The online whiteboard of Kristofer Palmvik
"People don’t like us moving their furniture around, because you break muscle memory," says News Feed product manager Greg Marra.
Microsoft is taking an approach that mixes the best of the competition with its own unique take. Based on a 26th-century artificially intelligent character in the Halo video game series, Cortana will debut as part of Windows Phone 8.1, the next big update for Microsoft’s mobile operating system.
Spotify is making a small but meaningful design change on iOS today: it’s removing the hamburger button and replacing it with a navigation bar along the bottom of the screen.
The navigation part of Spotify is now optimized for screens of any size. Maybe we’ll get there with the other parts soon.
In a sense, Airbnb became an interactive lifestyle magazine.
There are things for which TikTok is an absolutely useful search engine, even if TikTok’s algorithm and content aren’t quite tuned for that yet. But for what Google does best, there’s no competition. Ultimately, I don’t think Google is actually nervous about TikTok’s growing search prowess. But YouTube probably should be.
As the mods explained, ChatGPT simply makes it too easy for users to generate responses and flood the site with answers that seem correct at first glance but are often wrong on close examination.
Amazon is the latest tech company to take a page out of TikTok’s playbook. The e-commerce giant announced it was launching a new feed in the Amazon app with photos and videos of items users can purchase
Arc isn’t perfect, and it takes some getting used to. But it’s full of big new ideas about how we should interact with the web — and it’s right about most of them.
This is your creation. It’s your expression. It should reflect you. Bring back personal blogging in 2023. We, as a web community, will be all that much better for it.
For a while, there were a few platforms that felt like they had everybody together, hanging out in a single space. Now there are none.
For the food bank, Microsoft’s summary included an astoundingly awful statement given the context of the place it was talking about: “People who come to us have jobs and families to support, as well as expenses to pay. Life is already difficult enough. Consider going into it on an empty stomach.”