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Blake Ross finds the makers of Reload, a dangerous herbal Viagra
using historical whois records, Internet Archive, and searching Facebook by email address
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Links for 2015-09-23
How VW tricked the EPA’s emissions testing system In July 2015, CARB did some follow up testing and again the cars failed—the scrubber technology was present, but off most of the time. How this happened is pretty neat. Michigan’s Stefanopolou says computer sensors monitored the steering column. Under normal driving…
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How WeWork convinced investors it's worth $10B
absolutely ridiculous projections, it's like a bubble inside a bubble; related: The Awl on WeLive
Seth Godin's Blog on marketing, tribes and respect · Seth Godin
Dreams and fears
Sooner or later, important action taken comes down to this. Fear: Of being ashamed, feeling stupid, being rejected, being left out, getting hurt, being embarrassed, left alone, dying. Dreams: Of being seen, being needed, becoming independent, relieving anxiety, becoming powerful,...
Daring Fireball · John Gruber
Behind the Scenes on the Design of Apple’s New Trackpads, Keyboards, and iMacs
MailChimp Email Marketing Blog · Nate
Featured Integrations: October 2015
The holidays are approaching quickly, and if you’re in the e-commerce or retail industry, that means your life is about to be super busy. (And let’s be real: it probably is already.) To help you survive prepare, through the end of the year, we’ll be featuring integrations that will help online sellers like you to…
Observatory » Blog · ken segall
New Apple Watch ads: a midcourse correction
Ah, much better. Thank you Apple. At long last, nearly six months after Apple Watch started shipping, Apple has launched a Watch campaign that might turn some heads. Or better yet, open some eyes. The new ads are actually the polar opposite of the previous ones. If you’re the kind, forgiving type, you might see the…
bunnie's blog · bunnie
Sex, Circuits & Deep House
Cari with the Institute Blinky Badge at Burning Man 2015. Photo credit: Nagutron. This year for Burning Man, I built a networked light badge for my theme camp, “The Institute”. Walking in the desert at night with no light is a dangerous proposition – you can get run over by cars, bikes, or twist an […]
Lefsetz Letter · bob
Jimmy Iovine At The Vanity Fair Conference
“Jimmy Iovine wants Apple to save the world from free music” It’s like shooting fish in a barrel. Or one can just say that every time Jimmy Iovine opens his mouth he digs his hole deeper. Let’s rewind the clock all the way back to 2004, January of that year, when Jimmy Iovine stumbled through […] The post Jimmy…
500 Hats - Medium · Dave McClure
99 VC Problems But a Batch Ain’t 1
500 Hats - Medium · Dave McClure
Bubble, My Ass: Some Unicorns Might Be Overvalued, But All Dinosaurs Gonna Die.
Zeldman on Web & Interaction Design · Jeffrey Zeldman
@font-face and Web Performance
Unfortunately, the main issue with @font-face now is what many wanted to avoid years ago: the FOIT, or Flash of Invisible Text. The post @font-face and Web Performance appeared first on Zeldman on Web & Interaction Design.
True Ventures · Lars Nilsson
Account Based Sales Development: A New Methodology in Lead Execution, Target Outbound, and Pipeline Generation
This post, written by True Special Advisor Lars Nilsson, was originally published in the funnelholic. Here’s a plain and simple truth: the best sales development teams today leverage technology to perform smarter, better and faster. The proliferation of, and advances in, sales technology have presented today’s sales…
Buster Benson on Medium · Buster Benson
Death, Aliveness, & XOXO 2015
I’ve been writing on my commute for a few months now. Usually this happens on BART, but today I’m on a flight back from Portland, where I…Continue reading on Medium »
The Ad Contrarian · noreply@blogger.com (BOB HOFFMAN)
Volkswagen Will Be Saved By Its Advertising
There is an article in Adweek this week entitled, "How Volkswagen Just Squandered 55 Years of Great Advertising."The truth is exactly the opposite.If VW is to extricate itself from the mess it has gotten into, perhaps the biggest asset it has is its tradition of superior advertising. If this disgraceful atrocity had…
White African · hash
“Iko Sawa, Iko Poa” The Kibo 150cc
I’m out test-riding this Kibo 150cc motorcycle today (it’s designed and assembled here in Kenya) asking boda boda riders what they think of it. Since 2010 there has been a massive influx of motorcycles into Kenya due to the reduction in duty on bikes under 200cc, and until 2013 there was an extra exemption on […]
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Bloomberg Business on clickfraud
related: Maciej Ceglowski's What Happens Next Will Amaze You
stevenf.com · stevenf
What Happens Next Will Amaze You
“Those who control the data gain enormous power over those who don’t. The power is not overt, but implicit in the algorithms they write, the queries they run, and the kind of world they feel entitled to build. In this world, privacy becomes a luxury good. Mark Zuckerberg buys the four houses around his house […]
Stratechery by Ben Thompson · Ben Thompson
Disconfirming Ebooks
Aggregation Theory would seem to argue that ebooks are destined to dominate the publishing industry. However, that is decidedly not happening; understanding why is a powerful tool to make the theory better. The post Disconfirming Ebooks appeared first on Stratechery by Ben Thompson.
Asymco · Horace Dediu
Soft Underbelly
Executives at car companies have suddenly had to answer questions about potential entrants into their business. This is a big change. I don’t recall a time when this was necessary for over 30 years. For decades the questions have been about labor relations, health care costs, regulation, recalls and competition from…
Bitsplitting.org · Daniel Jalkut
Familiar Spell Checking
Even if you’re a great speller, automatic spell checking provides a valuable safety net, often preventing us from sharing with the world our own individual ignorances of the languages we communicate with. For years, spell checkers of all kinds have relied upon word databases to determine that a word has been…
Periscope High-Performance SQL Blog
Analyzing Your Salesforce Data With SQL
Periscope High-Performance SQL Blog
Redshift User Defined Functions in Python
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Links for 2015-09-14
Kate Heddleston: How Our Engineering Environments Are Killing Diversity ‘[There are] several problem areas for [diversity in] engineering environments and ways to start fixing them. The problems we face aren’t devoid of solutions; there are a lot of things that companies, teams, and individuals can do to fix problems…
ParisLemon
"I didn't dare say anything prior to six months."
