1. Elegant UI A great user experience isn’t just about the user interface, but it helps a lot. While I’m not a regular Path user, today I opened it up and browsed for a bit. To like an item on Path, you click a little smiley icon in the top right. If you really,...
Twitter’s controversial move towards enabling the censorsing of tweets has gained the backing of its first international government, after authorities in Thailand publicly endorsed the introduction. ICT permanent secretary Jeerawan Boonperm told the Bangkok Post that the move was a ”welcome development”. The government, which last year contacted Facebook to request the removal of more than...
The top executives in today’s largest corporations not only travel in style, but they have access to an absurd array of perks while they travel, from awards and complimentary products to discounts on just about everything. On the IPO “road show” for his company VarsityBooks (now part of eFollet.com), serial entrepreneur Eric Kuhn remembers...
Pixable, a photo viewing aggregation service, has won praise for the smart way it organizes photos and orders them by relevancy for users. Now, we’re seeing that users are catching on in a big way and have turned the iOS mobile app into a daily addiction. The New York City company told me it...
Over the past few months there have been lots of stories of what many of us would consider to be atrocities when it comes to the people in Apple’s supply chain. With the company sitting on nearly $100 billion in liquid assets, Apple has a prime opportunity to simply do what’s right, but only...
Many people think the main task of a journalist is to write. That’s part of the job, of course, but sourcing and checking stories is probably as important. It has always been the case, but luckily, new tools have made our lives much easier. No need to make ten phone calls to locate the...
A new longitudinal study at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth focusing on the online activities of the Inc. 500 has found a huge drop in the number of companies maintaining corporate blogs over the past year. The UMass researchers, under the direction of Nora Barnes, has been following this group for several years....
Twitter will unveil a series of new tools in the next few months, including sophisticated analytical tools, according to Erica Anderson, Twitter’s manager for news and journalism. Anderson said the analytical tools will better help publishers track the reach of tweets sent through the microblogging service. She made her comments Saturday at Columbia University’s...
Editor’s Note: Richard Fontaine, a Senior Advisor at the Center for a New American Security, is the co-author of Internet Freedom: A Foreign Policy Imperative in the Digital Age. Follow him @rhfontaine. Twitter has taken fire in recent days from activists and bloggers who fear that the company’s new censorship policies will muffle online...
On Friday afternoon it was reported that Facebook planned to file for its IPO on Wednesday, with sources later saying the S-1 could be submitted as early as Monday. Also on Friday, we learned that Morgan Stanley was ‘close’ to securing the lead underwriting role, beating out rival Goldman Sachs. But now, according to...