TikTok’s clever new feature dispenses with the ‘link in bio’ nonsense

When you’re watching a cooking TikTok, it can be annoying to manually note down the ingredients, or follow the link in the creator’s bio to see the recipe. However, the app has a nifty new feature that solves this problem. TikTok released afunctioncalled Jump that lets creators use mini-apps with their videos. Here’s how it works: if the feature is enabled, you can include a link for showing stats, ingredients, a Wikipedia article, or a quiz....

2 min · 349 words · Casey Jones

Tim Cook announces special event for Apple employees celebrating Steve Jobs

Today, Apple CEO Tim Cook sent out a letter to Apple employees informing them of a celebration to be had this coming Wednesday. In the mournful wake ofSteve Jobs’ passing, Cook reveals that this event will be held in honor of the Apple’s former CEO and all that he’s brought to the company while alive and well. The event will be held on October 19th at 10:00 a.m. PST in the Infinite Loop campus in Cupertino and will be open to all Apple employees, though more information is available to these members through the company’s internal AppleWeb system....

3 min · 514 words · Lisa Elliott

Tim Cook is now Apple’s left brain, but who will be its right?

Now that Steve Jobs has stepped down as Apple’s CEO and taken the position of Chairman of the Board, the future of the company is on everyone’s mind. Thankfully, the road to the future was prepared for carefully, as fits a company as shrewd as Apple. To this end, Apple’s COO Tim Cook is officially assuming the CEO spot that he’s held in an interim fashion since January, when Jobs took his latest health leave....

5 min · 965 words · Christopher Gibson

Tim Cook’s letter to Apple employees: “I love Apple” and “Apple is not going to change”

Freshly minted Apple CEO Tim Cook has sent a letter out to Apple employees this morning,reports Ars Technica. The letter contains words of encouragement and reassurance that Apple is ‘not going to change’. Cook says that Apple will stay true to the culture that Steve created. Team: I am looking forward to the amazing opportunity of serving as CEO of the most innovative company in the world. Joining Apple was the best decision I’ve ever made and it’s been the privilege of a lifetime to work for Apple and Steve for over 13 years....

3 min · 634 words · Shawn Mitchell

Tim Ferriss: The Eternal Student

To the few of you who may have not have heard ofTim Ferriss. The man is one of only a few people I’ve met who truly seems to make every minute count. At 33 he’s alreadybroken a world record, he’s written twobest-selling books, he travels the world givinginspiring talks, he speaks 5 languages and he invests in or advises a number of extremely high profile startups – Twitter, StumbleUpon and Posterous to name a few....

6 min · 1262 words · Christina Giles
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