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The next step of computational photography will move us from taking better pictures to making different pictures.

This originally appeared for Fintech Collective at Guest Post: Artificial Intelligence in Fintech.

Whenever you talk about New Orleans, at some point you talk about the food.

When I told people I was going to a conference / retreat / ideas festival / adventure in rural Victoria in Australia, people looked at me like I was mad.

Every time a new hacking incident hits the news, the response follows a similar path: news reports about millions of customer data points stolen, quotes from security consultants, breathless reports from news anchors about how many millions of people’s re…

Continuing a meme, below are my cities in 2014.

Looking back at 2014, inspired again by Mark Lobo, here’s fourteen photos that summarize my year. 2014 was a year of changes personal and professional, and a year where we directed much of our time towards fulfilling long-harbored goals and ideas.

Underwater photography is much harder than it looks.

Paul Adams, writing about the future of apps: The experience of our primary mobile screen being a bank of app icons that lead to independent destinations is dying.

Away from the city, removed from the day-to-day, making the physical and mental space to reflect, recharge, renew, and creating new experiences.

If you want to figure out the future of adtech, look to where consumer technology is going.

I remember when I only had one password to remember, to access my university email account.

I bought an iPhone 6 on launch day, sight-unseen, with only a cursory read at the reviews, ready to upgrade from my iPhone 5.

One of the keys to surviving a road trip is to take stops to enjoy the view.

For the last three and a half years, and until recently, I worked as a venture capitalist in NYC focused on early-stage enterprise investing.

Originally posted on Medium.

For years, the most popular thing I’ve written on the web is a piece I wrote in 2009 detailing the 79 things I packed for a nomadic life.

When I told people I was going to a conference in West Wales, people looked at me like I was mad.

tl;dr: The rationale for unbundling is based on how we access apps and accomplish tasks on our phones today, given the environments created by the mobile operating systems.

About a year ago I wrote about the future of filters, focusing on what’s next in consumer photography products: … I think we’ll soon see apps that productize the photographic eye and standardize composition.

After a great three years at kbs+ Ventures, the time has come for me to move on.

A couple weeks ago I gave a talk at Startup Iceland in Reykjavik about the Internet of Things, focusing on how the internet of things is evolving.

Traveling to London always feels like coming home.

A couple weeks ago I gave the kickoff talk to Digiday’s Programmatic Summit, focusing on how programmatic advertising is maturing and evolving.

2008, Nikon F, “Other People’s Weddings” © Evan Nisselson What do you do?

“Deep linking” is a topic that is still simmering below the general conversation around mobile, but is due to have a major impact on mobile apps, ads, and commerce.

Last year I cycled around the island of Manhattan, inspired by The Great Saunter, so this year I decided to do the real thing.

I book airplane tickets for the window seat just for the view, and for the photos I could take.

David Kadavy, Movements are usually a reaction to a particular style that precedes the movement. - Technological changes often bring movements to be. - New movements often involve exploring an old medium in a new way.

Today I’m going to divert from the series of talks about the connected world and talk about the connected company.

If you’ve used Twitter, Google, Tinder, Secret, Spotify, Pinterest, Jelly, Kik, Facebook’s Paper app or a host of newer startups, you’ve probably seen a card.

This was originally posted to Medium, as an edited version of posts originally written for my newsletter.

I’ve been thinking a lot about content publishing lately, but I’m not the only one.

Me, talking about Facebook’s unbundling strategy in Crain’s: Mr.

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View on Slideshare, Fundraising for Entrepreneurs

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It’s a fascinating time to be a publisher.

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For years, I’ve wanted to relax in the Blue Lagoon in Iceland, drop my body into the warm, blue, mineral-rich waters and gaze into the mist that joins the warm water and the cold air.

DLD, a global conference about digital innovation, science and culture, brought together over 150 speakers and 1000 attendees to their 10th annual event.

The rise of a thing that advertisers called “native advertising” in 2013 is on pace to quickly become a normal form of advertising.

People, upon hearing I was going to CES: “You’re going to CES!

Continuing a meme, below are my cities in 2013.

Looking back at 2013, and inspired by Mark Lobo, here’s thirteen photos that summarize my year.

One of the most amazing things about Pittsburgh is the variety of forests, woods, parks, gorges, and seemingly forgotten natural places it has scattered throughout the city.

Everywhere I went in Naples, I heard about the Ft.