Skimming my Facebook page while eating pancakes and eggs in my hotel room in Orlando, I came across another one of Nassim Nicholas Taleb‘s pearls of wisdom that he felt compelled to share with the world through his updates. Taleb is best known to the mainstream as author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. While he is [...]

Founders of Instagram  Mike Krieger (@MikeyK) and Kevin Systrom (@KEVIN). They’re like a bride and groom the morning after their wedding — the struggle of the past year behind them, a hopeful future ahead of them and all of the world waiting to see when and what they’re going to do next. This morning, after Facebook acquired their company for one billion dollars, [...]

The fine folks over at Thrillest concoted this depiction of Mark Zuckerberg as the ultimate Dr. Evil from the Austin Powers movie after Facebook‘s one billion dollar acquisition of Instagram. I like (but I most certainly would’ve included the bald cat).   Related articles Facebook To Acquire Instagram For $1 Billion (teechy.com) Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook acquires Instagram (shortformblog.com) Facebook Buys [...]

While writing this post I have come to realize two things: (1) if it isn’t wireless, social or mobile, it doesn’t exist and (2) I have difficulty spealing the word “bicycling” (don’t know why – just one of those things). Ryan Rzepecki (a for NYC Department of Transportation employee) understands my first realization very well (the second, not so much).  [...]