Tag: software

• The Hottest Chat App for Teens Is … Google Docs

  March 16, 2019

  When the kids in Skyler’s school want to tell a friend something in class, they don’t scrawl a note down on a tiny piece of paper and toss it across… more ›

• The Servant Economy

  March 10, 2019

  In March 2009, Uber was born. Over the next few years, the company became not just a disruptive, controversial transportation company, but a model for dozens of venture-funded companies. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/what-happened-uber-x-companies/584236/ more ›

• March 9, 2019

  https://a16z.com/2019/02/05/innovation-inspiration-context-ideas-product-politics-place/ more ›

• Facebook and Telegram Are Hoping to Succeed Where Bitcoin Failed

  March 6, 2019

  SAN FRANCISCO — Some of the world’s biggest internet messaging companies are hoping to succeed where cryptocurrency start-ups have failed by introducing mainstream consumers to the alternative world of digital… more ›

• Amazon Alexa and the Search for the One Perfect Answer

  February 19, 2019

  If you had visited the Cambridge University Library in the late 1990s, you might have observed a skinny young man, his face illuminated by the glow of a laptop screen,… more ›

• What comes after open source?

  February 11, 2019

  This post explores the differences between software tools and services; how the stateful nature of software services led them to be closed; and posits how crypto networks can catalyze a… more ›

• Use the Web instead

  January 3, 2019

  Few things annoy me more than a random website asking me: “do you want to use the app instead?” Of course I don’t want to—that’s why I use your website. There are people… more ›

• The Friendship That Made Google Huge

  December 4, 2018

  The Friendship That Made Google Huge One day in March of 2000, six of Google’s best engineers gathered in a makeshift war room. The company was in the midst of… more ›

• Biology Will Be the Next Great Computing Platform

  May 3, 2018

  Biology Will Be the Next Great Computing Platform » In some ways, Synthego looks like any other Silicon Valley startup. Inside its beige business park facilities, a five-minute drive from… more ›

• Facebook Must Be Accountable to the Public — Data…

  May 14, 2016

  Facebook Must Be Accountable to the Public — Data & Society : Points » If the claims are accurate, Facebook contractors have depressed some conservative news, and their curatorial hand… more ›