Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The existence and meaning of the “Bernie Bro” will continue to be contested by a bored and desperate political media, but the Tinder Berners, women who attempted to “take over” Tinder with messages of support for Bernie Sanders are for real—real enough that they’re now being banned from the dating app. But what if a…
“Talk Bernie to me,” shouted no one ever on a dating app, and yet that is happening: a very small army of self-motivated young women are using Tinder, Bumble, and all the other hellish, spiritually depleting find-love-quick programs on your telephone to campaign for Bernie Sanders. What’s it like to be on the receiving end…
Facebook is one of the most downloaded apps on iOS but it has long been cited as a cause of fast-draining iPhone batteries. Last year it was accused of using background tricks to stay active even when it wasn’t being used. Facebook admitted bugs existed, and fixed them, but questions of the app’s impact on…
In corporate America, the most persistent refuge of outright charlatanism is “branding.” The only thing more offensive to honesty than a “rebranding” campaign is a breathless feature story about a rebranding campaign. What do we have in Wired today… ah, it’s a breathless feature story about a rebranding campaign! “The Inside Story of Uber’s Radical…
There’s this app called Wire, which I love. It’s the most beautiful messaging app I’ve ever tried: super-clean backgrounds, a heavy emphasis on user photos and clean design, and a great mix of calling, texting, and weirdly great GIF search. It works across all the platforms I use, and it works well. It’s my ideal…
Microsoft has been experimenting with guessing people’s ages and emotions recently, and now the software maker has created an Android app to show off its machine learning skills. Mimicker Alarm for Android isn’t your regular alarm. While most of us wake up at an intolerable hour to the sounds of wind chimes, some European techno, or…
Sends you a push notification every time the police kill someone in the United States. Archives + Absences | An iPhone App by Josh Begley. Source: Archives + Absences | An iPhone App by Josh Begley
Looking back at Evernote’s fall from grace, it’s clear the problems were already apparent to the company when I sat down to interview then-CEO Phil Libin in August 2013. On the surface, Evernote was on a roll. It had just moved into a new headquarters. It was growing quickly and was valued at $1 billion….
A trendy New Command-line Chat Playground is a Honeypot for Meta Data and Gives Web the. Peach isn’t on the web. Your profile has no❌URL. % proprietary walled garden. Private but not privacy-positive. Free as in not . — This tweet is making the rounds today, so unpacking with obligatory thinkpiece on Medium. Peach New…
Snapchat’s valuation is based on a single flawed assumption I recently was reading a leaked email written by Twitter’s current CFO, at the time representing Snapchat’s investors, to Snapchat’s CEO which dissected Facebook’s recent earnings announcements. It’s clear from the mail that Snapchat’s investors view Facebook as the benchmark when it comes to the size…