Greg Yardley recently published the following breakdown of Apple’s iPhone App Store applications listed at various pricing tiers. His insight was that “free” was no longer the most popular application price. Instead, $0.99 was the most popular application price. See below:

Many of the companies in the Union Square Ventures portfolio offer their services [...]

The terrible reviews across the board for The Love Guru made me wonder where it ranks on the list of the worst rated movies of all time. I decided to use Metacritic to find out.
Here’s a list of the all-time low scores for movies on Metacritic. The Love Guru is in a tie [...]

I’m surprised at the poor quality of @valleywag and @gawker on Twitter. These users are just links to the most recent blog posts on these respective properties. Why doesn’t Gawker Media empower their editors to create original content that runs over the Twitter accounts for their various blogs?
Are there any real attempts at [...]

I am fairly good about keeping my LinkedIn info up to date and adding contacts as appropriate. I just approved two new connections today. After doing those approvals, I decided to take a quick browse through the People You May Know section. It’s always interesting to see what LinkedIn thinks are the [...]

Turning to the blogosphere for style decisions is a terrible idea. If I asked bloggers how to dress, I’d end up in a blue shirt and khakis every day.
That said, I’m trying on new shoes today that I got for sale online. I’m not sure if I want to keep them. I [...]

At the end of his post, Bijan asked an interesting question today: “What do you want from your browser?” I commented there in response, and then realized I’d written a post, so I’m reblogging here. I said:
I think there’s a lot of room for innovation left in the browser. I find that a [...]

To briefly review recent news: Microsoft is going to allow advertisers to set a “cashback” reward to consumers for purchases that originate from ads on Microsoft Live Search.
Think about the quality of companies that currently incentivize users to participate in advertising:

AllAdvantage
InboxDollars
ClixSense
Bux.to

Microsoft should be embarrassed to join that list of companies.
Some naysayers might argue that the [...]

Google launched online health records. I was instantly reminded of the movie Gattaca. Gattaca took a pessimistic tone towards the nature vs nurture argument, assuming that everyone has an upper-limit to his potential for success predefined by his genes. In the movie corporations used this information to select the “most qualified candidates.” [...]

Mark Cuban writes in his post “Beating Google” that one way to beat Google is to pay the owners of sites in the top 5 slots of the results page for the most popular keywords to remove their sites from the Google index. Thus, Microsoft (or Yahoo or a new competitor) could claim [...]