Most realistic iPhone 6 Concept by Joseph Farahi

We’ve seen concepts of the iPhone Air before, but This actually looks like a device Jony Ive could design. This is Joseph Farahi’s 5.1-inch iPhone 6 concept.Extremely thin yet not so thin that it would be structurally weak Farahi imagines the iPhone 6 has featuring a 10 megapixel camera capable of recording 4K video, a 5.1-inch display, and a new Lighting 2 connector that is faster than the previous one. That’s certainly possible, given that Lightning was designed to be adaptable to new technologies without physical changes. I’m not sure about this “Retina Display 2’ with RGBY pixels, though. RGBY is a real thing, made by Sharp, but tests have shown that it can’t show any colors that regular displays can show… although that may be because there’s simply no media out there that actually contains information on the yellow channel. Seems like a sketchy tech for Apple to embrace, frankly.

What I like most, though, is the edge-to-edge display. Concepts oven feature bezel-less iPhones, but they’re always wildly impractical: you just can’t have a display that reaches the edge like that right now. Farahi’s edge-to-edge display has just enough bezel that the iPhone 6 looks like it would still be structurally sound, but it’s still almost imperceptible.

Google Glass in NYPD to help identify and apprehend suspects

Could Google Glass be employed by law enforcement agencies to help identify and apprehend suspects?Officials Of NYPD says that the force is testing Glass to see how it could aid officers in the field.

Google Glass is a wearable computing device that allows a user to search for information, take pictures and even record video with a built-in camera. Glass also offers a heads-up display -- what looks like a small screen in a viewer's vision is actually being projected onto the eye with a small prism.

The search giant said the company wasn’t working with law enforcement agencies on the project. That likely means the NYPD must have participated in the Google Glass Explorer program in which an interested party is required to first fill out an application for the spectacles.  If approved, the buyer must then shell out $1,500 for the opportunity to participate in the program.

“We signed up, got a few pairs of the Google glasses, and we’re trying them out, seeing if they have any value in investigations, mostly for patrol purposes,” the NYPD official told the site. “We’re looking at them, you know, seeing how they work.”

Police in San Francisco are already using Samsung Galaxy S 4 smartphones in a similar manner. Officers can tap into the force’s database to pull up information about a suspect including a rap sheet and even mug shots. They can also perform warrant checks from the handset. Such data and tasks could just as easily be displayed in Google Glass, one would imagine.

Google has once again proven itself to be a true corporate leader for equality, with a Doodle

On the eve of the XXII Winter Olympics opening ceremony, Google is taking a stand for athletes, gay, straight, or otherwise, with a new doodle on the Internet search engine's website. The logo is a harsh critique of the Russian government, which is currently hosting the 2014 winter Olympics in Sochi.

The page now shows a winter sports competitor above each of the six letters in the U.S. Internet giant's name, set against backgrounds in the six colors on the gay pride flag - red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple.

The international outcry over the law, signed by Putin last year, threatens to undermine his hopes of using the Games to portray Russia as a modern state that has come a long way since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.

The Human Rights Campaign, an LGBT rights organization, praised Google for what it called a move to show solidarity with LGBT Russians and visiting athletes.

A piece of the Olympic Charter is quoted beneath illustrations of several Winter Olympic sports:

"The practice of sport is a human right. Every individual must have the possibility of practicing sport, without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play."

"Google has once again proven itself to be a true corporate leader for equality," HRC President Chad Griffin said.

Five things you need to know about the doodle

1. Google is One of Many Websites Taking a Stand Against Russia

2. The Olympic Charter was Written in 2013

3. LGBT People in Russia are Violently Repressed

4. The United Nations Secretary-General Issued a Statement

Many professional athletes, gay and straight, are speaking out against prejudice. We must all raise our voices against attacks on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex people. We must oppose the arrests, imprisonments and discriminatory restrictions they face.

