Journal

Inside the merger of live music powerhouses Songkick and Crowdsurge.

In my twenties, I planned my life around concerts. There was nothing like being in an intimate venue, drinking cheap beer from a Solo cup, waiting for my favorite bands—Minus the Bear, Wolf Parade, Grizzly Bear—to walk on stage. But to figure out when musicians would be in town took commitment, studying tour schedules on individual websites, mapping out when they’d be at a nearby venue, and using a variety of platforms to track down tickets.

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Tim Tully, Yahoo’s VP of engineering, talks about lessons learned on the mountain.

Tim Tully, 37, is Yahoo’s vice president of engineering and leads Flurry, which he describes as “the world’s largest app analytics company.” He joined Yahoo 12 years ago and has been working on big data since before the term existed; he’s also an extremely active snowboarder—an avocation he says has helped him challenge himself at work as well.

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Four principles for designing Apple TV interfaces

Apple TV is not an iPhone. You may think this is obvious now, but you’d be surprised how many expectations you subconsciously carry from one context to the next. Take a look at the state of the platform, and you’ll see that most of the tvOS App Store consists of poorly transplanted iOS apps that have no idea what to do on the big screen. I would argue that most developers have not yet learned that Apple TV is not, in fact, an iPhone.

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The minimalism of Chrome OS finds hardware to match, with mixed results.

A few years ago, Google shocked the laptop market with a $250 Chromebook.

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Twitter’s core users didn’t take kindly to the switch from star-shaped “favorites” to heart-shaped “likes.” Would emoji options help?

Earlier this month, Twitter stirred the pot by trading its star-shaped “favorite” button for a more au courant heart icon, which now denotes a “like.” The move was meant to simplify Twitter’s interface and more closely align it with social networks like Instagram—but it’s possible you’ve since been more frugal about dispensing likes on Twitter. Tweaking the terminology is one thing, but a heart? It feels a lot weightier to “heart” something than to “star” it, and much like the like button on Facebook, a heart isn’t quite an appropriate response to negative posts.

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Mixpanel’s new predictive analytics product Predict claims to be able to get your business more engagement within 30 seconds.

The small field of “predictive analytics” wants to turn all the data mined by businesses into a type of “Magic 8-ball” that can be used to predict and solve problems before they start. Today, analytics firm Mixpanel is releasing Predict, a predictive analytics product that claims to figure out how to get your business more engagement in 30 seconds.

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Following the terrorist attacks on Paris Friday, one graphic designer’s raw reaction becomes a global symbol of peace and solidarity.

In the wake of the horrific acts of terrorism that ripped through France on Friday, November 13, killing at least 129 people and injuring hundreds, an image with a message of peace has emerged amid the darkness and gone viral. It’s simple, haunting, and has served as a tool for people across the globe to express solidarity. It has been shared across social media, displayed at vigils, and even scrawled on concrete in public spaces.

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Recognizing the wear and tear of workplace stress, companies are getting creative about how to combat it.

It’s no surprise that job-related stress has serious consequences—both on an individual level and for workplaces as a whole, costing U.S. companies alone an estimated $300 billion a year.

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