My friend Mike is the founder of an education startup called Skillshare, “a platform to learn anything, from anyone.” Given his passion in the education space, Mike / Skillshare, along with The Cultivated Word, is preparing to produce an animated short film titled “The Student Loan Crisis.” They need to raise about $900 more in [...]
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The Student Loan Crisis
November 23rd, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, socent, tech
Tags:fundraising·Kickstarter·Skillshare·student loan crisis·The Cultivated Word
The Most Important iPad App
November 15th, 2010 · View Comments · tech
… isn’t anything grabbing the headlines or swirling around the blogosphere. As measured by iPad usage time, the most important iPad app is the simple Safari browser. This definitely lines up with my own usage and confirms the iPad as a tool used primarily for consumption, not creation. And that’s one reason why I don’t [...]
Get Out and Vote!
November 2nd, 2010 · View Comments · VC, tech
I love what Foursquare’s doing here. Using tech to encourage civic engagement? Check. Attractive data visualizations? Check. Next step–using Foursquare data to develop predictions more robust than exit polls! Check-in and include #ivoted in your shout out to get your limited edition iVOTED badge and find out more info at elections.foursquare.com. (Not a huge fan [...]
Restore NYC Fundraiser Update
September 22nd, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, tech
It’s been nearly a month now since I first posted up the announcement for Restore NYC’s Brick by Brick fundraising campaign. Since that time, Restore NYC has raised over $40,000 of their $50,000 goal, and $1,048 of that has come from your donations to my page. A huge thanks to all those who have donated [...]
Tags:Brick by Brick·CauseVox·fundraising·Restore NYC·safe house·sex trafficking
$2,400 for my 24th!
August 25th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, socent, tech
So I wanted to do something productive to celebrate my birthday this year, I thought that it’d be great to use this opportunity to support a great organization doing meaningful work. The fundraising campaign I’m participating in for my birthday is called “Brick by Brick,” and the funds raised will go towards an organization called [...]
Tags:birthday·Brick by Brick·fundraising·Restore NYC·sex trafficking·Trinity Grace
Foursquare Visualizations, Redux
August 10th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, VC, tech
Towards the end of July, I wrote a post about how you can visualize Foursquare checkins and also about my hope for developers to continue building tools that can use /display Foursquare’s user-generated content more effectively. This weekend, the folks from Movity.com did just that, building a little application called Weeplaces. You can visualize your [...]
Tags:Foursquare·LBS·location-based service·Movity·visualization·Weeplaces
Critical Mass and New York City
August 5th, 2010 · View Comments · Personal, VC, nextNY, tech
Over the past few days, I’ve been at home in Alabama, which as you may imagine, is quite different from New York City. Other than the grossly uncomfortable heat index (100+ every day) and noticeably shorter skyscrapers here, I’ve also noticed that some of the mobile tools that I used in New York are no [...]
Tags:Foursquare·Giving Pledge·Gowalla·New York·nextNY·Sweet Home Alabama·tech·VC·venture capital
