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Technology has abolished the “transition zones” between work and leisure—and with them, much of our inspiration.
Remember the last time you found yourself waiting for someone in a bar? Your friend or date was running late, so you whipped out your smartphone to fill up the empty moments, right?
A Brief History Of Twitter’s 140-Character Limit
Whether you love it, hate it, or are simply inspired to riff on it, Twitter’s maximum character count matters. And seems to be here to stay.
When Twitter was born in 2006, it was designed to be used via wireless carriers’ text-messaging services. They were (and are) limited to 160 characters. So Twitter’s creators reserved 20 characters for a user name, leaving 140 characters for the post—not yet known as a “tweet”—itself.
What Your Company Needs To Know To Get Started On Snapchat
No, Snapchat isn’t intuitive for newcomers, but companies can no longer ignore it and this tool can help.
You already know about Snapchat even if you aren’t on it. The network for sending pics and videos that disappear shortly after viewing now has
100 million daily users, including an incredible 77% of college students. Those users log 10 billion daily video views, surpassing even Facebook’s numbers. Snapchat has even won unprecedented rights to show Olympic highlights this summer. One thing is clear: It isn’t going anywhere, and it’s definitely not just for teens anymore.
In Quest To Organize Gig Economy Workers, Unions Sometimes Clash
As labor changes, so too will labor organizations. Many unions are still trying to understand exactly how.
This weekend, the 3,000 member delegates of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the organization’s highest governing body, gathered together in Detroit for a convention the union hosts every four years. At the meeting, the SEIU sets its goals and priorities. One of those new goals, agreed upon through a floor vote, includes, “Becoming a Technologically Advanced Organization.” The SEIU also plans to hire a “Strategic Technology Director” and build a network of thought leaders, which it has termed “the Innovation Center,” to experiment with new ways to organize labor.
Why GoPro Just Signed A New Exclusive Content Partnership With Red Bull
GoPro CEO Nick Woodman on how the global deal will impact content production, distribution, product innovation, and more.
Talk about branded content, and inevitably two brands will dominate the conversation. GoPro and Red Bull. Both have used action sports and adrenaline to take their brands far beyond little cameras and caffeine juice, to become full-blown media giants. And often, their work has been mutually beneficial—just count the Red Bull logos in GoPro videos like these.
This Running Shoe Inspired By Kenya’s Elite Runners Is Actually Made In Kenya
Enda is a new shoe that hopes to give something back to the runners who inspired it, by creating jobs in their communities.
Kenya’s elite, world-record runners are the superstars of a surging global running culture. An entire cottage field of study has evolved around explaining the Kenyans’ running “secrets,” often tied to selling shoes, books, magazines, or gear of some sort. Nike’s Air Rift shoe—”inspired by the efficient barefoot style” of Kenyan runners in the Great Rift Valley—retails for $100, for instance.
For all of this, the runners and the broader economy of Kenya don’t benefit very much. The most decorated runners get lucrative sponsorships and prize money, but income earned by those training at the nation’s’ famed running centers drops off quickly if they’re not winning races. Many runners remain impoverished. (A scandal that rocked the country over the last year revealed that sports officials had embezzled large sponsorship payments from Nike that were supposed to benefit poor athletes, prompting protests).
Notifications Are Broken. Here’s How Google Plans To Fix Them
Sick of spammy notifications? So is Google.
Notifications suck. They’re constantly disrupting us with pointless, ill-timed updates we don’t need. True, sometimes they give us pleasure—like when they alert us of messages from real people. And sometimes they save our bacon, by reminding us when a deadline is about to slip by. But for the most part, notifications are broken—a direct pipeline of spam flowing from a million app developers right to the top of our smartphone screens.
