“Internally the project was code-named Project Acela, a reference to the high-speed train between Boston and Washington. A team led by Albert Cheng, Ms. Sweeney’s executive vice president for digital media, was given a deadline of May 14, the date of the ABC upfront. While Apple devices came first, other phones and tablets will be [...]
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Betaworks describes itself as “a company that builds companies,” but really it’s a start-up incubator and the most interesting media technology company at the moment. Lately, it has scooped up a bevvy of smaller companies. We know they are working on a Google Reader replacement. It bought the much-maligned Digg last year and gave the [...]
Reddit was one of Y Combinator’s first successful start-ups back in 2005. Now, the site, which appropriately bills itself as the front page of the Internet, has become one of, if not, the most influential sites in the world because it’s a community, but also “the crib sheet for weary bloggers who need to hit [...]
A few things I learned from this article on Silicon Valley’s start-up incubator Y Combinator: If you’re 32, don’t even think about trying to head a start-up. Investors are skeptical of any idea from older people, probably because they have the life experience to run their company how they want to and not how the [...]
I’ve been testing a lot of Google Reader replacements ever since Google announced it was sun-setting the application. One thing is clear: Reader was damn good; it’s a shame it didn’t fit in Google’s business plan; and, it will be missed greatly. All of the replacement services I tested suffer from one glaring deficiency — [...]
Paul Miller ends his one-year Internet sabbatical: I guess those first months felt so good because I felt the absence of the pressures of the internet. My freedom felt tangible. But when I stopped seeing my life in the context of “I don’t use the internet,” the offline existence became mundane, and the worst sides [...]
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings wrote an 11-page essay that lays out his vision for the future of streaming video. All Things D’s Peter Kafka has summarized most of his assertions. There are a few big takeaways for me about where Netflix might be heading and where the future of the industry might be as well. [...]
Seems like everyone is coming out with a streaming set-top box these days and now Amazon is throwing their name into the collective hat, according to Bloomberg. It makes sense, I suppose, but only if they do something different than what’s already being offered by the likes of Roku, Apple TV, et al. It’s the [...]
So, Twitter launched a music service that lets users, gulp, find music that’s popular on Twitter and music based on the bands you follow, according to Joanna Stern. To listen to songs from the new app, Twitter has integrated with Rdio, Spotify and iTunes. The caveat is with iTunes, you will only hear a preview [...]
For WIRED magazine’s 20th anniversary, they are reflecting “on this generation of leaders, thinkers, and makers. These people, their companies, and their ideas have shaped the future we live in today.” To that end, they’ve “gathered stories for, by, and about the people who have shaped the planet’s past 20 years—and will continue driving the [...]
