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
Illiteracy isn’t a major issue for much of the Western world, but it remains endemic in many developing countries, where incomes are low and books are scarce. That may be changing, though, thanks to the spread of mobile technologies that have made books more accessible than ever before — something…
A modest proposal Andy Baio 4 min read· Apr 29, 2014 -- The animated GIF is the Internet’s native art form. But 25 years later, we still haven’t decided how to pronounce it. We’ve spilled so many words over the pronunciation of a single letter, rivaled only by the debate over tabs vs. spaces, email…
Apple's revenue has pretty much stopped growing. This chart shows the quarterly revenue the company has reported - a series of ever larger spikes upward around new product launches, but with a flattening trajectory. If you look at this on a a trailing 12 months basis, to smooth out the spikes and…
One day in July 2001, Larry Page decided to fire Google’s project managers. All of them. It was just five years since Page, then a 22-year-old graduate student at Stanford, was struck in the middle of the night with a vision. In it, he somehow managed to download the entire Web and by examining the…
Annals of Technology April 23, 2014 In 2007, at a public forum at Coe College, in Iowa, Presidential candidate Barack Obama was asked about net neutrality. Specifically, “Would you make it a priority in your first year of office to reinstate net neutrality as the law of the land? And would you…
These Upworthy Titles Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity. But You Won’t Believe What Happens Next. Clickbait is bad. Clickbait is ruining journalism. Everyone knows this. Everyone hates the formulaic success that BuzzFeed has generated with endless listicles about animals, the 90s, and animals in…
Yesterday I wrote about how the design of the Weather.com illustrates the negative influence of advertisers on the site: the experience is degraded almost to the point of ridiculousness. Pages regularly have more than half of their real estate dedicated to linking to terrible, shallow content meant…
Cool URIs don't change What makes a cool URI? A cool URI is one which does not change. What sorts of URI change? URIs don't change: people change them. There are no reasons at all in theory for people to change URIs (or stop maintaining documents), but millions of reasons in practice. In theory, the…
As the number of Homebrew companies grow, some are preparing for a Series A in 2014 (we’ve backed more teams than are currently public on our website). While very few people start companies simply because they like to meet with VCs, I don’t approach fundraising as simply a ‘necessary evil.’ It’s a…
It has now been 150 days since Fab completed its 2013 restructuring which saw us cut our operating expenses by two-thirds and go from more than 750 employees to around 300 today. Since then, armed with tens of millions of dollars, a great brand, loyal customers, a passion for design, an amazing…
Hey team, Our next team meeting is dedicated to Core Values, which are essential to building our culture. It occurred to me that before this meeting, I should write you a short letter on why culture is so important to Joe, Nate, and me. After we closed our Series C with Peter Thiel in 2012, we…
Fresh out of Stanford Business School, I started a software company, T/Maker, with my brother Peter. He was the software architect and I was, well, everything else. Our little company was among the first to ship software for the Macintosh, and we developed a positive reputation among the members of…
The evolution of Buffer’s core scheduling Sunil Sadasivan 6 min read· Mar 3, 2014 -- At the core of how Buffer schedules posts is one line of a cronjob configuration that hasn’t been touched since the very start when Joel founded Buffer. We still rely on that single cronjob that runs every minute of…
Startup employees often do not get treated very well when it comes to stock compensation. New ideas float around occasionally, but lawyers are usually averse to trying new things, and investors don’t feel that they have enough incentive to try something new for employees. There are four major…
By the end of their dinner at a small Italian restaurant in New York’s West Village, Leah is getting antsy to part ways with her boyfriend Ryan, so that she can go meet up with her boyfriend Jim. It’s not that she means to be rude, it’s just that Jim has been traveling for work, so it’s been a while…
Greenland's immense ice sheet is melting as a result of climate change.Credit...Kadir van Lohuizen for The New York Times YOKOHAMA, Japan — Climate change is already having sweeping effects on every continent and throughout the world’s oceans, scientists reported Monday, and they warned that the…
The best part of the iPhone’s small screen is its one-handed capabilities. Navigating with only one hand allows for an entirely different use-case than that of a larger-screened phone or tablet.
