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so THIS is what's been keeping you awake lately...

Interesting that WhatsApp didn't bother to update anything that much lately but they took their time to censor Telegram. Cool stuff.

Have you even tried Telegram on the Web? It's clearly superior and yes, WhatsApp's solution feels like a nasty hack when compared to it. Also, didn't get that mention to iMessage.

It's a beautiful app with features being added every month or so. It really feels like the people behind this care. I've also managed to move most of my (at least the tech-savvy) friends from Messenger/SMS/WhatsApp to Telegram.

It's so good to see Yahoo! going back to what I've always liked about it: providing developers with good building blocks to create the web (and mobile) of tomorrow.

I could download the image and print it myself, someone is making it easier. They don't even look to the image to see if it is copyrighted, porn or just Lorem Ipsum. I get you point but if they are a "we print anything you send our way" shop, how can they be liable for what I send them? I guess you can only blame the end user...

NPR: Planet Money Roderick on the Line Radiolab NPR: Snap Judgment

Like this? https://www.paperlater.com/

A couple weeks ago I bought aeropressrecipes.com because I wanted to try new Aeropress Recipes and they are scattered all over the web so I thought of building a simple community based website to allow anyone to create their recipes as well as rate the ones they try. Talk about yak shaving: wanted new coffee recipes ended up building a website...

Yup. I rejoiced at that and backed Andy right away. It may not end up being what Upcoming was before but it felt right to back his initiative anyway even if just to condemn Yahoo!s take on it.

Upcoming is just another example: way ahead of its time. Take the number of companies in the events space nowadays. Take the millions of dollars invested or spent in such companies. Lots of meetups happening everyday around the world...

Yahoo! has just let it die instead. It's even hard to argue that Upcoming was off because it was ahead. I can't see why the events on Upcoming wouldn't turn into what meetups are today. All it needed was someone to take care of the product and the community. Gatherings and events have been happening since before Upcoming was created and are now being managed on Meetup, Eventbright, Lanyrd, etc... It isn't the case of these companies creating a new space for them, they just took it from where Upcoming (and others, probably) left.

It's just sad to see Yahoo! in such a bad shape. I was just talking to a friend about the great Yahoo! in the times of Hack Day! and Brickhouse.

They bought some of the hottest startups back in the days (Flickr, Delicious, Upcoming...) only to neglect them, shut them or let them die. These were amongst the first companies that had put the user front and centre, leveraging the fabled user generated content. This was of huge value for any company and they let it slip through their fingers.

Also, at Brickhouse they developed Fire Eagle, one of the first services to work with location, and a great take on it too. A central and independent place where you could post your location to and then you'd grant access to other services choosing the level of detail (e.g. you phone was constantly posting your most accurate location and then Twitter could have access to your current City, Facebook to the Country you're in and Dark Sky could access Lat/Lon).

And, of course, they once owned Geocities.

Then they shut some stuff down, closed Brickhouse and I think they stopped hosting Hack Days. I know correlation does not imply causation but I find it very difficult to dissociate these two situations. How can a technology company thrive if they kill their innovation internal cycle?

Yahoo! seems to once have had one of the best innovation cultures in industry only to see it disappear like this. Everything that has been happening since then (like death by acquisitions) looks like part of the plan or the lack of thereof.

Once I found a nice captcha replacement (can't remember where it was, tho). It worked like this: at the end of the form, there were 6 to 9 playing cards and the text "Click on the seven of spades". This fitted the theme of website which had something to do with poker or magic tricks (can't really remember what it was) but this can be done with a lot of other stuff that is well known by people and not by robots (e.g. 6 photos of animals and the question "Click on the dog", etc.)

so years of work to find the cure for cancer is on a white macbook and the guy didn't backup it? yeah right.

the same day Duke Nukem Forever goes on pre-order on Amazon? too good to be true.