The United Nations stands strongly behind our own 'free and equal' campaign, and I look forward to working with the IOC, governments and other partners around the world to build societies of equality and tolerance. Hatred of any kind must have no place in the 21st century.

5. President Obama Would Not Go to the Olympics

Welcome Satya Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft

This is an remarkable event in the history of technological era. The software giant have selected its new CEO. For a long time Microsoft have been searching for the new CEO who can run Microsoft efficiently on era of computing. He is an Indian born American. Finally Satya Is appointed as the new CEO of Microsoft succeeding Steve Ballmer. He was an executive vice president of  Microsoft's cloud and enterprise groups. 

The 46-year-old Nadella will take over immediately, allowing Ballmer to retire early.and Bill Gates would step down as chairman and advise the new CEO on technology, marking an epochal change of control at the company that drove the PC revolution.

"I think playing cricket taught me more about working in teams and leadership that has stayed with me throughout my career," Nadella said after his appointment as Microsoft CEO was announced.

Cricket-loving Satya Nadella will get a base annual salary of USD 1.2 million as new CEO of Microsoft Corporation, but his overall package after taking into account bonus and stock awards may reach USD 18 million (Rs 112 crore) a year besides various other perks.

As per his new employment agreement, the Indian-origin CEO of USD 78-billion software major will be paid his salary on "semi-monthly" basis at an annual rate of USD 1.2 million (Rs 7.5 crore).

His first day on the job he's sent a letter to the whole staff. In the letter, Nadella speaks of what he thinks makes Microsoft a great company, and where he thinks it can go in the future. He warns that "While we have seen great success, we are hungry to do more. Our industry does not respect tradition — it only respects innovation."

You can read the letter in its entirety below.

From: Satya Nadella

To: All Employees

Date: Feb. 4, 2014

Subject: RE: Satya Nadella – Microsoft’s New CEO

Today is a very humbling day for me. It reminds me of my very first day at Microsoft, 22 years ago. Like you, I had a choice about where to come to work. I came here because I believed Microsoft was the best company in the world. I saw then how clearly we empower people to do magical things with our creations and ultimately make the world a better place. I knew there was no better company to join if I wanted to make a difference. This is the very same inspiration that continues to drive me today.

It is an incredible honor for me to lead and serve this great company of ours. Steve and Bill have taken it from an idea to one of the greatest and most universally admired companies in the world. I’ve been fortunate to work closely with both Bill and Steve in my different roles at Microsoft, and as I step in as CEO, I’ve asked Bill to devote additional time to the company, focused on technology and products. I’m also looking forward to working with John Thompson as our new Chairman of the Board.

While we have seen great success, we are hungry to do more. Our industry does not respect tradition — it only respects innovation. This is a critical time for the industry and for Microsoft. Make no mistake, we are headed for greater places — as technology evolves and we evolve with and ahead of it. Our job is to ensure that Microsoft thrives in a mobile and cloud-first world.

As we start a new phase of our journey together, I wanted to share some background on myself and what inspires and motivates me.

Who am I?

I am 46. I’ve been married for 22 years and we have 3 kids. And like anyone else, a lot of what I do and how I think has been shaped by my family and my overall life experiences. Many who know me say I am also defined by my curiosity and thirst for learning. I buy more books than I can finish. I sign up for more online courses than I can complete. I fundamentally believe that if you are not learning new things, you stop doing great and useful things. So family, curiosity and hunger for knowledge all define me.

Why am I here?

I am here for the same reason I think most people join Microsoft — to change the world through technology that empowers people to do amazing things. I know it can sound hyperbolic — and yet it’s true. We have done it, we’re doing it today, and we are the team that will do it again.

I believe over the next decade computing will become even more ubiquitous and intelligence will become ambient. The coevolution of software and new hardware form factors will intermediate and digitize — many of the things we do and experience in business, life and our world. This will be made possible by an ever-growing network of connected devices, incredible computing capacity from the cloud, insights from big data, and intelligence from machine learning.

