Ely Rosenstock's Blog

Last night I attended a performance of Hamlet at Shakespeare in the Park. For all those who don't know, Shakespeare in the Park is a free performance given throughout the summer in an outdoor theater in Central Park. Tickets are given out to those who...

I have a few days off before I start my summer internship and today, I was running a few errands. I went to Key Food to pick up some necessary groceries. I haven't been shopping during the day in a while and was expecting a quick trip...in and out. What I...

Back in junior high school I had to write all my essays in script. For those who don't remember (or aren't old enough to know about this), script was the preferred method of writing for education institutions a while back. I hated script. Mainly because I...

I remember my music collection as a young teenager. It mainly consisted of CDs that I got from signing up to Columbia House or BMG's CD delivery service. I had more CDs than most of my friends. I'd say my total collection was about 50 CDs. That's roughly...

I truly love Hulu. For those who don't know, Hulu was a venture by NBC and FOX to bring their television shows onto a streaming site where they control the advertising. The interface was created by Avenue A | Razorfish and it's clean and easy to use....

A close friend of mine recently got married and moved to Toronto where his wife's family lives. When he lived in New York, he and I used to get together when we could but we were both very busy and at times didn't talk to or see each other for a couple...

Some of my most memorable moments of my childhood and young adult life happened when I was away from the day-to-day happenings. Specifically, when I was a camper and counselor at camp where I was taken away from the world that I knew and was placed into a...

The current disagreement between Facebook and Google brings to light the the bigger issue of data portability which was summed up quite well by Steve GIllmor over at Techcrunch. This is a HUGE issue which needs to start being talked about outside of the...

I've been noticing a lot of battles amongst Web 2.0 giants lately. Let's just take a look at a few of them: Microsoft's battle to buy Yahoo (now it's more like Yahoo's battle to be bought by Microsoft) eBay's battle with Craigslist Michael Arrington's...

Yesterday Google announced a new initiative to bring our social connections outside of the stronghold of social networks. A video of how it works is embedded below [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIEwUxMrJ4Y] While we can see that concept of...