What seems increasingly obvious about Twitter’s growth and success is just how unlikely it was — how it seems more like a series of accidents, or like the world somehow wanted… Read more »
Despite the fact that they are in financial distress — or perhaps because of that distress — both the Boston Globe and the Washington Post are experimenting with some interesting new… Read more »
Circa, the mobile app that breaks the news down into bite-sized pieces, has added a new feature to the web version of its content that allows readers to click and “follow”… Read more »
Storify, the social-media curation company started by former journalist Burt Herman, is being acquired by Livefyre, a comment-hosting service that has been expanding rapidly into other aspects of social content for… Read more »
A Facebook initiative to give internet access to people in underdeveloped countries, and a proposal to teach a homeless man to program — two examples of a kind of tone-deaf mindset… Read more »
What Uber calls “surge pricing” makes a lot of sense from a rational, economic point of view — but when it is used during disasters like the floods in Toronto, it… Read more »
Computing pioneer Doug Engelbart — who passed away earlier this week — had a vision of how the technologies he developed could help us to create a better world, not just… Read more »
After months of rumors that speculated the company was the target of an acquisition by either Facebook or Google, social-mapping provider Waze is set to be snapped up by Google and… Read more »
Hyperlocal used to be a popular buzzword in media circles, but NBC says it has shut down one of the pioneers of the genre — data-driven startup EveryBlock — because it… Read more »
Quora has been busy building a question-and-answer community, but co-founder and CEO Adam D’Angelo says he wants to make it much more than just that — and plans to expand the… Read more »