New York City Snowicane

In case you haven’t heard, New York has gotten a ton of snow this month- so much in fact that February 2009 is now the snowiest month in NYC history (breaking a 114 year old record). Well I came across this time-lapse video of the latest storm taken in Brooklyn and it is awesome [...]

Open Letter from OK-Go on Music, the Internet and Everything Else

“With or without this embedding problem, we’ll never get 50 zillion views on a YouTube video again. That moment – the dawn of internet video – is gone. The internet isn’t as anarchic as it was then. Now there are Madison Avenue firms that specialize in “viral marketing” and the success of our videos is [...]

Oh the places you’ll go… [2009 Edition]

I’m a few weeks late on this, but better late than never! Last year, I followed the lead of a few blogs I like and posted a recap of my 2008 travels to various cities. I like the idea of making this an annual post, so here is my list for 2009: these [...]

Feelings, Cash and Retirement

I have had an ING savings account for a few years now- it was awesome back when I had a 4% interest rate circa 2005… it’s at a significantly more modest rate now, given the whole ’stuff your money in a mattress’ trend that is going on right now, but it is convenient and beneficial, nonetheless.  I’ve found [...]

Languages and Borders

I came across this map of language prevelance across Europe over on Wikipedia. It is interesting to see how tightly most languages actually adhere to national boundaries but periodically deviate in very drastic ways. I think the most interesting occurrences here are the pockets of Uralic variations which show up as pockets deep [...]

History of One New York City Block

Zach van Schouwen has created a very cool video showing the entire history of one block in New York City. He started out researching a five-story tenement building at 218 Eldridge Street which his great-great grandfather lived.
“With some help from Christopher Gray’s guide to researching New York City buildings, I discovered that the building [...]

Digital Strangelove – Quite the Conversation Starter

I came across this presentation put together by David, who is always a source of good ‘food for thought’ about how brand and personal communications are evolving. Sounds like the same thing everyone has been saying for a long time now (the whole mantra of “join the conversation” is becoming more clichéd by the [...]

Incorporating an Anti-Corporate Culture

This internal presentation from Netflix has been working its way around the internet for the past day or so but I just had a chance to take a look.  It really is quite incredible how they view the company/employee relationship and present it in a very candid way.
Clocking in at 140 slides, it is long [...]

Best Facebook Connect Experience Yet

An upcoming game called “Prototype” recently launched their promotional site with facebook connect baked into the experience.

Once you log in, it takes a few moments to log into your account but then pulls in profile data and your photos and begins to integrate them into the game trailer… sounds elementary but go see your personalized [...]

Hulu Continues Its Takeover Of My Life

When Hulu was first announced, I was hugely critical of the hybrid startup/corporate mashup created by Universal and NBC but I was quickly proven wrong by its great interface and huge library of TV Shows.  The site has done an amazing job of providing great, fresh content with minimal hiccups in the service.
Well today, Hulu [...]