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news.me
News.me launched this morning as an iPad app and as an email service. Here is some background on why and how we built News.me: Why News.me? For a while now at bitly and betaworks, we have been thinking...
View Article7 on 7
This weekend (May 14th) 7on7 runs for the second time in NYC – the event brings together artists and technologists – where they conceive and often build a project over the course of a single day....
View ArticleInterview with WSJ’s Allan Murray about the future of Social Media
An interview with the Wall Street Journal @alansmurray discussing the impact of social media.
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News for news.me
Over the past year, News.me has been incubated within bitly. Today, we’re pleased to announce that News.me has officially spun out of bitly into an independent company under betaworks. As I wrote...
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tumblr’s blow out round
tumblr is on a tear. The growth numbers are insane and they have just announced a big, big funding round. Back in May of this year TechCrunch ran a post outlining that tumblr was doing the same...
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findings
Today at betaworks we are launching findings, a platform for sharing and discovering what people are reading. You can see my bookshelf of what I’m reading here – this includes books...
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betaworks 2012 shareholder letter
via Scribd by PandoDaily Related links: That Was Fast: Betaworks Returns All Capital… And Then Some Betaworks rewards its investors and looks to the future of real time networks Letter from Betaworks...
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How Bloomberg does interviews …
I did a live interview last Friday on Bloomberg TV. It was interesting. A conversation about the early stage technology environment, increases in the cycles of change, new things at betaworks and the...
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Sandy and how the technology we build could serve us more effectively
Last week was a rough one here in New York City. People lost their homes, some a lot worse. We were lucky. I live downtown and all that my family and I had to deal with was no electricity for most of...
View Articletapestry: a new way to write
I did a post over on svbtle about tapestry, a new way to write, it includes a collection of new tap stories. More after the jump …
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2013 Shareholder Letter
Its time for the annual betaworks shareholder letter. This is something that I hammer out at the end of each year — its long this year, sorry we didnt have the time to edit it further.
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how we beta-work
The Bloomberg team came over to the office to talk about how we work, at betaworks. Clip here: Who Are the Brains Behind Betaworks?: Video
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power lunch?
I was down at the stock exchange to talk about Dots and betaworks on CNBC’s power lunch. Here is a picture of the setup where they do the interviews — its amazing how few people work today on the...
View ArticlePando fireside chat
This is a long interview. It covers a broad range of topics from early days of betaworks, to why and how the studio model works, to how New York has become a tech center. A fireside chat with Betaworks...
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RSS Community Meetup
Dave Winer posted the idea of a RSS community meet-up this weekend. A good idea, in the middle of a steamy New York summer the world of RSS is rumbling once again. Google’s exit from the reader market...
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What can homescreens tell us about the way people use their phones.
At betaworks we aim to build apps that people love: the essential apps that people use every day and that they obsessively want to have on the homescreen of their devices, one touch away. Yet,...
View ArticleYou gotta read this! / Thoughts about reading and internet media use
Back in May Mike Hudack posted a rant about the state of the news media. The gist of it is: here we are in 2014, the Internet is at scale — the mobile internet is in the pockets 30%+ of adults...
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The betaworks 2015 book
I wrote several essays for the betaworks 2015 book and posted three of them online. Here’s a quick summary and links to the three. A critique of artificial intelligence is the longest one — I went on...
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