Every week the New York Times seems to run an article about Foursquare, the redhot mobile game. Most has been technology press, but one NY/Region piece stood out as especially interesting. Beyond Twitter: An App That Lets You Truly See City is written by a non-technology columnist and describes how the ‘tips’ feature of foursquare opened the writer’s [...]

A few months back I had the pleasure of traveling to Austin for the first time.  I’ve travelled a lot and exploring a new city has become second nature to me.  And of course as a Tech Geek I take full advantage of the latest web and mobile technologies.  So I thought I’d share my [...]

(This is the second in a two part post.  You should probably start at part one which contains a framework for thought.  Part two contains recommendations and my philosophy for first-time entrepreneurship).
The most basic principle of business is that profit is revenue minus costs.  Try considering all fixed costs as a rate — especially a [...]

(This is the first in a two part post. Part one contains a framework for viewing the world.  Part two contains resulting recommendations).
Apple’s app store taught me that living in New York City is expensive.  How expensive? $1.25 an hour.
Consider that the rent for my (rather modest) Brooklyn apartment is roughly $900 a month [...]

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is a self-described “marketplace for work.”  The service lets you outsource tasks to a decentralized, on-demand, scalable workforce made up of thousands of Mechanical Turk Workers.  The tasks are appropriately named Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs) because the service is designed for repetitive tasks that can’t be done by a computer because they [...]