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Bothsides of the Table · Mark Suster
Can You Build Your Business on Somebody Else’s Platform?
Many of you will know that Twitter unexpectedly cancell […] The post Can You Build Your Business on Somebody Else’s Platform? appeared first on Bothsides of the Table.
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Robert Rietti, James Bond Voiceover Artist, Dies at 92
KK Lifestream · Kevin Kelly
Sourced Quotes, 21
Some people call VR “the last medium” because any subsequent medium can be invented inside of VR, using software alone. Looking back, the movie and TV screens we use today will be seen as an intermediate step between the invention … Continue reading →
Subtraction.com + Feed · Khoi
Camera Production in the Age of Smartphones
This post from last week at Petapixel shocked me and seemed worth repeating. Not long ago they shared this graphic of how camera sales have grown and shrunk over time, as measured by the Japanese-based Camera & Imaging Products Assocations (CIPA) and as charted by Mayflower Concepts. The story it tells is stark…
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Dashcam video of teen drivers crashing while distracted
"Self-driving cars can't arrive fast enough."
ParisLemon
"There’s the core of what we all do, the core of it is hardcore innovation that that takes a very..."
“There’s the core of what we all do, the core of it is hardcore innovation that that takes a very long time to play out. And a lot of the things that are working today are things that have been developed, literally over decades. The Apple Watch, right? One way to think about it is it’s a UNIX computer. UNIX was…
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Jesse England's Universal Record
a vinyl disc that vibrates to play any audio on a turntable
Interconnected · Matt Webb
Filtered for doorways
1. The term bardo refers to the state of existence intermediate between two lives on earth. also translated as "transitional state" or "in-between state" or "liminal state". Liminality, from the Latin meaning "a threshold": the quality of ambiguity or disorientation that occurs in the middle stage of rituals, when…
The Message — Medium · Paul Ford
My Quantified Email Self Experiment: A failure
I went back through 450,000 emails and here’s what I learned (WARNING I LEARNED ABSOLUTELY NOTHING AT ALL)Continue reading on Medium »
we make money not art · Regine
Flash crashes. Glitches in the trading system
Members of RYBN were participating to refrag, a series of workshops, talks and performances that explored Glitch Art. Their presentation looked at what happens when HFT algorithms slip, glitch and disrupt the trading system. They analyzed four famous 'flash crashes.' Their study was based on a rigorous analysis of…
Interconnected · Matt Webb
Raw thoughts on Amazon Dash
Amazon Dash... yup, makes sense. Give away light-weight Internet of Things gadgets to encourage purchase of fast-moving consumer goods. Tiny plastic buttons that allow for instant product ordering: Your entire house is now a shopping cart. We worked on a bunch of similar stuff at Berg -- such as Cloudwash where…
Monday Note · Frédéric Filloux
Jumping In bed with Facebook: Smart or desperate?
by Frederic Filloux Update on May 13 : 9 publishers joining Facebook Instant Articles program. [Our April 6 article] Several major news organizations are said to be in negotiations with Facebook for a hosting deal. This throws the media sphere into an intense debate: Is this a path to prosperity or a dangerous…
Subtraction.com + Feed · Khoi
LayUp Is Now Adobe Comp CC and It Launches Today
Last October, on stage at the annual Adobe Max conference, I debuted a collaboration between Adobe and myself called Project LayUp, a new iPad app for designers. Today, that app officially launches in the App Store under a new name: Adobe Comp CC. Read the company’s official release for the app is here. Adobe…
Dr. Jay Parkinson
I’ve never really been called normal. I’ve always looked at the...
I’ve never really been called normal. I’ve always looked at the world, asked questions, and, often thought that there has to be a better way to do things. But sometimes normal is normal because there’s simply no better way to do things to complete the task at hand. Asynchronous text communication is a great example.…
The Official Google Blog · Google Blogs
Our first building block in tech for tykes: YouTube Kids
Interconnected · Matt Webb
A Richter scale for outages
I tweeted this morning: Increasing reliance on invisible centralised software. Recent Apple outage, recent HSBC/contactless/tube outage. How long before a big one? And I guess what I mean is that we're all using these same software systems. And they interact in ways that are totally emergent. So they go down in…
Interconnected · Matt Webb
Coffee morning and the business onion
Hardware-ish coffee morning yesterday was weird... I missed a conversation about knitting. I got a short demo of Made By Many's Hackaball - which has just blown through its Kickstarter goal CONGRATULATIONS - but missed the main discussion. Matt from Speakset was talking about their super simple videophone for old…
Interconnected · Matt Webb
Books read February 2015
By date finished... The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester (7th) The Sacred Bee in Ancient Times and Folklore, Hilda M. Ransome (14th) Breakfast at Tiffany's, Truman Capote (15th) Utopia, Thomas More (21st) Somewhere in Bee (originally published 1937) I finally twigged that, for thousands upon thousands of years in…
ThinkUp Blog · gina
Just five bucks a month: The evolution of ThinkUp’s billing system
I was a web developer for nearly 20 years before I ever built web pages that accept payments from customers. I’m not sure if that’s a comment on my career in particular or the industry as a whole. But the day finally arrived in 2013, when we at ThinkUp decided to try something different: build a web business…
Interconnected · Matt Webb
Filtered for capital
1. An Investor's Guide to Hardware Startups. Super good, and long... one bit I'll pick out: Production cycles take time, usually 8-12 weeks. And if a company runs out of stock in between two batches, it can’t ship, so it can’t sell. The only way around it is to increase batch size. So instead of 3,000 units, the…
Bothsides of the Table · Mark Suster
Be Careful About Being a Meddling Startup CEO
I recently wrote a post talking about how some VCs medd […] The post Be Careful About Being a Meddling Startup CEO appeared first on Bothsides of the Table.
