Photo: Getty Images Social scientists will try to measure anything, it seems, and in the most recent issue of Psychology of Women Quarterly , a professor at Arizona State has published a paper that at
A few weeks back, a Google Ventures portfolio company revealed itself to the public: WUT . A lot of the press focused on the anonymity aspect of the service, which is understandable, because that area
Last week, investor Chris Dixon posed a provocative dichotomy when introducing his employer’s USD $25M investment in Bitcoin service Coinbase: “The press tends to portray Bitcoin as either a speculative bubble or a scheme for supporting criminal activity. In Silicon Valley, by contrast, Bitcoin is…
Earlier this month, investors poured $1.2 billion into Uber , a tech company whose smartphone app connects taxi drivers to passengers. The share of the business these investors received suggests that
See it sway: three-eyed blind bat hanging from a wire. Or perhaps there: perched atop a pole, lights moving from top to bottom--green yellow red green yellow red--in its unvarying sequence. Two hundre
Watch and learn Published in The Year of the Looking Glass · 6 min read · Jun 17, 2014 -- All right, you caught me. The title of this article is a bit too fancy-pants. Product Critique is some dressed
Google co-founders Larry Page (right) and Sergey Brin in 2008 in New York City. Photo by Michael Nagle/Getty Images In the summer of 2003, Viacom executive Mel Karmazin managed to sum up old media’s h
How we discover games and apps is broken, hitting indie developers hardest. Here’s one way to fix it. Published in The Message · 5 min read · Jun 19, 2014 -- I love indie games, and follow the indie g
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
After seeing a FOIA request earlier today that someone created asking for FBI training documents that teach staff how to understand/communicate using hacker leet-speak, I was reminded about something I’ve wanted to put in virtual ink for a while. Leet speak or 133+ sp34k or hacker speak did not…
johndodds Nov 3, 2009 Just like people did before email you mean? Technology changes, good manners don’t. fredwilson Nov 3, 2009 🙂 chris dixon Nov 3, 2009 Thank you! Totally agree. Also, a nitpick, bu
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
Hi, Marc . I grew up using your work. Thanks to one of my parents being employed by a university, I got to use Mosaic to browse the early Web way before most people had even heard of it. My first soft
Amenities at the Fifth + Tillery offices include a fitness center, beautifully landscaped courtyards, and… Read more The new industrial space lease represents roughly 54% of rentable square feet at th
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
My childhood backyard. Growing up in rural Mississippi had its perks. Most days my brother and I would come home from school, grab a snack from the fridge, and head outside to fish in the pond tucked
In case you landed here without any context and have no idea who I am or what this article is about this article should give you some background. For years we were skating on very thin ice. Our only a
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
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“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
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