Earlier this week Facebook drew significant backlash over a feature that uses facial recognition to help users tag their friends in photos shared on the site. The feature isn’t new, but Facebook recently activated it by default for many users, drawing a wave of criticism including a probe from European Union privacy regulators (though...
I hate email. Hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate email. There’s just too much of it. It’s always flowing in. It never stops. And it’s getting worse. As time goes on, even if inbox overload isn’t a problem for you right now, it will be. And I’m increasingly convinced that there is...
First you must understand your target audience. If you’re developing applications forkids you must make the application easy to use and easy to understand. For example,consider eliminating text labels, popup menus, etc.When I started developing “My Little Artist” the hardest task for me was to create thebrush icons. The easiest way was to make...
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. In a refreshingly bitter post at Tech Target, Carl Brooks wrote: “Apple iCloud...
Two executives from media agency Initiative said TV ads will increasingly become performance-based, moving the industry beyond just trying to amass huge audiences. That could throw a huge monkey wrench into the way brands and agencies think about media buying, and could be disruptive to Nielsen’s ratings system. In a phone conversation with Kris...
Two startups aimed at tackling the problem of excessive noise on Twitter are combining forces. Twitter-powered new reader StrawberryJ.am is partnering with tweet-scheduler Buffer to surface the top stories in your social stream each day and tweet them at regular intervals. Think of StrawberryJ.am as an automated curator of stories in your social stream....
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The tech industry’s initial public offering wave is showing no signs of slowing. CafePress filed its S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday. The San Mateo, Calif.-based company is looking to raise up to $80 million in an IPO to be underwritten by J.P. Morgan, Cowen and Company, and Jefferies, according to...
John Borthwick is doing a fireside chat with me next week at our 2WAY Summit. If you aren’t familiar with John, he is the CEO of Betaworks, one of the most fascinating companies focused on building internet-focused startups today. You may not be familiar with Betaworks but you certainly are familiar with some of...
SUBSCRIBE TO THIS PODCAST ON ITUNES HERE It turns out that Apple tucked some cool features in its iOS 5 that mere mortals would have trouble finding. Steve Kovach has been tracking reports from hackers and other tech savvy folk who found that the new system can do FaceTime over 3G, and the possibility...