ProductBoard raises further $10M for its product management system. The cloud software is designed to bridge the gap between customer feedback and feature requests and a company’s product road map, thus doing away with the use of disparate tools such as chat apps, email, spreadsheets and PowerPoint. (more)

Reddit is raising a huge round near a $3 billion valuation. The forthcoming Series D round is said to be led by Chinese tech giant Tencent. (more)

Ross Mayfield believes that Wiki-s are the one tool that will bring the Hacker culture to the masses. Innovative hacks eventually become parts of Platform-s, even Windows... What's particular about wikis are that they are easy. A world writable website. People actually use them responsibly.

Key Web Browser helping the World Wide Web in Crossing The Chasm. Released (for Mac) Sept'1993. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)

Brain Fart Of The Day: I'd like to see more experimentation/design of new Disputation Arena-s. (more)

Thinking Tools for generating change through a Design Framing (more)

Sean Johnson: Looking to Innovate? Ditch the Startup Mentality and Adopt a Venture Capitalist Mindset. Dwyer and Johnson advise a portfolio approach to innovation: investing in a range of ideas based on key insights into opportunities and needs. (more)

Tim O'Reilly: The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy. Most monopolies or duopolies develop over time, and have been considered dangerous to competitive markets; now they are sought after from the start and are the holy grail for investors. (Reid Hoffman and Chris Yeh’s new book Blitzscaling.) (more)

7wireVentures Closes $100M Early-Stage Connected Consumer Health Fund With New Coalition of Top U.S. Health Plans and Health Systems. 7wireVentures was founded by Managing Partners Glen Tullman (Livongo) and Lee Shapiro, well-known entrepreneurs who have worked together for more than 25 years across more than 20 companies and investments. (digital therapeutics) (more)

Reality distortion field is a term first used by Bud Tribble at Apple Computer in 1981, to describe company co-founder Steve Jobs's charisma and its effects on the developers working on the Macintosh project.[1] Tribble said that the term came from Star Trek,[1] where in the Menagerie episode, it was used to describe how the aliens created their own new world through mental force. In chapter three of Steve Jobs, biographer Walter Isaacson states that around 1972, while Jobs was attending Reed College, Robert Friedland "taught Steve the reality distortion field." The reality distortion field was said by Andy Hertzfeld to be Steve Jobs's ability to convince himself and others to believe almost anything with a mix of charm, charisma, bravado, hyperbole, marketing, appeasement and persistence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_distortion_field

Fred Wilson: The Free And Open Internet. The mainstream publications, like Washington Post, have ceded their role as the public square to places like Twitter and Medium that remain open and free. (more)

The Inventor of the Hololens Just Left Apple. AR/VR pioneer and Hololens co-inventor Avi Bar-Zeev left Apple last month, Variety has learned. Bar-Zeev had been working on Apple’s augmented reality headset, which the company has been developing in secret for a possible 2020 launch. (more)

The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, doing business as Amtrak, is a passenger railroad service that provides medium- and long-distance intercity service in the contiguous United States and to nine Canadian cities. Founded in 1971 as a quasi-public corporation to operate many U.S. passenger rail services,[1][2][3] it receives a combination of state and federal subsidies but is managed as a for-profit organization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtrak

High-speed rail (HSR) is a type of passenger rail transport that operates significantly faster than the normal speed of rail traffic. Specific definitions include 200 km/h (120 mph) for upgraded track and 250 km/h (160 mph) or faster for new track by the European Union. In Japan Shinkansen lines run at speeds in excess of 260 km/h (160 mph) and are built using standard gauge track with no at-grade crossings. In China, high-speed conventional rail lines operate at top speeds of 350 km/h (220 mph), and one maglev line reaches speeds of 430 km/h (270 mph). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail (more)

Microsoft HoloLens, known under development as Project Baraboo,[3] is a pair of mixed reality smartglasses developed and manufactured by Microsoft. HoloLens was one of the first computers running the Windows Mixed Reality platform under the Windows 10 operating system. The HoloLens can trace its lineage to Kinect, an add-on for Microsoft's Xbox gaming console that was introduced in 2010.[4] The pre-production version of HoloLens, the Development Edition, shipped on March 30, 2016, and is targeted to developers in the United States and Canada for a list price of $3000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_HoloLens

Patreon CEO says the company's generous business model is not sustainable as it sees rapid growth. Under the company's current business model, 90 percent of funds are paid directly to content creators. Patreon takes 5 percent, and the remaining 5 percent covers transaction fees. (more)

In a hot week for audio, paid newsletterer Substack introduces a way for podcasters to earn money. In another snippet of podcast news this week — wait, you didn’t see the three pieces about the Spotify/Gimlet/Anchor news? — Substack, the all-in-one independent (paid) newsletter provider, is now offering support for subscriber-only audio, too (more)

Craig Mod: Oh God, It's Raining Newsletters. Launching it has given me reason to consider the state of newsletters and email, in 2019: It’s kind of amazing. (more)

Instacart and DoorDash’s Tip Policies Are Delivering Outrage. This week, Instacart and DoorDash — two giants of the app-based delivery industry, collectively valued by investors at more than $11 billion — are under fire from critics who are accusing the companies of taking advantage of their workers with deceptive tipping policies. Both companies have admitted to putting customer tips toward workers’ minimum pay guarantees, in effect using them to subsidize their own payouts. (more)

WeChat is a Chinese multi-purpose messaging, social media and mobile payment app. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WeChat