Nate Weiner explains why Pocket, the new version of Read It Later, is now free: By being a paid app, Read It Later was charging like the fast food case, even though the value of our product maps much closer to the second and third graphs. Put simply: From a
I announced Basil three weeks ago, and the response has been terrific. People seem to “get it”—a no-nonsense application that makes cooking easier. It’s incredibly gratifying to hear from customers that it’s the recipe app they’ve been looking for and they love cooking with it.
Fascinating look at the job Yellowstone’s bear management team does. Their job is both to protect the grizzly bear population from being wiped out, and to protect humans in the park from attack, too. Here’s an excerpt: Finally they located the source of the delicious smell—a wheeled,
Kenneth Chamberlain, a 68 year-old man in New York, was killed in his home by police after his life-alert pendant was accidentally triggered while he slept during the night and the police were alerted. They reported to his apartment and, despite him yelling that he was okay and
Jonah Lehrer: The constant need for insights has shaped the creative process. In fact, these radical breakthroughs are so valuable that we’ve invented traditions and rituals that increase the probability of an epiphany, making us more likely to hear those remote associations coming from the right hemisphere. Just look
Facebook acquired Instagram today. Mark Zuckerberg explains why: For years, we’ve focused on building the best experience for sharing photos with your friends and family. Now, we’ll be able to work even more closely with the Instagram team to also offer the best experiences for sharing beautiful mobile
Interesting new iOS app called Pop for iOS from Colin McFarland and Patrick Rhone. Here’s the idea: A place to capture and idea as quickly as possible and worry about what to do with it later. I bought it, and for 99¢, there shouldn’t be any hesitation. It
Charlie Kindel thinks Google will abandon the Android brand for “Play”: I predict Google will go so far as to push the Play brand over Android even with developers. They’ve already started this with marketplace submission and you can bet there will be a new, more stringent, app certification
Last week, Marcelo Somers wrote that when designing a product, you should begin with the experience, not the features it has. You should think primarily about what the product’s purpose is—that is, what is the high-level task in someone’s life that it accomplishes. Marcelo calls this
Michael Schechter points out that because SimpleNote now has a URL scheme, users can send selected text from Instapaper to SimpleNote. This is great. I routinely read articles in Instapaper and come up with a specific idea to write about on TightWind based on it—but by the time I
Randall Stross writes for the New York Times about how different schools are introducing computer science courses intended to teach students from unrelated fields “computational thinking”: At Wheaton College in Norton, Mass., Mark D. LeBlanc, a professor of computer science, teaches “Computing for Poets.” The only prerequisite, according to the
John Garnaut in an excellent piece about Wen Jiabao and a long-running schism within China’s Communist party: “In the past I did not have a fully positive view of Wen Jiabao, because he said a lot of things but didn’t deliver,” says a leading media figure with