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Thanks - didn't see that browser beta is hover-hidden option under GPT-4 selected!

Anecdotal: Even with Web Browsing enabled in the Options menu, it continues to report that the feature doesn't exist and cites the September 21 cut off. Odd!

Direct link to announcement: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/03/forensic-audits-cambrid...

That chart is from a broader article we published last winter: https://vinepair.com/map-american-craft-brewing-history/

More recently we put together a visualization of the 1977 data at https://vinepair.com/map-american-breweries-1977/

There's also a marked up breakdown by brewery from a 1978 FTC report below the visualization.

To put it in Bill Burr's words,"It's a big CLUB. And YOU AIN'T IN IT."

Pretty sure that's actually a George Carlin line, from a relatively famous routine of his. Many, many clips, but here's a random one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKUaqFzZLxU

Can't wait for Amazon Airlines with Prime Video and Internet available for all.

It already exists on JetBlue. Prime video is for Prime members and Internet access for everyone.

https://www.jetblue.com/flying-on-jetblue/wifi/

Marketing copy:

Earn 3 TrueBlue points per $1 spent shopping on Amazon.com. + Redeem those points for your next Award flight. + Enjoy fast, free Fly-Fi brought to you by Amazon. + Stream your favorite movies and TV shows on Amazon Video.

It's a Paul Smith store and it wasn't intentional (though it has since been embraced for what it is by the brand), per a similar piece last month in the Ringer "Can Real Life Compete With an Instagram Playground?":

Late one Wednesday morning in July, a crowd of tourists began to form on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles. Their location of interest was the Paul Smith store, but not what was in it. The large modernist building, with its sunny corner location, single rectangular window, and striking bubblegum-pink painted wall, happens to make an excellent portrait backdrop.

Though the menswear designer has never commented on the phenomenon, it’s safe to say that he did not imagine his California-pink shoebox would one day function as the site for thousands of amateur photo shoots. (Especially since it does not appear to have improved sales at his store.) Nevertheless, the Paul Smith brand appears to have recognized its power as a free marketing opportunity.

Source: https://www.theringer.com/tech/2017/8/9/16110424/instagram-p...

Want to be clear I am not criticizing this article as derivative of The Ringer piece. There are a lot of articles about purposefully Instagramable places, especially the 'museum' of Ice Cream.

I've been a happy paying sub of Stratechery since October 2015, and would be glad to discover that subs have 'almost surely grown exponentially since [November 2014].' Just wondering what your basis for that assertion is? Looking at (admittedly poor) proxies like Twitter followers, Facebook fans, and estimate domain visits from various sources I don't see any sort of exponential growth...though to be fair the sources I am looking at go back to mid-2015. Again, poor proxies and would be happy to know Ben is doing this well.

Agree user reviews do prevent their own issues. One of those linked articles is about the confusion over the meaning of 'dry' in the contexts of sweetness and tannins.

...probably best way is still ask some good wine buyer, describe what you like and he might recommend wines he likes that loosely fits your description.

Best advice I've gotten/give is find an importer/distributor (eg Kermit Lynch) and rely on their selections.

Agree that using marketing descriptions provided by the winery isn't the best approach. It would be much more useful if the data used stuck to just the reviews (though _which_ reviewers are used is its own issue):

A Quid network shows 3,380 nodes, where each node represents a description and review of a single bottle of Bordeaux-style red wine from Wine.com.

FWIW, this is a topic we've explored in a few ways at VinePair:

* https://vinepair.com/wine-blog/how-much-do-the-labels-on-win...

* https://vinepair.com/articles/wine-industry-touch-consumers/

* And a more humorous look at these descriptions @ https://vinepair.com/robert-robot/

BrewDog is an increasingly bizarre case study in the microbrewery/crowdfunding space. Their 'Equity For Punks' money- raising efforts received a wide range of legal opinions in different jurisdictions.

