Steve FranksVail apologizes, explains ‘lift line apocalypse’ 5 days laterUSA TODAY - David StregeFallout on social media of what was described by one skier as a “lift line apocalypse” prompted Vail Mountain to issue an apology and an explanation Wednesday, five days after long lift lines and long wait times frazzled guests. Vail Mountain received 38 inches in a 48-hour period, and skiers and …
Steve FranksFlipboard's Storyboard Advertising Product Crunches The Purchase Funnel Onto One ScreenForbes - Will BurnsFlipboard today launched a new advertising product called "Storyboard" that promises to allow users of its popular magazine-style media reader to dive deeper into the advertising, if they want to. Users can "flip right" or "flip left" to get more information, video feeds, and other branded content …
Steve FranksThink Like a Software DeveloperMedium - Geoffrey GrosenbachThe learn to code movement has convinced many people across all professions that they need to learn to write software. But even more important than …
Steve FranksThe Shape of Things to Comeverified_publisherThe New Yorker - Ian ParkerInside the top-secret lab where the world’s most powerful design team created the Apple Watch. I. Launch Day In recent months, Sir Jonathan Ive, the forty-seven-year-old senior vice-president of design at Apple—who used to play rugby in secondary school, and still has a bench-pressing bulk that he …
Steve FranksA world without work is coming – it could be utopia or it could be hellverified_publisherThe Guardian - Ryan AventRobots will eventually do all our jobs, but we need to start planning to avert social collapse Most of us have wondered what we might do if we didn’t need to work – if we woke up one morning to discover we had won the lottery, say. We entertain ourselves with visions of multiple homes, trips around …
Steve FranksMicrosoft really does love LinuxThe Verge - Tom WarrenRedmond has truly embraced the open source community