This is a software-powered world.

It will better connect us to our friends and families and help us see, express, and share our world in ways never before possible. It will enable businesses to engage customers in more meaningful ways.

I am here because we have unparalleled capability to make an impact.

Why are we here?

In our early history, our mission was about the PC on every desk and home, a goal we have mostly achieved in the developed world. Today we’re focused on a broader range of devices. While the deal is not yet complete, we will welcome to our family Nokia devices and services and the new mobile capabilities they bring us.

As we look forward, we must zero in on what Microsoft can uniquely contribute to the world. The opportunity ahead will require us to reimagine a lot of what we have done in the past for a mobile and cloud-first world, and do new things.

We are the only ones who can harness the power of software and deliver it through devices and services that truly empower every individual and every organization. We are the only company with history and continued focus in building platforms and ecosystems that create broad opportunity.

Qi Lu captured it well in a recent meeting when he said that Microsoft uniquely empowers people to "do more." This doesn’t mean that we need to do more things, but that the work we do empowers the world to do more of what they care about — get stuff done, have fun, communicate and accomplish great things. This is the core of who we are, and driving this core value in all that we do — be it the cloud or device experiences — is why we are here.

What do we do next?

To paraphrase a quote from Oscar Wilde — we need to believe in the impossible and remove the improbable.

This starts with clarity of purpose and sense of mission that will lead us to imagine the impossible and deliver it. We need to prioritize innovation that is centered on our core value of empowering users and organizations to "do more." We have picked a set of high-value activities as part of our One Microsoft strategy. And with every service and device launch going forward we need to bring more innovation to bear around these scenarios.

Next, every one of us needs to do our best work, lead and help drive cultural change. We sometimes underestimate what we each can do to make things happen and overestimate what others need to do to move us forward. We must change this.

Finally, I truly believe that each of us must find meaning in our work. The best work happens when you know that it's not just work, but something that will improve other people's lives. This is the opportunity that drives each of us at this company.

Many companies aspire to change the world. But very few have all the elements required: talent, resources, and perseverance. Microsoft has proven that it has all three in abundance. And as the new CEO, I can’t ask for a better foundation.

Let’s build on this foundation together.

Satya

Here's the video of Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer welcoming him to Microsoft as a CEO 

And also the video of his first interview. 

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Google X Lab and Project Loon, May be The Next Paradigm Shift

I know it's a long article, but It's worth reading and sharing.

Google is a huge company with many creative ideas and hell a lot of money. They are executing their ideas one by one. Today in Internet you cannot live without a google account. Most of the products from Google are big success and obviously they are the game changers. Who push the human race forward. 

In this article I'm going to tell you about a big move of google which may be a next paradigm shift. Have you ever heard of Google X. It is a secret laboratory where the scientists a working like a mad people to bring science-fiction into reality. It is a semi secret facility located about a half a mile from Google's headquarters which is overseen by Sergey Brin. according to Wikipedia. 

Why is it secret? Google X is working on lot of project which is not existing right now. They are playing with fantasies. So the investors don't want their money to be spent in something which they consider not possible. They just want profit. The projects from Google X lab may become a very big success or it may suck . It is very simple to say that, investors will not see the bigger picture.

Google Glass is one of the project from the Google X lab which is currently in the hands of only some people called google glass explorers and developers. I don't want to go too much into the topic Google Glass. Let's go straight into our topic. 

One of the major research in the X Lab is Project Loon. So what is this project loon? In this world widely accepted global community is internet, but two-third of world's population doesn't have internet access. Project loon is a network of balloon travelling on the edge if the space, designed to connect people in rural and remote areas, helps fill coverage gaps, and bring people back online after disasters. According to the Project loon website. It may sound science fictional as I already said, but these people see the bigger picture.

