How To Find Inspiration In The Age Of Information Overload
I recently came across a quote from spoken word poet Phil Kaye's Repetition. In it, he says:My mother taught me this trick, If you repeat something over and over again, it loses it's meaning...Our...
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How An Arcane Coding Method From 1970s Banking Software Could Save The Sanity...
Today's web programmers grapple with problems that people in the early days never had to deal with. They're building complex UIs, juggling a bunch of APIs, and running multiple processes at the same...
View ArticleA Tokyo Startup With Something To Prove
Shopkeepers aren't so unlike us online writers. We do experiments: manipulate our content, headlines, and images to see what draws in readers and keeps you coming back. So do retailers: Put the blue...
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Your Next Smartphone May Be Stuffed With Wax
If an innovation at the University of Michiganworks out, your next–generation smartphone really won't hold a candle to the computing power of the next, next–gen device you own.You may have noticed that...
View ArticleEven The Laziest Developers Should Transition To IPv6 Now
The IPv4 to IPv6 transition is like a fire drill in an office building. There are plans and backup plans and meeting points and check–ins, and during the drill hundreds of people herd down stairs and...
View ArticleHow Startups Should Handle Patent Infringement Lawsuits
It's hard to find anyone in the technology or business community who doesn't believe America's patent system needs serious reform. The phenomenon of "patent trolling"––where mysterious patent holding...
View ArticleThis Machine Shop In A Box Turns Your Desk Into A Factory
3–D printers have been established as the Cool Hobby Toy of the Year, as long as the thing you want to prototype is plastic (or, soon, metal). But that wasn't enough for four hobbyist makers in...
View ArticleWatch This Ultralight, 3–D–Printed Ornithopter Flap Around Like A Dragonfly
We've all heard of consumer drones that use rotors to carry cameras (or pizza) or anything else you can imagine, but this Japanese company ditched whirlybird propellers for the simplest of flight...
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Five Reporters React To Kapture, The Always–On Audio Recording Watch
This is a News Scrum, which is where we all read one of the morning's top stories and add something to it––context, research, related links, data, explanation. Not opinion––although obviously our...
View ArticleHow The UN Uses Crowdsourcing To Get Refugees What They Need
When the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) wanted to help Syrian war victims and the other 10.5 million refugees and 42.5 million forcibly displaced people the agency serves get better access to...
View ArticleDeveloping For iOS 7: The Good, The Bad, The Flat, And The Ugly
In probably just a few short weeks, the biggest change to iOS will be rolling out across iPhones, iPads, and iPods all over the world. Whether or not you're a fan of the new visual design, iOS 7 is...
View ArticleSix Ways to Automate Photo Backup From Phone To Cloud
Take a lot of pictures with your mobile phone? We do, too, and it's not easy backing them all up to a safe place. ICloud's okay for syncing photos across devices, but you can't (freely) save all of...
View Article10 Everyday Objects That Can Be Programmed To Run Code
In the digital world, things are not always what they seem. Even the most ordinary and inanimate objects, everything from street lights to cereal boxes, are being transformed into software platforms...
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Inside The Brilliant, Oddball Engineering Team Behind FunnyOrDie
From left to right: Patrick Starzan, Ken Scott–Hlebek, and Mitch Galbraith (VP of Marketing, VP of Engineering, and GM of Digital Assets respectively) in the Silicon Valley offices of FunnyOrDie.It has...
View ArticleAdvertising Is Dead, And Advertising Killed It
This is a News Scrum, which is where we all read one of the morning's top stories and add something to it––context, research, related links, data, explanation. Not opinion––although obviously our...
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The Top Nine Consumer 3–D Printers For Every Budget
These 3–D printer things sound pretty cool, right? Prototypes printed right on your desktop! All you need is a CAD file (your own or one of thousands from an online database like the Etsy–esque...
View ArticleWhy The Japanese Love Twitter But Not Facebook
Japanese Twitter users are second only to the Dutch in activity on Twitter, and Japanese is the most tweeted language after English.Now this: news that the most tweeted moment in history is not a...
View ArticleThe Brave (And Profitable) New World Of Curation–As–Business
A small music agency from Portland, Oregon, Marmoset, is quickly becoming part of the solution for many independent bands trying to actually make money off their music. The problem many bands are...
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An Anti–NSA Encryption Strategy Every Company Should Understand
The problem with webmail is that it has to exist somewhere. If it's going to be accessible from any device you have to be able to log in. That means that your credentials are being stored on a server....
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This Interactive Infographic Shows The Depth Of The Syrian Resistance
Much of the media is simplistically categorizing the Syrian people into militarized loyalist or rebel camps. As this interactive map, shows, however, the actions and beliefs of Syrians cannot be...
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