This is the song I’m jamming to today while working. It’s old school funkalicious and is the perfect song to end a big week and to usher in a big weekend. In 1980, the legendary superfreak Rick James sang his hit song Big Time on Soul Train (video below). He was at his peak. The song’s lyrics tell the story of [...]

You know you’ve arrived when you’re being cloned in China. Pinterest has, of course, arrived — here and in China. Yesterday, Chinese tech company Taobao launched a photo-sharing, social media site that is modeled almost exactly after Pinterest. The name of the new social network is Wantu (translation: mischievous rabbit). The site can be accessed through Taoboa’s website at: wantu.taobao.com. Hardly the first [...]

Millions of new followers in a short time span is great. Non-stop mainstream media coverage coupled with celebrities and big brands jumping on board is spectacular. But everyone knows that the indisputable, defining mark of a social network startup that has “arrived” is when people begin to use to the social startup’s name as a verb: Google me. Tweet me. Facebook me. The [...]

With the sudden explosion of interest in Pinterest, you can bet that an army of developers have begun developing apps to compliment the user-experience of the photo-social platform. Having said that, there’s plenty of room for app development in the Pinterest pool.

One of the most anticipated films of the fall isn’t a romantic comedy, or an action movie, or even a horror movie.  Without a doubt, the new movie about the rise and rise of Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook (The Social Network with Jesse Eisenberg playing the plum role of the boy wonder himself) is the hot ticket for the fall [...]