Year: 2011

by Larry Magid Scroll down to listen to a podcast interview with Tseng Tagged.com CEO Greg Tseng knows how to face reality. The company, which has been around for seven years, used to compete directly […]

Steve Jobs may have been a visionary, but his vision wasn’t always 100% in focus.  For example, I was at the 2005 All Things Digital conference where Jobs said Apple was unlikely to produce a cell phone because, […]

In addition to the reviews you can find in the Apple App Store and Android Market,  there are several excellent sources of information about apps. Start by looking at this article from iPhoneLife Magazine that recommends a […]

At a recent Boston TEDx Boston event, Ramesh Raskar, Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab,  spoke about a very inexpensive way to turn cell phones into eye exam machines […]

This post appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on December 26, 2011 by Larry Magid There were plenty of gadgets shipped in 2011, but the big stories of the year were about the people who made […]

This post appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on December 19, 2011 by Larry Magid Could 2012 be the year of the Apple clones? It seems likely based on what I expect to be announced at next month’s […]

Is my child at risk from online predators? Although it can happen, the risk of a child or teen being harmed by someone they met on the Internet is very low. There has been widespread […]

by Larry Magid When Anne Collier and I wrote our long out-of-print book,  MySpace Unraveled, we pointed out that MySpace was the largest referrer to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. We noted that kids were alive […]