Monthly Archives: April 2009

Aspekte Interview about Facebook

I was recently interviewed on aspekte, a German cultural news show, which covers everything from the arts to politics to ideas. They had a segment last week all about Facebook and online social networks, and I was featured. You can watch the segment here. For those of you who do not speak German (like myself), [...]

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Flash of Genius

Tim, a friend of mine from grad school, recently created an awesome iPhone app called Flash of Genius. Flash of Genius (which is also the name of his startup) is an SAT vocab prep tool. Nothing special, right? Wrong. Here’s a bit about how they describe the application: Other vocabulary programs treat each word as [...]

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Cosimo de’ Medici and Justin Timberlake

Cosimo de’ Medici, the founder of the Florentine Medici dynasty, looks a lot like Justin Timberlake:

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