Ely Rosenstock's Blog

I recently used the blind search test whereby you search for a term and the site spits out results from Google, Bing, and Yahoo without telling you which search engine provided each set of results. It then asks you which one provides the better results....

Many users have developed  a significant following on Twitter. We should expect many of them to want to cash in on their new <cough> "popularity". Company sponsored tweets were inevitable. The debate over sponsored tweets is gaining some steam....

There is a list somewhere of people who are banned from certain casinos. Usually this is because these players have found a way to beat the house by somehow breaking the rules. It's not illegal, but casinos lose money with these people and have no...

All this media attention on Twitter reminds me of the buzz surrounding Digg in 2005. One of Digg's biggest issues back then was how easily one could get a story to the front page. What people haven't been talking about yet is how easily Twitter can be...

I recently had an interesting conversation with some friends about the future of Facebook. One friend of mine who works at a hedge fund was comparing Facebook to AOL. His argument was that Facebook, for many, is the portal to the wide social web that is...

It's great to watch technologies develop from something that is cool but useless into something phenomenal. There are two really cool technologies that keep getting better and better but have yet to be real useful to most people. The first is facial...

I remember those days back on the playground in 3rd grade where everyone wanted to be cool. If you got into an argument with someone bigger than you, you had three options. Try to outwit your opponent and win the argument (or the fight depending on how...

We have our first guest writer on Crastinate.com. Due to the sensitivity of the information being provided all names, including that of the post author, have been changed. Or as the guest author, Brad, put it, "names have been changed to protect the...

Last year I took part in the Microsoft MBA Digital Market Competition. The competition was set up by a few MBA graduates who work at the search division at Microsoft in New York. The competition required the creation of a marketing plan around two of...

The movie "Happy Feet" is on the television as I write this post. For all that don't know, "Happy Feet" is a kid's movie about penguins (I won't go into details). Anyway, there was just a scene where all the penguins follow each other off the cliff into...