The New York Times A Dutch crowdfunded news site has raised $1.3 million and hopes for a digital-native journalism This Week in Review: What Facebook Home will do to mobile, and retiring “illegal immigrant” Jeff Israely: Don’t you call me subsidized — people are paying for news New York Times senior software architect Jacob Harris has a...
TrueCo. TrueCo CEO Michelle Lam Michelle Lam is the CEO of TrueCo., an online-only lingerie company. She believes that many women are wearing bras that are the wrong size and that they don’t get the right sizes because they hate the embarrassing experience of shopping at a store. TrueCo.’s solution to this is an...
Email More Computer Chronicles/YouTube Back in 1995, a public television show called the Computer Chronicles made an episode about an emerging technology: “The Net.” We found the video after venture capitalist MG Siegler embedded it on his blog. It’s pretty insane how far things have come in the last 20 years. Recommended For You...
Good news: It appears that NASA may get the first chunk of money needed to kick off a project to snag an asteroid, put it in orbit around the Moon, and study it. Yes, this is precisely and exactly as cool as it sounds. According to the Christian Science Monitor, President Barack Obama is...
This is the story of Watsi a non-profit that found itself in the care of a startup accelerator called Y Combinator (YC). YC normally works with for-profit companies focused on technology innovation, and has generated successful businesses worth billions of dollars. A startup accelerator backing a non-profit can be compared to the unlikely scenario of a tiger raising a...
Do you know if your compensation is fair? I’d bet that if you don’t, you would love to get ahold of the information required for you to determine if you are over, or under-compensated. It’s useful data to have. Happily, the fine folks over at AngelList have compiled a simply excellent set of data in...
Will Austin be the next city to get a gigabit network? The City of Austin and Google are hosting an event next Tuesday on April 9, and sources in the city suspect it is related to a broadband announcement. As a resident whether or not we are getting Google Fiber is my first and...
The big question following this week’s Facebook Home announcement is whether it is going to move the needle. And when one looks at the numbers, it’s a question of reach. At least in the near term, Facebook Home will not achieve the reach needed to move the needle. Facebook avoided several traps Facebook clearly...
I was so excited by the prospect that my newly built home in Austin, Texas might get Google Fiber’s gigabit service, that I couldn’t sleep last night. I felt like kid the night before Christmas, running over all the possibilities in my head and generally waking my husband up every few minutes to exclaim...
Editor’s note: Tadhg Kelly is a veteran game designer, creator of leading game design blog What Games Are and creative director of Jawfish Games. You can follow him on Twitter here. So let’s be upfront about a couple of things. First, I went to the OUYA party at GDC. Second, I also was invited...