Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
A bout two years ago, while Vine was healthy — before the internet celebrities it germinated outgrew it and ultimately turned against it — three of the bigger names on the platform teamed up with some better-known YouTube personalities for a rap battle to determine which crew’s content reigned superior. Meant as a tongue-in-cheek, real-recognize-real…
SAN FRANCISCO — Last month, Federico Viticci, who runs MacStories, a news site devoted to Apple and its products, made a change in how the site publishes articles for mobile gadgets. MacStories, he declared, would no longer support a Google-backed method for faster loading of mobile web pages, called AMP. Mr. Viticci said MacStories’s pages…
The solution for Post-it Notes lost under the desk and phone alerts silenced in meetings may be at hand. People who have tried and given up countless online calendars and list-making apps are making the Bullet Journal—a way of organizing and writing lists in a plain old notebook—a hit. The journal helps organize everything from…
Even as Uber Technologies Inc. exited China, the company’s financial loss has remained eye-popping. In the first nine months of this year, the ride-hailing company lost significantly more than $2.2 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter. In the third quarter, Uber lost more than $800 million, not including its Chinese operation. At…
Well this is new, 300×250 units from ad exchanges designed to look like Taboola/Outbrain units CC: @robleathern 5 replies3 retweets15 likes Reply 5 Retweet 3 Like 15 View Tweet activity More Aram Zucker-Scharff @Chronotope Oct 27 So it turns out this image, which I’ve been seeing all over goes to a link that has…
On the Friday after the US presidential election, Andrew Torba, CEO of Gab.ai, a social network favored by conservatives, was kicked out of Y Combinator, the influential Silicon Valley startup accelerator, for violating its harassment policy. Torba, a fervent Trump supporter, called members of the Y Combinator community “cucks” and told them to “fuck off”…
IN LATE 1994, LUCASFILM HELD A SERIES OF TOP-SECRET MEETINGS with Star Warslicensees. On the agenda: how to invigorate a lucrative movie franchise that hadn’t released a movie for more than a decade. Out of those brainstorming sessions — attended by Bantam author Steve Perry and representatives from LucasArts, among others — emerged a 25-page outline for…
(Deb Lindsey for The Washington Post) If you were planning to serve whipped cream with your holiday desserts this year, you might want to acquaint yourself with the homemade kind. Thanks to a nationwide shortage of nitrous oxide, a critical ingredient in aerosol whipped creams, some major manufacturers have announced that they won’t be able…
For months, YouTubers have complained that their view counts are down. New data from the third-party stat tracker SocialBlade confirms what YouTubers fear: viewership is lower across the board. SocialBlade crunched some numbers for Kotaku and determined that, since the first half of the year, YouTube views are now 5-7% lower. Between July and September,…
Ad tech had a mixed year. Venture capital for ad tech slowed down, while mergers and acquisitions rose. And as fake news became one of the hottest topics in the media industry, it became more apparent than ever that some ad tech companies profited from proliferating fake news while others banked on preventing ads from…