While the Internet’s convulsions in response to the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) reach fever pitch, its sister legislation, which is winding its way through the Senate, has been relatively untouched. That’s a crying shame. Even worse, a company that has either tempered or pulled its support for SOPA is all guns for the...
Daily Archives: December 25, 2011
Why this investor abandoned setting up a startup fund in Chile after just 6 months
“The next Skype, Facebook or MercadoLibre will have to come out of Chile,” the Israeli investor and entrepreneur Arnon Kohavi declared shortly after moving from Silicon Valley to Santiago to create a venture capital fund. Six months later, Kohavi and his fund Yarden VC have moved to Singapore. So what happened? According to Kohavi, it’s...
Gratitude Scales. Take A Few Seconds To Say “I Love You”
Tell someone they’re special, remind them you care, share a memory, say “I love you” — it’s easier than ever. Thanks to mobile devices and social networks, love is becoming more scalable. Tweet or status update how you’re thankful for their friendship. Text, Skype, message, or email how their support has meant the world...
A Few Tips For Developers On How To Get Hired By A Startup
Not everyone is cut out to work for a startup. It involves a lot of hustling, a lot of nail-biting, pizza-eating, sleeping at your desk, tears, failure, confusion, and on and on. And wearing your startup’s t-shirt. All the time. That being said, it can also be extremely rewarding and, with all the cash...
The strangest game on iOS? Check out Pugs Luv Beats
Pugs Luv Beats, created by Lucky Frame, is one of the weirdest iOS games I’ve ever encountered. The game follows the story of a pug that found a ‘Beat’ (physically a beet but spelled ‘Beat’) and gave it some love. This caused the ‘Beat’ to grow, and then eventually, it exploded. Now, these pugs...
Is The Continued Existence Of Involuntarily Single People Proof That Online Dating Is A Failure?
Philip Greenspun At a dinner party last night (officially a “Hanukkah party” but suspiciously held on Christmas Eve), a 26-year-old guy was talking about how effective online dating has become and, in his opinion, is dramatically more acceptable to people than it was just 3-4 years ago. I pointed out that Internet access is...
New smartphone or tablet owner? Here are 3 things you should hold off doing.
Millions of children, adults and people somewhere in-between will have received new gadgets from their friends and loved ones, allowing some to finally enter the digital age and discover the world of mobile computing. As you may have already discovered, technology blogs (including ourselves) are using their collective expertise to mine the hundreds of...
How the Boston Globe Pulled Off HTML5 Responsive Design
On Monday, The Boston Globe released its new premium content mobile initiative dubbed BostonGlobe.com. That is not to be confused with Boston.com, its free flagship website. This unto itself is not all that interesting. Yet, the HTML5 development community is heaping praise on BostonGlobe.com primarily for how the sites renders across varying screen sizes,...
Merry Christmas! Here Are The First 15 Apps You Must Get For Your New Android Phone (GOOG)
Image: Google We wonder which apps these guys are getting for Christmas… See Also: Here Are The Best iPhone And iPad Apps You Missed This Week How Samsung Just Screwed Over About 10 Million Of Its Android Phone Customers 21 Secret Tips And Tricks To Get The Most Out Of Your Brand New Android...
How To Use Anyone’s Face As A Facebook Chat Emoticon
Emoticons no longer have to be anonymous smiley faces representing simple emotions. Facebook Chat now lets you use the profile picture of any user, official Page, or event on the service as an emoticon. That means you can make one out of your best friend, Chuck Norris, Justin Bieber, Barack Obama or anyone else....