Category: General Tech

Pebble Watch Gains Ship Date⇢

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Ken Yeung at TNW:

The Pebble smartwatch has appeared at the 2013 International Consumer Electronic Show. At its first ever press conference today, the company’s CEO Eric Migicovsky announced that Pebble is in mass production and is being shipped to its Kickstarter backers on January 23.

Migicovsky says that it will take 6–8 weeks to get all the initial orders out — a rate of 15,000 pebbles a week.

The watch will have 7 days of battery life, with a Sharp-built display and a custom USB connector for charging.

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On Taxes⇢

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Andrew Carroll:

Subtract your expenses from your revenue. That’s your profit. Pay tax on that.

Now, if you want to pay even less tax, it helps to have someone that can help you. Like me. But, you do not need that. And if you are scared of using someone because you are embarrassed to show up with your shoe box, now you know how to do it like a pro.

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Simplenote’s 2013⇢

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Simplenote:

Our newer Simperium service uses Amazon Web Services (AWS), and is built to be much more resilient to failure. DashNote and ResophNotes are on this new API already. We know that many of you rely on Simplenote to run your lives, so even a few minutes of downtime is a major pain. We’re committed to dealing more gracefully with unexpected failures, bugs, limitations, and communicating better with you when there is a problem.

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The Final Word on Instagram⇢

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MG Siegler:

Look, at the end of the day all you have to think about is this: do you believe the services you’re using are out to exploit you? If so, don’t use them. Sure, a good TOS may be able to protect you from some of that, but hardly from all of it. If a company wants to fuck you, they’re going to figure out a way to fuck you. You shouldn’t be using a service that you think is trying to fuck you.

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Do Real Kickstarters Ship?⇢

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Julianne Pepitone:

CNNMoney contacted the creators of the 50 highest-funded Kickstarter campaigns with estimated delivery dates of November 2012 or earlier to determine their shipping status. We found that only eight of those 50 projects hit their deadline.

Sixteen of the 50 projects haven’t yet shipped. Among the 26 projects that shipped but went out late, the median delay was two months, although some outliers took much longer.

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