Wired Opinion: The Perpetual, Invisible Window Into Your Gmail Inbox
The other day, I tried out Unroll.me, a clever new service that reads your inbox to let you unsubscribe from mailing lists and other unwanted e-mail flotsam with a single click. As I was about to...
View ArticleCopyright Kings Are Judge, Jury and Executioner on YouTube
Content ID was intended to help copyright holders manage the chaos of YouTube. They'd provide copies of their audio and video for analysis, which would then algorithmically match newly uploaded videos....
View ArticleA Patent Lie: How Yahoo Weaponized My Work
While most of the tech world was partying at South by Southwest in Austin yesterday, Yahoo announced it was filing a lawsuit against Facebook for allegedly infringing on 10 patents from their 1,000+...
View ArticleWaiting for Molydeux: What the Web Could Learn from Indie Games
Over April Fool’s Day weekend, hundreds of independent game developers came together for What Would Molydeux?, a 48-hour gamejam celebrating the tweets of Peter Molydeux – the anonymous doppelgänger of...
View ArticleInstagram’s Buyout: No Bubble to See Here
Instagram’s billion-dollar sale to Facebook raised eyebrows Monday, renewing fears of a new tech bubble. But compared to other major acquisitions since the dot-com bust, turns out it's a pretty sane deal.
View ArticleMemeorandum Colors 2012: Visualizing Bias on Political Blogs
As you’d expect, the universe of political blogs is largely split in two, with conservative and liberal blogs rarely covering the same stories or linking to the same sites. But it can be very...
View ArticleIn a Rigged Game, Twitter’s IPA Lets Developers Rewrite the Rules
Last month, in response to Yahoo’s wrongheaded patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook, I wrote about my experience filing patents at Yahoo. Patents I helped to file, ostensibly only for defensive...
View ArticleFive-Word Speech: ‘The Webbys Are Still Around?’
Over the last decade, the number of categories at the Webbys Awards has gone up, year after year, covering increasingly hyper-niche subject areas. Why? Because their business model hinges on...
View ArticleCriminal Creativity: Untangling Cover Song Licensing on YouTube
We all break laws. Every day, millions of people jaywalk, download music, and drive above the speed limit. Some laws are obscure, others are inconvenient, and others are just fun to break. There are...
View ArticleFeels Bad Man: How Mobile Is Stopping the Lulz
The internet is still spawning memes at an accelerated rate — and they'll never go away. But there are some major shift underway that may fundamentally change the way they’re created.
View ArticleShut Up and Take My Money: Fans Should Hire Artists
As Kickstarter has exploded in popularity, I’ve started to see signs that there are others like me — a movement of fans as producers, commissioning work from their favorite artists instead of waiting...
View ArticleWant iOS 6? No Problem: Buy It Now From a Scofflaw Developer
If you’re a diehard Apple fan who desperately wants to run a buggy alpha version of iOS 6 right now, your only legal option is to shell out the $99 to join the iOS Developer Program. But your illegal...
View ArticleGoogle Kills Its Other Plus, and How to Bring It Back
Call it the tragedy of the alpha users: Google has killed a popular search feature using the + symbol, annoying power users while clearing up a small obstacle to its fast-growing Goolge+ social...
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