Business Insider has a fantastic interview with Chris Anderson, the editor in chief of Wired. While the entire thing is worth watching, I especially like the story of how he came to his job.  He was a physicist who reluctantly got into the magazine world with scientific journals.  He was eventually offered the job to head this new tech magazine, […]

For this Tech Tuesday, I wanted to write on perhaps the new hottest web 2.0 trend: daily deal sites. By now there are many of them and they all have certain niches, but the basic idea is the same.  Every day a new product or service is offered at a heavily discounted price in a limited quantity and for a […]

Not quite tech again, but maybe we can do TV Tuesday instead of Tech Tuesday. For those who have not heard or seen it, popular street artist, Banksy, wrote the opening of The Simpsons last weekend.  For those not familiar, Banksy is perhaps the most famous street artist in the world, although his true identity is secret.  His work is […]

This TickTocking Tuesday I’m going to talk about a movie.  I think it still fits as the movie is about Facebook – I make the rules around here anyway! In all seriousness, I saw The Social Network over the weekend.  It is an excellent movie, very well done.  I promise I’m not going to turn this blog into an amateur movie review […]

Companies have been trying to build tablet computers for years.  I remember playing with an Apple Newton nearly 20 years ago and thinking it was the future.  Finally, with the tremendous success of the iPad, it looks like tablets are here to stay. Yesterday, RIM unveiled their Playbook.  Luckily for RIM, it looks like a worthy alternative.  In addition, multiple […]

The ability for internet content to “go viral” is one of the most powerful marketing tools ever.  Indeed it is like a marketing atomic bomb. While it is difficult to achieve a truly viral effect with a watch that appeals to such a small percentage of people, we do see network effects with our releases.  For example, we create our […]

Today on Tech Tuesday, let’s look at a bold move from Google, one of my favorite companies in the world. It is easy to take Google for granted.  Their search engine has become ubiquitous, the stark homepage iconic, and their algorithms better and better behind the scenes.  It is almost unthinkable that a company whose products are almost all free […]

This week, Kanye West had a much publicized outburst on Twitter (@KanyeWest).  Among his tweets was this one which I found particularly interesting: These tweets have no manager, no publicist , no grammar checking… this is raw While I’m not sure that the world needs Kanye West to be any more raw, his point is as raw as can be. […]

It’s Tech Tuesday again on TickTocking!  (I wish alliteration started with a T) Yesterday Google released a new project called The Wilderness Downtown.  It is essentially a choreographed, interactive, personalized music video done in collaboration with Arcade Fire designed to showcase the capabilities of the modern browser.  If you haven’t seen it yet, you should definitely take a look.  Make sure you […]

Aside from being a big part of my life, technology is my strongest interest outside of watches.  For much smarter people’s take on it, try some of the links to the right.  Here I am going to take each Tuesday to highlight something interesting from the world of technology and, hopefully, how it relates to watches.While the internet has already […]