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Why Anthony De Rosa Is Joining Circa, And What He Plans To Do When He Gets There
Reuters' star social media editor Anthony De Rosa is leaving for a new role: editor-in-chief of fledgling news startup Circa. Circa is a news app (cofounded by Arsenio Santos, journalism crowdfunding...
View ArticleHow Editors' Lab Amsterdam Sees The Future Of News
Editors’ Lab Amsterdam looks like any other hack day, with attendees skewing towards the young, male, and sartorially challenged, but the majority of participants are not actually developers but...
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This Startup Is Turning Farmers’ Weather Intuition Into A Big (Data) Business
Meteorologist Steven Bennett used to predict the weather for hedge funds. Now his startup EarthRisk forecasts extreme cold and warmth events up to four weeks ahead, much further in the future than...
View ArticleGoogle Translate's Gender Problem (And Bing Translate's, And Systran's...)
Google Translate is the world's most popular web translation platform, but one Stanford University researcher says it doesn't really understand sex and gender. Londa Schiebinger, who runs Stanford's...
View ArticleThis Lawyer Worked On The JOBS Act. Now He's Starting A Crowdsource Platform
It seems like you can use crowdfunding to pay for anything these days. A movie. A space capsule. A video in which a politician smokes crack. And so on. General-interest sites like KickStarter and...
View ArticleWhy You Should Try Hacking Books
A few years ago, publishers were looking at what was happening to the music industry and saw digital in an apocalyptic light--now they’re racing to join the digital content fray. “There are still...
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Two People Doing The Same Job? It’s Not Crazy For Engineers
What would happen if you asked your boss for another person to do your job with you? Would you be laughed at? Demoted? Fired? It turns out that developers have been working together to complete single...
View ArticleTwitter #Music's Awful iTunes Rank Belies Its Success
Is the "music discovery" term dead yet? Great! Now we can move on to just sharing music recommendations without worrying about all that pretense.Call it what you want, but music has always been a locus...
View ArticleSeeing Through Digital Eyes At The Biggest Book Expo In The Country
Book Expo America, BEA, used to be the place to go to get your hands dirty with printer's ink--all the books were hot off the presses. Now the annual industry gathering at New York City's Javitz Center...
View ArticleHow GitHub Uses "Deprivation Testing" To Hone Product Design
In an oddly furnished room in their office, I sat down recently with Chrissie Brodigan, design and UX researcher at GitHub to talk about how designers and developers can measure which features are most...
View ArticleGoogle Is Learning How Smartphones Impact In-Store Shopping
Seventy-nine percent of smartphone owners are what Google calls “smartphone shoppers,” meaning that they use their smartphones at least once a month in stores. That’s a lot of people. If there are 130...
View ArticleThe Geek-Boy Irony Behind Mark Zuckerberg’s Tech Lobby
It is striking to see the efforts of Mark Zuckerberg and his other lobbying friends juxtaposed with the grim job market that even many college graduates are facing today. Today's young people are the...
View ArticleWhy Apple Needs A Brand Overhaul
As a market leader, Apple finds itself in a position that would have seemed impossible to dedicated Mac-heads two decades ago; a strange parallel universe in which the band that sells the most also...
View ArticleWhy Shazam Is A Force For Good In The Music Business
If you’re still paying for tickets to see live shows, pat yourself on the back: You’re a supporter of yet another declining part of the music industry. Even Justin Bieber had to cancel a show in March...
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Why Aral Balkan Thinks iOS Can Still Compete
Respected iOS designer and developer Aral Balkan is currently working on several projects, including an experiment with a personal drone that follows you around and helps you out in various ways, a new...
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Did Apple Preview iOS 7 In Their New WWDC App?
The event that is the equivalent to Christmas for an iOS developer is less than one week away now. I’m of course talking about Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, or WWDC. And because this WWDC...
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Tracking: Drones And The Law
11:00 a.m., 06/04/2013An API For Military Drone StrikesApplication Programming Interfaces (APIs) are tools that, among other things, let websites and apps include information from outside content...
View ArticleLeet Cheat Sheet: What To Read On Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Who Is The Tesla Motors Of The Media Industry?Some suggest that media is going the way of the American automobile. Matthew Ingram explains who's on cruise control, and who's bucking the motor...
View ArticleFoursquare's Cofounder Is Going Public (With His Personal API)
On Sunday, Naveen Selvadurai woke up at 8:30. He exercised on the West Side Highway running path, and racked up 5,130 Nike Fuel Points over the course of the day. Then he shopped at the CB2 furniture...
View ArticleGoogle Glass: Best Of Both Worlds, At The Same Time, Always
To Luddites, Google Glass looks pretty much like glasses without lenses, but with a screen-thing over one eye that helps you surf the web inside your head. Lens-free glasses are cool because they make...
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