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Foursquare’s Swarm And The Rise Of The Invisible App Matthew Panzarino 8:00 AM PDT · May 15, 2014 Swarm is a new app from Foursquare out today that chisels off the check-in and proximity features of the main app and places them in a sparse, focus-driven new home. The app is nicely done, though it…

Currency May 14, 2014 “Why Jill Abramson Was Fired,” by Ken Auletta. This post was updated at 10 P.M. At the annual City University Journalism School dinner, on Monday, Dean Baquet, the managing editor of the New York Times, was seated with Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., the paper’s publisher. At the time,…

How Two Jetliners Nearly Collided Over the Pacific, Why No One Knows About It, and What It Means for Safety Oversight Aboard Airplanes Kevin Townsend 15 min read· May 12, 2014 -- I was weightless. We all were. Thirty-three thousand feet up in a cloudless sky, our plane had suddenly pitched into a…

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People line up in the rain outside of the US Supreme Court in Washington Thomson Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One U.S. Supreme Court justice referred to Netflix as “Netflick.” Another seemed not to know that HBO is a cable channel. A third appeared to think most software coding could be tossed off…

Google Maps Has Forsaken Us Jon Evans 6:00 AM PDT · May 10, 2014 Once upon a time, in the days of yore — meaning, in hyper-fast-forward Silicon Valley, five years ago — there were things you could count on, evident truths on which you could rely, cornerstones on which you could construct your mental…

I grew up with a killer. My father. He didn't kill in a way that would ever send him to jail. He wasn't in the military. Instead, he used the death penalty. Sometimes he called and gave the order for

McDonald’s sponsored the annual conference of the California branch of the nutritionists’ professional organization. Kiera Butler One recent Friday afternoon, in a Mariott Hotel ballroom in Pomona, California, I watched two women skeptically evaluate their McDonald’s lunches. One peered into a…

Earlier today, I went to post a photo to Instagram. I had done this 1,935 times before without a problem. Today was different though. My routine is always the same: load Instagram, pick a photo to upload, apply filters, tap area to geotag to the place the photo was taken, and… wait a minute.…

The biannual TechCrunch Disrupt conference series is only about money. There are interviews, the exchange of opinions, software presentations, questions, answers, and lots of visuals. But the entire p

The Financial Page May 12, 2014 Illustration by Christoph Niemann We live in the age of the startup. It’s never been easier to build a product and start a company. And, thanks to the boom in angel investing and crowdfunding, it’s never been easier for startups to raise money. The analytics firm CB…

Design finally won “a seat at the table.” Is it now set to lose it? Mills Baker 16 min read· Apr 24, 2014 -- Reprinted from the Mokriya blog. For comments on some reactions, see here. If design hadn’t triumphed by 2012, it had by 2013. Three years after launching the iPad, Apple was the world’s most…

Ann, a 25-year-old mother of two, working the phone trying to buy heroin in Hazleton, Pa.Credit...Shaul Schwarz/Reportage, for The New York Times One day last summer, Ann and her husband, Tom, walked two and a half hours to reach Hazleton, a onetime mining town in eastern Pennsylvania. They had…

Our new logo, where it came from and what it means betaworks 8 min read· May 9, 2014 -- We have a new betaworks brand identity. Exciting stuff. This is a little background on what it all means and how we got there. The Brief 2013 was a big year for betaworks. We built some great products, invested…

Paper books were supposed to be dead by now. For years, information theorists, marketers, and early adopters have told us their demise was imminent. Ikea even redesigned a bookshelf to hold something other than books. Yet in a world of screen ubiquity, many people still prefer to do their serious…

We all have things that we want to achieve in our lives — getting into the better shape, building a successful business, raising a wonderful family, writing a best-selling book, winning a championship, and so on. And for most of us, the path to those things starts by setting a specific and…

IBM's display at a German trade fair. The company is spending $1.2 billion to build cloud computing centers around the world to lure foreign customers who are sensitive about the location of their data. Credit...Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft has lost customers, including the…

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Do you love to program? Don't expect to ever become CEO unless you start your own company - but even then the needs of leadership will likely result in not writing any more code. In most jobs as long as you continue to write code you will likely have a limited set of promotions you can get. Usually…

Today, a Canary build of Google Chrome removed something kind of important from the browser: the URL. Of course it still supports them, but the time where users actually see URLs is ending. With Chrome’s “Enable origin chip in Omnibox” flag, Location becomes a write-only field. Clicking there no…

With IPO Hopes Fading, Square And Box Face Reality Of Commodity Products Danny Crichton 3:00 PM PDT · May 2, 2014 Square and Box would seem to be the very epitome of every startup founder’s dream of reaching the pinnacle of entrepreneurial success. Take a kernel of an idea and turn it into a…

Dustin Moskovitz 6 min read· Aug 14, 2013 -- Update (Sept 2014): I gave a talk on this topic during lecture 1 of Stanford’s CS 183B course. Check out the video if you’d like to hear more about deciding to become an entrepreneur. I’ve also added a few of the slides to this post in relevant places.…

This is a story about two roads — Should and Must. It’s a pep talk for anyone who’s chosen Should for far too long — months, years, maybe a lifetime — and feels like it’s about time they gave Must a shot elle luna 16 min read· Apr 8, 2014 -- Press enter or click to view image in full size There are…

Is it possible to propose a software canon? To enumerate great works of software that are deeply influential—that changed the nature of the code that followed? Canons emerge over time, as certain works gain in critical appreciation. But software is mutable stuff, quick to obsolesce. Only banks,…

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They called it the “Main Line Takeover Project”—a drug ring operating in schools and colleges up and down a moneyed corridor of the Philadelphia suburbs. A venture no doubt conducted by only the most seasoned and hardened dealers out of West Philly or Camden, New Jersey. Wrong: The Main Line…

These were the days when everyone was still beautiful, and we were all still rich. The things big bubble-pop doomsayers kept predicting hadn't happened yet, and Facebook was on top of everything else. It was just firing. And firing. And firing. Even the misses--Paper and Home and Poke--seemed like…

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Today at f8, we announced Anonymous Login, a brand new way to log into apps without sharing any personal information from Facebook, along with a new version of Facebook Login with even better privacy controls. People tell us they’re sometimes worried about sharing information with apps and want more…

We've been trying to figure out the moment Twitter turned, retracing tweets to see whether there was something specific that soured the platform. Something is wrong on Twitter. And people are noticing. Or, at least, the kind of people we hang around with on Twitter are noticing. And it's maybe not a…

April 25, 2014 Replacing the PC When I first saw the iPad, I knew it was going to replace the personal computer for the vast majority of people. I was wrong. Yes, the iPad is easier, faster, and cheaper at doing pretty much everything a normal person wants to do on a computer. Yes, PCs are…

Patrick Moberg didn't set out to make the most addictive mobile game of 2013. He didn't set out to make a game at all. Moberg's goal was just to experiment with different user interaction designs for Tapestry, a short story app from Betaworks, the incubator where he worked as a hacker-in-residence.…

“Here’s your ‘buzzword bingo’ card for the meeting,” Wally says to Dilbert, handing him a piece of paper. “If the boss uses a buzzword on your card, you check it off. The objective is to fill a row.” They go to the meeting, where their pointy-haired boss presides. “You’re all very attentive today,”…

Josh Miller: In response to @jennydeluxe's article about NYC tech, I wrote a quick post about why it might be the wrong framing: https://t.co/Y4ljGP0YjG