SUBSCRIPTION ONLY Performance Marketing Big reach for the little ad before every episode The weekly Serial podcast has captivated America over the past couple months, unraveling a murder mystery in Baltimore that involved a group of high school students 15 years ago. The series has also sparked new…

Matt Hartman: This is a must-read on the competitive dynamics of the ride-sharing market (uber & lyft), by @monkbent http://t.co/mLfxniQEN2

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Press enter or click to view image in full size Handling HBase , with Grace. Suman Deb Roy 6 min read· Nov 7, 2014 -- Last week we got notice from Amazon that one of our critical AWS machines needs a maintenance restart. It hosted some important databases, including the master of a distributed HBase…

Media BuzzFeed’s latest traffic trick: The ‘social URL’ By Digiday • November 21, 2014 • BuzzFeed may already be king when it comes to getting people to share its posts, but that’s not stopping it from continually trying new things. Now, BuzzFeed has even tapped the humble URL to work harder. The…

Sundance Film Festival 2026 For the last decade, Dropbox has been proud to sponsor the Sundance Film Festival—and for good reason. 68% of feature films at the this year's festival were made using Dropbox. In this collection of interviews, we ask filmmakers to tell us about their creative process and…

My current project is first time I've managed other people directly. But I'm still a software engineer, so my responsibilities are: Write code Design systems Lead our engineering team to get things done #3 is the "engineering management" part of my job. The gist of engineering management: Ask the…

Nathan Baschez 2 min read· Nov 21, 2014 -- I love Oyster. It lives on my homescreen. Since I signed up, I have started reading more books. This is wonderful. There is, however, one big problem that Oyster creates for me. When I want to read a book, I used to have one good method for acquiring it,…

Announcing the Estimote Platform and all-new fleet management software The power of proximity and the ability to make context actionable cannot be overstated. We’re only just scratching the surface of

How To Predict WhatsApp Features Pavel Durov 2 min read· Nov 18, 2014 -- A great thing about building Telegram is that you can force bigger apps to improve their products. And also predict their actions. Since we launched Telegram, WhatsApp raised the maximum size of videos and group chats several…

“Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains.” Karl Marx, 1848 Karl Marx postulated that the worker would stand on the production line and become alienated (Entfremdung), eventually losing all awareness of not only the total product process but especially of their own…

Today EFF is pleased to announce Let’s Encrypt, a new certificate authority (CA) initiative that we have put together with Mozilla, Cisco, Akamai, IdenTrust, and researchers at the University of Michigan that aims to clear the remaining roadblocks to transition the Web from HTTP to HTTPS. Although…

Latest TCBI data TCBI 1 mo 1 yr TechCrunch has established itself as a leading resource for startup-related news, so I thought it would be fun to analyze every TechCrunch headline to see what we might learn about the startup funding environment over the past few years. Without further ado, I present…

At the outset of Serial, the popular new podcast from This American Life, host Sarah Koenig describes the tale of Hae Min Lee and Adnan Syed as a "Shakespearean mash-up." The true story of the 1999 murder of 18-year-old Hae, Koenig says, combines the "young lovers from different worlds thwarting…

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick just responded to privacy and ethics concerns about Emil Michael, after the top executive publicly suggested paying $1 million to smear journalists who have criticized the mul

Ryan Lawler: Well if Scoble said it... http://t.co/RRVR7IMniA

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I recently paid a visit to my sweet friend Helen Jane and was excited to find this book at her house. (The second book of the “2 Books in 1!” is “Barbie [i can be…] an Actress.” We’ll get to that later.) Helen Jane has two little girls under the age of six. I have a daughter who is almost two. “This…

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

If 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 report that lasted a full 34 hours. If you think storm chasers are the only real practitioners of…

(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 behavior with options or just using your shell’s redirect feature, but without any option it’ll spew it out…

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 issue. You'll deploy at midnight to save the day. The only thing holding you back is the problem you're…

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 Castillo this means his mission to change the neighborhood will finally take full shape. A native…

Garry Tan: Observations from downloading 10,000 apps — mirrors my own experience reading thousands of YC apps https://t.co/BQDKY4r7t6

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) expansion, Forgotten Shores. Backing things up a bit, Monument Valley is an incredible game. We…

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 other form of written word, reading remains the most efficient way of consuming and capturing…

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 Terpstra has threatened to port a bunch of his Markdown stuff to Drafts, and Gabe Weatherhead has…

Matt Cutts: I wrote a blog post about backward-looking projects vs. forward-looking projects: https://t.co/UrtcDR14Ho

John Henderson: “The Interface Layer: Where Design Commoditizes Tech” by @scottbelsky https://t.co/VWgivAzhNt

Techmeme: AngelList rolls out new "Funds" allowing institutional investors to back startup portfolios http://t.co/l61icX43y8 http://t.co/1vL1Ttfv1x

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Jordan Cooper: These are my thoughts on Wildcard's launch today: http://t.co/l9P6BgYlw4

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 these customers and the websites they visit. The company—one the country's largest wireless carriers,…

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 And to be clear (and to @andyswan:disqus ‘s point elsewhere) I don’t think that our legislators are…