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Email transparency
Many people have asked about how this email openness actually works. Is it really the case all our mail is copied to a list? If so, how do we avoid drowning in email?
Remote: the new book by 37signals, coming fall 2013
On top of making Basecamp, we write books about what we’ve learned running our own business. They’re filled with practical advice you won’t find anywhere else.
How LinkedIn Just Made Ten Million People Feel Special
I’m rarely impressed by email spam, but LinkedIn is doing something brilliant right now. Check it out!
Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
PushBullet: From 0 to 15,000 users in 2 weeks
I launched Pushbullet on January 20 of this year. Since then, over 15,000 people have signed up and have pushed over 25,000 things.
Our take on RethinkDB vs. MongoDB
Interested in a less biased overview? We encourage you to also read the technical comparison between RethinkDB and MongoDB .
Twitter acquires Crashlytics
Explore how Firebase Crashlytics provides realtime app crash & stability reporting for iOS, Android, Flutter, and Unity apps so you can fix crashes faster.
What it's Really Like Working with Steve Jobs
People who worked with Steve Jobs (I'll call him Steve) usually don't talk about it. It's kind of an unwritten rule, partly because he was obsessive about his privacy.
Basecamp Personal
Since the beginning, Basecamp has been marketed as a collaboration tool for small businesses (or small groups inside larger businesses). However, over the years we’ve also heard from many thousands of people who use Basecamp outside of work. They’ve turned to Basecamp to help them ma…
Stripe Checkout
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
Clustrix, a distributed SQL DB, launches on AWS
Keep your databases online with MariaDB Enterprise Platform. MaxScale, Galera Cluster and Raft clustering give you automatic failover, read scaling and zero data loss.
The State of jQuery 2013
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
Zurb Acquires Forrst
It's with great excitement that we announce our big news today: we've acquired Forrst!
Codecademy introduces API lessons with YouTube, SoundCloud, Parse, and more
Stories, advice, & news from Codecademy