2014
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Careers 2.0 Blog · Bethany Marzewski
Hiring for Potential, Rather than Credentials
Let’s say you’re looking to fill a CTO-level role for your organization. Maybe your company is looking for someone with 10-15 years of experience who has managed a development team for at least four years. Depending on your company’s goals, you may have other requirements, such as hiring someone who will successfully…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Chris Lattner on Swift and Playgrounds
Waxy.org Links
Ladar Levison explains why he was forced to shut down Lavabit
the FBI and legal system ruined his life and business to get access to Snowden and 410,000 others
The Official Google Blog · Emily Wood
Meet the Bay Area Impact Challenge winners
OkDork.com · Eric Siu
How to Start and Optimize Your First YouTube Campaign
I kept seeing Team Treehouse ads on YouTube and was curious how they were performing. So I got introduced to Eric who used to work at Treehouse and did all their YouTube advertising. He was very generous to share below what exactly worked for him with YouTube advertising. A channel that is massive and largely…
ParisLemon
"Stop freaking out and enjoy your life."
"Stop freaking out and enjoy your life.": Scotty Loveless: One thing I found in my Genius Bar experience is that people that are anxious about their iOS device battery life are constantly checking it to see the percentage and how much it has dropped from the last time they checked it. So if you check your device…
Singapore Mini Maker Faire · megadolen
Crochet. Knitting. Yarnbombing
Crocheting has always been close to my heart, something which I learnt from my Godmother and from my Primary School’s Art Club. I always find it therapeutic. However, I do not have much friends who share the same hobby and I also crochet less as I started picking up other hobbies later on in life. […]
Rands in Repose · rands
Briefly, Internet Trends 2014
Coming in at 164 slides, Mary Meeker (partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers) delivers a massive annual State of the Internet deck each year and it’s worth reading a couple of times. The report provides framing and background to many of the tech-related news stories of the past year. My brief notes: I’ve been…
Rands in Repose · rands
I Think in Outlines
One of the key tenets I talk about regarding understanding the engineering mindset is that software engineers think in terms of flow charts. This isn’t exactly correct – engineers think in code, but most of the planet does not, but, chances are, they understand the concept of a flowchart. You’re in a state. When…
Jane Dallaway · Jane Dallaway
What makes me unique?
What makes me unique from a data perspective? Southern Railways sent me an email the other day about their new key card service. This is a card that stores your tickets on it so you don't have to queue up at the machines to buy or collect on the station. This made me wonder about what they'll learn about be from me…
Sara · SaraRiggare
We need a “Copernican Revolution” in healthcare!
I share my birthday with someone very famous, I would say that almost everybody in the world know his name. At least we all know his work or rather, the result of his work. Nicolaus Copernicus was born 498 years ahead of me, to the day, and of course his work fundamentally changed the way […]
Schneier on Security · schneier
Eben Moglen on Snowden and Surveillance
Kitbashed · Michael Heilemann
Kitbashed: The Film
Presented in its entirety is here my 'workprint' of Star Wars with a wide variety of its inspirational ancestry intercut and annotated.
dullneon.com - random notes, links and pixels · Jaffry Jalal
The World Cup in Brazil.
The Official Google Blog · Emily Wood
Google+ Stories and Movies: memories made easier
Dr. Jay Parkinson
Sherpaa raises a $4M Series A round led by Softbank
I’m obviously quite excited about this. Sherpaa started in February of 2012 with one client, tumblr. A little over two years later: We take care of more than 100 companies We’re 18 employees and hiring Our monthly revenue covers our monthly burn We’re now in California and in the process of expanding to 10 other…
Dr. Jay Parkinson
Apple is supposedly working on this thing called Healthbook and...
Apple is supposedly working on this thing called Healthbook and it appears it will be a bundled app in iOS8. I actually put the majority of the bundled apps in a folder on my iPhone called “iCrap.” As you can see, Healthbook is supposed to track the metrics you see in the photo. But let’s analyze this from a…
Rands in Repose · rands
Very Important Strangers
A few weeks ago I spoke at the excellent re:build conference in Indianapolis, Indiana. While it was my first time in Indiana, the setup was familiar. 200+ attendees, great venue, single track, and conference coordinators who know how to put on a great conference. (And one surprisingly gotham-y gorgeous building.) I…
danah boyd | apophenia · zephoria
New White House Report on Big Data
I’m delighted to see that the White House has just released its report on “big data” — “Big Data: Seizing Opportunities, Preserving Values” along with an amazing collection of supporting documents. This report is the culmination of a 90-day review by the Administration, spearheaded by Counselor John Podesta. I’ve had…
Subtraction.com · Khoi
The New York Times Innovation Report
Buzzfeed got a hold of a 96-page report on the state of innovation at The New York Times, prepared by a select group of the company’s staffers and intended for internal distribution only. It’s a refreshingly frank analysis of the organization’s increasingly difficult challenges, which, for my money, are best…
Quantified Self · Ernesto Ramirez
What We Are Reading
Enjoy these links, posts, and articles from around the web. Health Care Apps Offer Patients an Active Role by Ann Carrns. A nice overview of different DIY health apps and connected home medical devices. Getting the most out of RescueTime … Continue reading → The post What We Are Reading appeared first on Quantified…
Signal vs. Noise · Jason Fried
PHOTO: I really like Jeep’s text-based 7-bars…
I really like Jeep’s text-based 7-bars + headlights subject lines in their marketing emails. Fun touch.
