State of the Art A Google employee preparing his gear before setting out to capture images of Liberty Island in New York for Google Street View.Credit...Michael Appleton for The New York Times Technology giants often meet their end not with a bang but a whimper, a slow, imperceptible descent into…

Imgur is celebrating its sixth birthday by releasing its paid subscription-only Pro user tools for all users. Imgur touts it as a birthday gift back to the community, but it’s also a shrewd move to re

Jeb Bush, a rumored 2016 Republican presidential candidate, just decided to publish hundreds of thousands of emails sent to him during his time as governor of Florida. On its face it seems like a great idea in the name of transparency, but there’s one huge problem: neither Bush nor those who…

Paul Ford: “What if I told you that…Medium and Genius are basically the same website?” https://t.co/6FtSVWfEm3

Interviewer: So, you’re a carpenter, are you?Carpenter: That’s right, that’s what I do. Interviewer: How long have you been doing it?Carpenter: Ten years. Interviewer: Great, that’s good. Now, I have a few technical questions to ask you to see if you’re a fit for our team. OK?Carpenter: Sure, that’d…

There are lots of blogs and anecdotes on (a) how to build a successful SaaS company and (b) what a successful SaaS company looks like. Yesterday’s post by Neeraj Agrawal from Battery Ventures titled T

Links are broken. These three alternatives have improved our users’ reading experience. It’s all about focus, relevance and context Sebastian Kersten 8 min read· Jan 26, 2015 -- At De Correspondent, a Dutch journalism platform with 35,000 paying subscribers (at €60 a year), we're all about providing…

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Ryan Gerard 3 min read· Jan 29, 2015 -- Update: I shut down Composed in 2016. It was a fun experiment. Email is likely the most successful mass-communication scheme created, but has resulted in a spam problem. I’m not referring to the viagra emails that get filtered into your spam folder. I’m…

Marco.org: → Overcast’s Smart Speed vs. Real Time http://t.co/DqEeqI5Rki

Tech Pono Player review: A tall, refreshing drink of snake oil We give Neil Young’s high-res music player a spin and do a few cochlea kegels. Sam Machkovech – Feb 1, 2015 12:05 pm | 675 Credit: Sam Machkovech Credit: Sam Machkovech Story text Size Width * Links * Subscribers only Learn more One of…

In the eight years since Apple introduced the iPhone, traditional business and industry analysis has failed miserably at predicting Apple's approach to technology. Ben Thompson, writing at Stratechery, articulated three reasons why tech observers misunderstand Apple. I think the heart of the issue…

I’m not a huge fan of The Daily WTF for reasons I’ve previously outlined. There is, however, the occasional gem – such as this one posted by ezrec: Browsing through a web archive of some old computer club conversations, I ran across this sentence: “Apple made the clbuttic mistake of forcing out…

Medium: “Last decade everyone wanted to be a lawyer. Me too. It was the new doctor then, the old programmer now.” —@30Skulls https://t.co/4zhJIuREcH

$18 billion. Profit. One quarter. Pure insanity. How insane? It’s the highest earnings for a company in a quarter… ever. And it sets Apple up to post the most earnings for a company in a year… ever. With this latest quarter, Apple surpassed ExxonMobil in 2008, Royal Dutch Shell in 2008, and Gazprom…

As the snow settles from the Blizzard of 2015, that wasn’t (at least in New York, New England is another story) it’s becoming clear that Monday night’s historic shutdown of the New York City Subway system had less to do with public safety than Governor Andrew Cuomo’s power-hungry ego. There is some…

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... “HELL YEAH WE'RE USING @SlackHQ AT WORK I. LOVE. SLACK.” “Dear @SlackHQ, I love you. Yours, Dan” “@SlackHQ YOU COMPLETE ME” You’ve probably heard about Slack’s exponential growth. And you may have read how the internal-communication…

Press enter or click to view image in full size Member-only story How PAPER Magazine’s web engineers scaled their back-end for Kim Kardashian (SFW) Paul Ford 15 min read· Jan 21, 2015 -- #BreakTheInternet? On November 11th 2014, the art-and-nightlife magazine PAPER “broke the Internet” when it put a…

The Obama White House 28 min read· Jan 21, 2015 -- Press enter or click to view image in full size There is a ritual on State of the Union night in Washington. A little before the address, the White House sends out an embargoed copy of the President’s speech to the press (embargoed means that the…

This is HMS Dreadnought. It was launched by the Royal Navy in 1906 and was the first modern battleship, such that all previous battleships are known retrospectively as 'pre-dreadnought'. Amongst other innovations, it was the first to have turbine engines and the first to have a single large-calibre…

The money spigots for U.S. startups opened last year to their widest since the peak of the dot-com boom in 2000.

In the tech industry, alcohol is currency. It’s used to grow event attendance, to bribe participants, to reward employees and community members. Informal interviews are conducted in bars, to see if potential employees are likable in a social setting, or can hold up under heavy drinking with clients.…

This week was a huge one for technology at the Supreme Court. The Court issued three opinions — Riley v. California, United States v. Wurie, and American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. v. Aereo — that taken together served as an endorsement of cell phone privacy and a condemnation of the online…

I didn’t go looking for grief this afternoon, but it found me anyway, and I have designers and programmers to thank for it. In this case, the designers and programmers are somewhere at Facebook. I know they’re probably pretty proud of the work that went into the “Year in Review” app they designed…

Algorithms are everywhere, supposedly. We are living in an “algorithmic culture,” to use the author and communication scholar Ted Striphas’s name for it. Google’s search algorithms determine how we access information. Facebook’s News Feed algorithms determine how we socialize. Netflix’s and Amazon’s…

Jared Sinclair: Marketing Costs and Overcast’s Sales Numbers - Marco Arment has published profit and loss numbers for his... http://t.co/vDakNR0ds2

Press enter or click to view image in full size Paul Miller 8 min read· Dec 3, 2014 -- The advice come from “Zero to One” book. This article is a short summary of it. The first team Thiel built has become known in Silicon Valley as the “PayPal Mafia” because so many of his former colleagues have…

On Monday, we learned that Sasha Frere-Jones, the New Yorker’s pop-music critic, was leaving the magazine to become executive editor of Genius. The start-up company currently runs a site — previously known as Rap Genius — where fans can annotate rap lyrics and other text. This seemed odd at first.…

It got into the teens in northern New Jersey this week, or by my own personal standards, a windchill of Are You Frigging Kidding Me? Which is when I remembered my own wind-chill repellant, a piece of wearable technology known as a mink coat. I came by the device the way — it turns out — most of the…

danah boyd 5 min read· Jan 12, 2015 -- Over the last few days, dozens of people have sent me a link to Andrew Watts’ “A Teenager’s View on Social Media written by an actual teen.” Increasingly, I’m getting uncomfortable and angry by the folks who are pointing me to this. I feel the need to offer my…

As far as hype goes, Jet.com is near the top in the e-commerce industry right now. Founded by the guy behind Diapers.com, the company has raised $80 million in investments , and it hasn’t even launche

Two-player limit Texas hold’em poker has finally been solved, according to a study published in Science today. Scientists have designed a computer program, named Cepheus, with a strategy for the game that is so close to perfect that statistical analysis shows it can’t be defeated by a human poker…