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Why we removed on-site comments.

January 16, 2012

We’ve thrown this around in our head for some time now, and we finally decided to pull the trigger and disable site comments. There was no particular event that forced us to do this, and we weren’t encumbered by moderation problems like much larger sites are. So why bother nixing comments? Over the past several [...]

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Bye bye, Best Buy.

January 4, 2012

The last several years have shown us the demise of retail giants like Circuit City and CompUSA. In a way, the birth of these big-box retailers was out of necessity: electronics and computers were typically too complicated for the average consumer to research without help from knowledgeable salespeople. On Monday, Larry Downes at Forbes wrote [...]

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RSS is poisonous?

September 7, 2011

RSS is poisonous? On the internet, you can find someone to complain about anything, including the internet and people on the internet who complain about people on the internet. And to be fair, many of those complaints hold water, and while we’re not saying that RSS is a perfect technology, Ars Technica’s Jacqui Cheng pronounced [...]

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Two features to keep Instapaper afloat.

June 29, 2011

Instapaper’s developer, Marco Arment, seems sure that Instapaper has a future despite Apple’s sherlocking of the idea. At WWDS, Apple announced that all future versions of Safari would support a Reading List function in which people could “save” articles to read later, by grabbing the article’s text and presenting it in a streamlined fashion outside [...]

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Really Simple Sindication is not dead.

June 23, 2011

Shawn Blanc wrote a nice piece about RSS and Twitter, and whether the latter is replacing the former. In short, it’s not. Blanc’s end-note is insightful: As you can see, on average, there are about 6 RSS subscribers for every 1 Twitter follower of the site’s dedicated Twitter feed. Moreover, for most of the websites, [...]

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Apple web apps need to stay.

June 8, 2011

With Apple’s iCloud on the horizon, TUAW’s Steven Sande is speculating a death-knell for Mobile Me’s offerings, even though Mobile Me is supposed to transition over to the new iCloud. One of the features Sande thinks will disappear with iCloud is web-based apps: I’d speculate that the web-based versions of Mail, Contacts, and Calendar will [...]

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