Nobody cares about “channels”

There are rumors afoot that Apple will offer TV channels as apps in an upcoming release...

Suspension of disbelief

You watch a movie. In order to get something from it, you have to enter the world that it presents...

Try “Better Bird”

I created a Chrome extension to fix what I think are some rough edges and poor choices in the Twitter web app...

Craigslist can help fix the NYC apartment market

As I’ve written in the past, there are several unique inefficiencies to the Manhattan apartment market...

Owning a data type, or, be the switchboard

I was chatting with my colleagues at Stack Exchange the other day and we wondered what it means to “own” a data type...

Disrupting the NYC rental information market

The Manhattan apartment rental market is unique, as anyone who has experienced it will tell you...

The friction constituency

Having learned that both the Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO support SOPA, it’s becoming clearer to me just how much of our economy is based on extracting rents from friction...

What legacy politicians actually fear

I was at the PIPA/SOPA protest in front of the offices of Senators Schumer and Gillibrand today...

Quality of life in NYC

Every time I get out of NYC, I am reminded at what we put up with to live here...

Please don’t lobby

I agree with Clay Johnson that the our industry’s ignorance of Congress might be greater than Congress’ ignorance of the Internet...