Ely Rosenstock's Blog

With the Yahoo and Microsoft rumor mill STILL buzzing, it's hard to know whether Yahoo, after all the drama, will eventually land on their feet. Yahoo just announced a reshuffling of some top executives after the recent exodus of top-level employees....

Hillary Clinton made a direct appeal yesterday to the world for more donations. What was that you ask? You thought Hillary dropped out of the race? Well, she did. But she's in debt. Of the $22.5 million of unpaid campaign debts, $12 million is owed to...

One of the first summer internships I applied to for this summer was at Associated Press (middle of getting my MBA). They paid well and they offered a Web 2.0 MBA internship that would provide a student the ability to help bring the huge traditional media...

Reddit took a risky step today and opened up their algorithm of how they rank stories to the public. I've written before about how opening your site's code to the public can be risky. The real threat with Reddit is people learning the nuances of the...

The Herald Tribune wrote an interesting article about how certain schools are experimenting with providing incentives to students who do well. These incentives range from providing actual money to the option of breaking the dress code and wearing denim....

I've gotten a lot of flack for my recent "iphone bashing" post. Opposed to what people thought I was saying, I was not bashing the iPhone at all. It is, by far, the best user experience for any mobile user. But my belief that Apple won't take over the...

Productivity froze to a standstill at work today. The office was huddled around the one computer that was able to get a good connection to the live stream of the US Open. Tiger Woods and Rocco Mediate were tied at the end of the final round yesterday and...

Business Week and Michael Arrington have both predicted that any company competing in the smart phone market is in a lot of trouble this coming year. With the latest version of the iPhone coming out in July, both BW and Arrington think that Apple will...

For all those who haven't heard yet, Yahoo entered into a partnership with Google that will effectively make Google the ultimate king of search advertising (just in case it wasn't before). Google can monetize search much better than any company on the...

People are wired/trained to recognize the the slightest emotion in the human face. The slightest curve of the lip, raise of the eyebrow, or furrowing of the brow implies a different mood. There isn't one other part of the body that we can analyze as well...