FinTech & Design Reads Issue 8
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CartoDB’s Odyssey.js Is An Open-Source Tool For Telling Stories With Interactive Maps Everything happens somewhere. That’s the logic behind Odyssey.js, an open-source tool that utilizes maps to help turn data into interactive multimedia stories without the user needing coding…
Why One Of Google’s Wildest Designers Left For A Bank Last week, Regina Dugan, the former director of DARPA, stood on a stage and explained to a bunch of developers and reporters that as head of Google’s secretive Advanced Technology and Projects…
The AP’s newest business reporter is an algorithm Journalistic earnings stories can feel robotic, even when written by a news organization as prestigious as the Associated Press. Acknowledging this fact, the AP has decided that it will just have…
Very Wealthy Investors Want Digitally Enabled Advisors The increase in the number of high net worth individuals (HNWI) last year was the second highest since 2000, surpassed only by immediate post-crisis catch-up growth in 2009, according to a global…
How Facebook beat Wall Street with data and tripled its share price To change the world you need money, so the first thing on the list was finding a way to generate revenues from the vast numbers of users (1.1Bn monthly visitors last time I checked – a ridiculous statistic!) who visit Facebook.
Finance blogger wisdom: the future for robo-advisors The so-called robo-advisors, i.e. Wealthfront, Betterment, etc., have garnered a lot of hype (and VC money) in their pursuit of automated investment solutions. Will these firms become the new Charles Schwabs of the world or will automated portfolios simply be the way all advisors manage client accounts?
Startups And The Un-Banking Of America Editor’s note: Rebecca Lynn is a general partner at Canvas Venture Fund, an early-stage venture capital firm. She has led investments in Lending Club in 2009, Check in 2011…
Google Reveals How the Android Wear UI Will Work When Google announced Android Wear back in March, it illustrated the company’s seriousness about the wearable game. Since then, Google has dropped bread crumbs, slowly painting us a bigger…
Watching the audience move: A New York Times tool is helping direct traffic from story to story » Nieman Journalism Lab Since its creation last April, The New York Times’ News Analytics team has been working closely with editors and reporters to introduce audience insights into our journalistic decision-making…
How The Web Is Reshaping Business In Its Image We used to program software. Now it’s programming us. This is more than a new spin on Marc Andreessen’s “Software is eating the world” argument. Andreessen is right, but the shift, as O’Reilly’s Mike…
The Shadow Internet That’s 100 Times Faster Than Google Fiber Illustration: dzima1/Getty When Google chief financial officer Patrick Pichette said the tech giant might bring 10 gigabits per second internet connections to American homes, it seemed like science…
Everything Google announced at Google I/O 2014 in one handy list For those who didn’t get the chance to tune in to Google I/O 2014 today, here’s a quick recap of everything the company announced. Google began the announcement the same way it does…
UI, UX: Who Does What? A Designer’s Guide To The Tech Industry Design is a rather broad and vague term. When someone says “I’m a designer,” it is not immediately clear what they actually do day to day. There are a number of different responsibilities encompassed…
cjbarber/ToolsOfTheTrade Table of Contents Background In 2010, Joshua Schachter, the founder of Delicious, posted the following on Hacker News: When I first started delicious, we had to host most of the services ourselves….
dypsilon/frontend-dev-bookmarks Show File Finder README.md Guides Architecture Workflow Video: Javascript Development Workflow of 2013 by Paul Irish + Slides Yeoman is a robust and opinionated set of tools, libraries, and a…