Hi, I'm Adrian. I write about current technology news and products, as well as Boston area startups. You can also find my writing on The Fresh Dish Boston Food Blog.
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I first wanted to wish my sister Elise a happy birthday today, and as I think about her and the rest of my family, I realize that the family that helped raise me (my 2 sisters), as well as my new fiancee Aimee are all teachers. Teaching and education is certainly something that has [...]
Here we are (as @taylorbarstow likes to say), in the middle of nowhere, but absolutely beautiful Down East Maine Coast. I’m writing this from Stonington on Deer Isle, right on Penobscot Bay. We started our trip in Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park on Mt Desert Island, which was awesome, though the weather [...]
Michael Arrington at TechCrunch has posted some Kindle sales numbers that he’s come across:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/16/300000-kindle-2s-sold-to-date/
This is something that I’ve been following closely, since Jeff Bezos and other Amazon employees haven’t divulged the sales numbers for the device since it came out. Reasons for this probably revolve around the potential for people to make comparisons between the [...]
Simply put, it just wasn’t working. Too many corporate strings attached to allow StumbleUpon to have the creative leverage they needed to make their service compete with the social media big boys. So today, it was announced that the original investors of the company have opted to buy their shares back from EBay. Simply put, [...]
Ok, when it was first announced, I must admit, I was skeptical that this would come to fruition. I mean come on, was this really a realistic move? Well here it is:
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/04/09/crunchtablet-hits-the-net-a-little-early/
I do think the move is brilliant on the part of Michael Arrington and TechCrunch. I mean come on, they’re a media [...]
Everyone knows Twitter is hot right now (752% growth in 2008), especially with the recent rumors surrounding an acquisition, and all of the buzz in the press about their service. So I decided to see how hot they really were (according to Compete) compared to Facebook, MySpace (the old dinosaur), Digg (who just keeps on [...]
I wasted about 30 minutes this morning staring at this thing. Really cool map of the web as it stands today from Information Architects. Hat tip to Bob Carr (@robertlcarr) for pointing this out. Also see that it’s posted on TechCrunch…here’s the graphic in all of its Flash splendor. (hold your mouse still on the [...]