Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Sarma Melngailis had it all: an Ivy League degree, model looks and a hot vegan restaurant, Pure Food and Wine in Gramercy, beloved by Alec Baldwin and Bill Clinton. Now, she’s got a mug shot, a $350,000 bail and husband Anthony Strangis: an alleged gambling addict with a criminal past and an 11-year-old child he…
After a couple of years off, Curbed’s column Three Cents Worth makes its triumphant return! This week, real estate appraiser, Curbed graph guru, blogger, and podcaster Jonathan Miller looks at the what’s going on in Manhattan’s up-and-down rental market. The April 2016 Manhattan-Brooklyn-Queens rental report was published late last week and I thought I’d present some additional Manhattan rental charts. Rents in…
Skybridges today are relics of New York City’s past—a formidable symbol of what architects imagined the city’s future could look like. But those that remain are not only few and far between, but also often in a state of disrepair. Despite that, one architecture firm has been working to bring them back into the spotlight, and…
Updated May 16, 2016 1:50 p.m. ET Facebook Inc. FB -1.11 % is now selling video ads on behalf of other companies, a move that could prove lucrative for the technology giant and intensify its competition with Alphabet Inc. GOOGL -1.38 % subsidiary Google and other online ad specialists. The company said on Monday it…
It started innocently enough. But as the Great Post-It War of 2016 raged on into a second day on Monday, pulling more agencies, brands, neighborhoods and even an industry awards show into its mildly adhesive orbit, it seemed unlikely peacetime, or billable hours, would ever return to Canal Street. Anyone from Havas New York, Omnicom…
Twitter: latest update shows the service is more than just words Posting a photo or URL, even when Twitter shortens the link, currently takes up 23 characters, meaning users only have 117 characters to play with. Combined with emoji or hashtags, this doesn’t leave much room for words. Observers say the tweak is a minor…
Click Trajectories: End-to-end analysis of the spam value chain – Levchenko et al. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2011 This week we’re going to be looking at some of the less desirable corners of the internet: spam, malvertisements, click-jacking, typosquatting, and friends. To kick things off, today’s paper gives an insight into the end-to-end…
Apparently, once you bleed purple, you never stop. At least that is the case in the sale of Yahoo, which is now in its second phase of bids from prospective buyers that include strategics like Verizon, as well as private equity firms like TPG, Sycamore Partners and the pairing of Vista Equity Partners and Bain…
Google wants more professional women… depicted as emoji. The tech giant issued a proposal at the Unicode Consortium this week to create a new set of emoji that would represent women in a variety of job roles, ranging from doctor to mechanic to chef. Its goal is to see the emoji implemented by the end…
Kolé Life Foods doesn’t really stand out at first glance. These days, lots of companies are trying to ride the wave of popular interest in neuro-everything, and Kolé, a Baltimore-based supplement manufacturer, is no exception. The company’s four “tonics” offer a variety of benefits, its website claims: one “is designed to support alertness, focus, healthy…