BlackBerry is Officially the RiFF RAFF of the Mobile Market
In case you were still fooling around with your new iPhone trying to figure out how to meta-delete inappropriate photos in iOS8, you might’ve missed that BlackBerry is spinning out some new hardware of its own. With its awkwardly square design, the aptly named Passport is BlackBerry’s first real take on… [Read More]
Jobr is for Lovrs
When a friend introduced me to an app called Jobr, I thought she was messing with me. She dubbed it ‘an unholy lovechild between LinkedIn and Tinder, spawned in the most debased, Google-glassiest annals of Silicon Valley.’ It turned out to be a fairly accurate description. Copying the “swipe-left, swipe-right”… [Read More]
Do Girls Actually Use LuLu?
A year or two ago a friend’s girlfriend showed me my profile on LuLu, an app in which women review men. I was taken aback and immediately full of questions. Was there really some sort of secret society of digital women judging my every move? I understood why my humor might be ranked so… [Read More]
PHHHOTO and Exploring New Social Media Networks
Before social media went mainstream, communities interacted through forums centered around specific interests, comments on sites like ebaumsworld, and internet chatrooms. Following this sort of internet stone age, digital networks built around the people we see in our daily lives became popular at scale. First MySpace allowed us to share pictures… [Read More]
4 More Dumb Kickstarters That Might Be Worth Funding
We’ve all heard about “Potato Salad kid” – a project on kickstarter that got 465778% of its money raised for one man’s potato salad, and growing. Sure, Zachary Danger Brown (not a kid) made a really dumb Kickstarter. Since you seem to love throwing cash at any cause you find… [Read More]
The 5 Worst Kinds of Snapchats
Snapchat is great. It makes us feel like our friends care about us so much they want to share bits of their life with us. In reality most people are really only paying attention to one Snapchat story: their own. This doesn’t mean all snapchats are bad. A nice video… [Read More]
Normal Tweet Guy Is Way More Interesting Than You Think
@NormalTweetGuy is just that: tweets from a normal guy. The account is based on the idea that there are some people on social media who just aren’t at all interesting. Like your sort of friend from high school who is so ridiculously boring that it’s disgusting. Though simple, its a… [Read More]
My Quarter Snap Crisis
Apple’s new iOS may have triggered a quarter life crisis for me. What the hell will I use for selfies now? I mean I was already distraught when Snapchat added chat, but now iOS 8 adding Snapchat abilities? I’m in a real tizzy. Back in the day, it was so… [Read More]
The Stain of Auto-Delete Culture
I started my car this morning and caught the tail end of an ad introducing this new interactive chatting app called Frankly. “Just like a real conversation, your messages don’t hang around.” It was enough to get the point. Having had my fair share of drunken exchanges in the past,… [Read More]
Repunctuation: Because Emojis Aren’t the Answer¬
If you have ever texted a teenage girl, I can guarantee you, your lack of exclamation points has been misconstrued as disdain for everything she stands for. If you’ve ever replied to your mom’s email with biting sarcasm, I can guarantee you, she took you seriously and passed along to… [Read More]
