Shipped and sold: A brief introduction
3 hours ago
Markets are difficult to measure. Mainly because the information is not easy to obtain and that which is obtained is not made public. Collecting, analyzing and filling in the gaps is big business…
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3 hours ago
Why design isn’t just the responsibility of designers [Video]
16 hours ago
At the recent The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam, Dave Wiskus, designer and Creative Officer at application developer and design house Black Pixel, took to the stage to discuss the…
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16 hours ago
With a Bipartisan Flurry, Becoming a Do-Something Senate
2 days ago
WASHINGTON — For the Congressional chamber where bills usually go to die, the Senate is on something of a roll, passing bipartisan legislation, confirming nominees — and potentially isolating House…
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2 days ago
Are You Safe on That Sofa?
2 days ago
IF you want a case study of everything that is wrong with money politics, this is it. Chances are that if you’re sitting on a couch right now, it contains flame retardants. This will probably do no…
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2 days ago
How Tim Cook is changing Apple
4 days ago
FORTUNE -- In February of this year, a group of investors visited Apple as part of a "bus tour" led by a research analyst for Citibank. The session started with a 45-minute presentation by Peter…
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4 days ago
Creating the Windows 8 user experience
6 days ago
Creating the Windows 8 user experience Steven Sinofsky This blog often focuses on the bits and features and less on the “philosophy” or “context” of the product. Given the level of brand new…
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6 days ago
Four Years of App Store: Developers Weigh In On Search, Discovery, and Curation
9 days ago
“The App Store is a grand slam, with a staggering 10 million applications downloaded in just three days”. That’s how Apple co-founder and late CEO Steve Jobs saluted the launch…
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9 days ago
Social Media is your Shop Window
11 days ago
Adobe Digital has launched its latest social media report, entitled “Why marketers aren’t giving social the credit it deserves”. The Executive Summary lists three key findings of…
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11 days ago
How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet
13 days ago
Web startups are made out of two things: people and code. The people make the code, and the code makes the people rich. Code is like a poem; it has to follow certain structural requirements, and yet…
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13 days ago
Brand #Fail
13 days ago
Social media? For too many brands, it might feel more like anti-social media. It’s no secret that the rush of consumers and advertisers to Facebook and Twitter has made it ever easier for the…
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13 days ago
How to harden your smartphone against stalkers—iPhone edition
14 days ago
Who's that peeking in my window? Casey Johnston + Aurich Lawson Some years ago, soon after the original iPhone took firm hold of the public's imagination, an iPhone-using friend of mine went through…
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14 days ago
A Fistful of Datas - 6.08
16 days ago
I’m sure someone somewhere has done a breakdown of how many episodes per season devolve into “what if the crewmembers ended up in X?” I mean, we have the Robin Hood episode, the…
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16 days ago
WorkingRemote.ly
18 days ago
A site that collects co-op spaces, remote working opportunities, and profiles of interesting folks.
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18 days ago
No, Facebook Has Not Already Peaked
20 days ago
Imagine for a moment that no one ever joins Facebook again. Whether this year or five years from now, it has to occur: You can’t grow beyond the number of Internet users on Earth. Past that…
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20 days ago
iOS app success is a lottery: 60% (or more) of developers don't break even
23 days ago
There is no shortage of stories about lone developers who made an app for the iPhone or iPad and had runaway success. But in the real world, the majority of app makers struggle to break even,…
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23 days ago
Elijah Wood Cast In 'Speed... at a Piano'
25 days ago
Did you ever think to yourself, what if Keanu Reeves in Speed wasn't on a bus careening through Santa Monica at the behest of a madman but sitting at a piano giving the concert of his life under pain…
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25 days ago
Why you can't trust tech press to teach you about the tech industry
27 days ago
If there were one lesson I'd want to impress upon people who are interested in succeeding in the technology industry, it would be, as I've said before, know your shit. Know the discipline you're in,…
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27 days ago
UI Simplification = Confusion
28 days ago
Individual UI Simplification - Collective Confusion Success and failure of recent operating systems (mobile or desktop) are quite often attributed to the user interface and the "experience" it…
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28 days ago
How the Big Tech Companies Are Selling You Out
4 weeks ago
In the months leading up to the passage of CISPA, Google, AT&T and dozens of other companies unleashed a small army of lobbyists on the White House, Congress and the Senate. The crusade was just…
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4 weeks ago
The hard drives most likely to expose your data aren't your own
4 weeks ago
Hard drives that provide prime material for identity theft are more likely to come from a company for which you are an employee or client than from your own computer, according to a study released by…
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4 weeks ago
Why Is Business Writing So Awful?