How does it connects the people?. These balloons float in the stratosphere which is twice as high as airplanes and weather. They are carried around the earth by wind and they can be steered by rising or descending to an altitude with winds moving in desired direction. People connect to the balloon network using a special internet antenna attached to their building. As the balloon communicates with each other the entire globe can connect to the internet. Each balloon can provide connectivity to earth about 40 km in diameter at the speed comparable to 3G. 

Each of the balloons are powered with solar panels what is capable of producing 100 watts more than enough to run while saving the power for night use

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How does it moves? These balloons travel around 20 km above the earth's surface. Wind in these area is generally steady and slow moving. That is between 5 and 20 mph. Each layer of wind varies in direction. Software algorithms in balloons determine where the it needs to go. By moving with the wing the balloons can be arranged to form one large communication network. 

The project loon pilot text began in June 2013 on the 40 the parallel south. Thirty balloons launched from New Zealand's South Island, be beamed internet to a small group of pilot testers. 

So, that's it. Good work. Lab X 

Apple Sold 51m iPhones and 26m iPads In Its Fiscal First Quarter of 2014

Apple sold 51m iPhones in its fiscal first quarter of 2014, setting a record for its smartphone sales, while iPad sales reached 26m, another record for the firm. The California tech giant saw demand for both phones and tablets rise compared to the same three month period a year ago, up from 47.8 iPhones in fiscal Q1 2013 and 22.9m iPads.

Apple had a good quarter for new devices, with the iPhone 5s and 5c hitting the flagship and mid-tier smartphone points. Meanwhile, the iPad mini with Retina display saw Apple's smaller tablet crank up its specs, while the iPad Air trimmed the full-sized version down.

Unsurprisingly, Apple CEO Tim Cook isn't disappointed with the company's performance. The chief exec says he is "really happy" with iPhone and iPad sales, not to mention with how iTunes is growing; quarterly revenue reached $57.6bn with $13.1bn of that net profit.

"We are really happy with our record iPhone and iPad sales, the strong performance of our Mac products and the continued growth of iTunes, software and services," said Tim Cook, Apple chief executive.

While Apple remains the most valuable and among the most profitable companies, some analysts are concerned it is losing its edge and failing to keep up with rivals in the smartphone and tablet markets.

3D Printed Food is On Its Way To Your Kitchen

Do you think it is possible? Yes it is possible now. Bulky bulky machines to print your food. Listen!.. Print your food, not Cook Your food. It is completely practical and attractive for consumers. There are handful of companies in 3D printing to get the food printers into your kitchen and relieve you of your culinary duties.

Such device was unveiled at CES, when South Carolina-based company 3D Systems pulled the curtain back on the ChefJet and ChefJet Pro – two new machines that the company is billing as “the world’s first and only professionally-certified, kitchen-ready 3D food printers.”

Unlike some of the 3D food printers we’ve come across in the past, this one is designed specifically to make candy and dessert. It also works in a slightly different manner. Rather than using pre-loaded tubes to squirt out the edible printing material, ChefJet printers use a granular materials binding technique to create custom-designed sweets.

ChefJet can print sugar, chocolate, and candy in practically any design imaginable. The larger version, ChefJet Pro, is even equipped with a full palette of food colorings and dyes, which makes it possible to print some incredibly elaborate treats.

Happy birthday Macintosh. Mac turns 30

Apple, product the Macintosh have completed 30 successful years in the consumer electronic industry. It was January 24, 1984 "insanely great" product was launched and the Tv commercial for the Macintosh was awesome and people still talk about that.

"It is now 1984. It appears IBM wants it all. Apple is perceived to be the only hope to offer IBM a run for its money. Dealers initially welcoming IBM with open arms now fear an IBM dominated and controlled future. They are increasingly turning back to Apple as the only force that can ensure their future freedom. IBM wants it all and is aiming its guns on its last obstacle to industry control: Apple. Will Big Blue dominate the entire computer industry? The entire information age? Was George Orwell right about 1984?"

