Articles, ideas, and references I want to find again.
Both Sides of the Table · Mark Suster
I sit through a lot of presentations. These range from companies pitching me to portfolio companies presenting at board meetings. Each of these scenarios has a team presenting. Almost always the CEO plus members of his or her management team…Read more ›
timoni.org
To solve the problem [of making a cloudless map], MapBox takes a much finer-grained approach. It takes all the images it has of an area and stacks them on top of each other. Then, it reorders each column of pixels in the stack based on how cloudy it thinks it is. “We do that for every pixel in the world,” says Loyd.…
JFDI.Asia · hughmason
When you launch anything new, at first people don’t know about it. They don’t care about it either. Three things can change all that and get you noticed, writes JFDI.Asia CEO Hugh Mason. 1. Know Your Audience You’re taking people on a mental journey from where they are now to where you want them to be. Always […]
White African · HASH
We’ve been talking (and talking, and talking) about a rapid prototyping space here in Nairobi for ages. Without the resources to do it, the community got things started on their own with the iHub Robotics Group, who does all kinds of cool meetings; from training newbies like me and my daughters on Arduino and…
MailChimp Email Marketing Blog · Ben
WIth our new "Discover Similar Subscribers" feature, we've made it easy for small businesses to use big data.
Waxy.org Links
fantastic free text, though I wish the hyperlinks were visually distinct
asymco · Horace Dediu
My thanks to Eric Jackson for his thoughtful questions and post on Forbes.com. You can read full interview here but I repeat a few non-biographical questions and answers here for discussion: An Interview With Horace Dediu: On Blogging, Apple And What’s Next Q: Turning to Apple, where is it at right now as a company…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
A Whole Lotta NothingA Whole Lotta Nothing · Matt Haughey
I always wanted to attend the original Maker Faire in the Bay Area and the annual shows that followed, but they started soon after I moved to Oregon and they never overlapped with my travel down there. I recently noticed they were touring around Mini Maker Faires to different cities and I was delighted when my local…
The Ad Contrarian · BOB HOFFMAN
On June 17th, we published a piece called The $7.5 Billion Ad Swindle. It was about the massive fraud that is being perpetrated on advertisers by criminality within the online advertising industry. A new report by Solve Media indicates that the fraud is growing at an alarming rate. According to an Adweek piece last…
Google+ Developers Blog · Anonymous
ignorethecode.net
There’s an article over at Asymco.com looking at videogame hardware sales during the last decade.1 It comes to the conclusion that the videogame market is being eaten up by smartphones and tablets. Here’s a quote: It’s one thing to suggest that Nintendo consoles have “failed”, it’s another to show that Nintendo…
Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect · Seth Godin
Same waves, different day. The risk of skin cancer. The falling. Sand in your socks. The people hassling you for your spot on the wave. The pressure to do more sets. The other guys at the beach who don't appreciate...
Fog Creek Blog · Rich Armstrong
Not grandma. source Once every few months someone walks into my office and says, “Hey, I’ve got this (reunion|wedding|grandparent). I’d like to figure out how to spend some more time with my family. Can I work remotely from my grandma’s house for a few days?” I always said yes, and got pretty uneven results. When [...]
Subtraction.com
This is the kind of nonsense that results from fundamentally misunderstanding what a logo is. As has been widely reported (and lamented by designers), Yahoo engaged in a bit of stunt identity design over the past month or so, fielding thirty re-imaginings of the company’s logo, one per day, You can see the first…
Subtraction.com
Sketch, which I now use for the majority of my design work, has a new version out today. It still lacks the feature that I want most — symbols/smart objects — but there are lots of promising improvements nevertheless. Two of the biggest are integration with Sketch Mirror, a new iOS companion app that lets you preview…
Wooster Collective
We love the yarn bombing meets loving bombing by Aida Gomez out in Spain. To check out more from Aida Gomez, click here.