4 weeks ago
Nearly every company relies on the written word to woo customers. So why is most business writing so numbingly banal? Laurent Cillufo What's bad, boring, and barely read all over? Business writing.…
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4 weeks ago
Facebook, Google Must Adapt as Users Embrace 'Unsocial' Networks
5 weeks ago
When Facebook bought the photo-sharing app Instagram for $1 billion, theories flew as to what it might mean. Was Mark Zuckerberg defensive, worried that his 850 million Facebook users might stop…
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5 weeks ago
The Penny Arcade Report
5 weeks ago
Creating a video game takes significant investments of time, money, and passion; it’s hard to look at the result of those sacrifices and place a monetary value on your game, only to hear that…
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5 weeks ago
Path raising $40M round led by Redpoint. No, it will not be the next Instagram.
6 weeks ago
Rumors about Path’s new round of funding have circulated for some time, but they are now being reported as hard numbers, specifically a $40 million round of funding led by RedPoint Ventures…
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6 weeks ago
Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?
6 weeks ago
Yvette Vickers, a former Playboy playmate and B-movie star, best known for her role in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, would have been 83 last August, but nobody knows exactly how old she was when she…
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6 weeks ago
American Mozart
6 weeks ago
So here is the president of the United States, enjoying canapés and small talk at Daniel, chef Daniel Boulud’s gourmet restaurant just off Park Avenue, with the right touch of…
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6 weeks ago
Understanding The Agency Model And The DOJ’s Allegations Against Apple And Those Publishers
6 weeks ago
Yesterday, the US Department of Justice sued Apple and six publishers, alleging that they had conspired to fix prices. It all centres around the switch from a wholesale model of selling e-books from…
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6 weeks ago
What you need to know about the Flashback trojan
7 weeks ago
by Rich Mogull, Macworld.com On April 4, Russian antivirus vendor Dr. Web published strong evidence that more than 500,000 Macs have been infected by the latest variant of the Flashback…
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7 weeks ago
a behind-the-scenes look at Facebook release engineering
7 weeks ago
The entrance to Facebook's campus Facebook is headquartered in Menlo Park, California at a site that used belong to Sun Microsystems. A large sign with Facebook's distinctive "like" symbol—a…
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7 weeks ago
Why I hate search
7 weeks ago
Why I hate search James Whittaker The word 'search' is a negative word. It fairly reeks of loss and effort. You lose your car keys and you search for them. Your pet runs away and you search for her.…
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7 weeks ago
Complicated Apps Are The New Excuse by Federico Viticci
7 weeks ago
Joost van der Ree has an interview with Andrew S. Allen, the interaction designer of Paper. This quote from the article made me further reflect about the tension between simplicity vs. obviousness…
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7 weeks ago
50-megapixel digital imaging system uncovers Shakespeare signature
7 weeks ago
A professor and his students have identified a probable new Shakespeare signature in a 16th century legal text. Using a 50-megapixel multispectral digital imaging system, members of The Lazarus…
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7 weeks ago
Can Apple give police a key to your encrypted iPhone data? Ars investigates
7 weeks ago
Does Apple have a backdoor that it can use to help law enforcement bypass your iPhone's passcode? That question became front and center this week when training materials (PDF) for the California…
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7 weeks ago
How to Get Your Broken, Neglected Bike Ready for Spring (and Keep It in Shape for Next Year)
7 weeks ago
Spring is here and the nicer weather means it's time to lug your bicycle out of storage (or from underneath that tree) and go on a bike ride. Before you saddle up, you need to check a few things and…
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7 weeks ago
The Feature
7 weeks ago
As the first version of Instapaper was gaining popularity four years ago, I realized that most people didn’t have their own constant supply of great articles to read. To address that demand, I…
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7 weeks ago
Not Cloudy Enough →
7 weeks ago
Will Hains on the clunky experience of having to re-enter credentials in apps when setting up a new device, using Instapaper as an example: That might not sound like a big deal, but I had to repeat…
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7 weeks ago
The Macalope Weekly Special Edition
7 weeks ago
by The Macalope, Macworld.com Welcome back, friends, to the show that never ends! Another year has passed us by, and it’s time for our annual reckoning of the worst in Apple coverage!…
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7 weeks ago
Incremental Change Wins Apple Big Gains
7 weeks ago
What’s the value of all the upgraded features in the third-generation iPad? $100. I’ll show my work later in this article, but it’s an important number. Apple is consistently…
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7 weeks ago
Working The Corner
8 weeks ago
What do Carson Daly and RPG publishers have in common? None of them seem to be able to imagine heroes that are gay. In other words, LGBT people are woefully under-represented in tabletop RPGs. And…
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8 weeks ago
Dr. Skinner, your birds are angry
8 weeks ago
Rovio has announced that Angry Birds Space was downloaded 10 million times in less than three days. In fact, the game has been downloaded half a billion times since it was released three years ago.…
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8 weeks ago
