Rio’s Big Brother
The biggest surveillance screen in Latin America spans 860 square feet in a new building called the Ops Center that most residents of Rio de Janeiro don’t even know exists. 80 interchangeable digital panels project live video feeds from 450 cameras and three helicopters, plus a dizzying array of tricked-out Google Maps of schools and … Read more
How much of the internet is for porn
In May, I wrote about new book called A Billion Wicked Thoughts, the exhaustive offspring of two neuroscientists and the largest pile of sex-related data on the planet, my Forbes.com column in a piece called The Internet is for Porn (so let’s talk about it). Then I had the fortune of meeting Ogi Ogas, one of … Read more
The death of online dating
I argue today in AdAge that the dating industry as we know it is dying: Despite the undeniable fact that the social era has arrived — mutual friends, followers, first-degree connections, APIs — the dating sites wallow in primordial username soup (so that’s where you’ve been hiding, nycprince03!) and refuse to hook up to the … Read more
Date Night
David Pakman and I have talked for a while about throwing a party to get a bunch of our industry friends together. So last week it finally went down with co-hosts Venrock, Silicon Valley Bank and Gunderson at Meet at the Apartment, an awesome loft in Soho curated by Marc and Sara Schiller. We kept the gender … Read more
Percolating…
My blog is back after a long digital incubation. Thanks @davidu for hooking it up. Words and links coming soon!
