Dan Lyons wrote a brilliant analysis of the Facebook’s purchase of Instagram in "Newsweek". Bottom line, the web is dead. We live in a mobile world. And Facebook didn’t have a decent app. Rather than try and convince everybody to go back to the past, to keep surfing on full-sized computers, Zuckerberg bought Instagram, which [...]

EXPERIENCE Kevin Systrom wrote his first photo sharing application in 2004. In case you’re math-challenged, that’s eight years ago. Think of it this way… How much better would Justin Bieber be if he didn’t emerge into public consciousness until he was 22 instead of 14? Bieber’s already been eclipsed by One Direction and the Wanted. [...]

Why are artists so damn ignorant?THE HARLAN COBEN RULE "Mr. Coben says he just wants what any writer wants – more readers. ‘The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, I write only for myself, I don’t care if anyone reads it,’ Mr. Coben says. ‘A writer without a reader doesn’t exist.’" Harlan [...]

Am I the only one who doesn’t want to sign up for Facebook in order to use Spotify, Vevo and god knows what’s next? I’m not on Facebook. Oh, I’ve got a fake account so I can be up to speed, but I’ve got no desire to hook up with every girl I ever dated [...]