Max Gladwell

The combination of smartphone technology and mobile broadband have lead to a brave new world of opportunity and possibility. It’s nothing short of a panacea. This is Internet 2.0. It’s been more than a year since we wrote about the New and Improved Matrix, a discussion about the paradigm shift of being perpetually connect wherever [...]

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Give back by checking into the real-world places you go each day. It’s good Karma. Just days after we posted our trend piece on geolocation, inspired by the “clear implications for entrepreneurship, sustainability, and green business,” we witness the launch of CauseWorld, a mobile geolocation iPhone/Android app that enables users to earn points (Karma) by [...]

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Looking to the year ahead through the lens of social media, computing, mobile, and web technology. Max Gladwell keeps its own calendar, which ends on April 1st each year. We offer a different 12-month period through which to reflect and look forward based on the Max Gladwell launch date. For the standard calendar year, we [...]

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The distinction between the online and offline world is becoming less and less clear. Is the World Wide Web taking over the World? Or is it the other way around? “If real is what you can feel, smell, taste and see, then ‘real’ is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.” –Morpheus The question boils [...]

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We invite you to participate in Obama’s (not so) grand social-media experiment. We can all remember where we were and what we were doing at the time of momentous events, whether they be triumphs or tragedies. It’s Friday, August 22nd, 2008, at 5:47pm PT. Obama will soon make history, once again, by announcing his Vice [...]

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