Andrew Benton - Charge Blog

Living the Dream of the Paperless Office

I hate paper. It gets wet. It burns easily. It gets lost. It cuts your hands. It's great for taking quick notes, but terrible for anything important. So at Bolt we try to run a completely paperless office. The first step towards avoiding paper is getting rid of your printer.

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Dear Instagram

Dear Instagram, We've seen the rumors. You're about to launch a one-touch photo messaging app to rival Snapchat. And we sincerely hope it's a spectacular success. There's just one problem: you're going to name it Bolt. We know it's a great name, because we chose it last year when we

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Reports of the Death of Phone Numbers Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

It’s become somewhat fashionable in the tech community to hate on phone numbers. In fact their impending death has been predicted for years. In 2010, a guest post in TechCrunch proclaimed that phone numbers are dead, they just don’t know it yet. The Verge published a survey of

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Passwordless Products

High-profile password heists are now depressingly common. And as we continue to entrust more of our personal information to password-protected online services, the payoff from a successful attack is only increasing. Attacks on Adobe, Zappos, and Sony’s PlayStation Network each netted tens of millions of user passwords. These were