WIRED
Listening to Black Women: The Innovation Tech Can't Crack
3 min · · Tech creators and journalists ignore the insights and experiences of Black women—and fail to see the harm of their "innovations." · Shared by 136, including @timnitGebru@dair-community.social on Mastodon, Dr. Janet D. Stemwedel, PhD 🏳️🌈, Karen McGrane, anildash.com, Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis, Backchannel, Joe Germuska, Joshua Benton, Mathew Ingram, Carolina A. Miranda, Eric Bailey, Dr. Anna Jobin (also on Mastodon), 🌻 Laura Fitton (she/her) 🌻
Fast Company
What I learned from talking to 20 diversity, equity, and inclusion experts
7 min · · Albrey Brown, head of diversity, equity, and inclusion at Airtable, wanted a fresh perspective in his DEI efforts in 2021, so he talked to experts across industries to find out what they’re thinking. · Shared by 110, including Victor Tolosa, Jonathan Hassell, Gabriele, aubrey blanche-sarellano (she/her), Jeanne Meister, Birgit Schefer
VICE
Senate Votes to Allow FBI to Look at Your Web Browsing History Without a Warrant
1 min · · The government just got even more power to spy on your internet habits as millions remain quarantined at home. · Shared by 224, including Mo Ryan, Dr. Alec Couros, Thomas Power, Charles Hoskinson, Sebastien Meunier, Meltem Demirors, Kelsey D. Atherton, now available on Bluesky, DHH, Taylor Pearson, Rob Tiffany, Ser Jeff Garzik, Matthew Green, Danielle Fong 🙋🏻♀️, Erik Voorhees, Steve Faktor, Mic King, Nick Szabo, Paddy Johnson, Marko Saric, Joel Califa
VICE
Instacart Workers Win Historic Union Election
2 min · · After months of upheaval, Instacart employees voted to form the Silicon Valley app's first union in the United States. · Shared by 25, including Bjorn Larsen, Brooks Rainwater, Matthew Turland
Marker by Medium
How a Hot $100 Million Home Design Startup Collapsed Overnight
20+ min · · The untold story of how Homepolish’s extremely Instagrammable house of cards came tumbling down · Shared by 132, including Stephanie A Kowalski, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Matthew Toren, 瑞拿頭, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Jonathan Kogan
The Verge
YouTube is a $15 billion-a-year business, Google reveals for the first time
2 min · · Turns out YouTube is a big moneymaker for Google. · Shared by 157, including Mark Kaigwa, Rasu Shrestha MD MBA, Raphael Raue, Jonathan Kogan, Thomas Power, Matt Navarra, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Desmond Williams
mtlynch.io
My Second Year as a Solo Developer
12+ min · · Two years ago, I quit my developer job at Google to build my own software business. A year later, I posted an update about my finances, happiness, and lessons learned. Today marks the end of my second… · Shared by 123, including Gergely Orosz, Donneker, dunschtig, Matthias Lampe, Matthew Turland
The New York Times
How Each Big Tech Company May Be Targeted by Regulators
8 min · · While Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google have all drawn attention to how they dominate markets, the reasons are as different as the companies. · Shared by 48, including Matthias Lampe, Michael Grupe, Yvette Dubel, Thomas Power, Craig Brown, PhD, Scott Galloway
Entrepreneur
7 Tech Trends to Watch Out for In 2020
4 min · · With innovations developing fast, we predict the sector's most significant coming changes. · Shared by 387, including Raphael Bratschi, Vikram Dutt, Yvette Dubel, LARRY ELKAN, Ines Bieler, Daniel Nova, Johannes Dornisch, Elinor Stutz, Stephan Werner, Real Marsha Wright®, Gabriele, Brandon Uttley, Gerrit Eicker, Katja Evertz, Jonathan Kogan, Leo Blazquez, Johannes Lenz, Aimee Meifeu ✍️⚖️, Thomas Power
Jane Manchun Wong
Facebook hides like counts in experiment, too
2 min · · First look at Facebook’s unreleased experiment to hide like counts following Instagram · Shared by 43, including Chris Messina, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Matt Navarra, Thomas Power, JD Prater
OneZero
The Next Re-bundling Will Be Multi-Media (Video, Music, Games, News)
12+ min · · And tech is beating media to the punch · Shared by 109, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Paolo Sinelli, Luca Like, Thomas Power
TechCrunch
Tile teams up with Google to bring its lost item finding technology to Google Assistant
2 min · · As rumors about Apple’s plans to launch a Tile competitor swirl, Tile today announced it’s teaming up with Google to make it easier for users to locate their lost items using their Android devices and… · Shared by 8, including 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer
Forbes
New Data Breach Has Exposed Millions Of Fingerprint And Facial Recognition Records: Report
3 min · · And now it's happened—actual fingerprints and facial recognition records for millions of people, exposed in a huge data breach. · Shared by 45, including @mainec@fromm.social, Thomas Pleil, Emin Gün Sirer🔺, Jonathan Kogan, Tris Hussey, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Matthias Lampe
a16z
Hidden Networks: Network Effects That Don’t Look Like Network Effects
Summary · 12+ min · · Some network effects (when a network gains more value to its users as more people participate in its platform) don’t show up in the usual metrics. Their hidden nature makes them hard to measure – but they can confer significant long-term competitive advantages. In an insightful article for A16Z.com, D’Arcy Coolican – an Andreessen Horowitz partner and a co-founder of the peer-to-peer lending platform Frank – shines a light on hidden networks, giving useful guidelines for identifying when they’re at work. · Shared by 391, including getAbstract, rudolph regter, Chintan Shah, Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Ricky Yean, Javi Cantón @javicanton@mas.to, Gabriele, Chris Schultz✌️ & ❤️, Claudia Sommer, Bernhard Huessy, Bill Johnston, Niklaus Gerber, Dominik Grolimund, almagentia369, Jonathan Kogan, Yvette Dubel, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Liliane Ferrari ™, kp