From the article: "Thankfully, one of Google's most popular productivity apps is not turning into a whitespace-infused nightmare hellscape (like say, Google Inbox). The layout is mostly the same as the existing Gmail.com, and, just like today, there are three information density settings to choose from. The new Gmail really does seem fine on the whitespace front."
Hi there! We've just launched Morning Reader 3, a simple, stress-free way to keep up with technology and blockchain news. Would love to hear your feedback! Thanks.
> The energy here is wasted because Bitcoin does almost nothing of value.
You can also argue that mining gold is a waste of resources because gold does almost nothing of value.
> Yes, there are other uses for Bitcoin. They are miniscule in comparison to its use as an investment product.
What about gold? Aren't its uses minuscule in comparision to its speculative investment value?
The point is: The market decides. One can argue that Bitcoin characteristics (encrypted, pseudo-anonymous, open source, decentralized, global, scalable, deflationary, stateless, etc.) justify its speculative price.
If someone sends real leaks to Wikileaks and they don't publish, then the leakers can use alternative channels to distribute the leaks (for example, sending directly to journalists), and then accuse Wikileaks of not publishing. Has anyone already accused Wikileaks of not publishing real leaks?
Nweets is a new way to keep up with technology news. Nweets curates the tweets that best illustrate what's new in technology right now. Tweets are ranked by trending factor, sorted by company, topic and publisher. A few examples of what you can follow:
Pay daily instead of monthly. This way it is harder to "blow all their money" and not being able to afford food. Or a hybrid approach: 50% of the monthly income upfront and the other 50% distributed daily.
Hi there! Multi is a unique way to get your favorite sites on your Chrome new tab. Enter a list of your favorite sites, and with each new tab Multi will open a random site from your list. It works great with community sites like Reddit, Product Hunt, Hacker News, Designer News, or any other sites you visit frequently.
We're thinking about doing at least daily digests – with the top x stories of the last 24 hours – for each topic, via email and/or RSS. Thanks for your suggestion!
> The quality of the curation, at least for my taste and at least at this moment, is exceptional. Maybe the best algorithmic curation I've seen.
Glad you liked it, thanks!
> There are many algorithmically curated news feeds; why add another? Is it because you believe your algorithm is a leap forward? Elsewhere you say it's mostly the same one used by HN.
There are many attempts at "personalized news". Also some niche "community curated" news (influenced by HN and Reddit). And some mostly algorithmic, like the new Digg and Techmeme. We fit on this third group, and are just experimenting to see what we can come up with quality wise.
It could be "popularity" or "trending factor" instead. Basically the same way stories are ranked on HN (http://amix.dk/blog/post/19574), but instead of upvotes it uses our popularity score system.
We already have mechanisms like weighting, whitelisting, blacklisting, etc. in place. We generally trust a good quality source (site domain) to produce good quality content, but there are exceptions. Since our popularity scoring algorithm relies heavily on social signals, it trusts the crowd to reward good content, and ultimately good content will rank higher.
> Where and how do you get your news? How do you order them?
We get the news via data feeds like RSS and social networks. The ranking algorithm is similar to the HN one (http://amix.dk/blog/post/19574), but instead of upvotes it uses our popularity score system.
> And why only 30 in each category?
In the future we may add mechanisms to let users browse more links, like a 'Show more' button below the links list, or an Archive section.
> Other than that, nice design. Bookmarked, will see. Btw, I guess comments would be nice.