nickbilton

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Columnist, The New York Times. Author, book: 'Hatching Twitter.' http://www.nickbilton.com
  1. Path tries, tries and tries again (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

    A look at Path, and Dave Morin, and if the beleaguered startup can rise from the dead, again.

  2. By using social media bots, politicians and others are swaying public opinion about a policy position and political agenda.

  3. The material has the potential to change the electronics industry, and recently researchers have focused on how to produce it commercially.

  4. Many Americans now bring their smartphones into the bedroom, especially to use them as alarm clocks. But that may be a recipe for insomnia, studies show.

  5. A group of senior Apple executives met with directors from the Food and Drug Administration last month to discuss mobile medical applications.

  6. To celebrate the 30 year anniversary or the Mac, Steven Levy released an unseen and raw interview with Steve Jobs.

  7. Disruptions: In a world where we send 67 trillion emails a year, I started 2014 declaring "Email Bankruptcy."

  8. "The Delivery Wars," are coming, where mini robots, jet-powered drones & the pizza delivery guy, are all racing to your frontdoor.

  9. Pitches for new start-ups are often copycats with a slight twist of already successful companies.

  10. Calling from the Clouds (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)

    It may be difficult for passengers on flights to get what many want — access to cellular data — without getting what many don’t want — the occasional Chatty Cathy in 21B.

  11. The return of Valleywag.

  12. The interconnection of Trayvon Martin, Prism & Google Glass in a surveillance society.

  13. The future came crashing down on me this week at the Google I/O developer conference while I stood at a bathroom urinal.

  14. Some people are so rude. Really, who sends an e-mail or text message that just says “Thank you”?

  15. With "hackers," there is a danger in lumping people who have not sought financial gain with armed robbers.

  16. Instagram released an updated version of its privacy policy and terms of service, and they include lengthy stipulations on how photographs uploaded by users may be used by Instagram and its parent company, Facebook.

  17. We don’t need another Web site or service to see pictures of someone’s lunch or their soy latte, or another teenager making a duck face.

  18. Now the United States government is telling the United States government to allow devices on airplanes during takeoff and landing.

  19. If Apple continues on its current trajectory, it might break a barrier on April 9, 2015, that no company has ever touched.

  20. Silicon Valley would like the world to think it doesn't care about money. But these start-ups aren't nonprofit organizations.