Starting our day we have Scobleizer writing again! Today we get an excellent post on spatial computing and what Apple and Tim Cook need to do. Ted Neward writes about the value of failure. In particular, he talks about what you can learn from failing over the years. Janelle Quibuyen gives us a great post… Read More Geek Reading June 1, 2016 #1118
Benedict Evans leads our day with an excellent post about the end of a mobile wave. Basically, we are getting to a mobile saturation point, so growth likely needs to come from someplace other than devices. XKCD gives us some funny with their comic “Message in a Bottle”. As usual, the image hover text is… Read More Geek Reading May 4, 2016 #1098
Leading our day is a report from VentureBeat about Twilio adding Facebook Messenger as a supported platform. This is interesting because Twilio has been focused on SMS/MMS for a long time and adding Messenger could change the pricing and overall dynamics of the service. WordPress released v4.5 “Coleman” of their CMS. As always, it is… Read More Geek Reading April 14, 2016 #1084
I am not sure how I forgot to post it yesterday, but our lead story comes from The Next Web. SpaceX finally lands its rocket on a drone ship! Geeks around the world were going nuts and the various videos of the landing were shared all over. Wordfence continues their analysis of the Panama Papers… Read More Geek Reading April 12, 2016 #1082
A post on Mozilla Hacks leads our day as they announce experimental support in multiple browsers for WebAssembly. This is a big milestone and could have a significant impact on website performance. Google Analytics announces their 360 Suite, a set of analytics applications for premium subscribers. It is good to finally see Google put some… Read More Geek Reading March 16, 2016 #1064
It was a fairly light day yesterday, so there is not a ton of reading for today. First, on Machine Learning Theory they talk about how AlphaGo is not the solution to AI. People involved in the industry have really started to bang this drum considering people think AlphaGo is a much larger step than… Read More Geek Reading March 15, 2016 #1063
Thankfully, yesterday was a slower news day. Today we get to focus on more development related stories. On the Nextflix Tech Blog, they show us how they are caching content around the world. RedHat talks about 10 things to avoid in Docker containers. Martin Fowler starts his part of the discussion on infrastructure as code.… Read More Geek Reading March 3, 2016 #1055
It has been a while, so obviously it is time for another security issue to lead our day. On Motherboard, they talk about a flaw on ebay’s site that can allow someone to steal user’s passwords. It is a fairly simple hack as well, but it does require users to click a specific link so… Read More Geek Reading January 13, 2016
It was a fairly slow news day, but there is still plenty of good reading. On DZone Agile, we can read about the “Recruiter Manifesto”. At Code As Craft, they talk about leveling up your organization with system reviews. If you are not reviewing what you are doing, how are you learning how to improve?… Read More Geek Reading December 23, 2015
Seth Godin leads us off with an excellent post about taking your own progress report. Are you asking yourself the hard questions? On AVC, Fred Wilson talks about watching what users do, not what they say. Granted, this is based on the Twitter favorite changes, but it applies to any startup with users. On the… Read More Geek Reading November 12, 2015
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