“You try to run your life from your inbox, but it’s mostly things other people want you to do, or read, or reply to, or follow up on,” says Gawley (a surprisingly glum assessment from one of Gmail’s leaders).
Facebook’s Room Service
Drawing on his self-conjured nostalgia for the days of online pioneers, Miller eventually identified three aspects of the earlier Internet and web now in danger of being eclipsed in the age of mobile and apps. The legacy web gatherings were distinct places — when you were on the Well or Metafilter, you felt you were somewhere, the online version of a “third place” after home and work. Also before the mobile movement, things were more customizable — you could tweak the look of your software to your liking Finally, when Internet was just rising, identities were fluid; people could chose a different persona for every activity and website.
.. While Miller talks rhapsodically about the dense prose of early conference rooms like the Well, Rooms seems more geared to the quick-capture, low-attention span of a mobile generation. Most of the examples he showed me were centered around an image or video with just a soupçon of text. In that sense, the rooms one might find in the app are more akin to a group-generated Pinterest collection than a good old fashioned Usenet flame war.
“You can have long text conversations,” Miller says. “But it will tend to be visual stuff, because it’s mobile. For anything you do in the real world, text and photos are the best way to capture things.”
Verizon funds own media site
As the DailyDot pointed out last Tuesday, Verizon not only backs the site, but also sets its coverage agenda. And that agenda, according to an email recruiting reporters for the site, did not include reporting on domestic spying and net neutrality, two of the most vital issues in technology. Those subjects were off the table.
.. Clearly, historical models of funding original content are under duress, and a variety of efforts have emerged to innovate around that new reality: nonprofit news sites, digital news operations with low-cost approaches and yes, brands like Verizon that are also beginning to finance their own media operations.
The Most Popular Passages in Books, According to Kindle Data
Highlights from Pride and Prejudice, The Hunger Games, The Bible—and all of Harry PotterThe most popular from Pride and Prejudice:
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
From The Bible (specifically, the New International Version—the best-selling electronic version on Amazon):
Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.