In December, 1983, Apple Computers ran its' famous "1984" Macintosh television commercial, on a small unknown station solely to make the commercial eligible for awards during 1984. The commercial cost 1.5 million and only ran once in 1983, but news and talk shows everywhere replayed it, making TV history. The next month, Apple Computer ran the same ad during the NFL Super Bowl, and millions of viewers saw their first glimpse of the Macintosh computer. The commercial was directed by Ridley Scott, and the Orwellian scene depicted the IBM world being destroyed by a new machine, the "Macintosh".

After the launch it have revolutionised the entire computer industry.

"Hello, I am Macintosh. Never trust a computer you cannot lift... I'm glad to be out of that bag" - said Macintosh when Steve Jobs took him out of the box and introduced him to the world

Google opens first data centres in Asia

Its new data centre in Taiwan has a 'robot' theme. The move comes as a growing number of people in Asia - which is home to more than half of the world's population - are getting connected to the internet.

Google said that having data centres in Asia will help it to provide faster and "more reliable" access to its tools and services to users in the region.

The two new centres are based in Taiwan and Singapore. 

"The growth in Asia's Internet has been amazing," Joe Kava, vice president of data centres at Google.

See also: Coolest Google Tricks

Changhua County, Taiwan Located about three hours down the coast from Taipei, our new data center in Changhua County sits on 15 hectares of land in the shadow of some of the 100 meter wind turbines that dot the coastal industrial park. The larger of our two new Asian data centers, our long-term (and expanded) investment will reach USD 600 million.

Building in Taiwan

Singapore

Singapore’s small size inspired us to try something a little different. Instead of spreading the data center out, we built it up, creating our first urban, multi-story data center. Our neighbors include a local primary school and several HDBs (for non-Singaporeans, HDBs are publicly run housing, which around 85% of Singaporean’s call home).

Singapore

"Users like speed, faster is better than slow on the web, if you think about it, you're only a click away from another service so bringing services to users in a speedy fashion and a reliable fashion is really critically important," said Julian Persaud, Managing Director, Google Southeast Asia.

"And if you look at Southeast Asia in particular, it's one of the fastest growing regions in the world for users coming online so it's important that we keep up with users and think ahead and make sure we can deliver those services quickly," he added.

Tribute to Nelson Mandela from Apple

Here is the tribute from Apple .inc to the South Africa's greatest son and the greatest father of south african people. Nelson Mandela, the former South African president whose stubborn defiance survived 27 years in prison and led to the dismantling of the country's racist and brutal apartheid system, has died. 

Read the full article in Blinkfeed. 

Today when I visited the apple'e official website this is what I found. 

Photos: Screen Shot by Vasee for Blinkfeed

Amazon Introduces Air Drones to Deliver Packages

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos revealed a secret R&D project: “Octocopter” drones that will fly packages directly to your doorstep in 30 minutes. Bezos says requires more safety testing and FAA approvals, but he estimates that delivery-by-drone, called Amazon “Prime Air,” will be available to customers in as soon as 4-5 years. 

Jeff Bezos is known for taking big bets in the world of innovation, and a video of how the service will work has already been posted to YouTube, showing the process of the package being taken from the warehouse floor and on to the front steps of the customer’s home. The idea is to have the drone deliver orders roughly 30 minutes after the customer hits the “buy” button on Amazon.com. 

"I know this looks like science fiction. It's not," Bezos told CBS television's "60 Minutes" program.

"We can do half-hour delivery... and we can carry objects, we think, up to five pounds (2.3 kilograms), which covers 86 percent of the items that we deliver."

The mini-drones are powered by electric motors and could cover areas within a 10-mile (16-kilometer) radius of fulfillment centers, thus covering a significant portion of the population in urban areas. They operate autonomously and drop the items at the target locations thanks to GPS coordinates transmitted to them.

"It’s very green, it’s better than driving trucks around," said Bezos. 

