For those out of the loop, Facebook just introduced the Timeline at its recent F8 Conference. Besides the obvious changes in aesthetics thanks to the Sofa acquisition, Timeline alters everything from the purpose of the Facebook profile, to the way Facebook is pushing users to rethink their own privacy. TechCrunch recently published an article about Why The...
Image: Flickr/Herkko Hietanen See Also: These Big-Wig Googlers Are No Longer Using Google+ Yelp CEO: Google Is A Monopolist That Screws Us Over, And Here’s How Google’s Eric Schmidt: We’re Not Microsoft Google is preparing to launch a web-based storage service called “Google Drive,” which will ape many of the features of Dropbox, MG...
Image: Flickr/Herkko Hietanen See Also: These Big-Wig Googlers Are No Longer Using Google+ Yelp CEO: Google Is A Monopolist That Screws Us Over, And Here’s How Google’s Eric Schmidt: We’re Not Microsoft Google is preparing to launch a web-based storage service called “Google Drive,” which will ape many of the features of Dropbox, MG...
Image: Flickr/dfarber Fat shirts and sexy smart phone apps All of life has been utterly, profoundly changed thanks to Facebook’s new features, and nothing will ever be the same, and all I can do is sit here and weep at the beauty and magic that Mark Zuckerberg has brought to this world Ann Livermore...
In part III of Chris Dixon’s Founder Stories interview with Eric Ries, the Lean Startup author explains how Toyota’s “lean manufacturing” production model can be applied to startups. Ries tells Dixon one of the phrases Toyota uses on the production line is “stop the line so that the line never stops.” It means “if you want to be able...
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Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Brenden Mulligan, entrepreneur and creator of Onesheet, who is currently traveling around the world meeting startups with his wife and IDEO designer Elle Luna. You can follow him on Twitter here: @bmull. Before coming to Japan, we asked everyone we knew for advice on how to...
Windows 8 on tablets shows off the worst and the best of what Microsoft represents. A slavish amount of attention to backwards compatibility lives right alongside a bold, and most importantly unique, vision for the future of Windows on tablet computers. Honestly, it’s not that difficult to determine why so much of Windows 8...
There’s no denying what an amazing resource Project Gutenberg has been for literature students around the world, boasting over 36,000 titles in its online collection of ebooks. While Project Gutenberg makes it easy to download the ebooks in a variety of formats, a new website, Litfy provides readers with an iPad optimized version of...