“From the open-floor plan to quick turnaround from internal tests to production traffic, Facebook has always been obsessed with moving fast and iterating on ideas.”Pedram Keyani from What it’s like to work at Facebook? So how does a site with over 600 million members and over 300 million daily visitors push updates to its...
Daily Archives: May 28, 2011
THE STATE OF GOOGLE (GOOG)
See Also: Why No One Will Be Using Google Wallet Yet Gmail Tries Social…Again INSIDE GOOGLE: “In The Plex” Author Steven Levy Tells Us Everything We had In The Plex author Steven Levy as a guest on the SAIcast this week – you should listen, and then go buy his book – and I...
How digital music startups are thriving at London’s Silicon Roundabout
The concept of the ‘Silicon Roundabout’, London’s Old Street area that’s home to a multitude of new technology startups, has certainly become widely recognised in recent times, with Government investment now planned for the area and an ever-growing sense of connection with plans for a ‘Tech City’ that will stretch from the area to...
The 12 Worst Train Wreck Meetings Between Startups And VCs You Will Ever Hear
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How to Hire the Right Freelance Web Designer
It’s often considered much easier to hire a design agency over a freelance web designer. They manage the project internally so you don’t have to worry about banal details, and have a deep knowledge of the strengths and weaknesses of each member of their team. They can also be expensive, and at times less...
Blogger Disappeared in China: This Week in Online Tyranny
Burma sees even more surveillance with new civilian president. After promising to “respect the role of the media,” Burma’s new president, Thein Sein, has continued the Burmese junta’s tradition of severe restriction of speech and harassment of journalists, activists and bloggers. New rules tightening restrictions on the already-restricted Internet have come into place, “including...
DryerBro iPhone App Notifies You When Your Laundry’s Done
The folks that brought you It’sthisforthat have created another way to make your life just a little bit easier and funnier. Meet DryerBro, an app that uses an accelerometer to let you know when your laundry’s done. With DryerBro you put your iPhone or iTouch on your laundry machine and it texts you and the...
Look Out, Future: Ubuntu CTO Matt Zimmerman Joins Locker Project & Singly
After seven years as the Chief Technology Officer of the world’s leading Linux distro Ubuntu, Matt Zimmerman announced today that he’s leaving that position to join a technology project we said was “aimed directly at the future of the web” when we wrote first about it earlier this year: open source personal data locker...
Facebook Still Has No iPad App But They’re Building A Desktop Software Team?!
Facebook has no iPad app. It’s ridiculous. Their iPhone app is the most downloaded app in the history of apps. And third-party iPad apps (many of which aim to trick users) constantly dominate the top 10 lists for both free and paid apps. And yet, Facebook doesn’t seem to care at all about the...
91 Years of BoxOffice Magazine Online
Nearly 3,000 issues of the Hollywood trade magazine BoxOffice have been posted online for free. BoxOffice has been publishing movie news since its beginning in 1920 and continues today. The years 1920-1924, 1927 and 1933-1934 are still being digitized, while the rest are already available, according to the magazine, in a section of the...