The plan is in its initial stages right now, and Bezos says that there are some regulatory issues to be worked out, we’re guessing mostly along the lines of how to make sure a drone doesn’t drop package onto unwary pedestrians. Bezos appears optimistic though, and believes that the near future will see armadas or drones zipping around cities.

"Companies have short life spans... And Amazon will be disrupted one day," he said.

"I would love for it to be after I’m dead."

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The Evolution of the Apple Logo

The first Apple logo was designed in 1976 by Ronald Wayne, sometimes referred to as the third co-founder of Apple. The logo depicts Isaac Newton sitting under a tree, an apple dangling precipitously above his head. The phrase on the outside border reads, “Newton… A Mind Forever Voyaging Through Strange Seas of Thought … Alone.”

Not surprisingly, the logo only lasted a year before Steve Jobs commissioned graphic designer Rob Janoff to come up with something, oh I don’t know, a little bit more modern. Janoff’s eventual design would go on to become one of the most iconic and recognizable corporate logos in history.

According to Janoff, the “bite” in the Apple logo was originally implemented so that people would know that it represented an apple, and not a tomato. It also lent itself to a nerdy play on words (bite/byte), a fitting reference for a tech company. Quick sidenote: Corporate design sure was a lot simpler in the 70′s. Nowadays, companies like Pepsi spend millions of dollars on logo re-designs that are based on complete BS and new age mumbo jumbo.

TInkering with one of the most recognizable logos in the world wasn’t done simply because Steve Jobs is always looking to change things up. When Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, the company was bleeding money, and Jobs and Co. realized that the Apple logo could be leveraged to their advantage. That meant experimenting with larger logos to make it more prominent.  If the shape of the Apple logo was universally recognizable, why not not put it where people could see it?

The Spaceship Campus. New Campus Of Apple.Inc

Have you ever seen a 2.8 million square foot spaceship parked in a man made garden Cupertino, Calif. It is a new campus of Apple informally called as Spaceship campus since it is in a oval shape glass-sheathed oval main building, whose 3D renderings were revealed in October, and an underground parking lot that can hold 2,400 vehicles. The campus will include a 100,000 square foot fitness center and a 120,000 square foot auditorium; additionally, Apple plans to build another 600,000 square feet worth of office and R&D buildings. It was proposed by Steve Jobs in 2011 but it is finally get approved by the city council of San Jose.  If you're an Apple employee who drives to work, you'll enter the campus at a freshly constructed security point at North Wolfe Road, on the west edge of the site.The lucky ones will quickly be diverted into a discrete, futuristic tunnel, where a subterranean service road will give them access to a two-level, 2,000-space parking garage underneath the mothership itself. Otherwise, you'll have to wind your way to the south edge of the campus to the above-ground parking garage.

Top Tech CEOs

Mark Zuckerberg pulls the strings of Facebook Inc. In fact he has been the chairman and CEO of the company since 2004. The press has highly publicized the youngest billionaire and gave him a positive image. Even if The Social Network, a film made by David Fincher, said “you don’t get 500 millions friends without making a few enemies”. It seems to be different in reality, a survey from GlassDoor showed that 99% of polled internet users approved him as the CEO of Facebook. His popularity is intact, but what about his skills. Mark Zuckerberg was at the forefront 8 years ago, but will he be at the forefront in the coming years? Nothing could be less certain. In fact, Facebook has not innovated much in the last two years, while competitors such as Google Plus or other upcoming social networks arrive with new concepts and ideas.

Jeff Weiner served in various leadership roles at Yahoo for over seven years beginning in 2001. Then he became the CEO of LinkedIn, a business-related social networking website.

I put him in this top 5 because of his mindset. As a manager, Weiner takes time to acknowledge relatively small accomplishments by his employees. He always ends a speech by asking to the audience what he could have done better.

