Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Once again, hacktivist collective Anonymous has threatened to take down 2016 presidential hopeful Donald Trump, this time declaring “total war” on the GOP frontrunner. Anonymous’ war plan against Trump includes dismantling the candidate’s online presence and digging for dirt on the business tycoon in an attempt to destroy his brand. According to a video posted to…
For the better part of the last decade, Silicon Valley tech companies have seemingly been on a mission to make up for the down years following the burst of the dot-com bubble, spending money at a record clip. The new offices have been stunning, the sales kickoffs have been larger than life, and the holiday parties have…
Picture a startup founder. Chances are you went straight for a Mark Zuckerberg-type: male, white, nerdy and, above all, young. Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004, three years after the collapse of the dotcom bubble, at the age of 20. Twelve years later, the company he founded is worth $270bn, and the tech world is in…
I’m in London for Kubecon right now, and the hotel I’m staying at has decided that light switches are unfashionable and replaced them with a series of Android tablets. One was embedded in the wall, but the two next to the bed had convenient looking ethernet cables plugged into the wall. So.I managed to borrow…
Since its founding, TechCrunch has maintained (and enjoyed) a close relationship with the industry it covers. They’re rarely bothered by how this “looks,” as could be seen today, with their proud announcement that one of their new contributors will also continue to work for one of the largest technology companies in the world. http://valleywag.gawker.com/why-does-techc… In…
When it comes to ad-supported services, pundits everywhere are fond of the adage “If you’re not the customer you’re the product”. It’s interesting, though, how quickly that adage is forgotten when it comes to evaluating the viability of said services. Twitter is a perfect example. In response to my piece How Facebook Squashed Twitter I…
Justin Worst, Marlo Webber and Jes Waldrip show off an LED light implant. Grindhouse Wetware calls it the Northstar. Courtesy of Ryan O’Shea A curious crowd lingered around Amal Graafstra as he carefully unpacked a pair of gloves, a small sterile blanket and a huge needle. A long line of people were waiting to get…
You’ll definitely have seen its ads plastered on billboards if you live in pretty much any major city across the world – who knew you needed to care so much about payments processing? Spotted a @braintree @PayPal ad with the Empire State Building in the background. #paymentsnerd #mobilepayment #nyc pic.twitter.com/WrX9tKEBmR — Anna Tauzin (@annatauzin) February…
Ten years ago, I attended a panel of cell phone executives talking about the mobile industry. Yes, it sounds like a snoozer and in many ways it was, but I perked up when a tall nordic man began telling us a story about the Angry God of ARPU. I was hoping for a classic Norse…
Once upon a time, there was nothing like Flickr. If you were a person who cared about taking, editing, and sharing photos, it was the best and most robust community of like-minded people on the Internet. Now that’s not true. Far from it. For the photo-nerd crowd, 500px and SmugMug are just two of the…