"Don’t believe anything you whiteboard. Ever. Only believe what you see customers enjoying." and other bon mots

Looking into the broader implications and motivations of Facebook opening up their Messenger platform.

As much as I loath the term "growth hacking" there are some good ideas here.

When superintelligence is achieved, how will we know when it happens and how soon before it passes us by?

Why hasn't alien life contacted us yet?

open-source tool to create Facebook and Twitter image cards developed by The Times & Sunday Times digital team

Presentation by Mattermark's Samiur Rahman

Because they have the power to rapidly iterate on the shifting sands of digital distribution, they will win.

Jeff Jarvis on the march of technology in the newsroom

Jason Goldman's thoughts on Twitter and Product Management

"If you write a bad post or something you don't like, just post again. If you write something great that you're really proud of and nobody notices, just post again. One foot in front of the other, one word after another, is the only path I've found to an overall body of work that I'm proud of. "

Nice intro to machine learning

How an industrial designer became Apple’s greatest product. Jonathan Ive and the future of Apple

forget everything you know about info design and suggest new types of homepage designs.

We have not “made it.” We’re making it.

36 questions that lead to love. Fun parlor game.

Discussion of the gravitational pull of blogs and arguments for a re-thinking of copyright in the digital age.

A manifesto for our times. A call to arms to take back the internet from the original Cluetrain crew.

Practical applications of the blockchain to real-world problems such as credits, royalties, and ownership.

Problems when Amazon tries to go up-market.

The new thinkgeek.com

New campsite, south of Carmel on the Big Sur Coast.

How Google Maps are annotated.

Jeff Jarvis is chock full of ideas on how Google could help News reinvent itself.

The rise and fall of Marissa Mayer at Yahoo.