On August 10th of this year we organised our first conference on a tiny island in the Oslo fjord. What started…
In April of 2009 Steve Ballmer announced he would be spending $80 to $100 million on advertising Bing. In the end, the number turned out to be on the high side of that range. In April, Bing’s market share hovered around 8%. By September, it…
If you didn’t notice that the stock markets in the US dropped nearly 4% today (after falling last Thursday and Friday) then you were probably completely off-the-grid and on vacation.
This is my second post in a series on “How to Launch a New Product” when we get down to the nitty gritty on building the product. We have already determined that, yes indeed, there is a market for this and that there are…
People often ask me why I don’t use Facebook or other Social Media. Hell, my…
Lesbians Who Tech arrives in the city where it all started, Berlin. In just a…
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I’ve cracked the code of internet communities.
No, really.
I know what you are thinking — who is this person to claim something as bold as that. Seriously, though, I have the…
Last night I wrote a post about how the fall in the stock market over a 3-day period may affect the venture capital markets. If you’re an entrepreneur or VC who wants somebody…
While I find this an interesting thought experiment, I’m not sure this is realistic for people who have children or work outside a city center. Also, what happens when you need a vechicle for an emergency situations (i.e. going to the hospital) or even daily tasks such as going to the grocery store?
I completely believe that using any car service, or taxi, for that matter, is cheaper than owning/maintaining a car in a large urban area. My family lives in NYC, and have a similar situation — we don’t own a car, and use a combination of taxi, Uber/Lyft, and public transport to get around. The math: Two monthly metro card passes=$2,796/year. On…
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Everyone should do the math. And mostly, they will all be suprised. On average, Americans spend $9000 per year to own and maintain their cars — that’s 18% of their income. You might also note that your non-ownership choice also is facilitated by companies like Zipcar (do you really take an Uber to go to Sonoma, Mendocino or Yosemite?) as well as a great public transit system.
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[I’m an FCA employee, but still I can be honest and transparent in calculating the cost of transportation…]
To be fair in the comparison, you should do ApplesVsApples. Same mileage, that’s the first thing it comes to my mind when reading.
If you are creating a mobile app, you have probably puzzled over how to attract and maintain users’ attention. Getting a mobile app approved in the AppStore is only the first step towards commercial success. You can make your mobile app notable and guarantee…
FOBO — We don’t need another label
Emma Rose, Associate Lecturer and Social Media expert gives her opinion on the Fear of Being Offline syndrome.
This is a possible future in which email does not die.
Why have you not switched to Bing yet? Why didn’t people switch en masse to New Coke?
I was kind of forced to not drive anymore recently and I confess I’m a little surprised how easy it is to go around using public transportation only. I live in Brasília, Brasil, a city known for its car dependency, which I’m finding out now it’s not so true. I’m on my way to selling my car and buying a bike to complete the transition. So far so good.
That is not surprising to me. I do not have a car. I live in Udine (north-east Italy), the city is small and urban public transportation is quite good and when I need to move heavy things or go where public transportation does not arrive, I take a taxi (yes, a taxi, not Uber). I did not do a precise estimation, but I guess I could take the taxi 50–100 times per year and still spending less than owing a car.
It’s great for drivers right now. But in 10–20 years, all those drivers will be out of work when Uber switches to driverless cars. Maybe owners of driverless cars can offer their cars up for Uber to control so Uber doesn’t have to own their own fleet. But it’ll definitely get interesting.
The right to be forgotten has been coming up a lot lately. The driving force seems to be people’s push for a right to not be offended. And there is a law floating around the EU to force this concept into effect. Make no mistake, the US has its own versions of proposals…
I live in downtown San Diego and returned my leased car in April. I decided to use car sharing services for the next year. After taking into account lease payments, gas, insurance, etc., I’m saving about 70% on my car costs so far.
Nope, I rent a car in those cases (as noted in the post!).
The idea of not having a car is liberating. Unfortunately for my job having a car is a must otherwise I would free myself of the car in an instant. Even in the suburbs everything is so easily attainable and public transport just keeps improving that having a car is really just added expense and stress.
I agree with your conclusion but outside of quantifiable numbers, there are some inherent properties a car offers that Uber cannot and vice-versa. There is value in knowing you, as a driver, have a “closet” to store things in whether that be a suitcase coming from the airport to a big dinner or workout clothes and a bike for an evening ride. I also…
Like you, I moved to London from SoCal. Although I did it in the 80s before there was Uber, and even then it was cheaper to rely on taking taxis everywhere than keeping a car in Zone 1. Uber has just made it easier! And I also walk ALOT more than I did in Orange County — so not owning a car is a win/win as I also get exercise rather than sitting in traffic.
Hey, everyone, I waited 1.5 years for my coin. It finally came. I unboxed it live on blab.im, my favorite new livestreaming app.
