Five Hundred Words
medium.com/five-hundred-words · Group blog · on HN since 2014
Five Hundred Words is a Medium publication with short tech commentary on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Apple and notifications.
What HN saysHN links it for opinion pieces on Instagram's geotagging and on hacking the Twitter stream; the given comments offer little judgment of the blog itself.
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Most-shared posts
- 1“Facebook is not worth $33,000,000,000”2 people · 19 points · first shared 2014 · 3 comments on HN
- 2There Is No App: The Notification *Is* The Message2 people · 7 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 3Instagram Just Geotagged Us To Hell2 people · 4 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 4Hacking the Tweet Stream2 people · 2 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 5The Perception of Apple Watch vs. MagicBand1 people · 7 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 6Whither Twitter?1 people · 6 points · first shared 2014 · 2 comments on HN
- 7It Would Be Weird If Apple *Wasn’t* Working on a Car1 people · 5 points · first shared 2015 · 2 comments on HN
- 8It’s No Longer A Smartphone, It’s A Smartcamera1 people · 4 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 9The Broken Clock1 people · 3 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 10“Facebook is not worth $33,000,000,000”1 people · 3 points · first shared 2014 · 1 comments on HN
- 11Instagram Just Geotagged Us to Hell – Five Hundred Words1 people · 2 points · first shared 2014 · 2 comments on HN
- 12Explain A TV Remote Control To Me Like I’m Five1 people · 2 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 13Google Maps was better than MapQuest, but it took more than that for it to win1 people · 2 points · first shared 2015 · 1 comments on HN
- 14Nintendo’s 1-Up1 people · 2 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 15The Race To The Next Platform Is On1 people · 2 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
davidadamojr · 2015-01-28
Yes. Good points raised. I guess the lack of these capabilities is an "expensive" tradeoff for the slight convenience.
Judging by the comments on this blog post (https://medium.com/five-hundred-words/hacking-the-tweet-stream-52ed63a… there is obviously no consensus as to whether this trend is good or bad. Some hate it, some find it convenient.
bluthru · 2014-05-14
"Instagram Just Geotagged Us To Hell: When Politics Drive Product Decisions, We All Lose"
https://medium.com/five-hundred-words/dad4c3736409