Navigating with swipes is my favourite method of working through an iOS application. Buttons need a level…
When we think about the spectacular collapses of once untouchable Internet properties, companies like MySpace and Pets.com come to mind. The rise and fall of AOL Instant Messenger rivals them all. Once the dominant force in digital messaging and a source of innovations other companies spun off into…
110 Years of TNR 10Seeds of Doubt 11The Period Is Pissed12The Hell of American Day Care View All The digital age has not been kind to the English language. Capitalization, proper spelling, and punctuation long ago became optional when texting friends or chatting online. The period was one of the…
In 2009, when Robert H Richard IV, an unemployed heir to the DuPont family fortune, pled guilty to fourth-degree rape of his three-year-old daughter, a judge spared him a justifiable sentence – indeed, only put Richard on probation – because she figured this 1-percenter would "not fare well" in a…
In the early days of Olark, we took a very traditional approach to customer service. We did what most companies do and hired someone smart to handle it. Andrew did such an amazing job of handling issues that we hardly heard from our customers. In the Fall of 2009, Andrew decided to go back to…
Disclaimers I'm not a citizen of a country where "getting more people to code" is a widely shared concern. While my proposal seems to me like a simple solution to a simple problem, this is merely an outsider's observation. Recently the tide of calls to "code" seems to have subsided. If it's no…
Photo: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images On March 19, 2000, the New York Times published a Q&A with Matthew Johnson, the chief Nasdaq trader for Lehman Brothers. It had been a mixed week in the markets – the Nasdaq had fallen off its all-time highs, but the S&P 500 had gained a few percentage points…
Explore More Beach enclave’s crippling tax on vacation homeowners spectacularly backfires Unions in New York now squeeze the public worse than any other mafia — with politicians’ help Airbnb launches major expansion with airport pickups, luggage storage and AI-powered travel tools Hookers are using…
When Molly Graham joined Facebook in 2008, the company still felt scrappy. With 400 employees serving 80 million users, people were so busy “moving fast and breaking things” that the culture still needed to be defined. Graham was hired to help make this happen — to not only tell the company’s story…
Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast Contributor 6:00 PM PDT · April 12, 2014 Editor’s note: Bill Aulet is the managing director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship and a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is the author of the recently released book, Disciplined…
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People are spending more time on mobile vs desktop: And more of their mobile time using apps, not the web: This is a worrisome trend for the web. Mobile is the future. What wins mobile, wins the Internet. Right now, apps are winning and the web is losing. Moreover, there are signs that it will only…
#Love: When Your Lover Has Your Password Jordan Crook 2:37 PM PDT · April 4, 2014 There is a special milestone in each significant relationship that is rarely celebrated. There’s no holiday, no dinner, and no party. It just happens – one day you’re strangers, the next you’re not. It’s the day you…
APRIL 7--When friends and family members gathered recently at the White House for a private celebration of Michelle Obama’s 50th birthday, one of the invited partygoers was a former paid FBI Mafia informant. That same man attended February’s state dinner in honor of French President Francois…
Anthony Rose is co-founder and CTO of zeebox, the social network for TV. So, you have a mobile app where there are more pages or sections than can fit on a mobile screen at once. Your first thought might be to create a tabbed design, with a row of tabs along the top or buttons along the bottom. But…
Chris Dixon, in a piece titled “The Decline of the Mobile Web”, citing stats from ComScore and Flurry: People are spending more time on mobile vs desktop. And more of their mobile time using apps, not the web. This is a worrisome trend for the web. Mobile is the future. What wins mobile, wins the…
Of all the many high-profile Internet companies, perhaps none has attracted more speculation than Square. It makes sense. The payments company has a well-known CEO and founder in tech star Jack Dorsey
Home ›› Business Value and ROI ›› 6 Key Questions to Guide International UX Research ›› Are You Saying “No” When You Could Be Saying “Yes” in Your Web Forms? by John Ekman 5 min read February 29, 2012 Share this post on Tweet Share Post Share Email Print Save The tonality of error messages can swing…
We were taken by surprise by a lemon law claim recently filed against Tesla by a Wisconsin lawyer, describing himself as the "Lemon Law King", who says that we ignored his client's three demands for a
58542541 story Online Skim Reading Is Taking Over the Human Brain Posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @02:59AM from the slashdot-ruined-your-brain dept. Hugh Pickens DOT Com (2995471) writes "Michael S. Rosenwald reports in the Washington Post that, according to cognitive…
Ephemeral Apps Ephemeral messaging apps such as Snapchat, Wickr and Frankly, all of which advertise that your photo, message or update will only be accessible for a short period, are on the rise. Snapchat and Frankly, for example, claim they permanently delete messages, photos and videos after 10…
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