Dan Kaplan

Dan Kaplan Contributor Dan Kaplan helps startups craft stories and build marketing funnels that attract and close more customers and recruits. He blogs about marketing and growth at Threadling and is preparing to launch Dispatches From The Future, a podcast about the future of humanity. More posts by this contributor Facebook’s Messenger And The Challenge To Google’s Search Dominance Virtual Reality Porn And The Future Of Loneliness

Dan Kaplan helps startups craft stories and build marketing funnels that attract and close more customers and recruits. He blogs about marketing and growth at Threadling and is preparing to launch Dispatches From The Future, a podcast about the future of humanity.

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Facebook’s Messenger And The Challenge To Google’s Search Dominance

To understand how a digital personal assistant that lives inside a mobile messaging app represents a disruptive threat to Google, let’s look at why Google is in this situation in the first place.

Virtual Reality Porn And The Future Of Loneliness

Welcome to the very-near future of porn. A few weeks back, a sex toy company called Lovense and a virtual reality porn company called VirtualRealPorn announced their collaboration. Soon, VirtualRealPo

Peter Thiel Is Wrong About Lean Startups

Before I dive into the many ways that Peter Thiel gets the lean methodology as wrong as a glowing review of 50 Shades of Grey, let me say this: He is one incredibly savvy dude. Most of the time, Thiel

The Apple Watch Can Be A Sixth Sense

The world around us is screaming with signals our original five senses don't detect. Unlike some snakes, we can’t sense infrared with our naked eyes and unlike ducks and geese, we don’t have a nat

A Connected Planet, Digital Telepathy And Other Passions Of Ramez Naam

Ramez Naam started his career in technology at Microsoft in 1995, where for six years, he worked on early versions of Internet Explorer and Outlook before launching a nanotechnology company in 2001.

Facebook, Oculus And The Future Of Virtual Reality

If Facebook wants to take that $3.2 billion dollars it invested to acquire Oculus VR and turn it into hundreds of billions of dollars, it will have to do more than feed it money. When the time come

Facebook 202X: How It Becomes The Multitool For The Modern Totalitarian, Part 1

Maybe it is naive, but I’d always hoped that Facebook would evolve into the internet's humanizing, unifying force—the one that stretched across geographical, national, religious, and racial bounda

How Product Hunt Hopes To Avoid The Pitfalls That Wounded Quora And Buried Digg

When Ashwinn Krishnaswamy and two of his buddies were living with their parents and working out of a basement in the suburbs of Philadelphia, they had only their development skills, a solid sense of p

Digital Telepathy Is The Future Of The Human Species

The story of life on Earth thus far has had an unmistakable direction, and it has moved towards greater complexity. Sure, evolution has seen lots of fits and starts and collapses and mass extincti

How Siri’s Founders Could Have Built The Next Google

It always breaks my heart a little when the startups with the most radiant potential hit their troughs of disillusionment and then cash out to a deep-pocketed buyer. This is not because I begrudge