"I didn't dare say anything prior to six months.": Jennifer Reingold on what Angela Ahrendts has been up to at Apple: Says Marc Heller, who runs consultancy RetailSails: “My struggle with understanding what she does is I don’t know where her imprint is, other than the obvious.”This was by design. “I didn’t dare say…
The Core Dump · Nic Lindh
Digital hygiene for online security and safety
As we lead more and more of our lives online the risks of losing control of your accounts get more dire, including both our money and our reputations. You don’t want to end up completely paralyzed by paranoia, but you don’t want to make yourself a target, either. This post is written for “normal” people who aren’t…
Google Analytics Blog · Adam Singer
Using Google Analytics to understand real-time messaging behavior
ParisLemon
An iPhone-Like Launch for Star Wars Toys...
An iPhone-Like Launch for Star Wars Toys...: Todd Spangler:Disney, looking to ignite fan excitement for “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” merchandise and the upcoming movie, kicked off a rolling series of live toy unboxings Wednesday evening featuring YouTube creators around the world.While the franchise maybe 40-years…
Neil Gaiman's Journal · noreply@blogger.com (Neil Gaiman)
Have I Actually Been Eaten By A Bear?
Amanda is now 8 and a bit months' pregnant, and she wanted to have our baby off the grid, in the middle of the woods with nothing and nobody around but midwives, a doula, and me. Which seemed like an odd idea when she first floated it by me, but has come to strike me as more and more sensible in the last few months,…
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Leaving Everywhere
Darius Kazemi made a rant generator about moving away from cities using real census data
Social · Courtney Seiter
Introducing Buffer for Video: Upload, Schedule and Analyze, All in One Place
Social media has entered the video era. In 2015 we’ve seen the addition of video on Twitter and a giant push by Facebook to make video a major component of the News Feed. Check out some staggering social media video stats: The number of videos in Facebook feeds has grown by 360% 82% of Twitter users watch video…
Social · Kevan Lee
New Social Media Strategies Email Course: Join Us for 25 Days of Social Media Tips
What are you working on today? One of our goals at Buffer is to always be iterating and experimenting with what we do on social media. We’re up for trying all sorts of different strategies! And many of these end up revealing great opportunities to growth. What are you working on today? This week? This month? We’d…
Social · Kevan Lee
We Stopped Publishing New Blog Posts for One Month. Here’s What Happened.
One of the implicit values in our Buffer marketing is to challenge assumptions. And one of the biggest assumptions I have about our content is that we should be publishing original articles to the blog multiple times each week. Well … what might happen if we didn’t? To find out, we stopped publishing new content for…
Lefsetz Letter · bob
The New Normal
“The Creative Apocalypse That Wasn’t” The reason concert tickets are so expensive is because people want to buy them. Furthermore, attendees agitate against paperless ticketing because they want the ability to resell. So promoters have given up trying to control access to the supposed hard core fan. The truth is…
Dr. Jay Parkinson
I spent the weekend in Sebastopol, California at Foocamp. This...
I spent the weekend in Sebastopol, California at Foocamp. This photo is from Saturday morning’s 40 mile bike ride to the Pacific Coast. Foocamp is Tim O'Reilly’s annual gathering he hosts where he invites roughly 300 people he believes are doing the most interesting things with Internet-related technology right now.…
taint.org: Justin Mason's Weblog · dailylinks
Links for 2015-08-16
An Amazonian’s response to “Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace” — Medium excellent response to the NYT hatchet job (tags: amazon work life nytimes journalism workplace) Sweary Australian Mountains This is great. Featuring Mount Buggery: There were no tracks of any sort until they reached Mt…
dullneon.com - random notes, links and pixels · Jaffry Jalal
Moonbuilding 2703 AD.
The Orb are back with an excellent new album. The expansive, conceptual ambient electronica (yes, that 90s electronica) feels like a return to their masterpiece from the last century, The Orb’s Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld.
The Awl » John Herrman · John Herrman
Time Is a Privacy Setting
When not even you know what you were talking about
dullneon.com - random notes, links and pixels · Jaffry Jalal
The smell of cut grass…
When there is need for protection, the plant signals the environment via the emission of volatile organic compounds, which are recognized as a feeding queue [sic] for parasitic wasps to come to the plant that is being eaten and lay eggs in the pest insect. Mown grass smell sends SOS for help in resisting insect […]
dullneon.com - random notes, links and pixels · Jaffry Jalal
Go Set A Watchman.
A new novel by a reclusive author after many years just sounds suspicious.
The Message — Medium · Zeynep Tufekci
Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal News Shows Why Privacy is the Bedrock of an “Open and Connected” World
Privacy and Openness Require Each Other to ExistContinue reading on Medium »
Department of Design
The Near Future of Consumer VR
The Near Future of Consumer VR: It’s actually not that easy finding all the specs and descriptions of the new headsets, controllers, and motion sensing hardware coming out over the new few months. So I did a little writeup, for your reference.
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Soylent founder on "how I gave up alternating current"
I can't decide if this is real, satire, or just cynical trolling to promote Soylent 2.0
Search Engine Land: News & Info About SEO, PPC, SEM, Search Engines & Search Marketing · Glenn Gabe