A great, long-lived brand begins and ends with trust. Published in Silicon Guild · 4 min read · Sep 26, 2014 -- I was a big fan of the Uber service since I first saw one of the initial prototypes of t
Privacy is a fundamental human right. It’s also one of our core values. Which is why we design our products and services to protect it. That’s the kind of innovation we believe in. Discover everyday p
Early results from my scan: there's about 3000 systems vulnerable just on port 80, just on the root "/" URL, without Host field. That doesn't sound like a lot, but that's not where the bug lives. Upda
Photo: Jon Hicks/? Corbis. All Rights Reserved. On September 19, there was a mob scene around a large glass cube at the corner of 57 th Street and Fifth Avenue. Thousands of people stood in a mass, se
Late last week, I was looking for an RSS reader that had been updated for iOS 8. I couldn’t find any that I liked on the App Store, so I decided to give Digg a try. Yes, that Digg. I know that to many people that name may sound like a joke, but, as it turns out, the new Digg run by betaworks is a…
A collection of 20+ App Previews you can watch online (scroll down) Published in Tiny Hearts studio · 4 min read · Sep 19, 2014 -- iOS 8 is easily the most exciting update since the App Store launched
How We Got Here Social networking is the closest thing we’ve invented to a “snow crash” in the Neal Stephenson sense. A snow crash was something you downloaded off Stephenson’s 80s version of an advan
I'm going to say the unpopular -- please @ello don't listen to the developers for now. The willful ignorance of developers to business models is what has lead to our surveilled, tracked, productized social lives. Devs want access to everything now, for free, and they make it so the only way to make…
Nearly every story I tell about myself eventually comes back to this place, and this was my first time back here since then, since one August afternoon a decade-and-a-half ago. As the story goes I was 20 years old, and I’d been following bands around the country for a little over two years, living…
Carmen Segarra, the whistleblower who recorded meetings with Goldman and her colleagues at the New York Fed. Nabil Rahman for ProPublica Dylan Matthews is a senior correspondent and head writer for Vo
A population of 100,000 is no longer a guarantee that a city like Richmond, California can sustain a thriving daily paper. Readers have drifted from the tactile pleasures of print to the digital grati
Earlier this year, I took a walking tour of Pittsburgh's Little Italy, and ended up at a pizzeria my tour guide declared was, "Just as good as the pizza in New York!" It was not. This city has the onl
Letters from a Cat, 1879. Published in The Message · 2 min read · Sep 23, 2014 -- Someone once asked me what made for a perfect writer. I thought about it for a long time and wrote a list. The perfect
The odds of a successful jailbreak are never good. On a night in April 2012, they were all but impossible for Chen Guangcheng: one blind Chinese dissident against the 100 guards surrounding his home a
Diane Hohen, with TaskRabbit, delivers a bouquet of flowers in Boston on March 29, 2012. TaskRabbit is a task and errand service that allows people to hire others to do small jobs. Photo: Essdras M Su
One of the first investments we made when I joined betaworks was in a company called Product Hunt . If you haven’t heard of it, it’s a place where investors, entrepreneurs, and product enthusiasts go
A few days after the launch of the latest iPhone and we still have lines out the doors of Apple Stores around the world. I was in this one on Friday. It truly was insane . This stands in stark contras
Bottles and Cans Published in writing out loud · 5 min read · Sep 22, 2014 -- I’d hear the sound in my sleep. Aluminum on aluminum, the cap turning on the can, the small hiss of air escaping. The soun
The general awfulness of YouTube comments is well-established, forever exceeding our expectations of what "rock bottom" could mean in terms of reasonable discourse. But if you've felt that popular vi
In 1988, the typical American adult was 40 years old, white and married, with a high school diploma. If he was a man, he probably worked full time. If she was a woman, she probably didn’t. Twenty-five
Running any kind of business is hard, and making a living from apps is no different. A commonly touted statistic is that 1 in 3 businesses will fail in the first three years. Very few businesses make it to 5 years, if you get that far you're obviously doing something right. It’s okay to build an…
Instapaper is an app that lets me read more. For the work that I do on this website, Relay , and, lately, a weekly newsletter , I have no shortage of links with interesting facts or opinions that I wa
I don’t see myself as a real game developer. I make games because it’s fun, and because I love games and I love to program, but I don’t make games with the intention of them becoming huge hits, and I don’t try to change the world. Minecraft certainly became a huge hit, and people are telling me it’s…
maybe it was msg :) Sep 16, 2014 1.Copy WSJ Title ‘2 Paste WSJ Title in Google News 3. click link4. read article fredwilson Sep 16, 2014 yeah, that’s how i got it too. but i did not want to put that i
7 min read · Aug 15, 2014 -- On August 20, I’m moving from Silicon Valley to Toulouse, France. My rock-star wife, Jen Schradie , got a three-year post-doc at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Toul
Tweet Post Share Buy Copies Leer en español Ler em português 2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Booming public equities and a recovered IPO market generated record po
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I’ve been thinking about yesterday’s announcement of the Apple Watch . Like WWDC ’14 , it’s a lot to process in a single day – you’re looking at years worth of design and product vision condensed in t
I'm not even sure we can call it a watch. Okay, it goes on the wrist, and it happens to tell the time, but that's about where the similarities between Apple's just announced watch and the hand-assembl
The Prototyper’s Development Stack Coders use different development stacks. For example, when building a website, a developer might use HTML, CSS, and Javascript for the site, maybe Python for the log
‘Tinderella’: The Story of One NYC Photographer and Her Many Tinder Dates By Jenna Garrett on September 8, 2014 Name: Samuel Age: 32 Occupation: Videographer Date: Fashion launch at The Grey Lady foll
The Rise and Fall of the Biggest Pot Dealer in New York City History Jimmy Cournoyer’s ring shipped marijuana to New York City. During an investigation into the enterprise, authorities seized suitcase
Published in Monday Note · 5 min read · Sep 7, 2014 -- Ben Horowitz, the erudite cofounder of the Andreessen Horowitz ( A16z ) firm is a respected heavyweight in the Silicon Valley’s venture capital m
Idle Words > Talks > The Internet With A Human Face This is the text version of a talk I gave on May 20, 2014, at Beyond Tellerrand in Düsseldorf, Germany. Marc [Thiele] emailed me a few weeks ago to
On July 1, Seth Bannon appeared before several hundred techies and investors at the New York Tech Meetup, the industry gathering where Tumblr and Foursquare made their debut. Even among this pedigreed
Ron Carlson’s short story “What We Wanted To Do” takes the form of an apology from a villager who failed to protect his comrades from marauding Visigoths. It begins: What we wanted to do was spill boi
Obviously, the site isn't journalism — it's documenting nothing more than Stanton's own viewpoint and, now, how much he evidently enjoys being a known quantity. And art thrives on the unexpected, so it's not that. Humans of New York is, as Stanton pushes his book and finds fans on the street,…
In his unstinting Confessions of an Ivy League Frat Boy: A Memoir , out August 26th, author Andrew Lohse goes mercilessly deep on his debaucherous experiences as a brother in Dartmouth’s Sigma Alpha E
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