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Blogs Still Trump Streams for Longform Content With a Long Shelf Life
Five or so years ago, the idea that one of the most visible bloggers would walk away from their website and completely move their presence to a third party network would have been a step short of...
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Automatic and Fitbit Data Show My Car Use Down 50% as Steps Are Up 33%
It seems fairly logical that if you walk everywhere, you're probably driving less. But even as I've been on something of a Fitbit kick since early 2012, I've reached even higher highs in the last...
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Cloud Powered Near Instant PC, Mobile Upgrades Are the New Reality
Buying a new computer or getting a new phone used to be a huge pain. Even if everything was up and running right away, you had to plan for hours, or even days, of moving all your data from the old...
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What If We Redid the 2000 .Com Monopoly Edition for Today’s Web?
In the year 2000, as the .com bubble was at its peak, it seemed new tech names were going to rapidly eclipse the old guard. Emails and downloads were new conversation topics, and if you weren’t still...
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Fitbit Launches Challenges to Push You and Friends to Go Further
The charm of Fitbit has always been more than just counting steps and seeing how far you've meandered in your day. Even more than the virtual badges you can collect for hitting new personal records,...
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Our Smartphones Have Surpassed Their Role as Computers In Our Pockets
The prevailing mantra holds that as our phones become increasingly smart and constantly connected, that we're walking around with the equivalent of computers in our pocket.These intelligent devices...
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You Can’t Achieve Equality by Expecting Everyone to be the Same
There's not much a fairly privileged white guy who hails from the suburbs can say about diversity or racism without being questioned. Compared to many other people who don't hail from WASP backgrounds,...
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Ingress: The Incredible & Addicting Covert Game Being Played All Around You
A little over two years ago, a small team within Google called Niantic Labs introduced Ingress, a game that adds a virtual reality layer on top of the entire world, which you can claim, defend or...
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Tablets, Touch and Talk: Technology Through the Eyes of a Child
Braden With my Nexus 5, Watching the MLB At Bat app. My children have never known a world without high speed Internet, streaming movies on demand, and a seemingly all-knowing personal assistant,...
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Taking the 100k Steps Fitbit Challenge and Raising Money for Charity
On Monday, I have a crazy plan to set a new personal record for Fitbit steps. The goal? 100,000 steps in a single day, blowing away my previous personal best by more than 50 percent, and coming close...
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A Successful 100k Steps Leads to a Sore, Yet Happy, Christmas
Monday's personal record setting Fitbit dashboard Last week, I introduced a crazy and audacious goal, of knocking out 100,000 steps (as measured by Fitbit), in the name of personal achievement and to...
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10 New Year’s Resolutions (for you) for the Year 2015
A new year is a somewhat arbitrary point in time to mark change. But tradition has it that we do two things when the calendar turns from December to January. We look back on the previous year, either...
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Adult Problems Suck. I Blame Drew’s Cancer. #BlameDrewsCancer
I quickly glossed over it during my first post of the year, when I said "Adult problems can be a real pain," but I'd be skirting around some big issues if I didn't go deeper on some very real drama...
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YouTube Kids: Smart, Mobile First, and Child Sized.
In December, I wrote about viewing technology through the eyes of a child. As much as I think of myself as an early adopter and 'with it' net citizen, I'm equally amused and amazed at the activities...
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FriendFeed’s Closure Another Painful Loss from a Vibrant Era of Social Media
Amidst all the Apple watch hoopla today, FriendFeed's blog announced the long-ignored social networking pioneer was finally going to be taken out back behind Facebook's brilliant new campus and be put...
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Preaching to Our Choirs and Setting Up Blinders for All Else
Just about four years ago, Eli Pariser raised some very real flags about the "filter bubble", concerned that many of us on the Web were limiting our viewpoints by following those people and companies...
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Tech Company Shifts Position Sunnyvale as Major Hub for Next Decade
In Silicon Valley, some of the most prosperous cities and most sought after zip codes to live, raise a family and send kids to school, are directly dependent on the proximity to corporate headquarters...
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Having a Clear Call to Action Can Drive Real Results
As a member of the Google Analytics team, I regularly field questions at events or on our social channels about how online and offline activity can drive results, and what metrics have value. As no two...
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Layoffs and Loyalty in a Liquid Valley
Layoffs Are Painful. Even if the X Doesn’t Land on You(Image: Dreamstime) In seventeen years of work in Silicon Valley, I’ve only left a job by choice once — in 2011, when I made the jump from being a...
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Listen Different And Learn
For most people, new ideas and perspectives make us uncomfortable. It’s easier and less taxing to surround ourselves with people who agree with our worldview, and reinforce our way of thinking, to make...
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