Yelp launched its ‘platform’ — ability to transact via Yelp — in July 2013 to some fanfare. The argument was that consumers (currently 161M per month across desktop and mobile) were already using Yelp to…
Makes sense to start using Uber. I see a lot of Youtubers use it e.g. FouseTube, despite owning a BMW in LA, he prefers to use Uber simply because he doesn’t want to drive and it is effective.
We want the Blab community to feel as much as part of Blab as possible. Because we’re just starting out, let’s make sure we hear what sort of rules you’d like in place.
Same is also true with normal taxi/bus/underground/train combination. Less worries and is cheaper…
It’s ironic that I just signed into Facebook to comment here, thereby giving Facebook access to the entirety of my personal profile purely for the sake of laziness (One click signup? I’m in!).
There are certainly tradeoffs we make for the sake of convenience when it comes to online privacy. However, I don’t feel the line is…
Good post, however I would argue it all boils down to one thing — good leads understand the power of multiplication — a cohesive team produces more than the sum of its parts.
Great read Stuart, thanks! Will be interesting to see how app colors will change in a few years.
I didn’t say it was controversial…
Yes, you love your Uber…
This just in: An Uber investor thinks Uber is great and because it works well for her specific example, it’s great for probably a lot of people. So go Uber!
Now that’s great insight!
Come on now!
I literally said, multiple times, that there were caveats and that it *wasn’t* an exact science. Just a quick post about my experience!
+1 for disclosure on being an investor in Uber.
That being said, to do a truly fair analysis, you should also look at the mileage costs of Uber’s most prominent competitor, Lyft. Why is this so important? Because of the other factor you didn’t mention — surge pricing. I can’t begin to tell you how many times I’ve counted on…
A free form deliberation on digital currency, its effects on contemporary events and how it relates with all things online…
I added in the last line, just for you. But I think it’s ridculous.
I didn’t own a car for many many years in Chicago and when I first lived in the Bay Area (this was pre-Uber, if Uber had been around I would have been an avid user). It was definitely a big contributing factor to my quality of life — I walked a lot, I took public transit and I saved a ton of cash (which since I was working on startups was important)…
I’ve taken it as something of a mission in life to speak out in opposition to technology’s absorption of contemporary culture, and I’m aware that my relentlessly negative commentary on the subject strikes some people (my wife, for example) as somewhat over the top.
The “cultural fit” qualification is a very subjective standard, no matter how you spin it. Perhaps, more importantly than what question you ask, is to hire people who intentionally work at embracing diversity in their own lives, and have anecdotes to show it. They will then be more inclusive in answering such subjective questions as “Would I hang out with them?” and “Would I actively seek to work with them?”
So you’ve got a project and you’re in the market for mobile app development services, which means it’s time to source vendors.
The process of selecting the right mobile app development company can be tough…
I love this hand-crafted infographic! What a powerful schematic; it’s showing me why I’ve had conflicts in the past, when I thought I wanted one path but was more defined by the other. Would love to see this expanded a bit to show how crossover looks. I imagine it would be like a career Enneagram!
First off, I really enjoyed this piece. I also work in the tech industry. I’m currently a chief executive at a startup based in New York City. I am also a nerd for all-things ‘quantified self’.
The Henry Ford example is great, but you could argue that Henry Ford’s employees on the assembly line knew exactly what they were to…
Being a relatively new user of both websites, I couldn’t help but notice the differences of Buzzfeed’s website and that of Huffington Post’s. For one, the variety of the content of both sites (or should I say that they have almost everything under…
Ive been thinking about starting a kick starter project. These cost estimates are very eye opening. Thanks for the info.
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I have always sought out female programmers, there definitely are not enough. #girlsintechrock
YES! I believe that this is the mindset change so many companies need. A happy well rested body and a happy well rested mind, can achieve more faster and more efficiently what a tired superhuman could in a 75hours workweek!
Moreover, I hope that companies turn away from the rule of having to be present in the offices to be…
Bandwidth is no longer a fancy and expensive requirement for networks. Thanks to competition among bandwidth providers and developments in technology, bandwidth is constantly getting cheaper. As a result, upgrading bandwidth is often the first solution many IT engineers and…
(Margrethe Vestager, European Commissioner for Competition)
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great articale , would love to hear your view on Beme, the new app from Casey Neistat
I think the type of question you are asking, is universally human and should be reflected on by both genders. We all have obligations, interests and lives outside of work, and as a founder you have to ask yourself if you’re willing to commit to the long hours and agony that keep you away from the people and other activities that you love. There’s…
Time flies when you’re on Blab. It’s almost the opposite of going on a road trip when 1 minute feels like hours. Have any Blab moments where you’ve lost…
The vast world of the internet that our children live in — what a place! There’s so much…
Sup app vs stalking
If you haven’t heard of Find My Friends, you won’t be aware of its stalking risks. The app allows you to track a friend’s location at any time, if they accept your invitation. Good for keeping an eye on the kids, creepy for anything else.
