March 2013
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February 2013
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December 2012
3 posts
100 days with the new digg
rethinkdigg:
It has now been over 100 days since we launched the new Digg. In the last couple of months, we launched an iPad app, redesigned the iPhone app, nearly doubled the number of stories on the homepage, and upgraded many of the features we had to skimp on during the six week sprint (Twitter login, for example). We doubled our monthly active users from June (the last full month of Old...
April 2012
1 post
News.me: Introducing Paper Boy: Automatically... →
newsme:
I’ll think we’ve all been there: you get into a subway car, and just as the doors are closing, you realize that you’ve forgotten to take your phone out, pull to refresh, and wait 10 seconds to download the latest news articles to read offline. You curse under your breath and switch back to Angry…
Now you don’t have dig for your phone and try to hastily refresh as youre...
January 2012
1 post
December 2011
5 posts
Looks interesting - LinkedIn open sources IndexTank’s real-time full-text search/indexing system http://t.co/cqA87x8j via @peteskomoroch
wondering what @mike_white @OliverStrand @mattbuchanan think about this espresso machine: http://t.co/6kcOf4wj
nice. RT @marshallk: Easy-to-Use Mashup Tool IFTTT Gets Betaworks Backing http://t.co/sIVCEy6G
RT @newsdotme: We talked to @anildash about the future of news consumption — “trading gatekeepers” from TV to the Social Web http://t.co …
Great post from the Instagram guys on their technology stack: http://t.co/6UpoJd3G
November 2011
13 posts
RT @tolar: keep track of what fuels team @newsdotme at http://t.co/aWxkmFcM
RT @AntDeRosa: I talked to @NewsDotMe about how I get my news. I had to follow @robinsloan and @khoi, which is no small task. http://t.c …
wow - huge congrats to @zimbalist and the nytimes r+d crew @nytlabs for making Time’s 50 Best Inventions list this year.
i’m a big fan of Kati London (@picklesnumber1)…nice NYTimes article on her Sunday routine: http://t.co/NtI15416
another great Stanford course online next semester - HCI with Scott Klemmer: http://t.co/q90iCPeN via @ungrok + @mikedewar
News.me: Editor's Picks — Nov. 18, 2011 →
newsme:
Here are some conversation starters for this weekend, curated by us from around the web. Enjoy!
“Obama’s Flunking Economy: The Real Cause,” by Ezra Klein. What happened to the promise of Barack Obama’s presidency? Ezra Klein investigates. New York Review of Books. Nov. 24, 2011.
“The End…
RT @fionaspruill: Nice piece by @kseelye about Oregon using iPads to allow people with disabilities to vote. http://t.co/uDjDqYtq
we’re doing a series on how people consume the news/what they read. today we interviewed @khoi: http://t.co/1gA7ddMc
News.me: Getting the News — Khoi Vinh →
newsme:
(This post is the second in News.me’s ongoing series, “Getting the News.” In our efforts to understand everything about social news, we’re reaching out to writers and thinkers we like to ask them how they get their daily news. Read the first post here. See all of the posts here.)
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http://t.co/9qXWAt5u from @aaronkoblin and crew.
News.me: Getting the News — Robin Sloan →
newsme:
Welcome to News.me’s ongoing series, “Getting the News.”
In our efforts to understand everything about social news, we’re reaching out to writers and thinkers we like to ask them how they get their daily news. (Read the first post here. See all of the posts here.) This week, our…
RT @nytjim: Martin Nisenholtz, who guided @nytimes digital strategy since virtually before there was digital, is retiring. http://t.co/P …
welcoming @jonnyheadphones to the News.me team today….and we’re looking for #7: http://t.co/i8bzDX5o
October 2011
13 posts
News.me: Looking for #7 →
newsme:
News.me is only a few months old as a standalone company. When we spun out of bitly in September and started building out the team, we had some hard decisions to make around hiring philosophy. We looked around at products that we admire - from startups like Instagram and Foursquare all the…
RT @jvanslem: Visualizing the news with @hmason @ Betaworks http://t.co/DxZCZQG9
that’d be amazing. maybe @nickbilton can convince him. RT @jrlevine: I wish Bill Cunningham used instagram.
Nice list @Borthwick: What im reading right now: http://t.co/avs5Gbls
RT @mathewi: for those who are asking, instead of Google Reader I use Twitter, Flipboard, News.me, Techmeme, Hacker News, etc.
the new Real Estate album is easy + sleazy
RT @Weegee: Exclusive clip from Portlandia season two http://t.co/uOjBEDsR via @thatbilloakley
sad to hear. have one of his books from the ’80s on my desk… RT @newsycombinator: Rob Pike: Dennis Ritchie has died http://t.co/MFHeisiW
i am hammering on the fedex tracking site right now. waiting for it to tell me “hey jones, you’ll get your f-ing phone tomorrow!”
Marina Abramović’s loft in soho, built by my bro-in-law @abarlis, is for sale. $3.5M. nice pictures on curbed: http://t.co/y56N6srT
At Taliesin West with Kinsey http://t.co/gzLis4oV
September 2011
7 posts
Nice one from @bittman: Is Junk Food Really Cheaper?: http://t.co/NgDxe505
went to Urbanized screening with @kimnaci…nerding out about urban planning
RT @jrlevine: A nutty week at News.me - we’re officially official, and it feels great: http://t.co/LJQprxNL
we made the app free…and we’re busy working on version 2: RT @Borthwick: News about news.me http://t.co/pPka0t8
I’m going to throw it out there that news.me + betaworks has the best coffee of any tech startup http://t.co/a32SWHq
about to wipe 70gigs of data from redis across two machines. nothing could go wrong, right?
August 2011
15 posts
when i read about sites seeing big traffic from StumbleUpon (like @fredwilson http://t.co/Sl4FKGd) i have to ask: who uses it? seriously
the tail end of Irene passing over brooklyn http://t.co/ytwclBe
closed down Brooklyn Inn and now settling in to ride this thing out 30 floors up