Fathom this! In: Media

Overview of Google Search

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:42:22 +0200

A nice history of Google’s search in a six-minute video.

How Does Google Make the Big Bucks?

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:45:50 +0200

How Does Google Make the Big Bucks? An infographic answer by Wired.

Dropbox: The Inside Story Of Tech's Hottest Startup

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:18:22 +0200

Dropbox: The Inside Story Of Tech's Hottest Startup. Forbes' November cover story on Dropbox kicks off with a Steve Jobs story: "Jobs had been tracking a young software developer named Drew Houston, who blasted his way onto Apple’s radar screen when he reverse-engineered Apple’s file system so that his startup’s logo, an unfolding box, appeared elegantly tucked inside. Not even an Apple SWAT team had been able to do that."

The Internet used to be fun, what happened?

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:51:15 +0200

The Internet used to be fun, what happened? Asks Flo Heiss.

The New Yorker: Nick Denton, Gawker Media, and journalism’s future

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:22:17 +0200

The New Yorker: Nick Denton, Gawker Media, and journalism’s future.

The Deleted City

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 10:56:22 +0200

The Deleted City. Geocities as an digital archaeology site.

Lanvin's GSOH, style

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 03:46:16 +0200

I’m loving Lanvin’s fall-winter 2011 video! Humorous and cool.

The evolution of the web

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:17:20 +0200

The evolution of the web. A broad overview of browsers and web technologies.

Techcrunch: Why Groupon is poised for collapse

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:15:21 +0200

Rocky Agrawal has a fascinating (and devastating) four-part write-up on the problems with Groupon (and its competitors).

Why Nokia struggles to innovate

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:48:56 +0200

Nokia’s former head of design Adam Greenfield touches on its troubles innovating.

Nokia’s problem is not, and has never been, that it lacks for creative, thoughtful, talented people, or the resources to turn their ideas into shipping product. It’s that the company is fundamentally, and has always been, organized to trade in commodities. […] Nokia’s engineers were and are brilliant at this. I am so far from an expert on the topic it’s not even funny, but I’d feel comfortable wagering that there is still no organization on the planet more capable at designing the guts of a phone, the various antennae and radios-on-a-chip that allow a handset to communicate with a network. Nor are there many who can compete with Nokia on the ability to optimize a supply chain and bring in a given bill of materials at a given (and generally astonishingly low) cost.

Greenfield illustrates this with an example on NFC:

I was given an NFC phone, and told to tap it against the item I wanted from the vending machine. This is what happened next: the vending machine teeped, and the phone teeped, and six or seven seconds later a notification popped up on its screen. It was an incoming text message, which had been sent by the vending machine at the moment I tapped my phone against it. I had to respond “Y” to this text to complete the transaction. […] It’s not that the NFC-based, phone-to-object interaction didn’t work. Of course it did: it had been engineered perfectly. But what it hadn’t been was designed. Those responsible for imagining the interaction apparently wanted to protect users against the (edge case!) contingency of someone making off with their phones and running up a huge vending-machine tab. They failed to understand that, for low-value transactions like this, at least, the touch gesture is a useful proxy for consent — and that if someone’s got physical possession of my phone, I’m likely to have bigger problems than whether or not they order a few cans of Coke with it.

Perry Price and Flo Heiss on Creativity 50

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:44:25 +0200

Flo and Perry make Creativity’s 50. Well done, fellas!

Youtube's upcoming location-targeted gigs

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Wed, 11 May 2011 15:46:38 +0200

Last week I noticed an interesting feature in Youtube. Just above the link to purchase the video’s soundtrack song was a link to an upcoming gig by the song’s artist, Sublime. Imagine my surprise to see that Sublime was playing at the Barbican Centre — I thought they’d split up years ago. Clicking through, it turns out the match wasn’t entirely correct (the gig’s for Sublime Frequencies Djs), but it’s still very interesting to see Youtube pulling in location-targeted gig data automatically from Songkick.

5 questions for SXSW 2011

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:11:01 +0200

5 questions for SXSW 2011. By the always entertaining while informing Maria Popova.

@JayRosen_NYU on his Twitter strategy

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:16:45 +0200

@JayRosen_NYU on his Twitter strategy.

Rolling Stone: The American Wikileaks Hacker

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:55:56 +0200

Rolling Stone: The American Wikileaks Hacker.

Coke, Hookers, Hospital, Repeat

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:14:16 +0200

Coke, Hookers, Hospital, Repeat. Amy Wallace interviews Charlie Sheen for GQ.

Seth Godin on his first free ebook

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:06:28 +0200

Seth Godin on his first free ebook. "The industry is dead."

NY Times: Inside Sarah Palin’s Inner Circle

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 13:27:26 +0200

NY Times: Inside Sarah Palin’s Inner Circle.

Dare among top 100 most innovative companies

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:24:43 +0200

Dare is #86 on Fast Company’s 100 most innovative companies list of 2011! (You’ll have to take my word for it, though, as only the top 50 are available online.)

Guardian: Bankers fail to censor thesis exposing loophole in bank card security

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 12:13:14 +0200

Guardian: Bankers fail to censor thesis exposing loophole in bank card security.

The Daily Beast: How to crack the New York Times Most-Emailed list

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:41:52 +0200

The Daily Beast: How to crack the New York Times Most-Emailed list.

Study finds Fox News watchers most likely to believe nonsense

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 16:18:59 +0200

AOLNews SurgeDesk: “A newly released study out of the University of Maryland concludes that viewers of the Fox News Channel were ‘significantly more likely’ to believe a host of factually incorrect information than viewers who watched other television news organizations.” A more comprehensive look at the study from NY Times’s Media Decoder.

Pet Books from the 70s

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:27:45 +0200

NSFW. The titles are surprisingly bad and hilarious — if a bit disturbing. One obvious one: “Of Course She Loves a Horse”. Just goes to show that this stuff has been around way before the Net.

The Joydick

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:22:56 +0200

The Joydick. By SF Media Labs.

Sex in Games: Rez+Vibrator

noemail@noemail.org (Ilya) — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:22:13 +0200

Sex in Games: Rez+Vibrator. By Gamegirladvance.