It just kinda rolls off the tongue. Content and commerce. Suddenly every website with creative descriptions of its merchandize is doing "content" and every blog that links to Amazon is doing "commerce." It's a very on-trend strategy. That might explain the packed house at Contently and Outbrain's…

You don’t need James Bond gadgets and gizmos to make your life better. Here are 14 clever life hacks that I’ve discovered. They’ll save you money and time while impressing anyone that witnesses your ingenuity. Age Wine 5 Years With a Blender If you don’t want to spend a fortune on aged wine, simply…

One Year After Quitting My Job (Income, Travel, and More) http://t.co/mIcr7N2P

“Sophia, Daniel,” I yelled across the apartment at my seven-year-old and five-year-old who were playing together in their bedroom. “The school bus arrives in 10 minutes. Let’s see who can brush their teeth and get to the door first.” They dashed towards the bathroom, giggling. Two minutes later,…

"Sustained #innovation is a journey, not a destination." http://t.co/Iv3wBow1 @faisal_hoque via @FastCompany #lessons2013

The secret weapon to bringing change to your life: Simple Triggers & Routines http://t.co/InH92ZQm

On November 20th, HP announced a write down of $8.8 billion of Autonomy, which it had acquired for about $10 billion only 15 months earlier. In effect, HP admitted that 87% of this huge investment was vacuous and wasted. In its announcement, HP blamed the error on deceptive and improper valuation by…

Fascinating story. "The Mystery of Mandela's Arrest" - http://t.co/mS22I5EJ /via @arbitraryuser

Two years ago this week, I started working at 37signals. I couldn’t make a web app to find my way out of a paper bag. When I started working here, my technical skills were in tools like Excel, R, and Matlab, and I could muddle my way through SQL queries. I had the basic technical skills that are…

New York Magazine just recently listed its top 10 albums for the year. I only had heard one of them; in fact, I’d only heard of one of them. The album is called good kid m.A.A.d city, a Short Film by Kendrick Lamar . It’s by some fella named Kendrick Lamar. I bought it on a recommend from my good…

The Basement (fascinating) http://t.co/D1KJOmQU

Mixpanel says focus on one key metric -- writers, that means you, too http://t.co/N9caVRng

Music Startups: Your product is probably just a feature. http://t.co/Hp6UEq0i (tough business to be in)

Tim Cook's Freshman Year: The Apple CEO Speaks (@tyrangiel / Business Week) http://t.co/DqqFRWhy http://t.co/EnUpiye9

Interesting : Meet Matter, San Francisco’s new accelerator for media startups [Interview] : http://t.co/PIE6dYYO

Updates to our Android app bring user-experience enhancements and more options As we set about redesigning our mobile site , one question that came up again and again was what the traffic to our existing site looked like. We'd always known mobile to be a "fragmented" space, with the number of…

When visitors come to our office, one of the first things they notice is how quiet it is. Naturally, one of the first questions they ask is “how do you keep it so quiet?” My answer is “library rules.” Everyone knows how to behave in a library. You keep quiet or whisper. You respect people’s personal…

Photo by the v [email protected] I didn’t think I’d learn anything building Bootstrap. Actually, I was pretty confident I wouldn’t learn anything. As a technical challenge, Bootstrap just isn’t very interesting. It’s trying to provide a collection of components — components like modals, tooltips,…

Why Are Dead People Liking Stuff On Facebook? Posted on December 11, 2012 in Social Contributing Writer Last month, while wasting a few moments on Facebook, my pal Brendan O’Malley was surprised to see that his old friend Alex Gomez had “liked” Discover. This was surprising not only because Alex…

Looking for weekend reading? I posted reading lists on online publishing (http://t.co/sSzi4Znk), and your past on FB (http://t.co/QmXX7aBH).

Tim Cook: Why I Promoted Jony Ive http://t.co/wYV9V1vA

Schmidt: It’s ‘Curious’ That Apple Hasn’t Sued Google http://t.co/ft89l0tz via @mashable

Memoto: Secrets of a half-million-dollar Kickstarter campaign http://t.co/Fim4PgnG

Pew: 37% of cell phone owners use them to get news online : http://t.co/LVLxiqHM

If I told you online shopping is the next big thing to hit South Africa, you might think I was living in 1995. So-called experts will tell you big brands like Amazon and Kalahari have the market sewn up. They have the scale, the supply chains and the deep pockets to completely dominate the market –…

Entrepreneur Corey Ford is in an interesting spot: Today he launched Matter , the startup accelerator that aims to help companies tackling the future of publishing and media. But as of yet, no one, including Ford, necessarily knows what that future of journalism looks like. So what kind of companies…

Public media needs to be disrupted, but "Democratic ideals and an informed public won’t get you into Y Combinator." http://t.co/mb8QqJnk

Instagram Co-Founder Mike Krieger’s 8 Principles For Building Products People Want http://t.co/MdwnJi7C Very solid #Lean approach

A-men. >> A Full-Stack Web Team Will Provide Much-Needed Breadth And Depth To Your Startup http://t.co/f9Pv1BJA