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dbreunig: Introducing Reporter, an app which helps you track...
dbreunig: Introducing Reporter, an app which helps you track your life so that you might understand it better. Nicholas Felton and I have been working on various iterations of this app since 2011, testing and tweaking it to capture the most data with the least amount of hassle and present it in the most insightful…
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Bob Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone" interactive video
genius, use your arrow keys to flip channels
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Bob Dylan Finally Releases Music Video for ‘Like a Rolling Stone’
asymco.com · Horace Dediu
Dark Matter
Benedict Evans explains well the problem with measuring Android tablets. There are no reliable data collected because many of the devices are invisible through the regular, measurable channels: There are no firms which report their shipments They are not sold through retail chains which normally are sampled in the US…
KK Lifestream
Sourced Quotes, 17
Originally posted in The Technium Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats. -- Howard Aiken, as quoted in Portraits in Silicon by Robert Slater, 1987, p. 88. Machines will do what we ask them to do and not what what we ought to ask them to do. -- Norbert…
PingMag : Art, Design, Life - from Japan · PingMag
Hobonichi Planner Cover Design
Hobonichi Planner Cover Design: Something for everyone!
OPEN URBANISM · debbie ding
Unusual Materials - Felted Human Hair Coaster
Dinosaur Comics
oh my god becky her butt is so salt
archive - contact - sexy exciting merchandise - cute - search - about← previousOctober 23rd, 2013nextOctober 23rd, 2013: There is a Kickstarter for Bee and Puppycat! I recommend you check out this Kickstarter for Bee and Puppycat!One year ago today: oh no, oh vom– Ryan
eire.com · antoin
Charging for Postcodes and the Legendary Ryanair Toilet Levy
Yesterday we got some information about how open the Irish postcode system will be funded. Essentially the idea is to pay for its setup and operating costs out of a charge to end-users for the database – charging for access to the ‘facility’, if you like. This ‘licence fee’ is a rather humdrum traditional idea [...]
MailChimp Email Marketing Blog · Austin
Giving Unsubscribers Other Options
Recently, a MailChimp customer pointed us toward a quickly growing media website and its interesting unsubscribe process: See what they did there? Instead of trying to convince readers—who have already decided they’ve had enough—to keep receiving their emails, perhaps at a different frequency, Upworthy instead…
asymco.com · Horace Dediu
Seeing What’s Next
The adoption of smartphones in the US is on track for reaching 90% of the available audience by August 2016. This is a mere eight years after smartphones reached 10% penetration. As far as technologies go, that’s pretty fast. To get an idea of how rapid, I plotted a few other technologies and the time…
Dr. Jay Parkinson
I was invited to attend a private breakfast with book author,...
I was invited to attend a private breakfast with book author, surgeon, and New Yorker contributor Dr. Atul Gawande shortly before Dr. Gawande’s talk at The New Yorker Festival. Over breakfast, Dr. Gawande spoke with IBM executive Dr. Paul Grundy on the future of health care. The event was sponsored by IBM so there…
Observations on film art · bordwellblog
GRAVITY, Part 2: Thinking inside the Box
Kristin here: In my previous entry, I described Gravity as an experimental film. I had thought of it that way ever since seeing trailers for it online back in mid-September. I described it as reminding me “of Michael Snow’s brilliant Central Region, but with narrative.” Last time I developed that notion in more…
Inside Facebook · Justin Lafferty
Class credit for hacking? Facebook expands Open Academy
Facebook launched its Open Academy — an opportunity for college students to learn how to hack and develop software — last spring and has already seen great success. Now, as the program calls for winter 2014 applicants,...
Google Webmaster Central Blog · Maile Ohye
Video: Creating a SEO strategy (with Webmaster Tools!)
Waxy.org
Remembering XOXO 2013
It seems like everybody that went to XOXO wrote about it except for me. I've started and stopped this blog post several times over the past six weeks. Why is it so hard for me to spit something out about it? Partly, I think, because it takes about that long for me to fully recover from it. I put a lot of myself into…
Neven Mrgan's tumbl
No More Words (I Love You, Ray Shaw) by Neven Mrgan, 2013. Mixed...
No More Words (I Love You, Ray Shaw) by Neven Mrgan, 2013. Mixed media.
Bernard LeongBernard Leong | Bernard Leong · Bernard Leong
Why I chose a corporate career after a failed startup
Recently some entrepreneurs came to me with the following dilemma: their startups are not going anywhere and they are considering shutdown. Some of them started as entrepreneurs for all their lives, have families in the process and have never considered the possibility of going corporate. Hence they thought about…
The Official Google Blog · Emily Wood
Supporting entrepreneurs worldwide with UP Global
TOMBLG
Index of “brands” mentioned as % of all lyrics in...
Index of “brands” mentioned as % of all lyrics in RapGenius: Molly is more name-dropped than Cristal ever was. Is now a bigger “brand”, by share-of-voice, than Obama. Cristal is SO 1997 We stopped caring about MTV in 2007 Bacardi staying strong, not impacted by surge of Patron
Feed: stratēchery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
ē A Technological Optimist, but Just
In June, in response to claims that nine Internet companies were willingly passing information to the NSA, Apple released Apple’s Commitment to Customer Privacy: Apple has always placed a priority on protecting our customers’ personal data, and we don’t collect or maintain a mountain of personal details about our…
David Simon · David Simon
Slavery, a film narrative and the empty myth of original intent.
