Developers

Serendipity, Not Search, Finds Top Apps

John Backus | Posted 03.14.2012

John Backus

Quit trying to trick customers into downloading your app via incented downloads. Put your app where your customers are likely to discover it, and you will be well on your way to growing your audience with users actually interested in your app.

More Than a Desperate Housewife, Eva Longoria Talks Activism

Avital Binshtock | Posted 02.20.2012

Avital Binshtock

Eva Longoria, who plays the self-involved Gabrielle Solis on ABC's Desperate Housewives, takes on extracurricular projects that set her far apart from her shallow onscreen persona.

Startups and Their Typical Flaw: Too-Early Development

Gideon Gartner | Posted 02.18.2012

Gideon Gartner

Many developers seem to focus on function without having had the opportunity to sufficiently understand what the technology being developed will be solving!

Why You Can't Hire

Naval Ravikant | Posted 02.14.2012

Naval Ravikant

There isn't a shortage of developers and designers. There's a surplus of founders.

The Pros & Cons of Hiring Third-Party Vendors

Tom Grasty | Posted 02.14.2012

Tom Grasty

Rarely does a startup have all the tools in its toolbox when starting out. Sometimes you have to engage a third-party vendor.

Twitter Reportedly Under Federal Investigation

Business Insider | Posted 08.30.2011

The Federal Trade Commission is actively investigating Twitter and the way it deals with the companies building applications and services for its plat...

Bait-Switch-Fix: The Westside Subway's Three Act Play

John Mirisch | Posted 08.15.2011

John Mirisch

The message of the press conference participants was clear: we want the Century City station on Constellation and we don't care if you have to tunnel under Beverly Hills High School to get there.

GEN Launched To Foster Mutualization and Cooperation Among World's Editors

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 06.18.2011

Magda Abu-Fadil

A new worldwide organization is bringing together editors from different platforms, engineers and developers in news media in a bid to foster more sustainable professional journalism.

Promising Elements of the Net Neutrality Decision

Morgan Reed | Posted 05.25.2011

Morgan Reed

During the extended holiday season, families gather around the modern day hearth to watch football. Everyone has a favorite team, or alma mater, to c...

Get Your "Riot" Badge on Foursquare

Christina Gagnier | Posted 05.25.2011

Christina Gagnier

Getting status updates from afar, Los Angelinos and others are getting a front row seat to the riots that have now broken out in San Francisco in hono...

Luxury Condos Boast FHA Backing

Bloomberg | Oshrat Carmiel | Posted 05.25.2011

Whitney Gollinger, marketing chief for a Manhattan condo building with an outdoor movie theater and panoramic city views, is highlighting a different ...

Google Is Making You Into a Developer

Ramon Nuez | Posted 05.25.2011

Ramon Nuez

Social media has turned many of us from content consumers into content producers. Tools such as Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and Amplify have made the pr...

Abandoned Coney Island -- Last Chance To See?

Nick Carr | Posted 05.25.2011

Nick Carr

When I heard the rumors that Satan's real estate division, Thor Equities, was allegedly planning to tear down some of the last remaining historic buildings in Coney Island, I actually felt a chill.

Video Chatting Platform for Collaborative Games and Activities: 6rounds Developers API Released

Ilan Leibovich | Posted 05.25.2011

Ilan Leibovich

6rounds, our video chat extension for Google Wave, is a flash-based social entertainment platform that challenges traditional video chatting methods with a beautifully designed and user friendly platform.

LinkedIn Welcomes Developers

paidContent | Joseph Tartakoff | Posted 05.25.2011

LinkedIn wants more attention from developers. The company is announcing that third-party developers will now be able to easily integrate the professi...

The Niche World of New York Real Estate

Darren Sukenik | Posted 05.25.2011

Darren Sukenik

Remember those old game shows with contestants in glass money machine booths trying to catch all of the flying dollars? That was the NYC real estate industry two years ago.

Developers Need Community Support, Communities Need Affordable Housing

John Petro | Posted 05.25.2011

John Petro

People are still moving to New York -- despite the recession -- and hundreds of thousands of new housing units will need to be built before supply catches up with demand.

Go Tell It On The Mountain: The Edge Doesn't Need Five Homes Here

latimes.com | Steve Lopez | Posted 05.25.2011

The U2 guitarist is lining up political muscle and environmentalist star power to support constructing his eco-friendly castles on a pristine ridge ne...

Apartment Vacancy Rate Surges 7.8%, Rents Fall

The Wall Street Journal | NICK TIMIRAOS | Posted 05.25.2011

The U.S. vacancy rate reached 7.8%, a 23-year high, according to Reis Inc., a New York real-estate research firm that tracks vacancies and rents in th...

Aspen Gunfight at the Hotel Jerome

Michael Conniff | Posted 05.25.2011

Michael Conniff

Development. Say that word in Mayor Mick Ireland's Aspen and you're all but doomed to fail.

Other City Leaders' Advice to Boulder: Confront 'Affordability,' Lack of Green Jobs

Jerry Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011

Jerry Lewis

No one will ride to a city's rescue for affordable housing. Developers, Aspen Mayor Mick Ireland said, are not going to buy $500,000 lots and put in affordable duplexes for schoolteachers.

An Olympic Guarantee You Can Count On

Alden Loury | Posted 05.25.2011

Alden Loury

Olympics have displaced more than two million people in the last 20 years, especially minorities and the poor. With or without the Games, we're witnessing the clearing of two miles of lakefront property.

The Stranger in Everyday Life

Reverend Billy | Posted 05.25.2011

Reverend Billy

The city-as-monoculture can only continue with surveillance, stop-and-frisks, eminent domain, developer tax windfalls and all the illegal activity brazenly called Progress and New York Greatness.

Razin' Hell

Kevin Walsh | Posted 05.25.2011

Kevin Walsh

There's trouble in paradise: in Broadway-Flushing, Queens, McMansions have sprung up, and the hedges, lawns and classic architecture have been replaced by ugly fencing and paved front yards.

Commercial Real Estate Is an Impending Disaster

Jerry Chautin | Posted 05.25.2011

Jerry Chautin

Many of us know of people who have lost their homes through foreclosure. To a lesser extent we hear about struggling commercial properties vying for a limited pool of tenants.