Set Up your Website to Control Images & Text in Facebook Status Update Links
8 weeks ago
If you’re not on the HyperArts Blog, CLICK HERE! When someone includes a link to your website in a fan page or personal profile status update, it is very important that the image(s) and text…
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8 weeks ago
The Information Diet
8 weeks ago
Instapaper vs. Readability Mar 30, 2012 Clay Johnson Instapaper and Readability are two services that allow people to more easily "read" content on the web. You sign up for these services, and they…
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8 weeks ago
Creating Victims And Then Blaming Them
8 weeks ago
DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.0//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/xhtml-mobile10.dtd" Creating Victims And Then Blaming Them posted 5 Hours Ago by AMIT RUNCHAL
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8 weeks ago
How Readability Could Nullify The Naysay
8 weeks ago
Some people (notably John Gruber) believe Readability is overstepping their bounds by collecting money on a publisher's behalf. I disagree, but I can see the story from the other side as well (in…
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8 weeks ago
Patrick Rhone writes a book on his iPad (and his iPhone)
8 weeks ago
This is the raw footage from a recent interview with Patrick Rhone, a St. Paul tech consultant who recently released his second book, "Enough" (enoughbook.com). Patrick wrote the entire first draft…
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8 weeks ago
A Series of Clicks
8 weeks ago
“Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.” – Steve Jobs, Macworld 2007 Often, new technologies come along and they immediately show us the…
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8 weeks ago
Seth's Blog
8 weeks ago
We're bad it. And marketers know this. Consider: you're buying a $30,000 car and you have the option of upgrading the stereo to the 18 speaker, 100 watt version for just $500 more. Should you? Or…
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8 weeks ago
Prospects for the U.S. Labor Market
9 weeks ago
Jonathan McCarthy and Simon PotterThe unemployment rate in the United States fell from 9.1 percent in the summer of 2011 to 8.3 percent in February. This decline, the largest six-month…
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9 weeks ago
Welcome to the Post PC Era
9 weeks ago
What was Microsoft's original mission?
In 1975, Gates and Allen form a partnership called Microsoft. Like most startups, Microsoft begins small, but…
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9 weeks ago
Valve’s Newell predicts Apple will shake up game consoles
9 weeks ago
Over the weekend we posted Valve co-founder Gabe Newell’s recent comments about the pricing experiments that the company conducts using its Steam distribution system for PC…
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9 weeks ago
How Valve experiments with the economics of video games
9 weeks ago
Valve Corp., the Bellevue-based video game company behind hit franchises like Half-Life and Portal, is a giant in the digital distribution of PC games. The company’s Steam distribution system,…
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9 weeks ago
The Case Against Google
9 weeks ago
For the last two months, you've seen some version of the same story all over the Internet: Delete your search history before Google's new privacy settings take effect. A straightforward piece…
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9 weeks ago
The Apple Community, Part II
9 weeks ago
A few hours ago, I came back from the Apple Store at Roma Est driving all the way back home after a 19-hour wait for the new iPad. Tired – exhausted, my head exploding for the absurd coffee…
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9 weeks ago
A Colossal Mistake of Historic Proportions
9 weeks ago
By Simon Johnson From the 1970s until recently, Congress allowed and encouraged a great deal of financial market deregulation – allowing big banks to become larger, to expand their scope, and…
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9 weeks ago
All Your Online Ad Revenue Are Belong To Google
9 weeks ago
More and more newspapers are deciding that they need to charge for access to their websites rather than relying on advertising. This is often portrayed as a reversion to the print norm, where the…
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9 weeks ago
Too Crooked to Fail
9 weeks ago
A policeman guards a Bank of America branch. Natalie Behring/Getty Images At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America, a hypergluttonous ward of…
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9 weeks ago
Sir Jonathan Ive
10 weeks ago
As Apple’s Senior Vice President of Industrial Design, he is the driving force behind the firm’s products, from the Mac computer to the iPod, iPhone and, most recently the iPad. He spoke…
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10 weeks ago
DRM by any other name still stinks
10 weeks ago
The promise of UltraViolet ... DRM with a new, pretty face. Walmart this week ushered in a high-profile outing of Hollywood's UltraViolet scheme for digital streaming of movies and TV. And it's the…
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10 weeks ago
Why I left Google
10 weeks ago
Why I left Google James Whittaker Ok, I relent. Everyone wants to know why I left and answering individually isn’t scaling so here it is, laid out in its long form. Read a little (I get to the…
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10 weeks ago
GarageBand update brings Smart Strings, Bluetooth jamming
10 weeks ago
In addition to launching a new iOS version of iPhoto last week, Apple also updated GarageBand and iMovie. iMovie 1.3 merely bright the auto-generated "trailers" feature from the desktop, but…
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10 weeks ago
Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs
10 weeks ago
TODAY is my last day at Goldman Sachs. After almost 12 years at the firm — first as a summer intern while at Stanford, then in New York for 10 years, and now in London — I believe I…
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10 weeks ago
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