Pretty sure no one expected -- given their very loud anti-'sell-out' rhetoric -- that they would sell a 22% stake for £100M to a private equity firm (TSG Consumer Partners) and actually deliver a serious return to said 'punks.'

Edit - 'Serious Return' per BrewDog's own reporting at anywhere between 2,765% and 177% depending on the 'fund' you invested in (https://www.brewdog.com/lowdown/press-hub/tsg-deal)

Sure, why not a "gazillion" at this point:

When the solution of providing astronauts with a ballpoint pen that would work under weightless conditions and extreme temperatures came about, though, it wasn’t because NASA had thrown hundreds of thousands of dollars (inflated to $12 billion in the latest iterations of this tale) in research and development money at the problem. The “space pen” that has since become famous through its use by astronauts was developed independently by Paul C. Fisher of the Fisher Pen Co., who spent his own money on the project and, once he perfected his AG-7 “Anti-Gravity” Space Pen, offered it to NASA.

Via http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp

Facebook is actively trying to deal with that truth: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-07/facebook-s...

Here are a couple more interesting historical maps from Bell, specifically from The Bell System Technical Journal in 1930.

The first shows "special contract telegraph circuits furnished to a brokerage company" (30 circuits / 95 stations / 38K km): http://i.imgur.com/vL4W8Vz.jpg

The second shows "special contract telegraph service furnished a press association" (53 circuits / 124K km) : http://i.imgur.com/ZEsBKKe.jpg

Lots more fun maps and diagrams @ https://archive.org/stream/bellvol9systemtechni00amerrich/be...

A month ago I dove into the topic of "Craft" vs "Crafty" to produce a map of the actual owners of "craft" beers as well as other brands that are marketed as local/independent.

The result @ http://vinepair.com/wine-blog/map-actually-makes-your-beer/ received a LOT of attention in the beer world.

It's been updated four times as it was tough to sort through some of the confusion and obfuscation in marketing, even with the benefit of having had dug through SEC filings, the COLA registry at TTB, and other sources. FWIW, I was contacted for direct clarification from one of the companies indirectly called out in this piece (Kona/Craft Brew Alliance).

All that said, I'd argue that association (and particularly a lack of care about such an association by many, many consumers whether or not they know about it) is less interesting than the advantages of being purchased/created by a macro brewer, such as distribution and how that plays out in the 3-tier system in the US.

For some perspective NIH has a fairly straightforward overview of the various Brain Stimulation Therapies being practiced today @ http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/brain-stimulation-ther...

Very interesting, and can't wait to see the print edition.

Kate Ascher's "The Works: Anatomy of a City" from a few years ago is a similar book, but with a broader scope of NYC's infrastructure.

To paraphrase what b1twise wrote below I would say do not do as Google says when common sense, lots and lots of case studies, and practitioner consensus say otherwise.

Sure...you can move it to a subdomain and if all goes well, great. If not you can cite a Matt Cutts video to say who could have known: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MswMYk05tk

If the organic traffic matters then trust people who are actually affected (http://moz.com/community/q/moz-s-official-stance-on-subdomai...) and figure out another (yes, much more involved) way to deal like reverse proxying if you have other demands to contend with.

Not sure if you're being sarcastic...but if not: https://get.uber.com/cl/financing/

Very cool! This is like the beer version of WineGlass (http://wineglassapp.com/)! They managed to get ratings from CellarTracker via private access to their API (like Beer Advocate they don't offer anything publicly), so from the start that had access to the largest? library of user generated wine ratings on the web.

Are you blending user ratings with the ratebeer ratings in screenshots, or keeping them separate?

Wineglass has a feature I thought was pretty neat -- letting you know whether or not the price was 'fair for a restaurant' given typical industry markups. Perhaps not as applicable to beer, but could be a cool feature. And then you could surface 'bars with the best deals on beers you'll love.'

