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 [...]
Twitter is currently experiencing the push and pull of being a platform versus being a business. To be a business, to make money, they have to circle the wagons, reign in the use of its API, and be more like Facebook. Unfortunately, that’s counter to everything that makes Twitter great. It’s going to be fascinating [...]
Last night Nick Offerman, who plays Ron Swanson, was on Conan for the latest edition of his recurring segment where he reads the tweets of various young Hollywood celebutards. Do I have to tell you how hilarious Offerman is deadpanning his way through 140 characters of stupidity? [via flavorwire]
Last Tuesday, Twitter announced it made a few adjustments to its famous bird logo. You can see the changes in the overlapping image below. Red is the old logo, blue is the new: The big change, of course, had nothing to do with the refreshed bird, but rather that the company also announced it was [...]
Devin addresses one of the geek community’s biggest first world problems — that of spoilers. When you’re time-shifting your viewing, the onus is upon you to make sure you’re not getting spoiled. You’re watching the show on your schedule, but you don’t get to make the schedule for the discussion. And When you make the [...]
Point: “The Innovators Patent Agreement (IPA) is a new way to do patent assignment that keeps control in the hands of engineers and designers. It is a commitment from a company to its employees that patents can only be used for defensive purposes. The company will not use the patents in offensive litigation without the [...]
