There’s been a lot of discussion in the last few days about those annoying “Rate This App” dialogs in far too many iOS apps today, initiated by John Gruber , summarized nicely by Chris Gonzales , and
Co-founder, Hello Code and Exist.
Posted on Mon 09 December 2013
Right now Josh and I are both working on Exist around our day jobs.
On the one hand, this takes the pressure off Exist so that we can focus on making the product awesome without having a definite monetisation strategy in place yet. On…
Today, IFTTT announces the addition of an iOS Location channel to its ‘Internet glue’ service. The channel will allow users to specify an ‘area’ that will allow them to trigger actions and recipes bas
The democratization of information has been hugely important for startups in the last decade. Threads like Reddit or Hacker News can drive huge amounts of traffic to new companies, giving them crucial
It is truly remarkable how the right people with the right idea at the right time can change the world. Larry Page and Sergey Brin did this in 1999 with PageRank. To a large extent, this simple fundam
2013-12-12 One of the interesting things about Bitcoin is the contrast between how it is portrayed in the press and how it is understood by technologists. The press tends to portray Bitcoin as either
Several surveys have found people are willing to take a pay cut in order to have the flexibility to work remotely. Now, a new survey is confirming these findings –- but with a twist. Flexible jobs sit
Yesterday, Apple began a small press push on its new iBeacon technology, pushed an Apple Store app update to support them and turned the feature on in 254 U.S.-based stores in an initial rollout. Acco
A Seed VC’s Decision Tree Rob Go October 29, 2013 · 3 min. I continue to be on a kick towards better and more systematic decision-making . One exercise I’ve tried is to codify my mental decision-tree
“What cool new products are you using?” We all ask this question. It’s a common conversation starter, especially in the startup community. I’m particularly fond of this topic–I enjoy geeking out about
Two interesting articles last week, better together. First came TheInformation’s 1 maiden piece about How Apple Gives Some Apps an Edge (subscription required): Being featured [in the App Store] can b
Reddit’s empire is founded on a flawed algorithm Posted on December 9, 2013 Reddit has a bug in their code. This bug is currently present in their production platform, and has been for years. It affec
When it comes to everything that's not building a great product and getting users, most founders think fundraising is going to be their biggest challenge. And it is, until they raise money, and then i
Browse Videos “ High Maintenance ” by Janky Clown Productions has 21 videos . Browse This Channel More stuff from “ High Maintenance ” 21 Videos 8,063 Followers 1 Moderator Related RSS Feeds High Main
Evading Airport Security The news is reporting about Evan Booth , who builds weaponry out of items you can buy after airport security. It’s clever stuff. It’s not new, though. People have been explain
Yes, I'm aware you need to asses my technical skills, however, I'm not going to work for free. If I want to do that, I'll hack on some open source something or other that takes my fancy. Witness this
Google Puts Money on Robots, Using the Man Behind Android Andy Rubin is the engineer heading Google’s robotics effort. He is the man who built the Android software for smartphones. Credit... Jim Wilso
When we asked New York writer and programmer Marco Arment to speak at XOXO, he was still developing Instapaper and The Magazine, and Tumblr was an independent startup. Since then, he sold The Magazine
Media December 4, 2013 • 3 min read • By Publishers like to hear that their stories are being read. But at the expense of advertising dollars? Not so fast. Increasingly popular apps like Pocket, Insta
I have been a VC general partner for nearly 10 years at a large brand name fund. Have had several successful exits. Am on the exact kind of career and portfolio trajectory I wanted to be on - and am extremely thankful for it and wake up thanking my lucky stars every morning. There are lots of great…
Published Jun 06 2011 If you're a web developer and own an iOS device, you may have noticed it comes with a whole range of accessibility features. One such feature is a built-in screen reader for visually impaired users, called VoiceOver. For a touch screen device, VoiceOver is a wonderfully capable…
AP As America struggles with high unemployment and record inequality, everyone is offering competing solutions to the problem. Advertisement Advertisement In this war of words (and classes), one thing
In 2002 Stephen Wolfram released A New Kind of Science and immediately unleashed a firestorm of wonder, controversy, and criticism as the British-born scientist, programmer, and entrepreneur overturne
Home > Press Release Tuesday, November 26, 2013 BURLINGTON, Vt., Nov. 26, 2013 – Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) today applauded Pope Francis’ recent papal pronouncement, which condemns the “new tyranny”
Not content with prohibiting the sale of e-cigarettes to anyone under 21, the City Council and the Bloomberg administration are working to add e-cigs to the city's 2002 Smoke-Free Air Act, thereby ban
In 2000, economist Steven Levitt and sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh published an article in the Quarterly Journal of Economics about the internal wage structure of a Chicago drug gang. This piece would
At one point not so long ago, Yahoo (s yhoo) was one of the top technology companies in the world. “The only exception [was] Google,” Bassel Ojjeh , a former senior vice president of data technologies
An anonymous letter written by an investment manager was published earlier this month that makes a number of bleak, if not exactly surprising, statements about wealth distribution in the United States. The author suggests that even the bottom half of the top 1% of Americans doesn’t have access to…
For a long time I've been thinking that Facebook users are very similar to smokers. Like all classic addicts, both are not proud of their behavior, deny the strength of their addiction but eventually will admit they want to quit. But they won't. Allen Carr could probably rewrite Easy Way to Stop…
Want to Feel Badass? A Design Teardown of Music App Mindie. This essay originally appeared on PandoDaily . Last night me and Mindie were fooling around in bed. It was fun and delightfully surprising.
Twitter went mad last week because somebody had transferred almost $150m in a single Bitcoin transaction. This tweet was typical: 194,993 BTC transaction worth $147m sparks mystery and speculation htt
Compared to a control brain (top), neuroscientist James Fallon’s brain (bottom) shows significantly decreased activity in areas of the frontal lobe linked to empathy and morality—anatomical patterns t
Perhaps you’ve heard: Facebook may — or may not — have a teen problem. It’s been the talk of the town since Facebook’s last earnings call, when CFO David Ebersman admitted that in the past quarter, th
Yeah, I think it's just part of a much broader picture. And so I think at the highest level, it's to try and make something great. The only way you can do that is to care, you know, to an extraordinary level. And I think many things then testify to that, whether it's how you finish the inside of…
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