Daily Archives: June 7, 2016



daydreamheader How best to represent a person in virtual space? A square with their avatar picture on it? Too Slack. A custom face crafted with a million sliders? Too Second Life. A 3D scan of their face? Too “Lawnmower Man.” Then perhaps… a cartoon representation of the headset the user is wearing, with giant googly eyes on the front? You, my friend, are crazy like a fox. Read More

Google’s VR prototypes give you charming and strangely expressive googly ...



daydreamheader How best to represent a person in virtual space? A square with their avatar picture on it? Too Slack. A custom face crafted with a million sliders? Too Second Life. A 3D scan of their face? Too “Lawnmower Man.” Then perhaps… a cartoon representation of the headset the user is wearing, with giant googly eyes on the front? You, my friend, are crazy like a fox. Read More

Google’s VR prototypes give you charming and strangely expressive googly ...


David Byttow Bold David Byttow learned just how much goes unsaid inside companies while he was running Secret. Blasting private information out publicly causes harassment, which led Secret to flame out and give investors back some of their money. But now Byttow is channeling his insight into a new startup called Bold, which he tells me is a “platform for writing long-form content at work. Use cases… Read More

Secret’s founder returns with Bold, a Medium for enterprise



Como Audio Over the past several years, Massachusetts-based Tivoli Audio has made a name for itself with high-end internet radios, combining classic aesthetics with online connectivity that lets users, say, listen to region NPR stations from around the country, among other things. Back in March, the company’s founder Tom DeVesto (who also helped lead Cambridge Soundworks, once upon a time)… Read More

Tivoli Audio’s founder launches a Kickstarter campaign for his new ...


Como Audio Over the past several years, Massachusetts-based Tivoli Audio has made a name for itself with high-end internet radios, combining classic aesthetics with online connectivity that lets users, say, listen to region NPR stations from around the country, among other things. Back in March, the company’s founder Tom DeVesto (who also helped lead Cambridge Soundworks, once upon a time)… Read More

Tivoli Audio’s founder launches a Kickstarter campaign for his new ...



Sprightly-iOS_1 Microsoft is taking on Adobe Spark Post and startups like Canva with its new app Sprightly, available today on iOS. Similar to its competitors, the app promises an easy way for smaller businesses to quickly create and design content like fliers, coupons, catalogs, price lists, e-cards and more, as well as quickly share them across social media. Sprightly is a product emerging from… Read More

Microsoft’s Sprightly app lets you create professional designs from your ...




Snapchat discover Scroll Snapchat combines the best of social networks, magazines, and television in a redesign of its omni-entertainment app. You’ll now see image and headline previews of the content inside Discover channels and Live stories on the Stories page, instead of just logos for the publishers or events they capture. The Discover page now features a Pinterest-style mason grid of tiles, while the… Read More

Snapchat uncovers Discover