It looks like there’s a surprising new player in the journalism game. Viral content aggregator BuzzFeed has just hired Politico senior writer Ben Smith as its new editor-in-chief. When I first read BuzzFeed was looking to undergo a major editorial expansion, I assumed they’d just be taking their animal slideshows …
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The New York tech community is a pretty amazing thing. Newcomers to New York Tech Meetup or General Assembly are shocked at how friendly and helpful everyone is; these places are overrun with enthusiasm, energy and optimism. You wonder, “What are these kids on?” The answer: the ecstasy …
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I can’t remember the last time I looked at Foursquare’s website (it was probably at SXSWi two years ago—and really, who remembers much after 7 pm at South By?) Foursquare is the epitome of a mobile platform, so it’s never seemed strange that they placed their full concentration on the …
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A couple weeks ago, Foursquare released the 4.0.2 version of their app. And since, something has become pretty obvious: Foursquare is moving away from the check-in. And smartly so. The key to Foursquare’s immediate future is Radar, the best new feature in V 4.0.2. Radar uses iOS5’s new notifications system to seamlessly …
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It’s common knowledge that developers are the most sought after commodity in Silicon Valley and New York. While it used to just be Wall Street and the Valley fighting for talent, it’s now a battle royale between Wall Street, Silicon Valley, Silicon Alley (aka New York Tech), and Ad-Tech. The …
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There’s one universal complaint among the press about Occupy Wall Street, and it’s not that their demands are too vague or that the drum circles are annoying. It’s that it’s universally a pain in the ass for the press to get good information and updates about what’s going on. Finally, someone’s trying …
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Last month, I headed with my team to Zurich for One Young World—a sort of Davos for young people—to create a pop-up newsroom and real-time social documentary led by the outstanding young entrepreneurs at the conference. It was a life-changing experience for all of us as we talked …
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Recently, Amazon.com bought exclusive digital rights to over 100 popular DC Comics titles including Batman and Superman. This means that these titles will be available on Amazon’s Kindle, but will not—at least for the duration of this contract, i.e. the foreseeable future—be available on any other e-readers. Barnes & Noble, …
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I wake up every day at 6 AM to start answering emails, and I fight to keep pace with my inbox for the next 19 hours. This isn’t a unique way of living; a lot of us are deal with email overload—hell, just look how many posts Fred Wilson devotes …
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It might seem strange to some that when an influential cultural figure dies, people look to his or her honorary college commencement addresses for inspiration and guidance. When novelist David Foster Wallace sadly took his own life in 2008, one of the first viral memes relating to his death was the text of a commencement …
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