What I saw this week #27: January 6, 2017
Welcome to 2017. Let's get started. ichelle im – Andrew Kim (remember him?) and his wife Michelle JY Park launched something new. Slack Fund's bots – Slack's fund for investing in apps…
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Dan Kimbrough on several trends for 2017
Dan Kimbrough touches on several trends he thinks will continue in 2017 such as this bit on AR/VR: 2017 will see AR & VR make great strides to becoming how we experience…
Independent microblogging
Manton Reece re: Medium's recent announcement that they are laying off 1/3rd of their team: The message is clear. The only web site that you can trust to last and have your…
Faraday Future
Faraday Future (move playhead to 15 minutes in): Held at the Pavilions at World Market Center in Las Vegas, this event showcases our vision for the future of sustainable, connected mobility. Everything…
What I saw this week #26: December 30, 2016
As we end the year I just wanted to say that I hope those of you that are reading and following the links in these posts find them useful. I've been referring…
Brain Pickings on Vera Rubin
Maria Popova, on the always amazing Brain Pickings: That Rubin died without her Nobel Prize is nothing short of a travesty, bespeaking the flawed cultural machinery by which such honors are meted…
Maria Langer on drone safety
Maria Langer, helicopter pilot: As a helicopter pilot, I’ve felt a rather unique threat from the rise of drones (no pun intended). I want to take a moment to explain, mostly because…
The exciting digital marketing landscape
Jack Reager of BlackOut Design, regarding the marketing panel we both took part in: While we all share some similarities in terms of our background and types of organizations we’ve been a…
What I saw this week #25: December 23, 2016
Product Hunt's Best – The best products of 2016 according to Product Hunt. A second industrial revolution – Kevin Kelly makes the case that AI will bring about a second industrial revolution….
Aaron Parecki tackles 100 Days of Indieweb
Aaron Parecki: Inspired by the "100 Day Project", I'm setting out on a goal to accomplish 100 days of visible improvements to my IndieWeb projects. The challenge is to ship something visible…
Angelina Simms on the Philly Burbs WordPress group
Angelina Simms published her experience at WordCamp US this year. Note this bit about the Philly Burbs WordPress group: Too often, we are surrounded by people who act like they are concerned…
Photos app updated on iCloud
Jesse Hollington at iLounge: Apple has debuted a major update to its web-based iCloud Photos app at iCloud.com, presenting a new user interface that more closely resembles the macOS Photos app. Major…
Attending the Inventor’s Guild at TekRidge
Last night in Jessup at TekRidge, I attended the Inventor's Guild – another meet up orchestrated by the folks at TecBridge – to meet inventors from the area. The turnout was very…
A guide for starting a business from Stripe
Patrick McKenzie, writing in the awesome Stripe Atlas Guide: We put together this guide to cover many of the details you’ll need for your business in its first year. New to business?…
Resilient Web Design
Jeremy Keith: Resilient Web Design is a short book. It’s between sixteen and seventeen megawords long. You could read the whole thing in a couple of hours. Or—because the book has seven…
The Future of Cities
I forgot to link to Oscar Boyson's video in this week's What I saw this week post. Sorry about that. So now he gets his very own post. Oscar Boyson on Ev's…
What I saw this week #24: December 16, 2016
It was a busy week. You can catch up on the blog. But here are a few additional things that jumped out at me. New emoji in iOS 10.2 – Some very…
Attending the NEPA.js meetup
On Tuesday I attended the first monthly NEPA.js meetup at the Scranton Enterprise Center. Mark Keith, a JavaScript developer who somewhat recently moved into the area, was the organizer and TecBridge -…
Being on the “Ask the Web Marketing Experts” panel
Yesterday I was privileged to represent Condron & Cosgrove (more on this in January) at the NEPA Defense Transition Partnership panel discussion, through the Scranton Small Business Development Center, called Ask the…
Attending the Philly Burbs WordPress meetup
Do you know the visible signs of a strong community? If you've ever attended a Philly Burbs WordPress meetup then you definitely do. Last night my new coworker Tucker Hottes and I…
People are switching from Macs to Surface
Brian Hall at Microsoft: More people are switching from Macs to Surface than ever before. Our trade-in program for MacBooks was our best ever, and the combination of excitement for the innovation…
How to \”black out\” Facebook’s On This Day feature
Eric Meyer, who has some experience with this feature of Facebook, guides us through blacking out dates that we'd rather not be reminded of: Further, suppose you have a period of your…
Manton Reece on Twitter at 10 years
Manton Reece, like me, recently passed his 10 year anniversary on Twitter. I like this point he makes about how to see Twitter going forward: It used to be impossible to imagine…
Wavy trunk, Promised Land State Park – September 2016
Wavy trunk, Promised Land State Park – September 2016
What I saw this week #23: December 7, 2016
Since this is what-i-saw #23 let's all watch the top 50 plays by Michael Jordan. The Modest Man Income Reports – Ever wonder what it looks like to run a blog for…
E15: Bots, Windows 10 Surface Book review, Twitter Head of Product
Last weekend Danny and I sat down and discussed our current experience with bots, the progress I've made on my still forthcoming Windows 10 and Surface Book review and also Twitter's new…
Money tree leaves – November 2016
Money tree leaves – November 2016
Jason Fried on the Apple Store experience
Jason Fried: But in the last few years, the stores have really turned me off. I don’t like stepping into them. They don’t make me feel welcome — rather they make me feel like…
Lackawanna Lake panorama – October 2016
Lackawanna Lake panorama – October 2016
A visual history of Waking Ideas
Danny shows off a visual history of his personal site. As we change, so too our personal web sites.