In April, Facebook launched a standalone feed of news called FB Newswire — powered in part by Storyful, the news-verification startup that News Corp. acquired last year — and now the giant social netw
I recently paid a visit to my sweet friend Helen Jane and was excited to find this book at her house. Watch No Google AI Search, I Don’t Need to Learn About the “Benefits of Slavery” Share Subtitles O
Last night I came across a headline in the WSJ about how this company, UBeam , just raised $10M to create wireless ultrasound phone charges, and it grabbed my attention because it illustrates the fund
Snapchat unveiled Snapcash on Monday, a new payments feature that allows users to send and receive money from friends through the app’s private messaging service, CEO Evan Spiegel told Re/code . The n
I f you had nothing else to do on Guinness World Records Day, you may have lucked out and caught 10 minutes of NBC weatherman Al Roker’s attempt at the longest-ever weathercast: a nearly non-stop repo
(Recap: I founded the curl project, I am still the lead developer and maintainer) When asking curl to get a URL it’ll send the output to stdout by default. You can of course easily change this behavio
This week you're going to write a huge amount of code. You're going to get a lot done. You're going to ship something big. If something goes wrong, you'll be there to fix it. You'll root-cause any iss
Gansevoort Market, a collection of food and merchandize stands housed inside a space designed by artists in New York City’s über-trendy Meatpacking District, is near completion. For partner Manny Del
Co-founder and former leader of Google's Android mobile business Andy Rubin is leaving the company. What’s his next move? WSJ’s Alistair Barr and Tanya Rivero discuss. Photo: Getty Andy Rubin , co-founder and former leader of Google Inc. GOOGL -0.41 % ’s Android mobile business and the current head…
TouchArcade Rating: Straight out of the “This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things" department is some amazingly depressing news from the dudes at ustwo following the release of the Monument Valley ($3.99
It has taken me a while to realize it, but the single most important thing I do each day isn’t taking meetings, sending emails, or even writing — it’s reading. Whether it’s news, tweets, books, or any
For the past two months, quite a lot of us have been trying to solve a murder case. On crowded tube carriages, in the gym, while drifting off at night, we have pored over the evidence and attempted to
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Next post Previous post Greg Pierce at Agile Tortoise released Drafts 4 yesterday, and it’s a doozy. A new look and many new features, especially for those of us who like programmable tools. Brett Ter
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Verizon Wireless has been subtly altering the web traffic of its wireless customers for the past two years, inserting a string of about 50 letters, numbers, and characters into data flowing between th
Anne Libby Nov 11, 2014 I would guess that we still have legislators who have never (personally) opened an email account. JimHirshfield Nov 11, 2014 That’s the speed of gov’t. Anne Libby Nov 11, 2014
The Dyslexie font uses slight changes between similar letters to help keep dyslexic readers from confusing them. Dyslexie A designer who has dyslexia has created a font to help dyslexic readers naviga
Perhaps unusually for a networked world, Barack Obama’s statement supporting net neutrality will have little immediate effect outside the United States. The debate concerns the way the internet is del
Over thelast five years, there has been an incredible shift in leverage from investorsto founders. It’s good in most ways, but bad in an important few. Founders’ desire for control is good inmoderatio
In 2010, Mark Zuckerberg famously said that the key to success is to “move fast and break things.” From an external perspective, “moving fast” means shipping new features and products at a healthy cadence. Internally, an engineering organization moves fast when its engineers work on problems of…
Predictably, television was one of the first topics Tim Cook was asked about at yesterday’s interview at AllThingsD. This followed the rumors of Yahoo acquiring Hulu, and Microsoft’s entertainment-cen
NobodyLikesUber Nov 10, 2014 uber? more like whatAFuckingJoke. fredwilson Nov 10, 2014 maybe, but they are winning the market right now. the tactics are unsavory but the execution is impressive. Guy L
If you go to the website for the new LG G Watch , it will download over 54MB on the first pageview - 99% of this is due to unoptimized image use. There are many issues with this site not related to performance, that I will not cover here. But I must point out one peculiar solution: If you open the…
Few markers of success are as universally agreed upon as getting your likeness plastered on the side of a New York City bus. There’s something about seeing a jumbo version of yourself looking down on
Update: Appropriately, you can now listen to an audio version of this essay. Thank you Kristin Myers for the dramatic reading: A podcast network focused on narrative storytelling. Journalism. This is
Image Credit: Foursquare It’s been two months since Foursquare relaunched , and things aren’t looking good. App usage and downloads are down. Way down. But Web traffic is up. Maybe. We’re not sold on
Software Gaming Microsoft Deals Windows vNext Windows 10 Windows 11 Insiders Server Write for us Send news tip A strange looking website is letting anyone in the world stream from more than 73,000 IP
Uncategorized Several weeks ago we started thinking about how to best approach calculating MRR for businesses who sell subscription plans in different currencies. MRR , or Monthly Recurring Revenue ,
Published in Both Sides of the Table · 5 min read · Nov 9, 2014 -- We all know that funding markets have changed for startups. The trends are well understood: more angels, more seed funds, more crowds
State of the Art Fall of the Banner Ad: The Monster That Swallowed the Web Twenty years ago last month, a team of well-meaning designers, coders and magazine publishers inadvertently unleashed on an u
Three years ago, Mike Abbott joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in the plum role of general partner. Yet one senses the longtime operator and entrepreneur — whose many past roles include as Twitt
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