Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Image: Shutterstock/Techcrunch Expressing love is one of the most difficult and important things you can do as a human being. There is no correct way to tell someone you love them, to truly express how much they mean to you. Messages get lost in translation. Wives and husbands feel taken for granted. Communicating clearly with…
Image: AP Some things are sacred. Some things should only be touched by the meaty, all-knowing fingers of the men who know them best. Some things are just so pure and sacred and special that they’re worth getting all worked up over. Planet of the Apps, Apple’s extremely promising new reality show about apps, is…
The shortage of women in tech is troubling. What’s more troubling is a woman, in tech, trying to keep women out of tech. Sadly, that’s exactly what Gizmodo’s Sophie Kleeman did with her recent piece titled ‘Apple’s Decision to Cast Jessica Alba in Its Reality Show Is an Outrage.’ The piece pines over the admittedly-odd casting…
Pokémon Go may have more people than usual staring down at their smartphone screens, but don’t let that fool you: One of the most fascinating aspects of the Pokémon Go phenomenon has been the way it’s made people more aware than usual of their surroundings because the gyms and pokéstops that make up the augmented…
I’ve been meaning to write about this all week, but the weirdness of Brogan BamBrogan got in the way. A week or so ago, a judge ordered the release of documents that show beyond all reasonable doubt that Uber hired a CIA-linked private investigation firm to investigate the personal and professional life of Portland attorney Andrew…
Data from SimilarWeb shows that Pokemon Go is about to pass Twitter in daily active users on Android — and it hasn’t even launched globally. ‘Pokémon GO’ Is About To Surpass Twitter In Daily Active Users On Android – Forbes. Source: ‘Pokémon GO’ Is About To Surpass Twitter In Daily Active Users On Android –…
Begin: WordPress Article Content As large platforms like Facebook and Apple position themselves as the new go-to places to read news, an independent app that started in Japan has landed a new round of funding to raise its own game. SmartNews — a news aggregation app that works with some 1,500 publications and selects stories for you based on your…
Spotify says Apple is using its App Store approval process as “a weapon.” Apple says that claim is a load of BS. In a letter sent to Spotify general counsel Horacio Gutierrez on Friday, Apple general counsel Bruce Sewell rebutted the streaming music service’s June 26 allegations that Apple is “causing grave harm to Spotify…
Earlier this month, I Sea, a new app which claimed to let users scan satellite images of the Mediterranean Sea looking for refugees in need of rescue, was hailed as a smart convergence of tech and social justice that just might save lives. The app shows users a small section of water embedded with geographic…
The mobile app boom kicked off in July 2008, when Apple introduced the App Store. Now it is over. People are still making plenty of apps, of course. And many people are still downloading them. But the go-go growth days are gone. If you are an independent app developer or publisher, you have probably known…