Instagram Is About Context
There have been lots of bytes written about Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram, with the eigenvectors of sentiment pointing in roughly these directions: keep it away from Google, pick up wickedly smart engineers, build on their mobile expertise, get a rapidly growing user base at a reasonable cost per user. The real answer (in my network-centric [...]
Teamwork and Accountability
We can dish out blame for last night’s Devils playoff loss all over the place: the inconsistent referees, the fact that Kovulchuk skated like he’s got a “lower body injury” (groin, hamstring, torn back), DeBoer’s line shuffles that accomplished nothing, Marty’s decision to play the puck without looking at the forecheckers, Volchenkov once again managing [...]
Eureka: Season 5 Opener
[Spoiler alert] I watched my first episode of Eureka in broadcast time tonight, complete with commercial breaks highly useful for checking Twitter #eureka updates. I’ve seen every episode of the first four seasons on iTunes in compressed time (both without commercials and without a week to digest each new plot twist). As the opener unfolded, [...]