Waxy.org Links
Nieman Lab on the NYT's leaked innovation report
essential reading for every news organization
Dinosaur Comics!
resistance is futile
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timoni.org
"In one meeting, [Jill] Abramson was upset with a photograph that was on the homepage. Rather than..."
“In one meeting, [Jill] Abramson was upset with a photograph that was on the homepage. Rather than asking for a change to be made after the meeting, she turned to the relevant editor and, according to sources with knowledge of the meeting, said bluntly, “I don’t know why you’re still here. If I were you, I would…
Dinosaur Comics!
how to be a pick up artist! and yes, i DID just save you $50 on some sketchy ebook
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Candy Chang · admin
Magical Realism
New Orleans “What was most important was the expression she had on her face. She did not change her expression at all when telling her stories, and everyone was surprised. In previous attempts to write One Hundred Years of Solitude, I tried to tell the story without believing in it. I discovered that what I […]
Bernard Leong · Bernard Leong
The Trouble with Two Sided Marketplaces (and how to deal with them)
Recently, I spent some time with the 2014A batch of startup companies in JFDI.Asia. Although their value propositions are different due to the nature of the problem, I can basically break their questions into the following: (a) I am running a two-sided marketplace with demand and supply (or some may call it a chicken…
Observations on film art · bordwellblog
Unveiling Ebertfest 2014
Kristin here: In the early days of Ebertfest, Roger personally introduced every film at this five-day event, which took place this year from April 23 to 27. He would be onstage for the discussions and question sessions after each screening, often joined by directors, actors, or friends in the industry. In the summer…
Inside Facebook · Guest Post
Facebook’s Audience Network: it’s all about the targeting
Facebook finally made the big announcement that marketers and app developers have been anxiously awaiting: it’s launching its own mobile ad network, called Audience Network. Why is this a big deal? It’s simple: Facebook’s mobile ad...
White African · HASH
Managing with Trust and Expectation
For the past 6 years I’ve been part of a rather unique organization in Ushahidi, where we decided early on that how we’d run the organization was that we would trust each other and expect that everyone would act like responsible adults. It’s worked brilliantly, even as we’ve grown and spun up new enterprises and […]
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
The Great Smartphone War: Apple vs. Samsung
stevenf.com · stevenf
The Personal Computer Is Dead
“At the height of Windows’s market dominance, Microsoft had no role in determining what software would and wouldn’t run on its machines, much less whether the content inside that software was to be allowed to see the light of screen. [...] This is especially troubling as governments have come to realize that this…
OkDork.com · Noah Kagan
Double Your Social Shares: The Visual Guide To Web Scraping and Data Analysis
A few months ago I saw this goofy looking kid getting his articles ranked high on two of my favorite marketing sites Inbound.org and Growthhackers. His name was Nate Desmond and what he was writing about was extremely impressive. Funny enough on his site was a link to hire him, I did part-time. Since then he’s been…
Subtraction.com · Khoi
iBeacon Is the New Frontier
A very smart post about how Apple’s indoor positioning system represents a huge advance in how “smart” our smartphones really are — and, consequently, how iBeacon represents a huge opportunity for new innovations and businesses. So iBeacon really is the digital equivalent of something we all take for granted: analog…
White African · HASH
What Twitter can tell us about African cities
The Atlantic just wrote this emotional piece predicting Twitter’s demise (don’t worry, apparently they write a lot of “end of” stories). Personally, I believe Mark Twain’s misquote fits perfectly here, “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” My friend Jonathan Ledgerd just sent me some links to the work…
The Morning News - Headlines
April 29, 2014
The great majority of innocent defendants convicted of capital murder in the US are neither executed nor exonerated. Cities in Arkansas and Kansas, caught in the tornadoes’ paths. #photos America’s nuclear missile silos still use eight-inch floppy disks—outdated technology that’s offline and unhackable. The moon to…
bunnie's blog · bunnie
Circuit Stickers Manufacturing Retrospective: From Campaign to First Shipment
Last December, Jie Qi and I launched a crowdfunding campaign to bring circuit stickers under the brand name of “chibitronics” to the world. Our original timeline stated we would have orders shipped to Crowd Supply for fulfillment by May 2014. We’re really pleased that we were able to meet our goal, right on time,…
Waxy.org
Medium Is The Message
This month, I joined The Message, a new collaborative writing experiment on Medium with an all-star list of some of my favorite writers—danah boyd, Anil Dash, Craig Mod, Rex Sorgatz, Paul Ford, Joanne McNeil, Virginia Heffernan, Clive Thompson, Quinn Norton, Robin Sloan, and Zeynep Tufekci. Medium's Kate Lee wrote an…
Subtraction.com · Khoi
Moves Acquired
I wrote about the amazing mobile app Moves — billed as the “activity diary for your life” — last year and praised it immensely. For me, it was then and remains today a sterling example of software that is not only unique to the mobile experience, but transcendent because it is inherently mobile. In my…