Apple appears to be testing out some new changes to its iTunes App Store ranking algorithms, taking into account app ratings and other new factors in the Top Chart rankings. It's not clear if the changes are more experimental or part of a larger overhaul, but they have resulted in apps losing and…

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Until recently, scanning the entire Internet, with its billions of unique addresses, was a slow and labor-intensive process. For example, in 2010 the Electronic Frontier Foundation conducted a scan to

Nearly A Year Later, Twitter Triggers Return to IFTTT With Official Support Matthew Panzarino 10:00 AM PDT · August 21, 2013 Today, the ‘Internet glue’ service IFTTT gets a fresh set of Twitter triggers that allow users to build recipes that react to tweets, favorites, retweets and more. This…

August 19, 2013 When Apps Modify Behavior Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve noticed an app blowing up in my social circle. It’s more of a controlled explosion, really — as far as I can tell, the app hasn’t even yet cracked the top 200 in its category in the App Store. But I think it might, because…

Published in Both Sides of the Table · 3 min read · Aug 21, 2013 -- I have a saying that I employ as a powerful metaphor at every startup with whom I work — “beware of shiny new objects.” It is one of

Pandora Plans To Lift Its 40-Hour Free Mobile Listening Cap On Sept. 1 Anthony Ha 2:33 PM PDT · August 22, 2013 During this afternoon’s earnings call, Pandora executives said that they would lift for the 40-hour monthly cap on free mobile listening that was announced back in February. This is…

Libby Brittain 3 min read· Aug 14, 2013 -- Since Potluck launched just over a month ago, I’ve had hundreds of conversations with our users. As I listen to their stories, insights, and ideas, I’ve tried to answer a simple question: Who are the people who love Potluck? This kind of question is often…

by Jessica E. Lessin Apple Inc. keeps snapping up mapping companies. The latest: Embark Inc., a small Silicon Valley upstart that builds free transit apps to help smartphone users navigate public tran

Failures from the the-pain-of-being-watched dept Tue, Aug 20th 2013 02:42am - A few months ago, after the NSA spying stories first broke, we wrote about a bit from This American Life where the host, Ira Glass, was interviewing lawyers for prisoners detained at Guantanamo, about the impact of knowing…

According to a Delaware filing by Uber Technologies, it has sold stock in the fast-growing privately held transportation service to private equity giant TPG. In addition, according to sources who have seen other stock documents, Uber has also taken a major investment from Google Ventures. The…

It's 34 vs. 42. Bettmann, Oscar White/CORBIS This week, The Economist published a poll that provided some insights into Americans' time-travel preferences. The question was, "Which decade of the 20th century would you most like to go back to?" Turns out that Republicans "preferred the morally…

Two years ago, my son Jacob (then 3) and I built his first computer together. I installed Debian on it, but never put a GUI on the thing. It's command-line, and has provided lots of enjoyment off and

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Ozell Williams another great jumper! Ranks among the best in the world Trickers!

News Desk July 17, 2013 The magazine cover retains its unique cultural power—to amuse, to inform, to agitate, or, as is the case with the forthcoming August 1st issue of Rolling Stone, to enrage. That cover, unveiled on Tuesday night, features a photographic self-portrait of the Boston Marathon…

Will Dennis 4 min read· Aug 12, 2013 -- We’re in an era on the web I think of as “hyper social.” In their current form, social networks extend our ability to “maintain” relationships. A social network is essentially a digital filing cabinet that you fill with your relationships. In theory, the…

Annals of Technology August 12, 2013 Shares in the Canadian maker of BlackBerry smartphones peaked in August of 2007, at two hundred and thirty-six dollars. In retrospect, the company was facing an inflection point and was completely unaware. Seven months earlier, in January, Apple had introduced…

This week’s Startup Edition question: How did you raise money for your startup? Here’s everything I wish I knew the first time around. In September of 2012, Zapier closed our seed investment round of $1.2MM. In May of 2012, I had no idea where to start when it came to raising money for a company or…

Market Insights Market Insights Opensignal reports and analyses are the definitive guide to understanding the true experience consumers receive on mobile and broadband networks. Discover our latest webinars Introducing The Global Network Excellence Index Find out more All Reports Other Analysis and…

Jen Andre 4 min read· Aug 4, 2013 -- I really like GitHub. Who doesn’t? Like many programmers, I will grumble about little things (ahem, how their latest redesign shoved the clone URL into a tiny box in the right hand corner that ALWAYS masks the URL), but overall, I am pleased as punch with how…

mailchimp.com / wufoo.com Mikael Cho 5 min read· Aug 13, 2013 -- We had just gotten out of a meeting with our lead investor. After reviewing our progress for the last few months, something wasn’t right. We were trying to build a way to help mobile developers better market their apps so they wouldn’t…

Google does not give any data on payment trends, but Apple gives enough to estimate that iOS users spend about a dollar a month on apps and in-app purchases. Android payment levels (both on Google play and with other methods) are significantly lower (perhaps half the value of iOS in total, despite…

Asking, “Can I have coffee with you to pick your brain?” is probably the worst possible way to get a meeting with someone with a busy schedule. Here’s a better approach. —— Jason, an entrepreneur I’ve known for over a decade, came out to the ranch today. He was celebrating selling his company and…

Lost amid much of the rampant speculation that Apple is on the cusp of unveiling a new plastic-bodied lower-priced iPhone “5C” is the simple fact that Apple has offered lower-priced iPhones for several years now — year-old and two-year-old models. So the question to ask is not “Does Apple need a…

On July 14, 1930, Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879–April 18, 1955) welcomed into his home on the outskirts of Berlin the Indian poet, philosopher, and musician Rabindranath Tagore (May 7, 1861–August 7, 1941) — the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize. The two proceeded to have one of the most…

At South By Southwest in March, Google[x]’s “Captain of Moonshots” told an audience that Elon Musk is a “national treasure.” Musk’s brilliance doesn’t come from being the world’s smartest man, said As

One of the most pernicious problems in a space full of them (K12 CS Ed) is the lack of young women interested in and taking advantage of classes on software engineering. Thankfully there are some people doing things to attack and address this problem. Top on my list in this area are Reshma Saujani…

Ladar Levison (via Facebook) Ladar Levison, 32, has spent ten years building encrypted email service Lavabit, attracting over 410,000 users. When NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden was revealed to be one of those users in July, Dallas-based Lavabit got a surge of new customers: $12,000 worth of paid…

Pocket is a fiendishly addictive metagame for reading that helps you read more than you normally would. But the game makes it difficult to engage deeply with text, and distracts from Pocket’s potential to be a tool not only for consumption, but also for creation. Emmanuel Quartey 6 min read· Aug 9,…