PandoWeekly

Last month, PandoDaily editor Adam Penenberg published an in-depth story about how he challenged hackers to break into his digital personal life – and how they succeeded. The remarkable, and chilling, story was one of Pando's most widely read posts ever. Today, Penenberg talks to Hamish McKenzie about what he learned from the experience and how we can better protect our online lives. 

Early this year, photosharing apps were pretty hot. That's when Albumatic launched its take on the genre. It didn't take off as hoped, so the company pivoted, a few times, before landing on its latest iteration, Koa.la, a photosharing app that integrates with the messaging app Kik. We'll be speaking with Albumatic's founder Adam Ludwin about failing fast, the benefit's of Kik's platform, and the tricky nature of consumer-facing apps. 

In this week's episode of PandoWeekly, Erin Griffith interviews Phillippe von Borries and Justin Stefano, the co-founders and co-CEOs of Refinery29. Refinery29 just raised $20 million in fresh capital to invest in its fashion and lifestyle media property, after a year of experimenting with commerce and deciding it just wasn't worth it. We're going to have an in-depth discussion of the whole "content and commerce" trend that has swept media startups for the past year. We'll break down why commerce wasn't right for Refinery29, and whether those reasons are universal, to the category or unique to it. 

This week Erin Griffith of PandoDaily interviews hardware vet Scott Miller, who runs a "Kickstarter for hardware" crowdfunding platform called Dragon Innovation. We'll discuss scaling hardware startups, the challenges of China, and why we're in a so-called hardware revolution. 

Alexis Ohanian, Reddit co-founder and Y Combinator's "Ambassador to the East," has a new book out called "Without Their Permission." On this installment of PandoWeekly, Erin Griffith talks to Ohanian about his book, the power of the Internet, and various other Web-related things (cats?).