Ely Rosenstock's Blog

"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...

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,...

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...

Google recently announced that they are offering offline access to Gmail via Google Gears. As a big fan of the offline functionality of Google Docs, I am looking forward to using similar functionality with Gmail. This announcement, as usual, has brought...

According to a blog post by Jason Kincaid at Techcrunch, the VC firm ratings site, TheFunded, is being sued by a VC firm that received a bad review by an anonymous reviewer. According to Jason There are a lot of VCs who hate TheFunded for exposing...

I used to work for a company that generated most of its revenue from lead generation. It was a web publication where users registered to see premium content. We would work with big companies like IBM and Microsoft to sponsor webcasts and we would give the...

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...

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...

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...