I live in Vancouver, British Columbia. I am Argentine by birth. I lived in Mexico for many years. In both countries there is a…
Fact: 329 million people read blogs each month.
329 million every month! Those numbers are crazy and not even comprehensible. Nevertheless, it’s the truth.
Don’t follow your passion, follow your curiosity.
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You are missing the entire point of the opinion piece. What the author is saying is that spending all your time at work not only does not make you more productive, it actually makes you LESS productive.
According to forecasters, tech workers will soon be an even more valuable commodity as Australian companies evolve to embrace more information and communication technology. A recent…
Thanks a lot Catherine! It would be amazing if Athena could be part of it too :) http://athena.exosphe.re/ we’re a community of problem solvers and we want to help empower every single woman to do something big in the world! thanks!
Rapid prototyping, or 3D printing as it is called today was a method to create prototypes in…
This is a list of everything that you think is relevant to your thesis topic. It includes read and unread anythings. It’s everything you need to make you an expert on the topic.
Here’s my setup:
“As writers, we don’t need companies like Medium to tell us how to use the web. Or…
Totally agree. Love the on-demandness of online stream services. BUT… sometimes I get major fomo when I can’t watch live events with the rest of the world. The fomo gets especially bad when everyone is tweeting about the same episode of something. I want to share in the mutual experience.
If you haven’t heard about the new international mega robot battle between the U.S.A. and Japan, you…
I was wondering today whether diligence and hard work can counterbalance IQ and other personality traits. Whether a person can be so committed to the outcome that he or she neutralizes the drawbacks that…
Wow! This is great and totally in line with my thoughts on this that I posted almost in the same time. Please, check it out https://medium.com/adventures-in-consumer-technology/why-having-a-car-is-no-longer-cool-c0e68c1afc22?source=email-16526d248206-1440431737503
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OR… you could do what we did and use EVERY colour! Ha!
That is so true @moskov and on so many levels. It is time we make shift in this trend.
The global stock market took a significant tumble yesterday, amid concerns over China’s “Black Monday,” and the slide hit some of Silicon Valley’s biggest tech companies, including Apple, Google, Twitter, and Facebook.
While the act of running a cost comparison is incredibly valid, and likely interesting, I agree with some others that your points of comparison are wildly askew, mileage being the most obvious. You use different variables in each scenario, rendering any conclusion entirely unfounded.
It’s very common for a very strong argument or certain belief someone to come and suggest the opposite. He gets attention, some more clicks probably and sometimes is right. But, in most of the time and also in this case I don’t think that he is right. I get the point that you shouldn’t limit yourself only in your passion, but that’s the whole point…
Merge your wireless networks to build a simple, unique and seamless communication experience: mCell 5G technology automatically switches…
How can you be an investor in Uber, I thought this is a private company?
Uber all(es) is bicycle
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#Windows95 is officially 20 years old today! Happy birthday #Windows, my how far you’ve come! How is your business website…
Heh, ‘stupidest thing since Quora’ [http://www.quora.com/Whats-Quoras-valuation-2015]
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history of the web and HTML. The web was started in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in Geneva as a way to help outside researchers have a presence at a cornerstone facility of the scientific world. This version of the internet was very different to what it is now and was mainly used for parsing…
Awesome idea. I agree that Twitter needs to put itself out there more and be part of the conversation, but I think it’s very important for them to go about it in a specific way and “do something interesting in media” as you’ve touched upon.
But I think it’s vital they do it after they’ve fully fleshed out a new product, or…
Great article, thanks for sharing.
Awesome! Glad you guys had a great time. See you next year!
哈哈哈，我有點想把臉書那篇轉過來
我之後想寫一篇文章分析理工人的意識形態與次文化
希望不要被公幹 XD
Excellent article, Ryan. Awesome list. Do check out grexit.com, really good for sharing emails (by just adding labels — no need to forward), and for delegating emails to your team-mates. It also lets you write notes on emails.
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Thanks for this perceptive rundown of the runup of quality in podcasts. I would have to agree, having discovering Lapsus Lima’s History of Architecture podcast. I thought I knew Bauhaus, Spengler and Kandinsky, but I am learning about these and related topics at a level far deeper than i ever thought possible in the podcast format. I feel that…
I’m excited to find out what capabilities this has for travelsharing. @gowithmeworld.
it would be amazing if Athena could be part of it too :) http://athena.exosphe.re/ we’re a community of problem solvers and we want to help empower every single woman to do something big in the world! thanks!
This so speaks to my heart. Mile End, I miss you.
Sup app taking over Freshers’ Week
The results are out. The Universities decided. And the student digs are ready. In just a few weeks, 18 year olds across the country will be leaving home and setting off for Uni. As they begin the chase for top degrees, there’s…
