Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
TRANSCRIPT GWEN IFILL: In the eight years since Apple unveiled its first smartphone, an entire generation of young users has spring up who never knew a world without a device in hand. That’s the starting point for the latest addition to the “NewsHour” Bookshelf, “American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers,” by…
On Mar. 31, Nintendo’s first mobile app, a strange question-and-answer social network called Miitomo, launched in the US. It’s been available in Japan for a few weeks, and according to Nintendo, it was downloaded over 1 million times in the first three days there. Nintendo, which pretty much single-handedly created the portable video-game industry with…
Miitomo offers a disquieting prophecy of social networking’s future, one in which we largely cede the actual labor of interacting with other people to the networks themselves.Nintendo On Sunday, a new co-worker wearing a pair of cat ears dropped by to say hello. I would have liked to offer her a drink, but I…
Image: Gizmodo The Oculus Rift is starting to ship, and we’re pretty happy with it. While it’s cool, like any interesting gadget, it’s worth looking through the Terms of Service, because there are some worrisome things included. Quite a few of the items in the document are pretty typical in any sort of Terms of…
Medium is convincing a batch of small publishers to abandon their standalone sites in favor of setting up shop on the Medium platform. The three-year-old site, started by Twitter co-founder Ev Williams, is announcing that it will soon start hosting a new batch of publishers and publishing exclusive content for others. Eight small independent sites will…
Making Medium More Powerful for Publishers At Medium, we’re building out a new corner of the Internet specifically designed for people and publishers who want to experience a deeper level of discourse and engagement. Much of the content we love comes from great publications, all of which have different needs. Today we are announcing a…
When news of Peeple, the so-called “Yelp for people” that lets you rate anyone you know like a restaurant, swept the web last year, I was horrified. A tool that lets my abusive ex-boyfriend write whatever he wants about me and post it for the Internet to see? A tool that lets anyone with my…
Matt Sayles/APPharrell is sad about his royalties.This past year was great for singer Pharrell Williams. His song “Happy” secured him Grammy nominations for Best Music Video and Best Pop Solo Performance. Despite Pharrell’s ubiquity, “Happy” made $2,700 in publisher and songwriter royalties from 43 million Pandora streams in the first quarter of 2014, according to an email…
How to avoid common mistakes when publishing Accelerated Mobile Pages As Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) are building up we’ve noticed the same mistakes happening over and over again when someone starts publishing AMPs. Here is a list of steps you should take to avoid these when publishing AMPs and to ensure a great AMP experience…
I tried explaining Soylent, the protein shake meal replacement popular in Silicon Valley, to my mom and she tilted her head: “Oh, you mean SlimFast?” she said. I balked. No, Soylent is definitely tech, I explained, and it’s on my beat. It has a minimalist label and comes in iterative versions like software (we’re at…