Max Gladwell

Today’s social media and digital natives are in their 20s. The next generation will be location and smartphone native, and the impact will be even more profound. The disruptive effect of smartphones on media, communications, and commerce cannot be overstated. It is truly a revolution that will be felt in every corner of society. Smartphones represent [...]

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The marketplace for check-in apps i.e. ways to network and engage locally will become much more fragmented when brands, universities, and small publishers discover DoubleDutch. This was originally published on the MomentFeed Location Blog. DoubleDutch: Social Media Week LA View more presentations from Rob Reed. The dynamics of location-based services and social networking present an [...]

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Editor’s note: We’re pleased to welcome Arun Mathur of Smart Grid Citizen as a new guest blogger. This is an exciting space with tremendous opportunities for entrepreneurs. Thousands of smart meters are being installed and activated every day. We’ll see plenty of innovative approaches to utilizing them in the coming years. In the 20th century [...]

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The first decade of the new millennium ushered in new versions of just about everything. Long ago the software industry established a simple versioning protocol to mark the progress and development of its products. These are expressed as versions 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, 2.1, etc. Over the past decade, the world borrowed this successive, numeric method [...]

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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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