This NY Times article, called How to Break Up with Your Phone, delves into human dependency on our smartphones – cellphones are attached to us like an extra limb, always within reach. As a society, we’ve become so connected it can feel unnatural if our phones aren’t in our pockets READ MORE >
Twitter’s expansion to 280 characters has rolled out publicly after the company cited data backing up its decision that showed how the character constraints impacted users differently, depending on their language. Twitter referenced that those who tweeted in languages like Japanese, Korean and Chinese were able to express around double READ MORE >
Snapchat filters are now strategically targeting more users than ever before. Previously, Snapchat used geo-filters to target an advertisement based on a specific location. But with ad sales lower than expected, drastic measures needed to be taken. Now brands will be able to target through user interest, time of day READ MORE >
The question, has the smartphone destroyed a generation? It has been argued we lose our ability to have deeper, more spontaneous conversations with each other and change the nature of our social interactions in alarming ways. Startling, eighty-nine percent of Americans say that during their last social interaction, they took READ MORE >
#MeToo, two simple words that have taken over Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Actress, Alyssa Milano, suggested women write ‘Me Too’ if they’d been a victim of sexual assault or harassment – “if all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote ‘Me Too’ as a status, we might READ MORE >
When Jimmy Fallon stepped onto his stage mark in the shape of a four-leaf clover he sighed, “I’m Irish and I need all the luck I can get.” We live in an era where if you don’t take a side, both sides dislike you, and Fallon has capitalized on keeping READ MORE >
It could be the end of a tasty era. Statistics are showing that craft beer and mainstream beer companies are in a downward spiral in the market. Boston Beer and Sierra Nevada, the top two craft brewers are both in decline with only a 1% sale increase since May. Sales READ MORE >
New York City is a year-round vacation destination. However, the lucky ones who visit the Big Apple during the summer months experience the inescapable summer heat that blankets the city. Luckily, the city is equipped with a variety of Rooftop Restaurants solely there for those needing to take a break READ MORE >
In 2009 the world instantly fell in love with the courageous Disney/Pixar character, Carl Fredericksen, from the wildly popular film “Up”. Fredericksen’s determination and devotion to fulfill his lifelong promise to his deceased wife by traveling to Paradise Falls in a hot air balloon inspired all admirers’ to follow their READ MORE >
It’s no denying the digital saturated era is vastly changing the world every minute. However longtime advocate of a digital reform, Douglas Rushkoff, just published his latest book Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity, which takes another stab at our current digital dependent READ MORE >