Archive of stories published by Flicker Fusion

Lessons From Instant Articles

Instead of merely waiting for Facebook to deliver Instant Articles to everyone, it’s worth looking for some insights from last week’s launch.

Foremost, it’s always nice to be reminded that performance matters. Page load time has, of course, always…


Will It Blendle?

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Blendle, the Dutch micropayments + news aggregator, launched their iOS and Android apps. They’re solid — well built, carefully designed, if a little buggy in places (still technically beta). Articles are native and…


Fiddling While Rome Burns

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140 Characters of Hate

Years ago, then-CEO Dick Costolo declared Twitter to be “the free speech wing of the free speech party”. At the time, Twitter was facing pressure…


Slack 2.0

Slack just capped a pretty flawless year by announcing a new platform, an iteration on existing APIs for building bots and integrations. Now, there’s a curated app directory, improved and simplified documentation, a new open source framework, and an $80 million fund aimed at developers to build even more…


Think Differential

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Apple’s Inside Out Platform

Absorbing the news from WWDC this week, I noticed a pattern of how Apple approaches their platforms. And that it seems, well, backwards. Last week…


Errbnb

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The pushback on tech’s encroachment into the real world continues, with Airbnb in the hot seat. They are currently being sued for racial discrimination, to which they’ve responded by claiming that a fraction of their hosts are being…


PGP comes to Facebook

The Committee to Project Journalist notes it is now possible to attach a PGP key to one’s Facebook profile. This is another in a series of steps Facebook has taken recently to secure its networks, from HTTPS at every endpoint to enabling connections via Tor. The PGP feature lets anyone add…


What ‘What is Code’ is is a Masterpiece

Paul Ford’s incredible What is Code is one of those magazine pieces we’re going to remember as a master of the form. Yes, it’s a business magazine talking about how computers work, but like Gay Talese profiling Frank Sinatra, Hunter S. Thompson crashing the…


Small Tools

Talk of the tools of the modern media company invariably leads to technology stacks. These will include reverent nods to Vox Media’s Chorus, Quartz hacking Wordpress beyond the reach of mere mortals, or BuzzFeed’s voodoo for conjuring virality out of the ether. These are great and truly valuable for…

These were the top 10 stories published by Flicker Fusion; you can also dive into yearly archives: 2015, 2016.

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