Today marks five years since I launched the website that my mom still refers to as ' the other bedbugs '. Happy business birthday to me! Any site that aspires to be an archive starts life with a credi
Scaling growth is hard – there’s only a few ways to do it When you study the most successful mobile/web products, you start to see a pattern on how they grow. Turns out, there’s not too many ways to r
Fun With iBeacon written in You probably know already what iBeacon is, but just to reiterate, iBeacon is the Apple way of saying Bluetooth 4 Low Energy. At the cost of sounding like a mindless drone,
It’s now 7 years since the iPhone reset the phone business, and indeed the entire computing and internet businesses. But it was pretty clear at the time that the first iPhone was an MVP, and Google’s first Android… homage, the HTC G1, was even more so. It feels rather like the last 7 years have…
Yancey Strickler is chief executive and co-founder of Kickstarter.
The world was introduced to Kickstarter when our Web site went live in 2009. But the idea had been around much longer: Company co-founder Perry Chen came up with it in 2001. The eight intervening years were spent doggedly trying to…
“How could she do something like this to me?” said a voice in my head. All the time. Everyday.
Back in 2011, when everything had gradients, iOS icons made sense, and people used deodorants, I was stuck in middle of a pretty bad depression due to my divorce.
Thankfully, I think I was smart enough…
Communities have long been an integral part of the Internet, online places where people can connect and share their passions and interests. And communities can have great network dynamics, where they
I have seen the future of desktop computing, and it is very small. Ironically, it is also very portable. Imagine a Macintosh in a smartphone form factor. Pull it out of your pocket, and it works like
Unhuddled - To Independence Published 09 November 2013 in London, UK This is a story about how in a few months my outlook on work and life changed, and I ended up where I am now: full time, doing stuf
Elon Musk is a fascinating guy, and his Hyperloop concept equally so. Now that the details have started trickling out, almost in the form of a riddle, I can't help speculating on what it is. So, in ri
April 15, 2014 That’s not a typo. The paid version of the HttpWatch app really costs $ 99.99 . We’ve had some great feedback about the app but there’s been a fair amount of surprise and disbelief that we would attempt to sell an app for 100x more than Angry Birds: “I like this app and what it…
Founded by Dropbox and MIT alums, a new startup called Inbox is launching out of stealth today, hoping to power the next generation of email applications. Similar to the newly launched Gmail API, Inbo
A Lyft car in San Francisco. Lyft recruits regular people who wish to make extra money by offering rides in their own cars. Jeff Chiu/Associated Press A pink mustache grows in Brooklyn. Hundreds of th
The San Francisco fog creeps over the city. Nick Bilton/The New York Times Living in San Francisco is a predictable affair. Each day you awake to layers of fog, the temperature is always the same, and
Everything here is my opinion. I do not speak for your employer. 2014-07-18 » You've got to be kidding me. Supposedly legit BIOS extension , included by the manufacturer in many laptops, hijacks Windo
Published in Both Sides of the Table · 5 min read · Jun 30, 2014 -- By now almost everybody knows that Marc Andreessen has taken Twitter by storm. By Tweetstorm, that is. Marc seems to single handedly
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Maybe it’s the foolish amounts of venture capital swirling around Silicon Valley, but it often seems as though we are all playing a game in which the contestants have to determine what is a parody and
Lessons from NYC’s improperly anonymized taxi logs Recently, thanks to a Freedom of Information request, Chris Whong received and made public a complete dump of historical trip and fare logs from NYC
I got a resume from someone a few days ago who among other accomplishments mentioned they were a top commenter on ProductHunt. Pretty cool. And then when I saw a post on HN about ProductHunt vs. TechC
You’re about to publish that blog post but really want more people to engage — read, share, and respond to it. What do you do? Naturally, turn it into a catchy list of items perfectly packaged for cli
In reading the recent Piper Jaffray Internet Advertising report, I was struck by what the report lists as trend number three in the "Media World Order:" Indeed, I think the implications of this concep
Published in The Message · 5 min read · Jul 2, 2014 -- Trench notes By Craig Mod Illustration by Luis Mendo How are apps made? Painfully with deliberation or effortlessly without thought. Blind inspir
1 / 7 Last Saturday, a few blocks north of Times Square, a nineteen-year-old named Virgilia Reyes was wearing a red Elmo costume, with a drawstring bag slung across her back and an Android phone in he
Avoiding innovator’s dilemma I realize it’s impossible to say in a few hundred words what people much smarter than me have written about in a series of books, but I’ve been thinking again about a topi
George Takei (Facebook) Former Star Trek actor George Takei blasted Monday’s decision by the Supreme Court allowing the craft store Hobby Lobby to opt out of the contraceptive mandate of the Affordabl
Want to know why Comcast’s merger with Time Warner Cable has any chance of passing despite huge opposition from even the company’s own customers , look no further than emails recently uncovered by Muc
CSS is unnecessary given a layout language with means of abstraction and combination [ fp ] CSS, a language for specifying visual appearance on the web, is … so complex that it has never been implemen
A “superathlete” gene that helps Sherpas and other Tibetans breathe easy at high altitudes was inherited from an ancient species of human. That’s the conclusion of a new study, which finds that the ge
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Wait, WUT? Every so often, when I am sitting alone with my phone (sad panda) and have some time to kill, I log into the anonymous internet: usually WUT and Secret. After spending most of the last deca
Facebook’s methodology in a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences raises serious ethical questions. Photo by Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images Facebook has been experimenting on
I got invited to write for the Huffington Post today. I really did. A nice man from Huff had seen my tweets, read some of my blog, and wrote a very kind email to me suggesting that I’d make a good contributor. Of course it appealed to my ego, which is as susceptible to flattery as yours is. About 2…
When iOS 8 hits, the notification center is going to be the most important screen in your iPhone. Think about it: Notifications already are the way you know about everything that happens without havin
As a guest today in my daughter’s second-grade classroom, full of math-enthusiastic seven-and-eight-year-old girls, I led a mathematical investigation of graph coloring, chromatic numbers, map colorin
Cyberthreat talks 20 Jun 2023, 4:00pm 60 min Unveiling the Darknet’s Malware-as-a-Service model Alexander Zabrovsky Cyberthreat talks 07 Jun 2023, 5:00pm 60 min Cyberthreats to modern automotive indus
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