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 [...]
“Startups are run by people who do what’s necessary at the time it’s needed. A lot of time that’s unglamorous work. A lot of times that’s not heroic work. Is that heroic? Is that standing on a stage in a black turtleneck, in front of 20,000 people talking about the future of phones? No. But [...]
The spacial structure paradigm of the Internet is quickly being replaced by a time-based lifestream paradigm, according to David Gelernter, a professor of computer science at Yale University. Today’s operating systems and browsers — and search models — become obsolete, because people no longer want to be connected to computers or “sites” (they probably never [...]
Josh Miller, who founded Branch (a service I love, btw), talked with his younger sister to find out what technology young kids are using. The main takeaway is that Instagram is huge, SnapChat is huge, Facebook is a dreaded timesuck with an image problem, Tumblr is seen as a tool used by middle schoolers, Twitter [...]
For what it’s worth: Twitter is slowly rolling out the option for users to download a complete archive of their tweets. As well as an HTML file organized by month, the zip contains the tweets in both JSON and CSV files — complete with all the metadata. I can’t wait to see what Andy Baio [...]
Nick Bilton got the scoop: “In the coming months, Twitter plans to update its mobile applications to introduce filters for photos that will allow people to share altered images on Twitter and bypass Instagram, the popular mobile-centric photo-sharing network, according to people who work at the company but asked not to be named as they [...]
Ostensibly, this Wired profile is about legendary videogame creator Peter Molyneux, who recently left Microsoft to start his own company 22Cans. But, it is also so much more. Molyneux is known for dreaming up big, heady concept games, over-promising while under-delivering, and marching to his own drum beat. He doesn’t play it safe when it [...]
“If you’ve seen a better photo of a cow photo bombing a horse stuck in a gate today I need to know about it.” — Ash Warner, aka @AlsBoy.
The Obvious Corporation, the gang behind Twitter, has soft-launched a new publishing platform called Medium: Medium is designed to allow people to choose the level of contribution they prefer. We know that most people, most of the time, will simply read and view content, which is fine. If they choose, they can click to indicate [...]
Will Leitch takes the sane approach: There’s a good argument to be made that networks and corporations should pay utmost heed to what their diehard customers want, rather than just be blandly generalist. If you make your most loyal customers happy, they’ll stick with you during down periods, providing you a solid customer base. But [...]
