Max Gladwell

Giving Twitter credit for effectively spinning off companies like Foursquare, Gowalla, Plancast, GetGlue, and Foodspotting. Happy Days is one of the most successful and iconic sitcoms of all time. This idealized portrayal of life in the ’50s and ’60s ran from 1974 to 1984. It gave us the Fonz, the term “jumping the shark”, and [...]

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Providing live commentary and feedback from the “Power of Less” Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. Part I: Economics 2.0, Highly Effective Strategies for Putting Your Business on a Recession Diet This three-hour workshop from Dion Hinchcliffe explored a number of key topics relating to Enterprise 2.0, including both the opportunities and pitfalls of the [...]

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Zumbox delivers digital mail to physical addresses and provides a viable alternative to the good ol’ U.S. Postal Service. It saves trees, saves money, and reduces emissions. It’s also more secure. Start-up company Zumbox entered its public beta this week, just in time for Christmas. According to the company, “Zumbox is a paperless postal service [...]

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Social media is the accelerant that drives change and innovation, moving us more quickly and efficiently toward the solutions of our time. That’s precisely what it did for Barack Obama. In this second post of our series on the heroic ideal of the networked social entrepreneur, we explore the networked component: social media. Max Gladwell [...]

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The mega-trends of social media and sustainability share plenty of the same DNA. The Arnold Palmer is an exceptional beverage. It takes two individual beverages, iced tea and lemonade, each very good in their own right, and creates an even better one. That’s how we feel about social media and green living i.e. sustainability. There [...]

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