Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Oracle is taking the final step to rid the web of its terrible Java browser plugin. While the plugin started off life back in the ’90s as an innocent way to bring app-like features to browsers, in recent years it has been a headache to users and IT admins struggling to fight against its mountain…
Theranos chief executive Elizabeth Holmes gestures as she speaks at a technology conference in October (Glenn Chapman/AFP/Getty Images) Theranos, the high-profile Silicon Valley company that promised to revolutionize blood testing, was warned by federal regulators this week that its Newark, Calif. laboratory has “deficient practices” that “pose immediate jeopardy to patient health and safety,” according…
Just when you think things can’t get sadder and stranger at Twitter…. Last night, news leaked to the New York Times and Re/Code that four major Twitter execs are leaving: Alex Roetter, Kevin Weil, Skip Schipper, and Katie Stanton The original positioning was that the departures were part of a house cleaning. That suggestion, though,…
Twitter Inc. named Leslie Berland chief marketing officer as it undergoes a major overhaul of its top ranks in an effort to reboot growth. Berland, 37, was previously senior vice president of digital partnerships at American Express Co. where she spent the past four years on an ad campaign that included a heavy presence on…
Twitter is all over the news lately. Their servers were down for a while last week, putting me into a bit of a conundrum. (I always post on Twitter when a new articles comes out.) The stock price went south. Over the weekend, a few key execs took an exit. Those are all a pretty…
The idea of a “smartphone” that could connect to the Internet and run applications was around long before 2007; Apple, though, was the first to put the entire package together, including the device, user interface, and interaction paradigm, which is why the first iPhone is considered the start date of the mobile revolution. Similarly, the…
Twitter makes its money by showing ads to its users. But not all of its users: For the past few months, the social media company has stopped displaying ads, or has dramatically reduced the number of ads it displays, to a small group of some of its most prominent and active users. For those people, Twitter is an ad-free, or…
Below is the full text from Randall Rothenberg’s opening keynote at the 2016 IAB Annual Leadership Meeting On April 19, 1996, less than two years after AT&T commissioned and ran the Internet’s first banner advertisement, on the online magazine Hotwired, representatives from 35 companies met in New York and agreed to form the Internet Advertising…
There’s this app called Wire, which I love. It’s the most beautiful messaging app I’ve ever tried: super-clean backgrounds, a heavy emphasis on user photos and clean design, and a great mix of calling, texting, and weirdly great GIF search. It works across all the platforms I use, and it works well. It’s my ideal…
Amazon’s customer service backdoor As a security conscious user who follows the best practices like: using unique passwords, 2FA, only using a secure computer and being able to spot phishing attacks from a mile away, I would have thought my accounts and details would be be pretty safe? Wrong. Because when someone has gone after…