Posts by Nick Papple

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH Welcome to the club! Elon Musk is standing quietly in an elevator. Ding! The door opens and who walks in? Jeff Bezos. After both men nod hello, Musk asks Bezos “What floor?” Bezos responds, “11.” The two men stand quietly facing the door as…

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH The world’s first video dictionary. If you travel abroad, you’ll want this app. The creators of Memrise, the online-language learning program, built the world’s first video dictionary. Instead of making a fool out of yourself trying to pronounce words, you can now watch actual…

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH Facebook is quietly testing a Yelp killer. Facebook is the Hotel California of websites. “You can check-out any time you like, but you can never leave!” It should come as no surprise that Facebook is testing its own version of Yelp. Professional Services (why…

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH Facebook just pulled the most cliché move ever. Last year, Facebook’s Your Year in Review — where Facebook recaps your year in a 10-card photoset — was raw. It made people laugh, it made people cry, and it even made some people angry. But…

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH Get ready for Uber — but for friends. Friendship as service will be a thing in 2016 predicts Frog, a global strategy and design firm. Last year, Frog predicted drones, VR, and self-driving cars would be big in 2015. Look how that turned out……

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH Facebook’s next hit app. Facebook is killing photo-syncing and replacing it with its private-sharing photo app Moments. On January 10th, the photo-syncing feature — the one that automatically syncs your mobile photos to a dedicated album in Facebook — will expire. One tactic Facebook…

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH The truth about digital wallets. Last week, Walmart rolled out its Walmart Pay service (we covered it here). The truth is almost all digital wallets (Apple Pay, Android, etc.) are what The New York Times’ tech reporter Mike Isaac calls, “solutions in search of problems.”…

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH MITs new Minority Report-like app lets you program any object. Imagine it’s 4:59 p.m. You’re one minute away from starting your weekend. You’ve mentally checked-out, now it’s a matter of physically checking-out of the office. But what if you didn’t have to do anything…

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH YouTube Rewind is “the lint trap of the Internet.” YouTube just published its annual ‘Rewind’ video that recaps all of 2015’s most viral moments. Sadly, this video is supposed to reflect our culture. I watched 30 seconds of the 6-minute video and had to…

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH Turning dumb-and-sexy watches into smart-and-sexy. Retailers are predicting smart watches to be one of this holiday season’s most popular tech gifts. But, before you jump on the smart-watch band wagon, check this out. Chronos found a way to turn your old luxury watch into a smart watch… If only there was…

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH The beginning of the end of Gmail. Last night, I received an email that said: “Hello Nick, It’s with heavy hearts that we let you know Mailbox will shut down on February 26, 2016.” In case you’re not familiar with Mailbox — it was…

Good afternoon, Early Risers! Here’s what you need to know TECH Most indispensable gadget in 2015. Fortune.com just published their Best Of in Business 2015 list and Amazon’s Echo device stole the show for most indispensable gadget. What is it? The $179.99 gadget is a cylindrical speaker that acts as a personal assistant. Watch Echo…