How the response to Robbie Rogers’ big reveal shows how Twitter is changing...
On Friday, February 15, 2013, former United States national team & Columbus Crew midfielder Robert Hampton “Robbie” Rogers made waves when - in a thoughtful, 400-word post on his personal website -...
View ArticleNickelodeon’s New App: Innovative or Unimpressive?
This past Tuesday, the New York Times published an article about a new attempt by Nickelodeon, a top-rated children’s cable channel, to create its first iPad app — described by executives as a...
View ArticleSnapchat: What is the appeal?
Earlier this week, I headed into Boston for an interview with a local tech startup. Hoping to land an internship, I came prepared with a folder filled with copies of my resume, a list of questions,...
View ArticleTimbre: Letting music find us
Developed out of Cambridge-based startup Intrepid Labs, Timbre is a new app that is redefining the way that we find music by letting music find us. Available as both an iOS app as well as an android...
View ArticleHow ByteLight’s LED Technology Could Revolutionize Marketing
After coming out of “stealth” this past October, Cambridge-based startup ByteLight made some noise in the technological world with the release of its patented “indoor technology positioning system,” a...
View ArticleFrom memes to GIFs to Confessions: The “New Media Revolution” at Tufts...
It is my estimation that a little over a year ago, students at Tufts University fell in love with the one of the the biggest, most popular recent phenomenons in new media: Internet memes. An Internet...
View Article3D Guns
“How do governments behave if they must one day operate on the assumption that any and every citizen has near instant access to a firearm through the Internet?” – Defense Distributed...
View ArticleWednesday Rankings: The Top 5 Most Underrated Athlete Twitter Accounts
Within the past decade, Twitter has become synonymous with instant entertainment. And, for many, this entertainment comes in the form of tweets from professional athletes. There is the ever-quotatious...
View ArticleFacebook Home: Taking Over a Smart Phone Near You
Yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg unveiled his company’s newest app: Facebook Home, what he described as a “new way to turn your Android phone into a great, living, social phone.” I, on the other hand, would...
View ArticleIf Facebook Home succeeds, it will be because of Facebook’s brand; not the...
In a recent article published by TechCrunch, author Darrell Etherington explains how yesterday’s launch of Facebook Home sparked some backlash from rival Microsoft. Basically, the story goes like...
View Article@ClichedCoach: Going Viral
Check out my experiment in viral tweeting by exploring my progress-tracking journal here. The entries were composed throughout a three-month period from mid-February to early May for the purpose...
View ArticleThe Intern Experience: Learning to Fail
The following is a piece published on August 5, 2013, on the Next Jump Blog. Read the original article here. Over two months ago, I began a summer internship at Next Jump’s Boston office as a...
View ArticleNickelodeon’s New App: Innovative or Unimpressive?
This past Tuesday, the New York Times published an article about a new attempt by Nickelodeon, a top-rated children’s cable channel, to create its first iPad app — described by executives as a...
View ArticleThe Intern Experience: Learning to Fail
The following is a piece published on August 5, 2013, on the Next Jump Blog. Read the original article here. Over two months ago, I began a summer internship at Next Jump’s Boston office as a Business...
View ArticleTwitter, the government shutdown, and how new media is changing the world
Earlier today, my father forwarded me an interesting email he received from Nico Probst, a “Director of Special Projects” for the Obama Administration, that had something to do with the President...
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