Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
We plugged our Twitter account, @voxdotcom, into the poetry-generating website Poetweet and were so tickled with the results that we tried it on a bunch of other handles, too. Here is the outcome: Vox The New York Times BuzzFeed VICE ClickHole The Verge CNN The New Republic Fox News MSNBC SB Nation Want to turn your…
Unique in the shopping mall: On the reidentifiability of credit card metadata Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye1,*, Laura Radaelli2, Vivek Kumar Singh1,3, Alex “Sandy” Pentland1 1Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 20 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. 2Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University, Aabogade 34, Aarhus, 8200, Denmark. 3School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University,…
Google on Thursday added to Wall Street’s concerns about a slowdown in its core desktop search business and falling profit margins as it reported quarterly earnings that fell short of already downbeat forecasts. The search company’s shares, which had already underperformed the wider market over the past three months, slipped another 2 per cent in after-market…
Flickr User Karlis Dambrans FCC sets new indoor 911 location accuracy standards Technology • January 29, 2015 9:51 AMJanuary 29, 2015 9:51 AM FOLLOW STORY FOLLOW STORY Flickr User Karlis Dambrans FCC sets new indoor 911 location accuracy standards | Circa News.
After a decade of grossly offensive advertisements objectifying scantily-clad women, website domain provider GoDaddy is trying to convince the world that its tasteless days are over. In late 2013, chief marketing officer Barb Rechterman announced that the company has “matured” and “evolved” and promised to put an end to its infamous racy ads. This decision…
Begin: WordPress Article Content It seems that with every earnings report, we hit another milestone in Facebook’s shift to mobile. Here’s the latest one: 526 million of its monthly active users access Facebook solely from their mobile devices.That’s up from 456 million in the previous quarter, and it’s an increase of around 78 percent from…
by Katie Hawkins-Gaar Published Jan. 29, 2015 10:13 am Updated Jan. 29, 2015 11:05 am New York Times front page on Wednesday, January 28. (Photo by Katie Hawkins-Gaar) It was an exciting moment for user-generated content. The New York Times featured nine Instagram photos on the front page of its Wednesday edition. As far as…
You should totally blog about this article on Tumblr. You know, just a headline, excerpt, link back, and a few lines of your own thoughts. If you do, you’ll likely find a new interface for posting content to the microblogging behemoth. Today, Tumblr is pushing out a pretty substantial refresh to its writing and editing…
When this launched, there were dozens of confused comments from people wondering what old videogames has to do with Internet history. In my mind, this stems from mistaken perception issues of the Internet Archive as solely an institution saving webpages. But their mission and motto is much broader: Universal access to all knowledge. The Internet…
Today, Giphy is using every “excited” GIF we have! We’re thrilled to announce that we have raised a $17 million Series B financing round, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from General Catalyst and current investors. So, what does this mean for our users? Giphy is going to use this funding to accelerate our…