SpaceX’s petitioned the FCC, “aiming to offer cheaper phone plans for people with lower incomes through Starlink.” They’re thinking $9.25 per month for broadband and $5.25 for phone service. Move over, AT&T! | learn more
“In the interview [Matt Mullenweg, founder of WordPress] talks about how early in his career he felt like he missed the wave of the Internet revolution.” | learn more
There’s a twitter app called Spoonbill that keeps a log of profile changes in a user’s network. The resulting feed is a window to the evolving way people choose to portray themselves. “How Spoonbill reveals our obsession with identity.” | learn more
The predictive ability we gain from new sensors + cheaper hardware + more data + better algorithms is incredible. And I think we’re just getting started. “A new study from Mount Sinai researchers published in the peer-reviewed “Journal of Medical […]
“While Facebook and Twitter get the scrutiny, Nextdoor is reshaping politics one neighborhood at a time.” | learn more
“We are living in the first iteration of humans on the planet that for the very first time understands, on a biochemical level, what makes us age.” | learn more
Ann Bordetsky on Twitter: “What do you call someone who’s really great at stitching together modular tools like Airtable + Notion + Zap + Slack + …. to build quasi-products? Not a PM. Not a Marketer. Not Ops per se. […]
Heads of state are joining the privacy-focused messaging service. Most recently the presidents of Brazil and Turkey joined 8 other heads of state. Any guesses why?! Telegram founder Pavel Durov (yeah, name buddy!) writes, “We may be witnessing the largest […]
“Thoughts on the podcast industry in 2021: investors are acting as if podcasting is bigger than it really is.” | learn more
Fellow internet old-timers will remember the hot mess of chat apps that existed 20 years ago: AIM, ICQ, etc. Then Trillian came along to offer a unified interface. We’re back to a fragmented chat ecosystem with Slack, FB Messenger, WhatsApp, […]