Category: Link
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Focus on your platform, not someone else’s
Lee Peterson: I’ve been thinking a lot about social media and it’s apparent lack of care for it’s users. To the platform you are a potential revenue maker. Selling you to advertisers and not putting in controls to stop hate and harassment. I’ve been looking to remove myself from it, then it dawned on me.…
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Mobile Games Are Trash and We All Know It
Matt Birchler: I love video games, and I love some mobile games (Alto’s Odyssey, Holedown, Grindstone, Golf on Mars, to name a few), but we all know that those games aren’t what Mobile Games are all about. Mobile games are a shit industry with shit companies making shit games that don’t exist to entertain, they…
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The iPod is now dead
Apple has officially said that the iPod is no more. You can still buy one, but only while supplies last. Since its introduction over 20 years ago, iPod has captivated users all over the world who love the ability to take their music with them on the go. Today, the experience of taking one’s music…
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The Man Behind iBeer
Steve Sheraton went from making a silly video online where he was drinking a beer with his iPhone into a full-fledged app, which then became a breakout star when the App Store launched. There is a great piece from MEL by Quinn Myers about her. Without spoiling it, Myers goes more in-depth about what happens…
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The Loyola Project
I don’t remember where I found this teaser, but as a basketball fan, this documentary went right to the top of my watch list.
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Success and Failure at Pebble
Eric Migicovsky, the former CEO of Pebble, wrote a post recently detailing why the smartwatch company failed. In the days after our Kickstarter campaign, it was easy for me as the CEO to explain what our goal was. Ship the best damn smartwatch that we ourselves wanted to use. Over the years, I tried several…
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Mike Tyson Can’t Sell His Weed Gummies in Colorado
Mike Tyson, who famously bit Evander Holyfield’s ear, is now selling THC edibles in the shape of the mangled ear. The name of those gummies: Mike Bites. The kicker is he can’t sell them in the US weed capital of Colorado due to a 2016 state law that “prohibits marijuana edibles from being shaped like…
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The Good from Comic Sans
David Hoang shared an article from The Cut about the font Comic Sans and it raised my eyebrows to learn how accessible this abhorrent font is. Recently, Instagram added to its Stories an option that looks a lot like Comic Sans, a font design people have long derided. A campaign to ban the font has…
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Sticker Doodle makes messaging fun again
Chad Etzel, who recently went independent, released one of the most fun apps for the iPhone this year. If you like to have stickers in messages but always wanted to make your own you are now able to with a few taps and swipes. You can use your camera, saved photos, or draw your own!…
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A Conversation with Kotaku’s Editor in Chief
Patricia Hernandez, the editor-in-chief of Kotaku, talks with Alanah Pearce about the changes in coverage for Kotaku, online publishing in general, and the state of games media/journalism. A very open and enthralling conversation for anyone interested in online publishing and journalism. For extra credit you can read Patricia’s open letter after taking the EIC position.