By day he works on web and social media for HP. Using just two data points, the modem I had in 1986 and the modem I had in 1998, the spreadsheet predicts that I’d have a 25 megabit/second connection in 2012. In the bandwidth example, picking a point in 1986 and a point in 1998 exactly predicts the bandwidth I have in 2012. MORE >>

Guest post By Edo "Amin" Elan, Product Designer, The Product Point-of-View blog. 130 is dangerously close to 150, also known in anthropology and social media as the Dunbar number. This correlates to my own experience as an interaction designer. Is this too many Friends? Can you have too many friends? Contact me. MORE >>

recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is  here and the PowerPoint presentation is  here on DocStoc ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking. chuckle. around $6.5 MORE >>

Copycatters used to knock off designer shoes. competitor's graphic design. The bottom of Airbnb's page, which proudly proclaimed the company's press mentions in The New York Times and on CNN, could of course not be directly copied, because Wimdu had yet to be featured in any international media outlets. The fast growth. he says. MORE >>

In a corner furnished with groovy neon-colored stuffed chairs sits Idealab’s biggest current success story, UberMedia, a 50-employee social media company that makes products includ- ing UberSocial, the world’s most popular Twitter app for your phone. Pasadena Magazine August 2012  (click here for the original article). Twitter. MORE >>