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

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

WIRED: Could these awesome glowing roads be the highways of the future? http://t.co/s17hWCNmPh http://t.co/UstyfLZTLq

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

Last month, Brad Feld published a very heartfelt blog post on depression in startups called Founder Suicides. If you hav…

Booze-free clubbing is Sweden’s latest party craze. STOCKHOLM, Sweden– Hundreds of dancers have invaded the floor. The more self-conscious among them cradle drinks and stand pushed up against the wall

Last week i decided to replace my RSS reader from Feedly to InoReader . Both are a solid solution for feed consumption with advanced features that replaced what used to be Google Reader. After subscri

Evernote has rolled out a new “Work Chat” feature to its web and mobile applications which allows users of its online note-taking and collaboration software to discuss ideas and projects directly in t

What’s wrong with Angular 1 Published in Este.js dev stack · 3 min read · Oct 6, 2014 -- Update : It’s long time I wrote this article and now I would write it differently. Programming is hard and we a

Veronica de Souza: What It’s Like As a Bartender to Watch Your Awkward Tinder Date http://t.co/86vLUNem2M

[Spoilers ahead for Desert Golfing .] So, how do I play this? There are no instructions. Ah, I just swipe to set the angle and strength. Pretty simple. Hm. The sand has a lot of friction. I’m learning

This is a rant. If you are looking for genuine insight on how things went wrong this week in America’s unmanned and under-funded space efforts, there are a lot better places to look. A short inventory

Andy Weissman: "Fundraising Acceleration Is The New VC Investment Thesis" - good essay by @DannyCrichton http://t.co/nukT57fWIg

I find tweets too reductionist and Medium pieces too bloviating, so I came to the same conclusion Andy did on mid-length writing . His post reminded me of a working draft I started awhile back called “New rules for blogging.” This is still a work-in-progress, notes-to-self kind of thing, but it’s…

Note : This story has not been updated for several years. When I started this site, one of the things I wanted to do was write every day. It’s mostly worked out that way, though some days all I post a

David Barnard: “Mobile is the future. What wins mobile, wins the Internet. Right now, apps are winning and the web is losing.” http://t.co/B3lTuABGO8

Medium: “To Uber Or Not To Uber, Part Two” —@piltdownlad https://t.co/H19iT2pmqp

Leah Culver: The best advice I've heard lately, from a teenager: https://t.co/JREgrFQv4z

Pipino also started scaling the front of his family’s apartment building so as to avoid the haunted stairwell. He learned the delicate art of ascending decrepit facades with his fingertips, developing

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FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler. NCTA The head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is reportedly close to proposing a "hybrid approach" to network neutrality in which Internet service providers wo

To be sure, this was a very buzzy deal in Silicon Valley. For every venture capitalist blown away by the company’s rapid growth — it already is used by 30,000 teams to send over 200 million monthly me

Richard Kim 2 min read· Sep 21, 2014 -- What’s the best way to alert your user? UIAlertView The standard alert, simple, but breaks the user’s momentum link: lots of tutorials online, here’s one Good: Giving instructions: user tries to access location, but location permission is not on. Bad:…

Jonathan Abrams: “On the right you have the content aggregators... They are worth by far the most of anyone in this discussion” http://t.co/d3A1aJ8qQ4

Jay ಠ_ರೃ Holler: Alright nice job @feedly http://t.co/Usq8rAJskR

Late on the evening of January 11, 2013, someone sent me an interesting email. It was encrypted, and sent from the sort of anonymous email service that smart people use when they want to hide their id

We’re super excited to share some big news today. We’ve decided to raise more funding for Buffer, and in line with our value of transparency, we want to share