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Sony Xperia Z3 review: Iterative upgrades in just the right places

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by on October 7, 2014 at 6:43 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider, Mobile, Product Reviews, Smartphone, waterproof

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The Sony Xperia Z3 has a lot of promise to live up to. It’s predecessor, the cunningly named Z2, performed admirably in most departments, even if its slightly slab-like design left it feeling a little uncomfortable in your hands. This time around it offers a slightly better equipped camera and a few other minor hardware upgrades, but do these mostly minor tweaks still deliver a stellar user experience? We’ve been testing the Xperia Z3 for a few days to find out. With the new Samsung Galaxy Note 4 and two new iPhones on the market, Sony isn’t going to get an easy, clear shot with the…

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Hacker News launches API with near real-time access to site’s data

Oct07
by on October 7, 2014 at 6:36 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Entrepreneur

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When you have a site called Hacker News that’s a destination for developers, startups and anyone interested in the startup world, it only only makes sense to have an API. Today the Y Combinator run Hacker News site announced its own API so developers will no longer have to scrape the site for information. The API is read-only for now, but the YC-backed site could enable to private per-user info using OAuth in the future. Y Combinator explained why it has created an API for its news site: Most importantly, the reason we released an API is so that we…

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Squarespace announces a major upgrade to its platform with new Getty Images and Google integrations

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by on October 7, 2014 at 6:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Squarespace today announced its first major platform update in two years: Squarespace 7, adding new splash pages, templates and integrations with Getty Images and Google Apps. The release advances the completely rebuilt codebase that arrived with the release of Squarespace 6 in 2012. Squarespace 7 will become available in waves to customers starting tonight. Customers can opt-in to the platform, or choose to hold off on upgrading during the early transition. Today’s launch also includes the official release of Squarespace’s Blog and Note Android apps, which emerged in public beta last month. Squarespace has also graduated its developer platform from beta. The…

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8 tips for writing like you mean it

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by on October 7, 2014 at 6:20 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, LifeHacks, Social Media

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John Collins is the managing editor of InsideIntercom, the blog from Intercom focused on design, customer experience, start-ups, and the business of software. He was previously an editor and reporter for the Irish Times. This article was originally published on InsideIntercom.  One of my goals since joining Intercom has been to encourage more of the talented engineers, designers, product managers and business execs that work here to write for this blog. To de-mystify the process and hopefully make it easier for them to contribute I drew up a set of principles that inform our writing at Intercom. I’d advise any company that has more…

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Twitter files lawsuit to publish full transparency report about government surveillance requests

Oct07
by on October 7, 2014 at 5:43 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Twitter wants to be able to share more information about the scope of the US government’s surveillance of Twitter users. Today it filed a lawsuit in federal court to lift the ban on what it can tell users in its transparency reports. The lawsuit contends that squelching what Twitter can say about surveillance requests is unconstitutional under the First Amendment. Currently Twitter is unable to even disclose the amount of FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) and NSL (national security letters) court orders received. In a post today, Twitter explained why it has decided to file the suit: We’ve tried to…

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