Google Webmaster Central Blog · Google Webmaster Central
JFDI.Asia · mengwong
The Singapore blogosphere is all atwitter: Viki just got bought for $200MM! That’s the biggest news in Singapore startups in two decades. Not since Creative’s Soundblaster in the 1990s has a Singapore tech company succeeded on such a spectacular scale. Congratulations to Razmig, of course, but what does it mean for…
asymco · Horace Dediu
One of the enduring mysteries of the iPhone has been its lack of a portfolio. After six years it seems that Apple has finally acquiesced that there should be one, albeit currently limited to two items. The second enigma is related to the price, namely why does Apple ask so much for its phones? At…
Instagram Engineering
In our most recent update to the Instagram iOS app we added a simple way to make it easier to take beautiful photos. When you take a photo with the in-app camera, you can now tap the new straighten icon and your photo will correct to be level—it’s that simple. The straightening tool also includes a slider so you can…
ParisLemon
In San Francisco, It’s Rich Club, Poor Club: John Branch on the fascinating backstory of how the Golden Gate Yacht Club, and not the far more prestigious St. Francis, became the home to America’s Cup: The St. Francis had attempted to win the America’s Cup in 2000. The member Paul Cayard skippered AmericaOne into the…
Waxy.org Links
he's currently the most subscribed channel on YouTube, with nearly 13 million subscribers
Feed: stratēchery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
Before the 5C was well-known, I argued that sticking with just one new iPhone model a year had a dangerous precedent: Ford, and the Model-T: Still, the idea that Ford became overly focused on production as opposed to customer needs is a worrying one; if this fall brings nothing more than a 5S, with the […]The post…
DESIGNER NOTES · Soren Johnson
This summer, Game Developer magazine shipped its last issue, yet another casualty of the journalism’s transition to digital. Since 2008, I had been writing a bi- or tri-monthly design column entitled Design of the Times, so the end of the magazine marks the end of that column as well. My blog earned me the initial…
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Danny Sullivan
Amelia Greenhall on scriptogr.am
This summer was my fifth summer of mountaineering in the Pacific Northwest. Finally, a weather window for the Ptarmigan Traverse, a high alpine glacier and ridge route in the wilderness of the North Cascades. Three other friends (including our editor for the Open Review Quarterly, Michael Ahillen!) all met Adam up…
MailChimp Email Marketing Blog · Aarron
List segmentation was once a power feature used only by our most advanced customers, but today, a quarter of MailChimp customers use segmentation to divide subscribers into categories for targeted email communication. In our 8.6 release we made a number of improvements to segmentation, including a streamlined way to…
Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect · Seth Godin
"Get something started." When you walk into a fast food restaurant, the stated, measured, delivered-on goals are to get the transaction over with as cheaply and quickly as possible. The cashier, the fry cook, everyone is rewarded on running the...
SplatF · Dan Frommer
— BuzzFeed founder Jonah Peretti’s “staff memo” is pretty great, especially the section about focus.
Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO · Matt Cutts
Some relatives were visiting this past week, so my inbox has a triple digit backlog. That’s after aggressive pruning of mailing lists and so on. Nearly all of those emails mention me in a “to:” or “cc:” line and request a response. Some observations: - roughly 40% of those emails are from the outside world […]
Communities Dominate Brands · Tomi T Ahonen
The mobile fever is catching on. More and more we hear major global brands suddenly talking of their 'mobile first' strategy. Not just the telcos. Not just the tech companies from Lenovo to HP, not just the media giants from...
Schneier on Security · schneier
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
From derelict to delightful: Art Tunnel Smithfield I do like the Art Tunnel. Smithfield is a great demo of reclaiming Dublin’s increasing dereliction and I hope the DCC allow this to continue (tags: smithfield d7 dublin ireland art art-tunnel reclamation derelict economy dcc) How A ‘Deviant’ Philosopher Built…
davetrott · Dave Trott
When I was sixteen I had a motorbike, at seventeen I had a car. They were old wrecks, very basic, I could fix them myself. That’s where I learned basic, simple logic. Read more on SIMPLE, BASIC LOGIC…
Bustr Bensn
what-e-loves: Interesting flow - demonstrates how events influence our reactions - how much is above consciousness and how much is below
David Simon · David Simon
I had the distinct honor of being asked to write an essay for the recent release of Steve Earle’s extraordinary post-1995 songbook, when he came roaring back from addiction and a brief incarceration to reassert himself as one of our most relevant songwriters. Yes, Steve is at this point a friend and colleague, having…
Quick Sprout · Neil Patel
The social media landscape has changed over the years, so if you’re starting to leverage social media today, you might be late to the game. That means you can’t leverage some of the tactics I used to boost my social media accounts because I did them when sites like Twitter and Facebook first came out. [click to…
Schneier on Security · schneier
Blog | Ushahidi · Chris R. Albon
Spend any amount of time traveling through the rural United States and you are guaranteed to pass one of the hundreds of yellow signs that dot the sides of highways and byways. The sign marks the location of a Waffle House, a cheap 24-hour diner specializing in greasy food and, unsurprisingly, waffles. Waffle Houses…