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Lenticular Clouds
Richard Holland posted a photo: While walking the Roman Road at Tal y Fan, we were struck at the sight of these Roger Deanesque lenticular clouds floating high above the Conwy valley.
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Patreon acquires Subbable
Jack Conte joining forces with Hank and John Green seems like a solid move
ignorethecode.net
False Dichotomies
Here’s something I’m noticing quite a lot during design meetings. We’re talking about a specific design detail, and somebody takes a stance. «I think we should hide this button in the header of the table, and only show it when the mouse hovers over the header. Otherwise, we have to add this button to every single…
The Message — Medium · Zeynep Tufekci
Make the Most of Your Day
On Lisa Adams, and learning the lessons of life and death.Continue reading on Medium »
Schneier on Security · schneier
FREAK: Security Rollback Attack Against SSL
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
The Financial Times Profiles Jony Ive
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
How the iPhone Helped Federico Viticci Achieve a Healthier Lifestyle
Schneier on Security · schneier
Programming No-Fly Zones into Drones
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
‘Becoming Steve Jobs’ — New Book by Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli
Google Chrome Blog · Google Chrome Blog
1,000 Chrome Experiments and counting...
Google Webmaster Central Blog · Google Webmaster Central
Finding more mobile-friendly search results
Web Performance Today · Tammy Everts
Google’s experimental new “slow” label could revolutionize how we tackle web performance
Earlier today, Search Engine Land posted about a new label that Google appears to be testing in its search results pages. The red "slow" label warns people that your site is unacceptably slow. This label isn't a trivial feature. If you care about performance, user experience, and SEO, then you should care about this…
Analytics Talk · Justin Cutroni
Understanding the Google Analytics Cohort Report
A very common data analysis technique is called Cohort Analysis. A Cohort is simply a segment of users which is based on a date. For example, a cohort could be all users based on their Acquisition Date (in Google Analytics this is really the Date of First Session). Another cohort might be all users that […]
Ushahidi » Blog · Michelle Hamilton-Page
The Story of Syria Tracker & Child Killing Trends in Syria
Guest blog post by Hend Alhinnawi & Taha Kass-Hout, Humanitarian Tracker (Full blogger bios following the post) This is the story of the Syrian conflict, as told by its citizens living within its borders. In early Spring 2011, protests were spreading and reports of unrest in Syria made headlines. However, with…
Feed: » stratechery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
Old-Fashioned Snapchat
One of the most fascinating aspects of the Evan Spiegel emails that were leaked in the Sony Pictures hack was his seemingly changing view of Facebook. Spiegel was originally not a fan, arguing that Facebook’s revenue was much too dependent on VC-funded app install ads; some time later, though, Spiegel had was urged…
Observations on film art · bordwellblog
BIRDMAN: Following Riggan’s orders
DB here: In a Broadway bar, the New York Times drama critic has just told Riggan Thomson that her review will destroy his play. Riggan snatches up her review of another production, reads it quickly, and declares it packed with meaningless “labels.” There’s nothing in here about technique. There’s nothing in here…
The Morning News - Headlines
February 23, 2015
Syriza buckles, will accede to four-month extension of austerity in Greece. Steelworkers expand strike, the largest since 1980, to Port Arthur; Shell refuses to budge on safety demands. Forceful demonstration flares in Texas private prison; inmates were protesting medical neglect. See also: Cadre of architects…
Schneier on Security · schneier
When Thinking Machines Break the Law
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Links for 2015-02-18
Twitter’s Answers architecture Twitter’s mobile-device analytics service architecture, with Kafka and Storm in full Lambda-Architecture mode (tags: twitter lambda-architecture storm kafka architecture) Travis Brown on Twitter: “.@stuhood walks us through the tiny print of his “most controversial slide”. #SFScala” The…
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Google and blogs: “Shit.”
Have a blog? How has your traffic been for the last year or two — say, since July 1, 2013? Mine’s been clearly flat and slowly declining — the first time the trend has ever gone down — even in periods where I write a lot. I’ve talked to some friends who have seen similar plateaus and declines over the same period,…
The Ad Contrarian · [email protected] (BOB HOFFMAN)
There's No Bullshit Like Brand Bullshit.
Okay, just for the record let's state the obvious:Yes, having a strong brand is very valuable.Yes, the highest goal of advertising is to create a strong brand.Now, let's get to the bullshitNo, for the most part consumers are not in love with brandsNo, consumers do not want want to have a conversation with your brand,…
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Links for 2015-01-18
Amazing comment from a random sysadmin who’s been targeted by the NSA ‘Here’s a story for you. I’m not a party to any of this. I’ve done nothing wrong, I’ve never been suspected of doing anything wrong, and I don’t know anyone who has done anything wrong. I don’t even mean that in the sense [...]
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Embedding Software History
I'm so excited about this, I had to try it myself—Jason Scott announced that the Internet Archive now supports embedding playable games and other software from their collections in web pages. (Look for the share icon on any software page.)Continue reading...