Here's a question: What exactly are headlines for, on the internet? This post doesn't have a canonical headline (that is, a single, main, authoritative headline, chosen by me, that isn't a joke). But

BY MARK CRANNEY One of the myths of SaaS is that the products are so good, so easy to use, so quick to deploy … that the product sells itself . Given the popularity of try-before-you-buy and freemium-

People often ask me how I started BetaList . Many companies have unusual origin stories and this one is no exception. I have told parts of the story before, but never sat down to write and share the w

“I realise now that I wanted to disappear. To get so lost that nobody ever found me. To go so far away that I’d never be able to make my way home again. But I have no idea why.” - Jessica Warman When

Simon Cunningham/Lending Memo The Federal Communications Commission has demanded—and received—the paid peering agreements Netflix signed with Comcast and Verizon, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler announced to

"This is actually good for Tesla and EV industry, that’s really important to appreciate, and I really do believe that," Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on a call today. He’d just done something a little off-

“ Bill Murray, Internet Jester ,” by Ian Crouch. Bill Murray is your Facebook friend—or else, a friend of a friend, showing up with regularity in your feed. You know what he’s up to. This week, he was

R. Stanley Williams works at HP Labs, and he has for a long time. In the video of him that I am watching, his pony tail flows out over his blue-collared shirt, and onto his lumpy sweater. He wants to

Jun. 18, 2014 12:30 pm By Thom Hartmann A... If there’s one person who has absolutely zero business criticizing anyone for how they’re running the country, it’s Dick Cheney. This should be obvious to

Across the board, the more CEOs get paid, the worse their companies do over the next three years, according to extensive new research . This is true whether they’re CEOs at the highest end of the pay

Tim Wu. Stanford Center for Internet and Society Tim Wu, the Columbia Law School professor and author who coined the phrase "network neutrality," is running for lieutenant governor in New York. If he

After serving thirteen years behind bars and struggling to rebuild his life, an ex-con finds solace in a surreptitious trip to the most unexpected place of all — his former cell.

I’ve been spending a lot of time in Silicon Valley for my day job at CalendarTree. I feel like an embedded journalist. You might be interested in some of the things I’ve discovered. The most fascinati

Justin Kan Nov 12, 2016 · 3 min read June 16, 2014 This year I went to Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia and Croatia and had a chance to visit startups in each of those countries. One lasting impression from all my trips was the quality of products being created. These is no question in my mind that…

Published in Matter · 91 min read · Jun 11, 2014 -- The media mogul (twice over) on being both contagious and sticky By Felix Salmon Illustrations by Young Professionals I first got to know Jonah Pere

American slang has its roots in the Irish American urban experience. Just before he died, Daniel Cassidy released a pioneering book, "How the Irish invented Slang," that begins to prove how American s

David Marcus, who runs the PayPal online payments service for eBay, is moving to Facebook to become head of its messaging products. He has been at PayPal for three years, coming to eBay after it bough

After recently killing off Poke , its first Snapchat competitor, Facebook is back with a second shot at ephemeral messaging. The new app, called Slingshot , lets you quickly send photos and videos to

Anonymous social networking app Secret, a popular watercooler for Silicon Valley gossip, and now, much more thanks to recent expansions , has just announced a new feature called “Secret Dens,” which i

One of the funniest McSweeney’s pieces you’ll ever read is a message to haters from the font Comic Sans. Slighted by the perception that he’s “pedestrian and tacky,” Mr. Sans argues he’s actually “the

According to researchers at the University of Utah, the bones of the human face have evolved to be more robust for protection against repeated impacts by small objects like the human fist, which they

Jon Evans Contributor Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and a book of travel writing; and TechCrunch's weeken

“Everybody wants a story to tell. They want a feeling. People want something that can be photographed, that could be Facebook friendly.” So said Randal Stancik, the vice president of Willis Tower’s Sk

By day, I code mobile apps and design digital experiences. In my free time, I create art. I recently began exploring both at once with generative art , a

Aware that there is no such thing as total neutrality, Neutral typeface explores how the absence of stylistic associations can help the reader to engage with the content of a text. Is the typeface neu

I paid $5 for 4,000 Twitter followers, and here’s what I found Published in i ❤ data · 6 min read · Jun 5, 2014 -- Buying your way to status on social networks has become standard practice. From Insta

Photo: Shutterstock The endeavor seemed, at first, like a joke on Silicon Valley : An online start-up was crowdfunding a shipment of single women from New York to San Francisco, so the nerd-kings of t

Illustration by Sean Freeman Jonathan Hoefler is standing in his office on the seventh floor of the Cable Building in Noho, sipping a mug of ginger tea and telling stories about an obscure 16th-centur

This is the original introductory article to Golden Ratio Typography (GRT). The basic concepts you’ll find on this page are important for understanding GRT, but much of the math is now outdated (and has been replaced by updated formulae). For a more current and comprehensive look at all things GRT,…

“Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy,” E.B. White wrote while contemplating the future of reading in 1951 . Indeed, the q

While I watched Apple's WWDC 2014 opening keynote on Monday morning, I couldn't stop thinking about the infectious mixture of fun and confidence everyone onstage seemed to be exuding. It was something