TODAY, the anniversary of the shooting in Tucson that put a bullet through my head and killed six of my constituents, is when I make my annual resolutions. Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost.
Today inMarket is beginning a huge rollout of iBeacons to grocery stores including Safeway and Giant Eagle locations in Seattle, San Francisco and Cleveland. The rollout will place the Bluetooth LE be
Wrote this yesterday as my column this week on TechCrunch, have been thinking about “cards” as an interface for mobile apps… —– This is a post about “cards” as an interface in mobile apps. I am not a designer. I am also unable to mention every single app that uses cards — feel free to mention others…
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Doing SEO, SEM or social media marketing isn’t “growth hacking.” It’s just marketing. Problem is some marketers & start-ups don’t get that. — Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) January 4, 2014 The phrase
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Bernard meisler / Dec 11, 2012 / Social Last month, while wasting a few moments on Facebook, my pal Brendan O’Malley was surprised to see that his old friend Alex Gomez had “liked” Discover. This was
The Cooper Union Board of Trustees today managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. It was a depressing and yet entirely predictable vote, which resulted in a depressing and yet entirely predi
“God, body and mind, food for the soul When you feeding on hate, you empty, my n!*$a, it shows.” — Rick Ross “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to
1 / 12 20140109-CES-AZ-0293-edit A tour through Qualcomm's connected home. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/WIRED " This is just a phone. That is just a TV. They both have screens and buttons. Yawn. You’re exci
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19 Dec 2013 What’s the hardest bug you’ve ever debugged? Every programmer has their heroically exaggerated tales of death defying combatand daring beast slaying. Here’s my epic tale. Memory Corruption
Acting professionally and being a professional are different things. One year ago, we released Party Monster , our fun little DJ app for parties and road trips. We take our work seriously, but we incl
Every few days, I get an email or a Facebook message asking me if I know anyone who’s looking to be their technical co-founder. This post is an aggregation of responses and tips I give to college star
It's no secret that I'm a fan of bootstrapping. I like to retain 100% founder control of a business that I'm in. There are some circumstances where I'd consider raising capital (as a springboard, not
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Online retailer Zappos has long been known to do things its own way. The customer-service obsessed company calls its executives “ monkeys ,” has staffers ring cowbells to greet guests, and offers new
I don't care about your code challenge. I've recently been doing some interviews for front-end and JavaScript-relatedpositions at local tech companies here in the bay area. One thing I did notexpect as part of this interview process (at a company which shall remainnameless) was to be presented with…
The Disrupters | The Attention Grabber The Meanings of the Selfie Credit... James Franco Selfies are something new to me, but as I have become increasingly addicted to Instagram, I have been accused o
A few minutes ago I came across a Hacker News post that detailed a method of adding search to your static site. As you probably know, adding search to a static site is a bit tricky, because you can’t just send the query to a server and have the server process it and return the results. If you want…
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4 reasons I use large type The type on this site is totally unorthodox and it’s easier to read. If you don’t believe me, here’s why… I’m sick and tired of cramped websites that have tiny type and don’
Tweet Post Share Buy Copies Leer en español Ler em português Automattic employs 225 people. We’re located all over the world, in 190 different cities. We have a headquarters in San Francisco and it op
This is perhaps one of the most striking passages I have read for a while. It describes the modern world with startling accuracy. In our fear of an increasingly authoritarian rule, we have allowed a f
Biz Stone’s much anticipated mobile app “ Jelly ” officially launched today, and since it marries some of my core interests — mobile and marketplaces (Q&A) — I thought I’d jot down some quick, unpolished reactions to the app — which at a high-level, is very well-designed — because it brought…
Recently I wrote about wannabe and first-timer entrepreneur symptoms. I did include cures, but the reality is it is often hard to self-medicate. A longer lasting cure is to get a couple of good mentors. The mentors are there to call you on all your bullshit. You have to be open to being called out,…
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich visits Kanzi, a 25-year-old Bonobo, at Great Ape Trust of Iowa in 2005. (Steve Pope/Associated Press) In November, Mischa Fisher took to this space to criticize the
It's a question that's been asked since time immemorial: Could a woman create an online dating profile "so loathsome that no man would message it"? Cracked 's crack investigative reporter Alli Reed de
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer just made her first announcement onstage during her Consumer Electronics Show keynote — that the company has acquired Aviate , a startup that taps the apps on your smartphone t
Did you invent it? Did you come up with it? Did you start it? Really? Then where is it? Show it to me. You can’t can you? Because that’s all you did. You thought, you talked, and you dreamed. These are all good things, all very, very important things but you forgot the most important step. You…
Published in Both Sides of the Table · 7 min read · Jan 4, 2014 -- Yesterday I wrote a post about “ the politics of startups ” in which I asserted that all companies have politics, which in its purest
January 2, 2014 “Vacations are for the weak” We all understand the absurdity of that old adage “sleep is for the weak”. That attitude has been put to rest by a bevy of studies empirically showing that
December 15, 2013 I want The best way to predict the future is to think about desire. The problem with desire is that it tends to be bounded by what’s actually possible; as we grow older, our imaginat
It would be an understatement to say that America has an ambivalent relationship with marijuana. The United States is in the world’s top five per-capita consumer of the drug, yet it treats possession
Every time I tell someone about OpenStreetMap, they inevitably ask"Why not use Google Maps?". From a practical standpoint, it's areasonable question, but ultimately this is not just a matter ofpractic
Despite the vastness of the sky, airplanes occasionally crash into each other. To avoid these catastrophes, the Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) was developed. TCAS alerts pilots to
It takes a few days for things to return to normal, but we’re officially back! First of all, we owe a big thanks to Google for being fair and transparent and allowing us back onto their results pages.
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