Larry Page, Google’s cofounder and CEO since April 2011, saw the company through the $50 billion revenue milestone in 2012. The role of a CEO is not necessarily to be widely publicized, you just have to find the right balance between skills and commitment. In contradiction with others CEOs, he has a quiet and reserved personality coupled with intense passion and will.Larry Page do not think that Google Inc. is restricted to a search engine. This is why he has supported the research and development which is essential in the field of technology to diversify its services. This strategy is already bearing fruit, Google has expanded its market to Chromebook, Google Plus, Android, Google Glass, Blogger, Youtube, Google Chrome, GMail and much more.

Jeff Bezos played a key role in the growth of e-commerce as the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, Inc. In 2008, he was selected by U.S. News & World Report as America’s best CEO. He thinks that “long-term thinking squares the circle” And it works, his small books store became the fifth most visited website in the United States of America. But the long term is not enough, he also innovates in the short term. The best example is probably the Amazon Kindle, a cheap tablet that can be accessed in high brightness. As of October 2012, about 7 million units have been sold according to estimates by Forrester Research, making the Kindle Fire the second-best-selling tablet after the iPad

Ginni Rometty’s appointment as President and CEO of IBM in 2011 was a landmark event at one of the most storied companies in the world and an icon of American technology innovation. According to Forbes, she is in the second most powerful woman in the field of technology and she has the first spot in their annual ranking of the Most Powerful Women in Business.

The reason why I added Ginni Rometty in this classification is that she has successfully restructured IBM. That was not an easy task. Indeed, during the period from 2000 to 2007, the action did not ceased to fall. The reasons: a bad strategy and incorrect positioning on the market. Then, the company has refocused on research and data management. This strategy worked, IBM has doubled its share value in less than 5 years.

Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel's $3 Billion Rejection Letter to Mark

Yo Zuckerbro, 

I wanted to hit you up personally to tell you how gutted I am that stuff didn’t work out between Facebook and Snapchat. It’s a bummer, but Facebook just isn’t the smexy young hookup we’re looking for, $3 billion or not. Sorry to be a buzzkill. 

I’m sure you get it, brosepher. You can probably still remember being a hot-to-trot brogrammer, back in the day, when you were still 23. Remember how, when you weren’t hella old, shit just kind of came to you, like how you had your hand on the pulse of digital innovation, or how your parents gave you a brand-new Escalade, and then pulled strings so you could park it next to your high school?

We both know what it’s was like to be a little too badass for college — you for Harvard, and me for Stanford. We also both know how to party hard in Palo Alto. I bet your ragers with Sean Parker are pretty similar to the stuff that got my frat, Kappa Sigma, kicked off campus.

And then there’s the fact that we’re both total geniuses. You came up with Facemash to look at pictures of chicks, and I invented Picaboo so hotties would send me nude selfies. You crushed it, and after one thing led to another, your company became the new hotness. But then your classmates got all greedy, and started claiming that maybe you kind of screwed your certified bros out of a lot of money. What even is that? We’ve both been there, brogellan. Good thing we’re too rich to care.

That’s why you’ll totally understand that the reason Snapchat couldn’t take your money is that — no offense, bro — it’s ‘cause even though we don’t have any kind of revenue stream, in a few years, our mascot, Ghostface Chillah, is going to be all kind of dancing on Facebook’s grave. I’m sorry, but kids just don’t do Facebook anymore, Zuck. You’re like Tom from Myspace. Or what was that other thing our parents had? Friendster? Did they have a mascot? 

I get it. It’s hard out there for a disruptive technologist pimp. Not everyone can create an app that perfectly captures the ephemeral and fluid nature of human communication. After all, aren’t sexts just back-alley flashing made digital? Doesn’t the transience of Snapchat’s dick pics mirror that of Anthony Weiner’s political career?

But bro. Bro. Don’t sweat it. I am like 100% certain that your next startup will be huge. If you haven’t come up with an idea, you should totally start shopping around for one. I hear Uber drivers have some bitchin’ schemes these days. 

Boom.

Warm brogards,

- Evan Spiegel, Snapchat co-founder and CEO"