JESS3’s CEO and Founder Jesse Thomas has been asked to join the amazing group of contributors at Quarterly Co.

The concept behind Skillshare is simple: empower everyone to teach anything, anywhere. And sometimes it’s the simplest ideas that have the greatest long-term impact.

Can’t have it all.

For three days in early December, tech CEOs, bloggers, and start-up entrepreneurs descended into Paris to attend the world-renowned LeWeb conference.

There is no shortage of newsworthy events that emerge from the France’s LeWeb conference every year. We visualized what each day was all about.

For parents who are looking for a more educational but still entertaining way of bonding with their children, look no further. Looking Glass children’s videos are geared toward kids ages two to eight and cover a variety of fun topics about how things work or how things are made.

I have always been fascinated by foursquare, and the most recent updates they rolled out are sweet! Last summer I wrote a rant about how I thought foursquare could improve, and the new event check-in is exactly what I asked for. I sat down with Eric Friedman (Director of Business Development at foursquare) in the foursquare NYC headquarters to discuss what foursquare is up to, and where it is going.

Drugs, alcohol, hysteria and the power of word unsurprisingly play a large part in the new adaptation of the Hunter S. Thompson novel, The Rum Diary. Coming out on October 28, The Rum Diary follows Paul Kemp, a character loosely based on Thompson’s own experience, as he travels to Puerto Rico to work as a journalist in the late 1950’s.

While in New York City over the weekend for SA500, I took the opportunity to stop by Zuccotti Park to see for myself what the occupation of Wall Street looked like.

Did you know that New York City just became the #2 city for total available venture capital, surpassing Boston and putting Silicon Valley on notice? New York Senator Chuck Schumer rallied the crowd of founders and engineering students around this fact, remarking: “If you are interested in high-growth tech companies, New York City is the place to be.”