Ely Rosenstock's Blog

I just finished watching Jeff Bezos (founder and CEO of Amazon) on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Bezos (after maniacally laughing for a few minutes) was showing Stewart the new Kindle 2. I've never seen a Kindle but I hear they are really great. The...

"I have seen the future and it looks promising." I don't know if I'm quoting someone with that line or if I just made it up myself. I do, however, believe it. I just watched the demo of a mobile app that Google created (video embedded below) that allows...

Writing papers is an important part of higher education. I should know. In my MBA program, each course has weekly papers that I have to write. This is understandable. Writing papers is the best way for the professors to gauge whether we understand the...

It's been a week since SocComm and I've had some time to reflect on the experience. For all that don't know, SocComm, Social Communications Summit, was a one day event held in NYC on Feb 10th. The event, organized by Jeff Pulver, had a fantastic group of...

I used to work for a web publication that produced many webcasts. We used to get sponsors for the webcasts by handing off the information of the webcast attendees to the webcast sponsor. This was all in the T&C when the attendees joined. We didn't...

I'm pretty open to new ideas and I think I've proven from this blog and my Twitter account that I'm okay with putting a lot of myself, and my opinions, online for public distribution. I think I draw the line at my readers, or anyone for that matter,...

When I moved into my neighborhood four years ago, I barely knew anyone. I spent the first couple months meeting a few couples here and there but I felt that I was going to have to accept the fact that I was not going to have many close friends in my...

I was spending some time this afternoon with my six year-old nephew. He wanted to play a computer game so he turned on the laptop and went to Y8.com. I've never heard of the site but it had some fun flash games that my nephew seemed to enjoy. I asked my...