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| Choire Sicha / The Awl: |
Twitter Verification? No Thanks
— A few months back, Mike Hayes, who's a senior reporter at BuzzFeed and who also runs the official BuzzFeed Twitter account, sent around an email to the office. Twitter, he reported, was going to be verifying the whole staff at once.
May 9, 2013, 7:35 PM–
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| Clay Shirky / The Awl: |
Your Massively Open Offline College Is Broken
— I wrote a thing last fall about massive open online courses (MOOCs, in the parlance), and the challenge that free or cheap online classes pose to business as usual in higher ed. In that piece, I compared the people running colleges today …
Feb 9, 2013, 12:30 AM–
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| Ken Layne / The Awl: |
Is San Francisco The Brooklyn To Silicon Valley's Unbuilt Manhattan?
— Like many people who moved to San Francisco in the early 1990s, I did it because San Francisco was cheap. It didn't have the lowest rents—in the California of three recessions ago, a Silver Lake bungalow or blocks …
Jan 10, 2013, 1:55 AM–
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| Choire Sicha / The Awl: |
One Nuclear Bomb Will Ruin Your Whole Startup Bubble
— There's plenty of blame to go around! I have been a “quit your job!” evangelist. I have hustled entrepreneurism in magazines; we even run a quit yer job column right here (and there's a good interview coming later today!).
Mar 8, 2011, 12:35 PM–
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| Nick Douglas / The Awl: |
The Rise of Reddit: 4chan and Digg Get the Credit While Reddit Booms
— Of the three main drivers of internet culture—blogs, social networking sites and forums—most people in the media and in the general Internet-using public only understand two. Blogs work in a very obvious way: they're like magazines or newspapers, but light.
Sep 24, 2010, 1:40 PM–
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| Mat Honan / The Awl: |
The First Interview: Meet Josh Simpson, the Man Behind Twitter's @BPGlobalPR
— On May 19, @BPGlobalPR started sending out messages about the Gulf oil spill to Twitter. The parody account took on the persona of an inept and insensitive public relations pro working at BP …
Sep 13, 2010, 12:05 PM–
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| Choire / The Awl: |
‘New York Times’ Bans the Word ‘Tweet’
— Phil Corbett, the latest standards editor at the Times (maybe the greatest job in the world?), has issued a proclamation! Yesterday, the following memo went out, asking writers to abstain from the invented past-tense and other weird iterations of the magical noun-verb “Twitter.”
Jun 10, 2010, 11:40 AM–
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| Choire / The Awl: |
How Much Gizmodo Paid for the Next iPhone: $5K Plus Bonus
— Engadget said that the “finder” (who some are referring to as a “stealer") was charging to see the “lost” new iPhone—pictures of which were published on Gizmodo this morning. Tech blogger John Gruber said the phone was a …
Apr 19, 2010, 5:05 PM–
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| Abe Sauer / The Awl: |
Why Apple Deserves an Oscar Too
— Avatar is in contention for an Oscar because it dominated its field, both technologically and financially. But another cinematic player was even more dominant last year: Apple. In the 44 films in 2009 that topped the box office for at least one weekend …
Mar 5, 2010, 6:00 PM–
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| Choire / The Awl: |
Gawker Media Moves To Uniques: Be “Even More of a Hustler,” Says Nick Denton
— “We all know that some pageviews are worth more than others,” writes Gawker Media honcho Nick Denton today in an internal memo. “Think of an exclusive such as Gawker's embassy hazing pics …
Jan 5, 2010, 4:40 PM–
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This Week on Channel 9 — Mark DeFalco and Dan Fernandez discuss the week's top developer news.
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Cloud Foundry:
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Rackspace Blog:
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).