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 myfinger there. I paused, this moment

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,

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 straightforwar

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

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

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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

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 own

Published in The Hours Blog · 5 min read · Apr 23, 2015 -- I think I owe everyone an explanation. Our time-tracking app, Hours , has done really well for itself. It has sold tens of thousands of copie

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

Having developed a paranoia-inducing “Law & Order” obsession, I used to imagine a medical examiner describing my thirty-two-year old corpse: “No, there are no signs of a sexual assault. The victim is

Your Spring Animations Are Bad (And It’s Probably Apple’s Fault) 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

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 su

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…

4 min read · Apr 14, 2015 -- I saw Chris Dixon’s tweetstorm about open & closed systems over the weekend and meant to write something quickly about it —but forgot to write — then was reminded by this

Bryce Roberts: "We’re to a point we can offer the same understanding we have of @Foursquare users for non-users" http://t.co/FpNI0frFdf big big deal.

Photo via Flickr user Lucas Cobb On Sunday, the least surprising moment in the history of United States politics will take place. Though nothing is official, it's pretty much a given that Hillary Clin

9 min read · Feb 21, 2015 -- Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity Is Near (New York: Penguin Books, 2005), p. 70 (recent data extrapolated) “I used to say that this is the most important graph in all the tec

7 min read · Mar 20, 2015 -- I was told a story about Jonathan Ive a few months ago that I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about ever since. As the story goes, about 6 or 7 years ago a big company tri

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Ben Horowitz: Great article on the power of @Genius http://t.co/VjWRcl3LyO

Tips and Tricks When Delegating Derek Parham Author’s Background: Derek is the former technical lead of Google Apps and now is an entrepreneur and startup advisor in New York City. _____________ At so

This is the third in a three-part series about sex and gender issues in space . What happens when men and women live together in close proximity and under intense conditions for long stretches of time

Debbie Galant: Don’t Blame Menendez. Blame New Jersey. http://t.co/4NLLij41lI

The Nation: Why Don't We Give Edward Snowden the Same Deal General Petraeus Got for Leaking Info? http://t.co/yyOdtmIBoQ http://t.co/z2zj0e1ozs

On Yom Kippur in 1929, Louis Fleisher, Harry Fleisher, and Henry Shorr attended services at Orthodox Congregation B’nai David in Northwest Detroit. The three men—all sterling members of the Purple Gan

Every Bushwick resident tends to have strong opinions about the luxury apartment building at 114 Troutman St. known as CastleBraid . But whether you love it or hate it, one thing seems to be certain:

Alexis C. Madrigal: Nextdoor, the social network for neighbors, is becoming a home for racial profiling http://t.co/foD2ZhJr2M http://t.co/q6wrqz2Xul