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The New York Times “First Draft” and Politico Playbook picked up the “Meerkat Election” idea today, so get ready for the hype cycle to wash through the commentariat. Former Florida governor Jeb Bush “meerkatted” yesterday — which is to say, used an app integrated with Twitter on his smartphone to livestream an event online. If…
Story highlights David Wheeler: Silicon Valley doesn’t create jobs; it’s wiping out middle-class jobs Young college graduates are struggling with lack of jobs, yet many still idolize Silicon Valley Silicon Valley is tossing millennials aside like yesterday’s laptop. The commonly held belief is that with hard work and a good education, a young person in…
Photo Users of Facebook’s Messenger app will be able to link their debit cards to the service and use it to message money to each other. SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook‘s instant messaging service isn’t just for sending smiley faces and photos anymore. Now you can use it to send money instantly to your friends. Facebook,…
The end is finally in sight for Microsoft’s long-fraught Internet Explorer. At the Microsoft Convergence conference yesterday in Atlanta, Georgia, Chris Capossela, Microsoft’s head of marketing, said that the new flagship browser for Windows, which was announced in January and is codenamed Project Spartan, will not be associated with the Internet Explorer brand. While Internet Explorer…
(Amazon.com) Counter-Currents.com, a Web site you probably do not encounter in your standard Internet travels, exists to advance the books of noted neo-Nazis and the creation of an all-white nationalist state. Amazon.com, a site visited by 80 million people daily, exists to sell things. But for the past five years, Amazon and Counter Currents have…
Google has started manually reviewing apps before making them publicly available, a move to weed out programs that don’t meet the company’s standards. Importantly, Google said it has been able to add manual components to the review process without developers even noticing a slowdown. The company still relies mostly on automated testing for its app…
Ben Rubin, the cofounder of the streaming social video app Meerkat, had just arrived at SXSW in Austin, Texas, started handing out bright yellow T-shirts, and was enjoying his app’s massive buzz when he got the call. It was from Twitter: They wanted to let him know that Meerkat’s access to the Twitter graph was…
The other day, I semi-jokingly tweeted this screencap: I found it noteworthy, because the video in question was about tax tips for self-employed people. I found it somewhat emblematic of the online experience for women; it doesn’t matter what you say, you are not welcome here unless you are existing solely for male consumption. Most…
How to use bookmarklets in mobile Chrome Many of the bookmarklets used on your desktop version of Chrome can also be used on your mobile device. Here’s the steps you’ll need to get started. more+ Layered tabs in Chrome for Android. Screenshot by Nicole Cozma/CNET There are Android apps that come with many features, possibly…