Every day, The New York Times’s staff scours the Web for interesting and peculiar items.
Here’s what we noticed today:
Skype a Decade Later
GigaOM | On Skype’s 10th birthday, an argument for why Microsoft is muffling the Internet calling service. - Nick Wingfield
This Is Why There Aren’t Enough Women in Tech
Valleywag | An eye-popping collection of horror stories from women who pursued computer science in college. - Damon Darlin
Twitter Executive to Leave
Bricoleur | Alex MacGillivray, Twitter’s general counsel, announced that he was planning to step down. - Ashwin Seshagiri (Related Bits post.)
Google Acquired WIMM Labs to Bolster Its Own Smartwatch Plans
GigaOM | Move over, Glass. Google’s smartwatch ambitions get more serious. - Claire Cain Miller
New Faces of Android: Inside Google’s Management Shuffle
The Verge | An inside look at what the departure of Hugo Barra, “a rare friendly face†at Android, means for Google’s mobile team - Claire Cain Miller
Role Models Who Reach for the Stars
The Financial Times | Is Marissa Mayer doing a disservice to women by describing herself as a geeky coder who never intended to lead? - Claire Cain Miller (Subscription required.)
In the Serengeti, Getting Close to Lions With Technology
Fast Company | A new interactive feature from National Geographic partly uses robots with cameras to capture lions from the Serengeti in their element. - Ashwin Seshagiri
Facebook Tests ‘Trending’ Section in News Feed
The Wall Street Journal Digits Blog | Two months after introducing hashtags, Facebook is experimenting with ways to make them useful in a trending section. - Ashwin Seshagiri
Covering the Syria Crisis
Syria Deeply | Journalists and technologists tell you what you need to know about the crisis in Syria, melding quick hits and long reads - Somini Sengupta
