March 2012
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What Is This Frame?!: An Apology, & An...
Last weekend, we introduced a new toolbar that was intended to help you and your friends share interesting content more easily. However, in our excitement to get it up and running, we forgot a key step in the process: telling our users about the toolbar itself, which appears whenever you share a link or a photo from Streamified or Start Google Plus. We should have let you know about this in...
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What I Learned: From World Traveling Programmer...
As I sit down to write this it comes as a surprise, even to myself, that it has taken me so long. The truth is, I simply have not had the time. The last 6 months have been a journey of epic proportions, taking me from a shared flat with a French roommate in the sunny Mediterranean, to living out of a car in Ireland, to an office in South America, and finally into San Francisco. During this time, I...
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Clarity of Vision: Reflecting on Leading a Startup
I never quite understood the idea of a “company mission” before. Those trite water-cooler phrases seemed to have so little connection to the real world. They always brought to mind the movie Office Space, where the easy-to-hate faceless corporation Initech is represented by a workplace banner: “is this good for the company?”
In the tech startup world, there seems to be this unspoken code of...
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Changing Newsreading with Streamified
You may have noticed that in the iTunes App Store, we’re listed under the “News” category and not “Social Networking,” like you might expect. After all, our application did have its roots in Zane’s SGPlus browser extension, which integrated Google+ with Facebook and Twitter. So why this categorization?
In today’s increasingly mobile society, the way that we get our news is significantly different...
