Starting May 2, the micro-blogging platform will show ads to its millions of users.
They chose option 1.
Category: General Tech
Groupon Has Trouble With Math
EarthLink, You’re Doing it Wrong
I just replied to someone who is using EarthLink for their email, and got this in return:
You’re doing it wrong, EarthLink. So, so wrong.
Meet Pocket
While I’m not moving away from Instapaper, this looks pretty cool.
A Lack of Interest
Even though the Internet has become a key tool for accessing services, getting an education, finding jobs, getting the news, keeping up with people you know and much more, one in five U.S. adults still does not use the Internet at all, according to a new Pew report.
Why? Mostly they’re just not interested – not in the Web, e-mail, YouTube, Facebook or anything else that happens online.
Field Notes: The National Crop Edition
I always have a Field Notes brand notebook in my pocket, and I’m psyched about the Spring 2012 edition. As a subscriber, I’ll get them in the mail automatically, but I ordered the box set anyways.
Oh, and if you have any of the Raven ones, feel free to mail me one or seven.
Marketplace Airs Video From Foxconn
Marketplace Shanghai Bureau Chief Rob Schmitz is only the second reporter ever to gain access to visit the factory floor at Apple’s Chinese producer Foxconn. In this exclusive video, see highlights from his tour of the assembly line and the Foxconn campus and facilities to see what living and working conditions are like for the hundreds of thousands of workers there.
It’s amazing to me how much of this is done by hand.
Following the Money
Jeffrey Inscho at Static Made:
Developers of the next Instagram: please give users the opportunity to directly support your service by paying for it! Please take our money! Please have a sustainable business plan, or better yet, a platform philosophy!
Some platforms are doing it and it’s working. Look at Pinboard. Look at 500pixels. Look at Instapaper. All thriving with a paying user base. It’s time for us, as empowered users of technology, to start following the money.
Stop Crying About Free Services
If Facebook buying Instagram pissed you off, I have a suggestion. Don’t just stop using Instagram, stop using free social networks and services period. Stop using sites like Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare or Pinterest, because it is a given that they will all inevitably let you down in favor of the bottom line. More often than not, when you actually quit a service, it’s not because they were evil. It’s just because they either became useless or boring. The reality is that you’re not going to stop using services that are useful to you. You’re just going to waste time switching from one company to the next until your latest service inevitably falls short or sells out.
T-Mobile Welcomes Unlocked iPhones
Though T-Mobile remains the only major carrier in the US without an official iPhone in their lineup, now that AT&T is officially unlocking eligible, off-contract iPhones, T-Mobile is welcoming them with open arms — and cheap family plans. T-Mobile already had over 1 million unofficially unlocked iPhones on their network, and now that people can run iPhones without having to worry about jailbreak and software updates, it looks like they expect those numbers to rise.
AT&T Unlocking In-Contract iPhones for Deployed Service Members
On Apps and Money
Instagram customers who feel betrayed: you either pay for a product, or it pays for you. Twitter is going the same way, eventually.
In the world of VC-funded services, this is the cold, hard truth.