Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Facebook and Twitter will forever be locked in a bewildering dance wherein each continually pushes itself closer and then farther away from the other. In today’s news, Facebook is moving a tiny bit closer to Twitter as it tests a new posting option that makes News Feed posts much more like tweets. The test, spotted by…
Many Twitch streamers are no stranger to large donations, but what would you do if a random stranger dropped $11,500 on you after seeing you play Hearthstone? That’s exactly what happened to Twitch streamer ‘LegendaryLea’ during a recent session. The donations ended any notion continuing the game and led to Lea dancing across her room, ecstatic….
A year and a half ago, Gawker Media CEO Nick Denton had ample reason to be optimistic about the future of the company that he had founded more than 12 years earlier. The company’s revenue had grown from about $5.3 million in 2006 to $43.8 million in 2014. It was consistently profitable, with a 2014…
In a splashy Bloomberg Business feature published late last year, Hotz was less conciliatory. Otherwise known as geohot, the programmer first earned worldwide fame by cracking the iPhone and the PlayStation 3 as a teen. Now, he is the CEO and founder of Comma.ai, a company that aims to get self-driving cars on the road…
One of my obsessions these days is the question of whether there’s any such thing as a career in digital journalism. I’m still doing reporting on this question — if you have any empirical data on the subject, do let me know — but in the meantime, my working hypothesis is that the answer is…
Verizon Communications Inc. on Monday planned to submit a second-round bid of about $3 billion for Yahoo Inc.’s core internet business, said a person familiar with the matter. The telecom company, seen as the leading contender to buy Yahoo, was expected to meet Monday’s deadline for the second round of bids. Yahoo is expected to hold…
Despite the well-documented (really obvious) gender gap in the tech sector, we’re not seeing a lot of improvement, and it’s time to take some serious action. Right now, women (who represent 57 percent of the U.S. labor force) fill just a quarter (26.5 percent) of tech jobs at the top U.S. tech firms, and earn,…
For $1,000 a day, David Markovich will teach the old people in your office how to use Slack. Don’t know what Slack is? He can help. The 27-year-old runs ChatOverload, a consulting firm that helps companies modernize team communications using the popular, two-year-old messaging platform. For less tech-savvy (or millennial-savvy) organizations, Markovich holds seminars, builds custom Slackbots, and explains…
Thanatos A Vampire Tale Inspired by True Events “Today’s creepy is tomorrow’s necessity.” –Sean Parker. Just a single prick. That’s all Jane Watson needed. But in recent weeks at Stanford, the young students, delicious and full of blood, had been harder and harder to come by. At first, she had no trouble finding a fix….
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