In the last two months or so, two different trends in mobile have really grabbed my attention. The first is group messaging, and the second is real-time messaging. And both are here to stay. They are practical, they are easy to use, and they are on the mobile platform, which [...]

If you haven’t yet heard, the popular restaurant search engine, Restaurant.com, created an impressive splash over the past 2 weeks as it jumped into (and quickly out of) the growing pool of DOTD sites like Groupon, Yipit, and Yelp. Perhaps feeling a little left out of the whole group-buying craze, Restaurant.com launched [...]

Last week, in the midst of all that negative publicity surrounding Groupon, a new challenger stepped into the proverbial group-buying ring: restaurant ratings and reviews service, Zagat Survey, with “Zagat Exclusives”. Adding a wrinkle to existing “deal-of-the-day” sites like Groupon and Yelp Daily Deals, Zagat Exclusives will only feature coupons [...]

Originally, this post was going to be some kind of birthday gimmick as I’m turning the big 2-3 today.  However, the more I thought about it, the less excited I became to put yet another list on the Internet.  Instead, I thought it’d be interesting to bring you all into an evaluation process that we [...]

Very few things satisfy me more than 1) eating great food, and 2) getting a great deal. So when I discovered Groupon, a site practically dedicated to enabling both my vices simultaneously, and for free, I naturally assumed it was too good to be true. For years, there’d been plenty [...]