I'm in online wine media, so not as familiar with the beer space but it seems like lots of areas for collaboration (eg Nextglass, Untapped, BeerMenus.com as a fallback for OCR fails)

P.S. I understand the need to monetize, but having used heavily/played with dozens of apps in the wine/beer/liquor space, both free and paid, its rare to see random iAds (so far Target.com, some casino game install ad, and another casino game install ad. Perhaps the revenue is worth it but feels like there are much more interesting ways to monetize (native ads in terms of featured beers/all sorts of brewery/bar partnerships) than that sort of junky ad...

Because the article clearly states that the app is not available yet?

From the article: Five-O is currently in Alpha testing and will roll out to the public on August 18th, 2014, available to both Apple and Android.

That link you posted is to some screenshots.

The closet thing you could link to, in terms of 'how come there is not a single link to the actual app' would be this Google+ 'Community' (don't use G+ unless absolutely necessary so not sure what a G+ community even is) where you can join beta testing: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/11815254284529799664...

Yeah - at least right now this worked for me. Thank you for the tip!

Yes. via http://www.marketwatch.com/story/china-bank-transfer-halt-on...

"While banks in China have suspended some interbank transfers and other systems for several days, the move only covers some Internet transfers and those for small amounts, according to a statement on the People's Bank of China website. Meanwhile, state-run Beijing Times said customers can still conduct small-scale transfers via ATMs. On Sunday, Forbes contributor Gordon Chang, author of "The Coming Collapse of China," said that Citibank had halted bank transfers for three days, calling the move "ominous" for the Chinese banking system. However, the central bank had flagged the move earlier this month, saying the move was due to system maintenance and would occur once a month for the rest of the year."

'Real customers. Real reviews.' (http://www.simplecharters.com/how-it-works)

featuring some real people http://bit.ly/Wo7h8T

stock photography has its place...but not beside this paragraph: "The idea of trusting a broker with your flight is crazy nowadays. Before you book your flight you can read real reviews from verified customers. Never again will you have to worry about whether or not you're getting a good deal, or will have an excellent flight!"

First - this is taken from http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/109714/nate-silver-the-times%E...

Second (as is clear from source article but, once more): via https://twitter.com/JanetCoats/status/265925450696642561

@fivethirtyeight did not account for 20% of NYT traffic; 20% of visitors to NYT looked at 538. Big difference, my math-challenged friends.

And the first consequence of opening that Pandora's Box would be even more ammunition (not that any more is needed) for fans/writers/anyone with a passing interest in NFL to point out how awful the replacement refs are

refs: http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/8394351/the-nfl-official-m... http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/8393575/replacement-offici... http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/8402489/nfl-replacement-of...

This loss is b/c of the aQuantive write down. This loss has nothing to do with Apple (not to say Apple's success isn't influencing what Microsoft is doing.)

From article: "Earlier this month, the company said it was taking a one-time charge of $6.2 billion, almost exactly the amount it paid for aQuantive, an online advertising company it bought in 2007 for $6.3 billion."

It does seem like there has been progress made/realistic goals in mind. I submitted this Times piece earlier today: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/10/science/vast-deposits-of-g...

There are contracts for delivery in place: Meanwhile, Tong Ling, China’s largest importer of copper concentrates and one of the world’s largest copper smelters, recently signed a deal with Nautilus for more than a million tons of Pacific sulfide ores per year — an amount equal to about 5 percent of the world’s copper production.

One of the best sources, brought up here every now and then is from Peldi at Balsamiq: http://blogs.balsamiq.com/peldi/2008/08/05/startup-marketing...

This was essential reading for me on a couple of launches.

As to Mashable in particular, they have a startup coverage series 'Spark Of Genius.' Was a dead simple pitch (it is a form) and coverage for me there really got the ball rolling.

For other bloggers find someone how covers your niche and pitch them --- never pitch the general email address of the publication.

And one last thing - it might be worth it to pick one primary target of the big tech news sites. Once one covers you they usually all jump to follow (ie weeks old emails suddenly returned requesting interview ASAP)

The Post is a fun read. It is not a reputable 'news agency.' The ads fit the Post's profile well...