Great Deals or Hidden Scam?

February 21, 2010

The courts have ruled that the service is legal, but it still leaves a muddled taste in my mouth. I’m talking about Free.co.il, a popular Israeli auction site that works more like the Lotto than eBay. You can’t help but be drawn in by Free.co.il’s home page which promises a Sony Playstation for NIS 99 […]

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New Study: Why we Forward Emails

February 16, 2010

If you’re like me, you probably receive a lot of forwarded emails from friends with shots of awe-inspiring photography or some insight about why humans behave in the strange, amusing or crazy ways they so often do. Now, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania can tell us why. These researchers – Jonah Berger and Katherine […]

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Sweatshops and Social Justice

February 3, 2010

I’ve apparently started running a sweatshop. I didn’t mean to. It’s just what the market seems willing to bear. It began with a small task. I wanted to move the content on my personal blog from one platform to another. Over the last 7 years, I’ve written well over 400 articles for This Normal Life. […]

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Kids Consuming 11 Hours of Media a Day

January 21, 2010

A new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation confirms what most parents already know: that our kids are literally tethered to the Internet or other means of consuming media the better part of the day. The report, which has been the talk of the blogosphere since it was released yesterday, found that children and young […]

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Why the iPod Nano is Not a Game Changer After All

January 12, 2010

With the much rumored and insanely anticipated Apple iSlate, due to be announced later this month, being referred to as a potential “game changer,” as momentous as the original iPod and its big cousin the iPhone, I thought I’d take a look back at a post I wrote in September in which I called the […]

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Challenging the “Release Fast and Iterate” Gospel

January 5, 2010

When I spoke with Amit Elisha of OutBrain a few weeks ago, we discussed the company’s software release strategy. OutBrain operates under what’s considered the new Gospel of product development: get a basic version out there with a minimum number of features and maybe even a few known bugs, make it free, then let your […]

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Ginipic: Image Search on Steroids

December 24, 2009

It’s happened to all of us at least once or twice in our careers. We’re writing a school paper or updating a website and we need a photo or graphic image to illustrate a point. That usually entails searching a number of different photo sharing sites such as Google Images, Flickr, TwitPic, PhotoBucket, and others. […]

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Twitter and the Tube: Social Media Meets Interactive TV

December 17, 2009

Interactive video has been one of my passions since I worked as a “multimedia producer” in the early 1990s creating CD-ROM titles in edutainment and healthcare. In 1994, I led a team that produced “How Multimedia Computers Work,” an immersive interactive environment that plunged viewers into a virtual 3D computer. We followed that up with […]

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Writing and the Future of the Book

December 9, 2009

I’ve written before about how I believe the physical nature of books will change…much sooner than most of us can imagine. Within 10 years, 20 years tops, there will be virtually no print books being published – we’ll be consuming content exclusively on portable reading devices. Newspapers will fall even sooner. Today’s text readers include […]

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140 Characters Comes to Tel Aviv

December 7, 2009

Jeff Pulver is a galavanting kind of guy. The one time founder of voice-over-IP telephony company Vonage, Pulver has in recent years traveled the globe hosting hi-tech networking “breakfasts” that attract hundreds of attendees On Sunday, Pulver was back in town with a combined breakfast and conference focused on “the state of now.” Dubbed the […]

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