Saila's Miscellany

Exclamation: Yahoo! Takes Over Times Square

By Jackie Reses, Chief Development Officer

I am so pleased to share that our New York City-based Yahoo! team will soon move into an incredible, four-story space just around the corner from Times Square. It’s thrilling for us – and really an important sign of the new direction of Yahoo! –…

The times, they done changed.

05/20/13

life:

We like his glasses. What about you?

On this day in LIFE — May 17, 1968: The Generation Gap

Those danged twenty-somethings, again

05/17/13

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The name of the game for most publishers is, churn out as much content as possible, at as low a cost as possible, in order to amass huge quantities of ad impressions that are sold at bulk.
Pitchfork’s position is: That’s wrong. It’s an old-fashioned argument that lasting media brands are built by establishing a deep tie with a passionate audience.

Jack Marshall, Pitchfork Opts Out of the Pageview Rat Race

05/17/13

Toronto’s alleged crack-smoking mayor Rob Ford caught on tape! And the NMA World Edition offers what may be the most honest take on it yet!

05/17/13

arts-crafts:

Hayden interviews The National’s Matt Berninger | The Grid TO

05/16/13

Human embryos successfully cloned (sort of)

jkottke:

A group of researchers in Oregon have successfully cloned human embryos. No, really:

The researchers, at Oregon Health and Science University, took skin cells from a baby with a genetic disease and fused them with donated human eggs to create human embryos that were genetically identical to the 8-month-old.

Holy. Shit.

05/16/13

About 12 million Canadian households subscribe to traditional television packages, compared with two million for Netflix. But Netflix is on a different trajectory, doubling its number of subscribers in the past year as it bulks up on content and introduces original shows

—Stev Ladurantaye, Netflix rearms for a Canadian onslaught

05/16/13

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Now’s design, like its usage ambitions, was a culmination of everything that Google had done before. But it evolved in a mature, new direction, so that it looked quite unlike anything else Google had created. […] The primary interface element of Now is what Google calls “cards,” which are modelled after real cards. They present a clean, trim canvas for information—one recalls the discussion of tasteful business-card design in the film “American Psycho.

Matt Buchanan, Google Maps, Google Plus, Cards, and the Evolution of the Company’s Design.

05/16/13

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You can scan the barcode on any product and the free app will trace its ownership all the way to its top corporate parent company, including conglomerates like Koch Industries.
Once you’ve scanned an item, Buycott will show you its corporate family tree on your phone screen. Scan a box of Splenda sweetener, for instance, and you’ll see its parent, McNeil Nutritionals, is a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson

Clare O’Connor, New App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers, Monsanto And More By Scanning Your Shopping Cart

05/15/13

“What happens when developers, project managers, strategists and and designers are all put into a room together with Arduino software, USB cables and Grove kits? We found out, and called it Teehan+Lax Hack Day.”

05/15/13

digg:

Do a Google Image search for Atari Breakout. You wont be disappointed.

05/14/13

How Bing Crosby invented Silicon Valley, bascially

jkottke:

The headline (How Bing Crosby and the Nazis Helped to Create Silicon Valley) glistens with Mashable-grade hyperbole, but watch as Paul Ford deftly and convincingly connects crooner Bing Crosby with a Nazi invention that helped power the invention of Silicon Valley.

05/13/13

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Mobile-centric and mobile-exclusive news consumers are small groups — but growing, [McKinsey’s Michael Lamb] said, and winning products need to be tailored to their news preferences and be marketed effectively.

Rick Edmonds, New research finds 92 percent of time spent on news consumption is still on legacy platforms

05/13/13

fuckyeahtoronto:

Toronto, 1834

05/13/13

The Chronicle-Herald of Halifax, Nova Scotia (my hometown paper!) was proud of its six wins at the Atlantic Journalism Awards this past weekend.
Like any publication that earns praise for its work, the paper celebrated its wins in an article that also listed the other winners.
Unfortunately, the print edition of that story came with a typo.Yes, the paper misspelled its own name in the headline.

—Craig Silverman, Regret the Error (ht @sladurantaye)

The Chronicle-Herald of Halifax, Nova Scotia (my hometown paper!) was proud of its six wins at the Atlantic Journalism Awards this past weekend.

Like any publication that earns praise for its work, the paper celebrated its wins in an article that also listed the other winners.

Unfortunately, the print edition of that story came with a typo.Yes, the paper misspelled its own name in the headline.

—Craig Silverman, Regret the Error (ht @sladurantaye)

05/13/13

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