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John Gruber, myself, 2+ hours, Virgin America, MacBook Pros, iOS app bloat, etc. You know the drill.

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My 2016 Homescreen

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Un día como hoy (2 de noviembre) en la tecnología

El 2 de noviembre de 1981 nace M.G. Siegler, un inversionista de riesgo estadounidense, escritor y columnista de TechCrunch sobre todo en temas concernientes a Apple, y el uso de internet y redes sociales en la vida #retrocomputingmx #mgsiegler

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Google Ventures Announces Its Newest General Partner, MG Siegler

Google Ventures Announces Its Newest General Partner, MG Siegler

After 19 months of working with our founder, Michael Arrington, on setting up CrunchFund, MG Siegler has moved on to a similar role at a tight that continues to make waves in the quest world, Google Ventures.

In a post on his own blog today, Siegler discussed the move, saying that he had been speaking with its group and managing partner, Bill Maris, for a few months now. He named the move a…

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Cold Takes in Your Inbox

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After a long hiatus, I was back on John Gruber’s ‘The Talk Show’ podcast last week. If you have two and a half hours to spare, you’ll hear us talk about Uber, MacBooks, Amazon Echo/Siri, the Peter Thiel/Gawker situation, and Roman Numerals. 

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In this interview, M.G Siegler General Partner at Goolge Ventures explains what kind of investments he looks for and what it was like becoming an investor.

Was a guest on William Channer’s DRT podcast a few weeks back, talking about the state of startups, journalism, etc. 

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Framing Text in a Picture

I’m still trying to decide if “text shots” will be the new link-blog post or just a short-lived meme.

Mat Honan of BuzzFeed calls them “screenshorts”. He goes on to write:

Kind of counterintuitively, Screenshorts demonstrate why the 140 character limit is vital. If people began posting massive chunks of text to Twitter, it would no longer be easy to scan. But the Screenshort, working side-by-side with in-line image previews, works perfectly.

When this all started, users just wanted to write slightly more than a tweet, but not as long as a blog post – yet still feed their thoughts into Twitter. And when I started to see screenshots of text written in the iOS Notes app, I couldn’t have been any more repulsed.

Soon after, along with users who wanted to squeeze more characters in, people were starting to tweet pictures of other people’s writings.

They would highlight a portion of text in an article, post a screenshot and then comment on it. This was more akin to a link-blog post, but I still didn’t like the way it was being done. Seeing those iOS text selection anchors highlighting something in blue was ugly. I mentally skipped over any tweet that had one.

Now, text shots have gone more mainstream and in turn, have become more appealing.

Software developers are now making apps that allow you to take text, package it into a nicely designed, readable picture and share it to Twitter. The person who’s pioneering text shots right now in my feed is MG Siegler. Here is an example of a recent text shot he has tweeted. (MG is using a soon-to-be-released app called OneShot)

Said another way: don’t try to be more like BuzzFeed. Make BuzzFeed be more like you. http://t.co/ePJ8sVICMY pic.twitter.com/DFdkFYK6JF

— M.G. Siegler (@mgsiegler) February 28, 2015

This is done in a prettier way than highlighting text in Safari and I started to see the benefits of a nicely formatted text shot that allows for a one-liner in a tweet.

A few days ago, a new Instapaper beta build hit my iPhone and the developers have added a “Tweet Shot” extension. [1] Since I digest most of my online reading via the Instapaper app, I wanted to try the feature because this whole movement had started to fascinate me.

This is just a taste of how crazy MTV fabricated Pimp My Ride. (Via @film_girl) http://t.co/rQ92J1qlYq pic.twitter.com/qIaGeHt4kj

— Joe Caiati (@JoeCaiati) February 28, 2015

I’m at a place where I’m not sure if I’ll be using tweet shots exclusively for linking to stuff, but it’s a convenient way to share a quick thought on something that you’ve just read.

Text shots are ephemeral.

They de-clutter a traditional blog leaving a site with only medium to long-form posts.[2] But having less content on your blog may not be a good thing for someone trying to monetize their site. Some writers rely on link posts to hold their readers over while they write a bigger piece. Moving these short commentary link articles over to Twitter could do more harm than good.

You also must think of your audience. Although your Twitter and website may have crossover, if you are posting text shots just on Twitter, a part of your audience will be missing out.

if I were not to frame this in a blogger’s perspective – the most important thing about text shots is that you need Twitter user’s buy-in on this new trend. I think we are at a point where the text shot explosion is getting closer to its peak popularity and I’m very excited to see how users will react when an outpouring of pictures containing text hit their feeds.

We have to standardize what this is going to be called.  ↩

Blogging platform Medium has adopted this sharing style quickly.  ↩