App builder Loren Brichter isn't a household name, but some of the features he has created are part of the daily routines of millions of people using smartphones.

Behind the Markovian Parallax Denigrate lies a curious saga that involves conspiracy theories, mistaken identity, Usenet, and spam.

Today we’re excited to announce the new Blogger app for iOS. With the Blogger app, you can write a new blog post and publish it immediately ...

Internet Explorer 11 makes the web blazing fast on Windows 7. Now with Bing and MSN defaults.

The Salesforce founder thinks it's time for a "next-generation search engine platform." Enter You.com.

As part of Twitter's big day of updates, the company's changing its recently acquired TweetDeck app in a major way. It's putting the Adobe Air version out to pasture in favor of HTML5-based apps...

Who invented the word? And who was responsible for getting it used by the community? A full history, with audio, looking at the words used for on-demand audio via RSS.

A damning report about Instagram reveals it’s past time for intervention.

Lately, over the course of the last few months, I’ve realized that I’m lacking something crucial to building this business: my inspiratio...

A comprehensive visual history of Facebook.com from 2004 to 2021. See a gallery of the Facebook.com evolution from the beginning to present day.

… web developer, writer, and consultant based in Hveragerði, Iceland. I write about web dev, interactive media, digital publishing, and product development.

The Cluetrain Manifesto

How the historic company became known as a bumbling villain of internet culture

Technical innovations shape only a small part of computer and network culture. It doesn't matter much who invented the microprocessor, the mouse, TCP/IP or the World Wide Web; nor does it matter what ideas were behind these inventions. What matters is who uses them. Only when users start to express themselves with these technical innovations do they truly become relevant to culture at large. Users' endeavors, like glittering star backgrounds, photos of cute kittens and rainbow gradients, are mostly derided as kitsch or in the most extreme cases, postulated as the end of culture itself. In fact this evolving vernacular, created by users for users, is the most important, beautiful and misunderstood language of new media. As the first book of its kind, this reader contains essays and projects investigating many different facets of Digital Folklore: online amateur culture, DIY electronics, dirtstyle, typo-nihilism, memes, teapots, penis enlargement …

New messaging apps are celebrating the sound (and the nuance) of the human voice.

A case for universal music access

Today we reinstated youtube-dl, a popular project on GitHub, after we received additional information about the project that enabled us to reverse a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown.

The Verge is a technology-focused news publication founded in 2011 by Joshua Topolsky and Marty Moe in partnership with Vox Media and its CEO Jim Bankoff. The Verge's mission is to offer breaking news coverage and in-depth reporting, product information, and community content via a unified, modern platform.

It was just about one year ago that a powerful explosion triggered a multitude of chemical reactions which caused a mutation in the primordial ooze that resulted in the birth of The Verge. It has...

"G4 was, in fact, successful." Former hosts Adam Sessler and Kevin Pereira reveal the legacy the cult cable channel had on the gaming industry.

In the late ‘90s, an obscure site called Superbad pioneered jarringly bizarre, often ugly, but occasionally beautiful web design. It’s taken all this time for the rest of the internet to catch up.

Chapter 5 of my series is out now, so make sure to get caught up! Plus, the weird web of the past and the independent web of the future.

A glance back at a time before Chartbeat.

A framework for patents and copyrights in the Digital Age. (Everything you know about intellectual property is wrong.)

The Telnet BBS Guide is your complete listing of over 700 Telnet BBS systems in the world.