I’m fresh out of a theater in Santa Monica, California where I’ve watched 12 Years A Slave for the second time, having seen it several days ago on a laptop screen through a dedicated download. I’ll be honest. I wanted to write something after absorbing the narrative and the imagery the first time, but […]
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Greg Finn
Free Tool ‘HowsThisLookin’ Allows Webmasters To Perform Remote Global Searches & View International Results Pages
Belmont Club · Richard Fernandez
You Only Die Once
In 1984 Charles Perrow wrote a book called Normal Accidents, which describes the phenomenon that we commonly call “accidents waiting to happen”. “Normal” accidents, or system accidents, are so-called by Perrow because such accidents are inevitable in extremely complex systems. Given the characteristic of the system…
Quick Sprout · Neil Patel
My $45,300 Mistake: How Text Drives More Traffic Than Video Content
Last Thursday, I launched Quick Sprout University, which is a free video library of 107 videos that helps you learn online marketing. The purpose of launching Quick Sprout University was to see how video content performed against free software tools and content guides. An advanced guide can easily generate Quick…
Bustr Bensn
itscolossal: PyroPet Candles Melt into Creepy Metallic...
itscolossal: PyroPet Candles Melt into Creepy Metallic Skeletons
Pigs, Gourds, and Wikis · Liz Castro
Why iBooks for Mac Matters (Goodbye, PDF!)
Eric Blue's Blog · ericblue76
Quantified Self Meets Virtual Reality
This week I’ve had a few of my interests intersect – the Quantified Self, virtual reality, biofeedback / neurofeedback, and consciousness. Earlier this year I came across the Oculus Rift , a next gen virtual reality ...
KK Lifestream
The Pleasures of a Paper Book
Originally posted in The Technium My blog is now a book! I took the best of my Cool Tools blog and printed it as a huge oversized book. Yes, I know. Paper is old. You can’t search it, you can’t easily share favorites, you can’t instantly click to get items, you can’t haul it in your virtual library device. The web…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Felix Salmon: ‘Apple Should Be Like Bloomberg’
White African · HASH
Railway Lines of Internet Connectivity in Africa
A few weeks ago the #Kenya365 final instameet happened, we had finished the full year of Kenyan instagramming and it was a chance to get everyone together. Mutua Matheka suggested we go to the Kenya Railways Museum, a place I hadn’t been since I was in school. I took my daughters with me, and we […]
White African · HASH
3.5 years later, what has the iHub done?
Becky Wanjiku sits on the iHub Advisory Board with me, and started a discussion on the iHub, asking “What has the iHub Achieved?“. Her main takeaway point being that the iHub is a platform, and it’s what YOU do with it that is important. T he iHub started in March 2010, so it’s been about […]
grinding.be · m1k3y
The Many Posthuman Aspects of PacificRim
Or: the candy-coated man/machine rescue mission. Pacific Rim is many things. Many shiny, spectacular, immersive, self-aware, monster genre mashing, robot smashing, crowd pleasing, city destroying, heroic dancing things. But apart from its surface appeal, it’s also the delivery system for some incredibly out there,…
Marco.org
→ LinkedIn Intro’s security nightmare
Bishop Fox: Intro reconfigures your iOS device (e.g. iPhone, iPad) so that all of your emails go through LinkedIn’s servers. You read that right. Once you install the Intro app, all of your emails, both sent and received, are transmitted via LinkedIn’s servers. LinkedIn is forcing all your IMAP and SMTP data through…
Amelia Greenhall on scriptogr.am
There are three types of fun
There are three types of fun. Type I fun is fun while it's happening A picnic with friends in the park, a bike tour through the countryside, a backpack along a ridgeline. Climbing this gorgeous ridge on Mount Clark last weekend: Type I fun is fun while you're having it. Type II fun is NOT fun while it's happening But…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Google Testing Huge Banner Ads in Search Results
Feed: stratēchery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
ē Whither Liberal Arts?
This is part one in a series on last week’s iPad event. Part 1: Whither Liberal Arts? | Part 2: The Missing “Why” of the iPad | Part 3: The Magical iPad Steve Jobs closed the January, 2010 introduction of the iPad with this now famous slide: His remarks: The reason that Apple is able […]The post Whither Liberal Arts?…
Coding Horror
You Don't Need Millions of Dollars
Masters of Doom is the story of John Carmack and John Romero creating the seminal games Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake. It's an amazing work on so many levels – but primarily because of the exhaustive research the author undertook to tell this story. To re-create the story of the Two Johns, I conducted hundreds of…
Inside Facebook · Dennis Yu
Hacking Facebook ads using Google+ Circles
Too often, marketers get caught in the social network wars that users do, neglecting that while a certain social network may not be their favorite to use, there is definitely a marketing advantage to using it....
asymco.com · Horace Dediu
The iPhone company
The analyses of adoption of smartphones in the US and EU5 are remarkably consistent with each other. They also turn out to be consistent with the valuation of Apple. I show the stages of adoption overlaid with the derivative of the Logistic Function and Apple’s enterprise value. The derivative of the Logistic…
The Ad Contrarian · noreply@blogger.com (BOB HOFFMAN)
Alarming Online Sleaze Factor
Marco.org
GoDaddy, (((Media Temple))), And The Horrible World Of Web Hosting
Web hosting is a horrible business. There’s potential for massive profits: most customers of shared hosting and VPSes never come anywhere near their resource allocations so the machines can be extremely oversold, and most dedicated-server customers keep paying the “new” price of the server every month for years after…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Angela Ahrendts at TEDx Hollywood: The Power of Human Energy
Daring Fireball · John Gruber