My friend Mike and I were talking about Foursquare a couple nights ago and we decided that Foursquare needs to have a “starter” friend that you can choose to follow when you sign up. This person, we’ll call her Lady K., is not some token-friend to make you feel better that you don’t know anyone [...]

I’ve recently discovered Foursquare and have really taken a shine to it, so I decided to write down a few thoughts about why I think they have a distinct advantage in the geo-social app space. This first post focuses on user engagement, an area where foursquare packs a one-two punch. It’s Just a Game Many [...]

One of the initial promises of twitter was that it was going to crank our social lives to eleven by keeping us über-connected to our friends and potential hook-ups. In that theoretical twitter-infused world your pals would tweet: and you would tweet back: And all of those previously-missed moments of friendship would finally be captured [...]

I recently discovered politicalbase.com and highly recommend it to any one interested in learning more about their politicians. They lay out information in an easy to navigate manner and list the total contributions each politician has received. You can browse by ‘issues’ to find out which politicians are doing what on the topics that you [...]