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FB is 15% above its IPO; LNKD is 2.6x above IPO; TSLA 8.2x above IPO.

Has anyone created a simple, anonymous app (webapp?) to rate your experience going through customs / tsa security? It would: geolocate, allow you to choose airport, entry or exit, and then rate a few parameters of the experience with optional comment.

Would love to see data like this in aggregate.

Looks / feels exceptionally similar to Potluck: https://www.potluck.it/rooms/ee3db6e8

For more, in video form: Put This On [0]

[0] http://vimeo.com/putthison

Pure Andy Kaufman.

The absolute best evocation I've yet found (and most beautifully written) on the feelings of depression is Darkness Visible by William Styron. [0]

What he describes may not be accurate for all instances of depression, but he certainly hits the nail on the head for many.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Darkness-Visible-Madness-William-Styro...

Issues certainly create edges. They also allow for thematic grouping (which is good for editorial guidance).

Mainly though, they limit the number of times a reader is pinged. I'm a big advocate for grouping all notifications, not just 'content' — only notify me if #_notifications > x. Issues can be a kind of inherent frequency limiter.

That said, they're absolutely not necessary and most online publishing (rightly) has no concept of issues.

"However, couldn't you just create artificial edges? For instance, showing the articles for the past 7 days?"

Yes — and I think more apps should allow for this.

Facebook is a great example (IMO, but clearly not in the opinion of many others) of doing just this — taking a near infinite stream of one-offs and grouping them based on your Facebook use frequency / habits. Twitter's (Summify) summary articles are another good implementation of this: what happened in my stream yesterday?

nelsonweiss does a good job up above.

Hello HN —

Super duper tl;dr:

- Christensen's theories of industry disruption fit digital publishing like a glove [1]

- Marco's The Magazine is a pretty good 'subcompact' example [2]

This essay is the written + expanded version of a talk I gave at The Internet Archive (Books in Browsers) last month: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmGwM6hWbMY&feature=youtu...

Watching the video or reading the essay both take about the same amount of time, but the essay has much more information.

You can skip to my UI/UX deconstruction of The Magazine here: http://craigmod.com/journal/subcompact_publishing/#sub_thema...

Or, skip to the 'Subcompact Manifesto' here: http://craigmod.com/journal/subcompact_publishing/#sub_manif...

[1] Innovator's Dilema; Also: this Neiman Report: http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/article/102798/Breakin...

[2] http://the-magazine.org/

1. Awesome to see this funded.

2. Curious to see all the post-funding pile-on. Looks like their subscribers are jumping quite quickly (for a Sunday!) now that funding has been met. Funding validation makes it feel like a safer 'bet' now?

3. Really curious to see if app.net can scale better than Twitter from the start. I'm talking full archives, proper search, robust conversation tracking. If app.net covers these areas sufficiently well, I could see this becoming a go-to feed for journalists / other people for whom proper archives and full-search would be invaluable.

Pedestrians also become hyper aware and responsive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_MphtzCOEc

If you want to become a superb cyclist, three months of riding around Shanghai is an excellent training course.

This issue raised here is nothing new or specific to Twitter. (Not that it makes it any less concerning.)

Here's an article from over a year ago talking about how Facebook does the very same thing with their like button: http://www.geek.com/articles/news/facebook-like-button-track...

"Any time the Like button is displayed, information is zapped back to Facebook’s servers. As long as you’ve been logged into the site in the past month, Facebook happily continues warehousing your whereabouts."

Yes. I find in America if you don't keep filling the space with noise when thinking, you lose the chance to finish your thought.

This was the case until the mid- 2000s (to the point where if you didn't take money out before New Years, you might find yourself penniless for a few days).

Over the last few years 24/7, 365 days/yr ATMs are have become much more common. As have ATMs that accept foreign banking cards. As has a more generalized acceptance of CCs.

Does it natively/properly support Japanese?

Feels like a audio version of Dribbble[1] — a SNS allowing for sharing small snippets of design you're working on. It's gained massive traction in the design community.

[1] http://dribbble.com/

The most reasonable roaming plan I've found is with Japanese carrier Softbank. Last summer they released a ¥1,500/day (~$20) unlimited data plan. While roaming if you use any data, they charge you $20 but you can use as much of it as you want for a 24 hour period.

Slightly tangential but James Bridle's printing of an article's history is an interesting kind of archiving: http://booktwo.org/notebook/wikipedia-historiography/

Just a note: if you do watch this, watch it until the very last second.

The followup (Part 2) is here: http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/webdesign-is-95-typog...

Perhaps the becoming 'totally public' of a place is contingent on the non-intersection of the sociality of some x number of checkins. I.e., if you have a party at you place but everyone who checks in is within 1-2 degrees of your social graph, then Facebook recognizes it's a well known place within a very local user subset. And doesn't make it public.

Also — time could be a simple indicator. If a place (i.e., your house) suddenly has 100 checkins over one day only to have no serious checkin traffic again for weeks, then that wouldn't be a completely public location either.

Absolutely agree. But the goal of this essay was to lay a foundation for designers and writers to start thinking about content, form and context. I tried my hardest to keep it concise while still touching on all fundamental points. Which was tough because this is such a fun topic. The original piece was almost double the current length.

> Yes, iPad will allow to display the formless content into different layouts, but that's hardly impressive...any e-book reader should be able to do that soon.

Sure, however the important point is that this is the first device to do this and be of a form factor we will want to spend intimate reading time with. None of the individual technologies in the iPad are unique, but the combination in this form factor, wrapped in Apple's well-considered OS/interface is. This is most definitely not trivial. I'm sure (and very much hope) that Amazon, et al follow up with similarly great devices. The more competition the better our experience (one hopes) as readers.

lol - thanks, fixed.

But this illustrates, of course, one of the greatest (and most dangerous?) qualities of digital -- trivial updates / iterations.