Category: General Tech

The Old Reader Goes Private⇢

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Elena Bulygina and Dmitry Krasnoukhov:

Accounts will be migrated to the private site automatically. We will whitelist everybody we know personally, along with all active accounts that were registered before March 13, 2013 — those are the people who had consciously signed up for The Old Reader rather than were simply looking for “a Google Reader replacement”. And of course, we will migrate all our awesome supporters and people who donated to keep the project running (if you sent us bitcoins, please get in touch to get identified). Later this week your account will get a distinct indication whether it will be migrated to the private site or not. If you see that message and believe that it’s wrong, or if all your friends are getting migrated and you are left behind — please, drop us a line.

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Droid Does It ... In Twelve Minutes⇢

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Today, Verizon held an event in New York City to unveil a “all-new” series of it’s Motorola-built “Droid” phones.

It was eight minutes long.

Starting at 11:54 AM EST, Verizon’s Vice President of Marketing Jeff Dietel and Rick Osterloh Senior Vice President Product Management at Motorola got on stage to talk about three handsets: the Droid Maxx, Droid Ultra and Droid Mini.

The phones are all closely related, with the Maxx sporting 48 hours of battery life, the Ultra being super thin and the Mini having the same specs as the Ultra, but in a thinner, smaller case.

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On Don Draper and D.B. Cooper⇢

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Lindsey Green on Medium, writing about Mad Men’s Don Draper and D.B. Cooper:

Don Draper has been shedding Don Draper ever since the death of Anna Draper in Season Four brought him to tears over the loss of “the only person who really knew me.” From that point on Don Draper had no more reason to exist, so Dick Whitman went back to trying on other skins: dedicated husband, team player, mentor. As nothing fit, he began to go backwards: back to cheating and being absent at home and heartless at work. When he puts a dead soldier’s dog tags around his neck to get out of a life he can no longer stand, he’s gone as close back to the beginning as we’ve ever seen him in the series.

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Matthew Alexander Announces Need⇢

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My buddy Matt Alexander, teasing his new startup:

In essence, Need is a hybrid between a men’s lifestyle retailer and publication. It’ll be launching in the second-half of 2013 and we’ll have some genuinely amazing people on board. We’re working with both independent creators, writers, photographers, as well as some of the US’ top large-scale brands and creative firms.

Matt’s worked super hard on this project for a long time, and I’m excited to see it launch later this year.

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