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Above Avalon · Neil Cybart
Tim Cook's message to customers last week regarding iPhone security will mark a defining moment for his legacy as Apple CEO. While the legal and technological ramifications resulting from the San Bernardino iPhone case will take months and years to play themselves out, the business implications are already visible.…
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Exclusive: Snowden intelligence docs reveal UK spooks’ malware checklist / Boing Boing This is an excellent essay from Cory Doctorow on mass surveillance in the post-Snowden era, and the difference between HUMINT and SIGINT. So much good stuff, including this (new to me) cite for, “Goodhart’s law”, on secrecy as it…
Malkidian Geometry
A few weeks ago, I signed up for all the candidates’ email lists – mainly because I wanted to see if any of them would sell my information. (I used all unique email addresses.)One thing that quickly became apparent was that Jeb!’s fundraising strategy consisted almost entirely of attempting to trick or guilt the…
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There seem to be only three kinds of apps that make sense given the current hardware and software on the Apple Watch. I don’t know any other developers who have as much Watch-app experience as “Underscore” David Smith. Today’s Apple Watch and watchOS are very limited and most apps are necessarily terrible, but that…
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as much about how people make money on Tumblr, and Yahoo's attempts to thwart it
The Art of Non-Conformity · Chris Guillebeau
Link: Take the “Born for This” Free Quiz Hey, everyone! My new book, Born for This, goes out into the world in less than 70 days. I’m very excited about sharing the message of “how to find the work you were meant to do” with lots of people all over the world. You can now take a FREE quiz to learn more about what kind…
OkDork.com · Noah Kagan
A few weeks ago, I visited some family friends and they just got Sonos (wireless stereo). I was giving them some recommendations how to make sure it works in every room. #superrichpeopleproblems Then they asked me what other tools I use for my personal life, home and business. Figured it’d be fun to share. Even…
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I never thought I’d be a watch person. (Or that I’d wear blue shorts.) I didn’t need a watch. I had a phone and a computer to tell me the time. But I got the Apple Watch on day one, because I’m a responsible iPhone app developer and I knew I’d need to port my app to it. I wore it almost every day for the next eight…
True Ventures · True
This is a guest post by John Foley, Co-Founder and CEO of Peloton. Many Founders write code. I do not. Many write product specs. I do not. Many Founders are scientists with deep knowledge of super cool things. I have none. I am part of a somewhat dying breed of entrepreneurs—a general manager with limited […]
The Core Dump · Nic Lindh
Space Shuttle Endeavour Space Shuttle Endeavour has been to space and back to Earth 25 times—it’s escaped our gravity well 25 times and brought its crew back safely every time. Now it’s retired and sits available for public viewing at the California Science Center. It’s an enormously powerful artifact, a symbol of a…
The Hopscotch Blog · ricebeansandkeens
Welcome to the Best of Hopscotch 2015 — games and art programmed by kids on the iPad.These projects broke barriers by introducing A.I., simulating 3D, and redefining what’s possible with the Hopscotch language. They paved the way for thousands of others to build off their ingenuity.This list is a tribute to the…
Bothsides of the Table · Mark Suster
What drives economic inequality in the US? Should we be concerned about the concentration of wealth in the hands of the few at the expense of the many? I am not writing about this out of the blue – this seems to be the topic of the day in my social stream based on blogs […]
Robin Sloan's blog · Robin Sloan
Dancing the flip-flop There’s a particular process that I’m fascinated by, and I tell people about it all the time, but I realized I’d never actually written about it—so here you go. Let’s start with a definition, and then I&
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tying racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic paranoia into meme culture
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If you want help getting “real work” done on iOS, or if you don’t think that’s possible, you owe it to yourself to give this a thorough read. ∞ Permalink
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Two weeks ago, the server I host all my personal projects on was hacked by some guy in Ukraine. It really sucked. I was overdue for a redesign anyway. I first noticed something was amiss while trying to post a link here and the server was unusually slow. I SSHed in and the server was slow to respond, as if system…
Communities Dominate Brands · Tomi T Ahonen
I wrote a week ago an update blog about the Big Data ‘Narwhal’ project of the Obama 2012 campaign. Originally back in 2012 we tracked that ‘info war’ between Obama’s Narwhal and Romney’s rival system called ‘Orca’. Soon after the...
