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I found that Zite did an incredible job of presenting high-signal content for me. I became so reliant on it that I would have paid a significant amount to subscribe, probably on the order of a spotify subscription. But that was after years of use and training; I can't imagine anybody selling me on a curation service at any price without that experience.

I didn't realize just how much I relied on Zite until it was gone. I tried to launch it several times a day in the week after it was turned off.

If anything, Flipboard has taught me that the UI of flipping pages is best left to physical magazines, where each page can have enough information density to make it worthwhile. Maybe the flipboard flip action works better on a tablet; but on a phone I can't bring myself to use it, no matter how much of Zite's technology they fold in.

What do your friends say about content protection? It seems like the least important thing to worry about since it's so hard to protect your content no matter what the medium.

I really think that Slack's best quality is as an email killer. I get close to zero emails from within my company. It's kind of shocking how much more productive that makes me.

Agreed. I've been a super user for years, and I was happy to give foursquare all of my data because they did two great things with it:

1) they gave it back to me so I had an accessible record of my check-ins which is very helpful if you travel frequently, and very lovely if, like me, your personality combines deep nostalgia with shocking forgetfulness. It also made Timehop worth opening.

2) they used it in seemingly intelligent ways to give me surprisingly good recommendations when I needed them, and showed me where friends had checked in, even if they hadn't left tips. A check-in from a friend can be a tiny endorsement of its own in absence of anything else.

Both of those benefits are what keep me checking in. Which is what keeps me using the app. I fully recognize that there isn't enough of me to support foursquare. I get that. But I'm still sad to see it go.

I like to imagine that Google Cardboard is an internal company joke at the expense of Google Glass.

If you've never had Bart break on you or be delayed, then you weren't taking it enough.

SF public transportation is limited in its geographic coverage and the fact that it's not 24 hours. And that sucks. But San Francisco is also a much smaller city then Madrid, New York, Chicago, and the other places listed. Add a couple more million people to SF, South SF, and East Bay, and you can bet that public transportation will improve.

I actually think that result aligns perfectly with the creator's intent: "This is intended as a live demo that most people on twitter are not like you."

I've noticed this with maps as well. I don't know what that has to do with corporatization, but I do know slow, hiccupy, and failed to load when I see it.

We've been using Slack, which seems like maybe it's a cross between Team & chat. And I can't imagine life without it. So useful. I get close to zero emails from anyone I work with.

Totally agree. It's really helpful, and rewards continued usage.