Hasta La Gadget!

While conspiracy theories abound in all fields, the digital age has
added a new playground for the nefarious to up their game. The next time
you make a Skype call, you might want to be aware how third-parties
could possibly hi-jack your transmission and encrypt a secret message with
callers none the wiser.

I’m sure there are at least a few of you out there who’ve heard of
ROBLOX. After all, as one of the largest user-generated game sites on
the ‘net; it’s kind of a big deal, and getting bigger with each passing
day. With this rapid growth in mind, the organization behind it is
planning on branching out by expanding BLOXCON – ROBLOX’s annual user
conference. On Friday, I got the chance to speak to a few of the fine
folks running the show.

Pent-up demand, content monetization and copyright stamps have been
instrumental in distinguishing the new social network called Pheed from
the pack. It became the No.1 free social networking app in Apple’s App
Store for the month of February, out pacing competitors like Twitter and
Facebook.

We’re familiar with celebrities tipping their toes in the social media
waters. A number of actors now have their a number of pet projects. Some
like Ashton Kutcher actually head up social media marketing firm like
the Katalyst Network or Ian Somerhalder and his news activist site in beta called "Ryot," or Justin Timberlakes’ current attempt at welcoming defectors back to MySpace. 
But up till now, there’s been no political figures actively involved in
a social media enterprise. That was, until Cory Booker created
#waywire.

Commericial acquisitions and mergers were a 20th Century phenomenon that
allowed companies to grow and prosper. In the first and second decades
of the 21st Century, those types of business practices may be
antiquated. "Acqhire," is a neologism recently added to our lexicon to
indicate when a social networking company is acquiring a start-up
company mainly for its talent versus its infrastructure.