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…


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…


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…