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On the surface, Roam looks like a cross between a slightly weird wiki and a note-taking tool like Evernote. It’s not. It implements a few key features of 1980s vintage hypertext visions — block-level addressability, transclusion (changes in referenced blocks being “transfer-included” wherever they are cited), and bidirectional linking — that utterl... See more
Ribbon Farm • A Text Renaissance
VR is an interesting category but there are real hardware barriers to overcome. For the time being we still consider VR niche: let’s see when headset usage becomes more commonplace, and how that impacts the landscape upon which such companies are built.
Arman Tabatabai • Investor survey results: Upcoming trends in social startups
Asteré | Wallpaper creations by contemporary artists
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impressive things accomplished by small teams.
- Instagram had 13 employees when they were acquired by Facebook for $1 billion. They had 30 millions users at the time. Source
- Mojang (the company behind Minecraft) had 37 employees when they were acquired by Microsoft for $2.5 billion. At that time, Mojang had revenue of about $290 mil
Steve Pulec • Small teams
A study from researchers at the University of California at Berkeley found that higher temperatures and shifting patterns of extreme weather can cause a rise in all types of violence, from domestic abuse to civil wars. In extreme cases, it could cause countries to cease functioning and collapse altogether.
Eric Holthaus • Why 2020 to 2050 Will Be ‘the Most Transformative Decades in Human History’
I am pretty sure that NFT sales this year will pass all of Web2 payouts to all creative people. Facebook and Instagram pay zero rev share. They make all their money in advertising. How much goes back to the creators?
Nilay Patel • Chris Dixon Thinks Web3 Is the Future of the Internet — Is It? - The Verge
a paradoxical feeling of being at once unified with and not at home in the world; of feeling both ridiculously small and insignificant in the grand scheme and nonetheless a powerful centre of knowledge, freedom and value in the world.