1. Notes: 158 / 1 month ago  from buzz
   "It looks like a human was involved in choosing what went where,” Marissa told them. “It looks too editorialized. Google products are machine-driven. They’re created by machines. And that is what makes us powerful. That’s what makes our products great."
   - Marissa Mayer addressing Google designers, as quoted in “In The Plex” by Steven Levy (via buzz)
2. Notes: 189 / 1 month ago  from thepersonalnetwork
   Path: Introducing Path 2, the Smart Journal

   thepersonalnetwork:

   Over the last year, you have told us about the ways you’ve been recording and sharing your lives on Path — things like summer road trips and high school graduations, a baby’s first words, and hundreds of sunsets. You also used Path in ways we could have never imagined. You shared screenshots of…

3. Notes: 171 / 3 months ago  from newyorker
   

   newyorker:

   Cartoon of the day.

    
4. 7 months ago 
   

   Ad Targeting Does Not Work

   Why is the internet full of this crap? Who clicks on these? Ever? Why does this exist? Why is it on almost every page on the web?

   Make it stop!

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   • ads
    
5. 8 months ago 
   

   Sunnier today in SF (Taken with instagram)

    
6. 10 months ago 
   

   Seriously: Why do people still insist that internet advertising is an actual business?

    
7. 10 months ago 
   

   Starting out (Taken with Instagram at Spice Table)

    
8. 11 months ago 
   

   The Marina (Taken with Instagram at Ritz Carlton Marina Del Rey)

    
9. 1 year ago 

   Google is not evil just dumb

   Personally, I find Google’s search results to be almost completely useless except for the narrow case of the obvious major commercial who’s domain name I just can’t remember because it’s non-obvious. Everything else is overrun with what I consider spam or overly commercial links. And I don’t think I have ever (maybe once or twice in a decade?) clicked on a sponsored link. Is the whole Google empire built on spam? Who clicks on those links and buys that stuff? Is it the same people buying the viagra from all the email spam? Is the whole internet economy built on the backs of the same few dumb suckers? Really? What am I missing? Or am I just that elitist?

   Anyway, there is also a Google public perception problem. Because I am now not the only one who thinks this. There are others. I like this one. Might makes right | John August

   And of course, Google’s reaction is the classic giant evil megacorp head-in-the-sand it’s the customer’s fault you don’t understand.

   My opinion of course is that this is what happens with big companies (and small). The tone comes from the top. Larry and Sergey think humans don’t matter. Everything can be solved through algorithm. Customers are algorithms. Their opinions don’t matter. The data shows that there is no spam problem. Therefore there is no spam problem. End of story. Now if we could just figure out what that damn Facebook thing is…

10. Notes: 318 / 1 year ago  from flavorpill (originally from laughingsquid)
    

    laughingsquid:

    Re-Rock, Re-Paper, Re-Scissors

     

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