dullneon.com - random notes, links and pixels · Jaffry Jalal
I really wish I had thought of/done this first… [Via Creative Review]
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Greg Sterling
Yoast • The Art & Science of Website Optimization · Joost de Valk
This week we released version 3 of our Yoast SEO plugin. I can honestly say we’re very proud of this release. I’ll recap a bit on the release and there was one bit of news from Google I don’t want to withhold you: they released the search quality guidelines they give to their quality raters […]
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Garrett French
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Barry Schwartz
Dr. Jay Parkinson
Why there’s no Uber for HealthcareBack in September 2007, I created a new kind of doctor practice as shown in the screenshot up there. The iPhone had come out three months prior (but the App Store hadn’t launched yet) and Google enabled you to embed your Google Calendar in a website just the month before. I saw a…
The Ad Contrarian · noreply@blogger.com (BOB HOFFMAN)
A spirited debate sprung up last week in Campaign magazine between Dave Trott, a great creative mind, and Richard Cable, of Bartle Bogle Hegarty, a great creative agency.The debate was essentially about this: What the fuck is "content?"I've done enough yapping about content (e.g., here and here) so I'll leave you to…
Rands in Repose · rands
I showed up late to drones. A few weeks ago it was my father’s birthday. The reason I am an engineer is because my father is an engineer. (Aside: The reason I am a leader is because I watched all of my mother’s moves as she wrangled my father the engineer.) For the 4th of… More
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Control theory meets machine learning ‘DB: Is there a difference between how control theorists and machine learning researchers think about robustness and error? BR: In machine learning, we almost always model our errors as being random rather than worst-case. In some sense, random errors are actually much more…
Buster Benson on Medium · Buster Benson
Which of these entities gets stronger when attacked and threatened?Continue reading on Medium »
Interconnected · Matt Webb
1. I was complaining out loud the other day about the distracting man I was sitting next to, hammering his keyboard, typing like a donkey falling downstairs. But then it occurred to me, I always blame external factors for ruining my focus when really I lack it for internal reasons. If I genuinely had focus, nothing…
The Awl » John Herrman · John Herrman
Chatter and dissent in the trenches of the sharing economy
yoast.com · Arjan Snaterse
In our recent post about local landing pages, we explained what they are and how you can set them up. These pages can be seen as a part of local SEO, which is focused on increasing your visibility on a local level. Today I want to discuss another factor that can help you with local […] The post Local SEO: why your…
Publishers Lunch · Michael Cader
Lagardere reported third quarter sales on Tuesday, with the publishing division growing 2 percent on a like-for-like basis and 7.4 percent overall -- thanks to a still surging dollar and strong UK pound -- at €607 million, up €43 million from a year ago. Foreign exchange accounted for €32 million of… The post…
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
The future of mass market portable computing involves neither a mouse pointer nor an x86 processor.
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there are alternatives, empowering indie cooks and bringing neighborhoods together
The Ad Contrarian · noreply@blogger.com (BOB HOFFMAN)
Today's post was written by someone else.I'm not sending you there because I'm a lazy shit (which, of course, I am) or because I'm mentioned in it (which, of course, I am) but because it is one of the best pieces written about advertising I've read in a very long time.It offers hope that at least some people in the…
The Morning News - Headlines
If we get infected, we will die. Severe budget cuts hit state AIDS units in India, which provide free condoms to sex workers. Justice Dept. chooses 10 of 567 recognized Native American tribes with whom to share access to criminal data. October’s jobs report broke records, and statistically speaking, it shows the past…
The Awl » John Herrman · John Herrman
Will you fight for your right to help Airbnb make money from you?
Lefsetz Letter · bob
This is not the movie you wanted it to be. This is a business story. About the power of individuals, with big dreams and the ability and desire to make them come true. No Russ Solomon, no Tower Records. Your heart will pitter-patter when you see Elton John combing the aisles in a tracksuit before […] The post The…
Communities Dominate Brands · Tomi T Ahonen
So today is the 3rd Republican debate, on CNBC. I wanted to get this blog posting out before the debate, so that when I will do the debate evaluations, we can use this as the way to judge, but so...
The Awl » John Herrman · John Herrman
Articles: Why? And other questions people are suddenly asking themselves.
stevenf.com · stevenf
“We’re very much in the ‘radium underpants’ stage of the surveillance economy.”
Stratechery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
Amazon and The New York Times had a fascinating exchange this week, on Medium of all places. What that exchange represents — the search for truth, now open to anyone — is far more important than the particular article in question. The post In Defense of The New York Times appeared first on Stratechery by Ben Thompson.
The Morning News - Headlines
The Democrats are set to win the White House—and lose just about everything else. I have a he-says-no-story also written. Washington Post accidentally publishes Biden announcement “shell story.” A brief history of Trump quitting before he could be fired. Harper out, Trudeau in as PM. Atlantic Canada showed notable…