the...
Between the announcement of the iPhone 5 and the day everyone started complaining about Apple’s new Maps app, the biggest complaint about the new device was the lack of wireless charging. Wireless charging is a feature few people probably even knew they wanted, but Nokia managed to pique everyone’s interest by announcing the Lumia...
Whether we like it or not, Silicon Valley has entered into its golden years. Reality TV executives are flocking from Hollywood to the technology capital, and are spotlighting the young, wealthy and most telegenic entrepreneurs. For women tech leaders, there is a grittier and far less glamorous reality to life in Silicon Valley. It’s...
Daniel Goodman / Business Insider Matias Corea and Scott Belsky have a LinkedIn alternative for artists, Behance. Yes, LinkedIn is a massive company. But it’s most useful for professionals who use traditional resumes and want office jobs. It recently launched a feature that lets its users upload a few samples of work, but there’s...
Daniel Goodman / Business Insider Matias Corea and Scott Belsky have a LinkedIn alternative for artists, Behance. Yes, LinkedIn is a massive company. But it’s most useful for professionals who use traditional resumes and want office jobs. It recently launched a feature that lets its users upload a few samples of work, but there’s...
Daniel Goodman / Business Insider Matias Corea and Scott Belsky have a LinkedIn alternative for artists, Behance. Yes, LinkedIn is a massive company. But it’s most useful for professionals who use traditional resumes and want office jobs. It recently launched a feature that lets its users upload a few samples of work, but there’s...