Best Year of My Life
Today marks the end of the best year of my life as we celebrate the first birthday of my son Will. I started my blogging adventure here back in September with a post about the first half of my year as a father. Now, after the second half of that year, I’m even happier. Like … Read more
Is Twitter a True Social “Network”?
I heard an interesting piece on Marketplace Radio on NPR this week – Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal interviewed Steven Dubner, author of the Freakonomics concept. During the broadcast, they proposed that Twitter is not a social network. Essentially, Kai was ribbing Steven for their lack of reciprocity: specifically, @freakonomics has nearly 275,000 followers and, at … Read more
Inside SCVNGR: My tour of one of the hottest mobile apps in higher ed
On a recent trip to Boston I had a unique opportunity to learn about one of the fastest growing mobile apps for the iPhone and Android: SCVNGR. In just under 9 months, SCVNGR has seen some pretty impressive growth, reaching 1,000,000 registered users in late February and partnering with too many companies and institutions to … Read more
