“I already swept the floor” said the annoyed woman behind the cash register, yelling over her shoulder to no one in particular. She managed to take my order, and my money, without ever looking at me. It was the 100th transaction recently that occurred at this particular brand of coffee [Keep reading]
During Memorial Day weekend, a Facebook product manager named Mike Hudack published a sarcasm-dripping rant about the state of media, and the failure of new entrants into the marketplace. (“Personally I hoped that we would find a new home for serious journalism in a format that felt Internet-native and natural [Keep reading]
When you see the word “optional” attached to a new Facebook feature, watch out. And when you see that word in the headline of a blog post announcing the feature, you should really watch out. That means Facebook is so worried whatever this new thing is will spook people that [Keep reading]
Use email outside of work, and odds are 1 in 2 that you experienced a lot of stress yesterday. Maybe that’s no surprise, but it’s still more evidence that your smartphone might be killing you. Even worse: It’s killing you softly. People who work outside of work *think* their lives [Keep reading]
It’s easy to make fun of “Facebook makes us sad” research. After all, when we were kids, we didn’t even have Facebook while walking uphill to school both ways. But Facebook is the way we live now; ignore such research at your own peril, and the peril of the folks [Keep reading]
The Facebook status update got the attention of Bryan Rutberg’s friends right away: “BRYAN IS IN URGENT NEED OF HELP!!” Rutberg’s friends soon received emails with frantic pleas for aid. He was stuck in London after a mugging and desperately needed money to get his family home. Rutberg’s daughter, at [Keep reading]
I went laptop shopping this week and became horribly depressed. Not only were the laptops so much more expensive than I was expecting, and if you feel the same, check out this article on the best laptops under $400 to save you some money, but every laptop I came across [Keep reading]
There’s been a lot of yelling about equal pay in the news lately. It’s a discussion I’d rather not wade deeply into, because boiling national labor data down to a single data point is the place where logic goes to die. Everyone knows there’s a long history of pay discrimination [Keep reading]
Something has gone horribly wrong with AOL email, and here’s what you need to know. 1) If you get an email from an AOL.com email address, treat it as toxic – even if it appears to comes from a friend. 2) If you have, or had, and AOL email account, [Keep reading]
In the technology arms race between parents and children, kids have a new weapon: Yik Yak. A simple app for mobile devices, Yik Yak sets up temporary, anonymous chats among users who are near each other, based on GPS location. It’s less than four months old, but already, it’s causing [Keep reading]
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