ReadWriteBuilders is a series of interviews with developers, designers and other architects of the programmable future. Ustream founder and CEO Brad Hunstable initially created his livestream video platform for a very niche market, and in the seven years since its launch, has seen the online video site explode to momentous...
Editor's Note: This was originally published by our partners at Kill Screen. The day of your mission has finally come. You wake up, brush your teeth, pack your bags, go through security, and board your plane. You touch down at your destination, gather your things, and board a shuttle to the...
This holiday season, would-be freedom fighters in limited markets will have the opportunity to stick it to some vague concept of "The Man." In a move that isn't so much as a Christmas miracle as an excellent opportunity to take advantage of the publicity generated by comedy that received lukewarm reviews...
This year, wearable devices have branched out, extending all over our bodies. Tech companies have put “smarts” everywhere from our heads to our fingers, offering a slew of new uses that hardly seemed imaginable just a few years ago.Tracking your steps or sleep, answering emails, making calls or immersing ourselves...
ROI, customer churn, growth margins—these are all fairly standard metrics to track while you're building your company. But there are so many more numbers to be aware of as you try to build a profitable business.To find out which underrated startup metrics entrepreneurs should be measuring, I asked 10 founders...
To salvage its business, BlackBerry's exciting new strategy is to deliver a modern smartphone … circa 2006. It sounds like a joke, but the company's serious about its upcoming Blackberry Classic Q20, heading to the market in December.CEO John Chen took to his company's blog on Wednesday hoping to appeal to the...
FacebookFacebook complained that the federal Drug Enforcement Agency committed a “serious breach of Facebook’s terms and policies” when it set up a fake Facebook account and impersonated a criminal suspect in order to communicate with other criminals, the company wrote in a letter to the DEA on Friday.See also: The...
Big Data may finally have arrived. Not "arrived" in the sense that everyone is swimming in data lakes and discovering actionable insights and other buzzwords. After all, most companies, including yours, are still baffled by Big Data and how to derive value from it.See also: Oh, Go Jump In A...
The allure of Big Data is that given enough data, human intuition stops mattering and the data takes over. It's a beautiful utopia where, as The Economist's Kenneth Cukier avers, we can "let the data speak" and stop hunting for causation while the data reveals correlations. Sadly, it's complete nonsense.In a...
When it comes to improving diversity in computer science programs at the university level, private liberal arts college Harvey Mudd College is leading the charge.After successful initiatives boosted the number of women in its undergraduate computer science programs, the college is joining with the nonprofit Anita Borg Institute to expand its...
Everyone may be talking about Big Data, but in reality, its actual adoption may be grossly overstated. Big Data certainly appears to be in demand according to jobs data, though other sources suggest that enterprises are still feeling their way.The one thing that isn't a factor of faith-based computing, however,...
The new platform with new opportunities The Russia Tizen App Challenge was launched this year to mainly focus on Apps for the Samsung Z, but unfortunately as this handset hasn't launched, the scope of this challenge has had to change. Now looking at the official T&C's the application target...
Just before LinuxCon Europe in Düsseldorf, Germany this year, Enlightenment Developer Day 2014 is scheduled. Places are limited for the event, so please make sure that you register early. Enlightenment and EFL have an important place in Tizen that will become more apparent over the next couple of months. The...
Anybody can build a game for the Ouya. A $99 console with an Android-based platform, Ouya takes the cheapness and ease of mobile gaming and brings it to the television.Just over a year ago, following an extremely successful Kickstarter that raised more than $9 million in funds, the first Ouya...
The Official release of the Tizen based Samsung Gear S might only be a matter of weeks away now, as we expect an October release date, but that hasn't stopped it going onsale already. The website online retailer Aliexpress, which is a online retail service by the Alibaba Group,...
Some people watch TV in their spare time. Others play basketball. Mitchell Hashimoto, overachiever that he is, started an open-source project.And not just any project. In 2010, Hashimoto used his spare time to turn his college dorm room into Vagrant, a popular developer tool that makes it easy to build complete...
With the rise of the modern developer, traditional IT operations is dead, right? Not even close, says Puppet Labs founder Luke Kanies. And he should know. Puppet is one of the technologies at the heart of the DevOps phenomenon, a merger of traditional IT and app development in which developers take...
Here's another entry for the selfie hall of shame. When photojournalist David Slater got mugged by a camera-hogging monkey in 2011, he couldn't have imagined that three years later, he'd still be fighting a rights dispute over the resulting monkey selfies. Much to his dismay, the pictures wound up in...
If software is eating the world, should it also "eat" your CEO?Given how integral technology has become to modern enterprises, it's hard to imagine an executive charting a safe course for any company without a fundamental appreciation for and understanding of technology. While she needn't be an engineer, she needs...
It's been years since I last saw a Google ad. I know they're supposed to fill the white space to the right of my search results, but for years I've used two different ad-blocking extensions to my browsers: Adblock and Adblock Plus. While both do an excellent job of de-cluttering...
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