Max Orgeldinger recommended Google Glass apps: everything you can do right now from theverge.com:

For a device that’s so likely to induce ridicule for the mere fact that you’re wearing a computer on your face, Google seems unconcerned with disabusing people of the notion that you’re a self-absorbed nerd who's fading from reality and becoming part of the Borg. There's not much of a "Hey, look what I can do!" feature, it's more like: "Hang on, let me wait for a push notification."

Max Orgeldinger recommended The Next Facebook from medium.com:

Essentially, anyone who went through puberty with Facebook has only known an Internet that is filled with familiar faces

Max Orgeldinger recommended Bitcoin takes an important step toward becoming part of every web browser on the planet from qz.com:

Imagine you’re buying socks or more likely, since this is bitcoin, assault rifles stuffed with heroin. On the checkout webpage, the “buy” button could use the “bitcoin:” link, which would automatically pop open your bitcoin wallet, which might reside in an external application, on another website, or even in your browser itself.

Max Orgeldinger recommended Artificial Intelligence Is The New Uncanny Valley from fastcodesign.com:

In other words, Mori was right about the uncanny valley. He was just wrong about where it might affect us most. We can become habituated to the quasi-human figures in video games. In fact, we already have. But a piece of software that’s simultaneously smarter than us and entirely clueless? Is it infuriating or horrifying? Take your pick.

Max Orgeldinger recommended russell davies from russelldavies.typepad.com:

There is no 'client'. This really messes with agency people's heads. Obviously we're accountable if we screw up, the website falls over, the facts are wrong or the site's unusable. But it's not an agency-type relationship where someone distant and important has to 'approve' everything. This is mostly because our chief responsibility is to our users - they approve our decisions by using or not using the services we offer them.

Max Orgeldinger recommended News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier from guardian.co.uk:

The relationship is inverted. The important stories are non-stories: slow, powerful movements that develop below journalists' radar but have a transforming effect. The more "news factoids" you digest, the less of the big picture you will understand.

Max Orgeldinger recommended Embrace the mess from medium.com:

Managing people is messy. Humans don’t scale.

Max Orgeldinger recommended Facebook Opens The Door To Dislikes, With Emoticons from fastcodesign.com:

In other words, Facebook has found that people really are more likely to share all of their unhappy thoughts when given the formal option, even though, technically, status updates have offered free speech all along.

Max Orgeldinger recommended Why Living in the Present Is a Disorder from wired.com:

For instance, the drone pilots I’ve interacted with have higher levels of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) than pilots who are flying real planes in Afghanistan. Now what’s that about? I think they’re suffering from digiphrenia. All day, they experience themselves in Kabul, flying planes and sometimes killing real people. That’s bad enough in itself. But then they take off their headsets, get in their cars, and drive home to the Nevada suburbs and sit down to dinner with their wives and kids. “How was school today, honey?” They are living two very different lives at the same […]

Max Orgeldinger recommended Lightspeed invests $3 million in Whisper, the "secrets" app with Snapchat-like adoption from pandodaily.com:

Heyward says the app was inspired by his college-aged sister, who complained that her friends’ lives were perfect but hers was not. He realized that she saw perfectly maintained versions of her friends’s lives on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram, and took them for reality. The appearance of a perfect life on social media can be crippling, particularly for a generation raised on it, and the number of scholarly articles connecting Facebook and jealousy suggest the issue is not insignificant. Heyward designed Whisper to let people take down the facade of perfection, anonymously, and […]

Max Orgeldinger recommended I don’t want Twitter 2.0—I want to be disrupted from medium.com:

That’s my gripe with many of these social networks that want to be “the next Twitter” or “the new Facebook.” I don’t want a slightly better version of a conversation I’m already having. I want to find out how to do a new thing, a thing I haven’t even conceived of yet. I want to find a new community of people to talk to—people I don’t even really know are out there, right now.

Max Orgeldinger recommended Horsemeat scandal triggers 15% rise in sales for France's equine butchers from guardian.co.uk:

Munio, 76, has bought horsemeat here twice a week for more than 20 years. But suddenly this week the queue seemed inordinately long. The reason? Proving once again the axiom that there is no such thing as bad publicity, the European scandal of rogue horsemeat in frozen lasagne has sparked a boom in sales of the flesh at France's traditional horse butchers.

Max Orgeldinger recommended How Is The Growing "Capture Everything" Attitude Changing Photography? from popphoto.com:

The death of the "decisive moment" has been on the tongues of writers for years. "F/8 and be there" would be replaced with simply "be there." In a way, it turns photojournalism into even more of an extreme sport. You don't have to worry about using the camera, you just have to be willing to put yourself into increasingly harsh environments to get images of things that would likely otherwise go unrecorded. In fact, some photojos have been using camera phones in conflict zones simply to help them blend in better. This is further along in the evolution.

Max Orgeldinger recommended Backers with Benefits: Why Companies Are Outsourcing to Kickstarter | MIT Technology Review from technologyreview.com:

“Crowdfunding is the ultimate form of consumer research,” says Scott Popma, an intellectual-property lawyer who advises companies about crowdfunding. “You are not just asking people’s opinions—you are getting opinions with their money.”

Max Orgeldinger recommended Relax! You’ll Be More Productive from nytimes.com:

Our own offices are a laboratory for the principles we teach. Renewal is central to how we work. We dedicated space to a “renewal” room in which employees can nap, meditate or relax. We have a spacious lounge where employees hang out together and snack on healthy foods we provide. We encourage workers to take renewal breaks throughout the day, and to leave the office for lunch, which we often do together. We allow people to work from home several days a week, in part so they can avoid debilitating rush-hour commutes. Our workdays end at 6 p.m. and we don’t expect anyone to answer e-mail […]