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In 2005, writer David Foster Wallace stood before the graduates of Kenyon College and delivered a memorable and impactful commencement address
The speech, later turned into a book titled This Is Water, has become a classic to many, up there with Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford address. Videogram company The Glossary has revived Wallace’s words with a video visualizing the concepts described by the writer, who died in 2008.
The Glossary describes the speech as “the most simple and elegant…
The Boston Marathon explosions have left many looking for an explanation behind the tragic events that unfolded on Monday. As people scour the web for answers, YouTube has made it easier to stay up-to-date on the latest developments
Hours after the explosions took place, the video-sharing website launched an official YouTube Spotlight page devoted to “Explosions at the Boston Marathon.”
At the time of this writing, the page has 26 videos, with 47 minutes of footage in total. They include
The Boston Marathon explosions have left many looking for an explanation behind the tragic events that unfolded on Monday. As people scour the web for answers, YouTube has made it easier to stay up-to-date on the latest developments
Hours after the explosions took place, the video-sharing website launched an official YouTube Spotlight page devoted to “Explosions at the Boston Marathon.”
At the time of this writing, the page has 26 videos, with 47 minutes of footage in total. They include
Facebook announced on Monday it is rolling out a new feature so users can reply directly to comments left on their pageFinally.
Followings months of testing, the social network aims to make navigating through conversation threads easier with the new Replies feature. This means that, instead of having to leave a response to a friend’s comment way after new ones have been added, you will be able to address each individual comment. Responses will be posted under the original comment too
The…
Just.me, the new project from Keith Teare, co-founder of TechCrunch and partner at incubator Archimedes Labs, has launched in beta as an app for iOS. An Android app is coming soon — due this quarter, according to Teare. We’ve covered just.me before, when Teare previewed it last year at the South by Southwest Startup Accelerator but the startup has generally been in stealth mode. Today the iOS app is landing on the phones of a select few beta testers — ahead of a public release on the App…
Cobook, which has long offered a contact management app alternative to Mac OS X’s default address book, is today finally available on mobile with the debut of its iOS application. Like its desktop counterpart, the new app creates a unified address book by syncing your iPhone contacts with data from social networks including Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
The mobile version also does away with some of the complexity of the previous app, which currently requires users to change various…
The first world might use just a handful of handsets, but the key to Facebook’s growth is emerging markets fragmented across over 7,000 smart and dumb phones. To help it bug test for all these, Facebook keeps an office “library” of mobile devices, product manager Peter Deng revealed. So what’s the team testing now? A version of Messenger for feature phones that doesn’t require a Facebook account.
Until today, all of Facebook’s products required an email address for sign up. But there are…
Addappt, a new startup from Crossloop co-founder and early LinkedIn employee Mrinal Desai, is officially launching today to tackle the surprisingly still cumbersome problem of maintaining an up-to-date address book. Available in the iPhone App Store, where the company has been quietly running a public beta, the app connects your mobile, desktop and iCloud address books, and keeps them current by automatically updating them with new information as it comes in.
For the system to work, however,…
Chalk this one up as crazy-stupid or the future: SoPost, a new UK startup launching today, is on a mission to reinvent the postal address by mapping things like Twitter handles, Facebook names, email addresses and other social IDs to a physical location to make it easier and more convenient for customers to receive deliveries or for users to send stuff to friends.
The problem that it’s setting out to solve – if it is a problem – is that a postal address should no longer be a fixed place, but…
You may be the biggest iPhone and Apple fan in the world. You may be one of the first ones in line when the most minor Apple product comes out. You cried when Steve Jobs died. The Apple store in your local area is your second home.
If this describes you, you know that iPhone has millions of great apps for everything from GPS navigation to your source for Angry Birds. Since you’re all about everything iPhone and you work at a call center, know that you can become a great asset to your…
