Prologue Years ago — in the days when companies still hired designers to produce lavish annual reports — I worked on one for a biopharmaceutical firm focused on oncology. Somehow we ended up with a red cover. The client had concerns. Red is the color of cancer, they said, would a red cover symbolize…

Hillary Clinton’s campaign is now telling reporters that she is at risk of losing Iowa to Bernie Sanders in the February caucuses. One ought to view these stories a bit cynically: It almost always ben

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Press enter or click to view image in full size How We Changed the FacebookFriends Icon Caitlin Winner 5 min read· Jul 7, 2015 -- Facebook headquarters is an amazing place. The snacks are free, the sun always shines and everyone is full of the best intentions. During my first week I encountered…

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By the time anyone noticed that he hadn’t moved in at least five hours, the man on Somerton Beach must have started giving off fumes. It was about 6:30 a.m. on December 1, 1948, at the beginning of th

Lots of exciting new things were announced at the latest Apple WWDC this week, but hidden amongst the big announcements was an extension of something that's been bothering me for a while. All programs developer for the Apple Watch are required to exist only in bytecode form. I can tell this won't…

David Barnard: “After trying iOS 9 on the iPad Air 2, it’s clear… previous generations of iOS and iPad apps are primitive & clunky.” http://t.co/6bQBG0LJM2

Michelle Rial/BuzzFeed Back in January, in a baptismal post, BuzzFeed's Silicon Valley Bureau Chief Mat Honan christened the next trend to take over the social web: the "screenshort." He explained the phenomenon — "a chunk of text, screen-shotted, and embedded in a tweet" — and prescribed, firmly:…

May 28 2015 Author & Photographer: Food Photo Essays Asia It doesn’t matter how many times you tell the cook to go easy on the peppers, anything you order in Chongqing is going to be hot. It doesn’t matter how many times you tell the cook to go easy on the hot peppers, anything you order in…

You Won’t Believe Which Website This Millennial Entrepreneur Bought. Really Makes You Think… Andrew Wilkinson 3 min read· May 20, 2015 -- A couple months ago, I read the sad news that LayerVault was shutting down. We’re big fans of the LayerVault over at MetaLab, and I’ve been an avid reader of…

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It was 95 days ago, and I was sitting before of my computer in NYC. I loaded my terminal, opened TapTalk on my phone, tapped on my colleague Ash’s avatar and held my finger there. I paused, this moment was a long time, it was worth waiting. I switched the camera from my face to the screen with the…

4 min read Media Platforms Design Team I've never wanted children, but I've always had names picked out for them anyway. Some might say that's a sign that I live in some sad state of unconscious regret now that, having freshly turned 45, I haven't had them. But it mostly just means there are pets…

It’s straightforward There are no tricks, no sections, no deep linking, no special technology required. It’s all right there on one page. “But it’s a mess!” you could say. I’d say “it’s straightforward mess.” I wouldn’t underestimate the merit in that. It’s unique When you’re on the Drudge Report…

McDonald’s sales have slumped. Maybe the public wants healthier food . Maybe there’s too much competition. Maybe people aren’t into the chipotle barbecue snack wrap . McDonald’s leaders have vowed to

Matt Hall 3 min read· May 8, 2015 -- Well that was a crazy week. Two weeks ago we had an idea for an app that adds a chat room to every app you have installed on your phone. We called it AppChat and it sounded like a fun experiment, and a nice little break from our long term launcher project Flow…

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Last year we heard informal statements from several Google employees that mobile search queries would probably overtake desktop queries some time this year. Google just confirmed this has now happened

If you're going to play golf with Eddie and his group, you'll need lots of money and some serious cajones. Though many of us like to have a little something riding on a match—maybe a round of drinks i

Kyle McDonald: emojis graphed by semantic distance / similarity of use based on instagram comments http://t.co/9a6gvR0fXL http://t.co/TtrXk0l9Oj

Semil: GDP used to be fueled by consumption. Sharing is next. Huge: http://t.co/bpv3K8X8iq by @antonhowes

Comedians Larry David and Richard Lewis share a bromance. They were born three days apart on the same floor of the same hospital in Brooklyn, and they met each other at age 12 when they were attending the same summer camp in upstate New York. They reconnected as rising comics on the 70s stand-up…

A few weeks ago, I spoke to about 200 people at the famous Willard Hotel in Washington in a program put on by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. I had been told that this was a group of CEOs and owners of major companies in Southern California, obviously a very upper-income group. I got to a point…

Jeremy Olson 5 min read· Apr 23, 2015 -- I think I owe everyone an explanation. Press enter or click to view image in full size Our time-tracking app, Hours, has done really well for itself. It has sold tens of thousands of copies as a $6.99 app and has earned six figure revenues in less than a year…

2015-04-18 Technical interviews, as they stand, are at best a proxy for finding people exactly like the interviewer and at worst part of the systematic discrimination plaguing tech . We have very litt

Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. – Tyler Durden, Fight Club Brian and I spent a combined 20 years at Yahoo!, working hard to keep the

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Your Spring Animations Are Bad(And It’s Probably Apple’s Fault) Mike Rundle 8 min read· Apr 10, 2015 -- In early 2011, the iPad app-slash-book Our Choice built by the crackerjack team at Push Pop Press launched. Its content was created by Al Gore but it was unlike any other ebook at the time: it was…

by The Concessionist The Concessionist gives advice each weekend about the sordid choices of real life. Trouble? Write today. Hi Concessionist, I hate myself because I can’t work for BuzzFeed. I’m sure you think this is some kind of joke since Awl editors Mr. Herrman and Mr. Buchanan diss it all the…

Paul Ryan found some takers he likes! (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images) A specter is haunting America's super-rich — the specter of progressive taxation. Don't worry, though, the Republican Party is manning the barricades against this menace. That's been true for the last 35 years, and it's no…

Here at NYPL Labs we’re working on an ebook-borrowing and reading app. On the technical side, Leonard Richardson is doing all the back end magic, consolidating multiple data sources for each book into a single concise format: title, author, book cover and description. John Nowak is writing the code…