April 2012
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The Gmail Redesign →
parislemon:
A ton of people I know seem to be bitching about this (as it was just forced upon everyone). IMO, the new design is better than the old one (just look as Jason Crawford’s side-by-sides at the end), but change is hard and all that.
The reality is that both designs pretty much blow. Gmail itself has become a big nightmare. As a backend for email, it’s awesome. As a web app, it’s...
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“So, nobody has heard of you or your company? Then allow us to optimize your...”
– WebFocus Solutions, Inc.
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Facebook now has over 900 million active users
bitshare:
Facebook just passed a momentous turning point in the number of active users it has. For a while, they were in the 800-850 million user threshold, but in an amendment to their S-1 IPO filing, they say they now have 901 million active users.
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“Want to control specific contents of your website? We can leave it...”
– WebFocus Solutions, Inc. referring to Content Management Systems
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“Social media is here to stay. We need to get past the point in which we...”
– danah boyd: Whether the digital era improves society is up to its users – that’s us (via greggyour)
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“Having problems with your online ordering system? Let us solve it for you. Oh,...”
– WebFocus Solutions, Inc.
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If We Feel Too Busy, It's Probably Due to Having... →
infoneer-pulse:
Objectively time is constant. A minute is a minute. But when we have a lot to do, it usually feels like we have less time. Now a study finds an interesting wrinkle in time: when we busy ourselves with selfless tasks, time seems to expand. The work will be published the journal Psychological Science.
» via Scientific American
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“When you see a website with stunning graphics and easy navigation, it must...”
– WebFocus Solutions, Inc.
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N. Korea's website was built with $15 and an...
bitshare:
The United States and North Korean relationship has been tumultuous, with a recent and big flare up when North Korea decided to launch a ‘satellite’ into space. The U.S. firmly suspected that N. Korea was launching a missile into space, which could be positioned to hit many countries including the U.S., saying the launch was a direct threat to the U.S. North Korea, not really giving an...
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“Just under half of the respondents think Company Training (that includes...”
– Only 14% think that company training is an essential way for them to learn in the workplace | Learning in the Social Workplace (via infoneer-pulse)
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Amazon's knock-off problem (35 Shades of Grey,... →
infoneer-pulse:
Perhaps it should be called Spamazon.
Until recently, if you had typed “Steve Jobs Isaac” into the online retailer’s search box, the first choice that popped up wasn’t the best selling book by Walter Isaacson, but instead one with the same name and a similarly sounding author, Isaac Worthington. The book appears to be selling, even though Amazon’s one reviewer gives the book a...
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The Futures Agency: 3D Printing and Hollywood →
futuresagency:
A few years ago I had the opportunity to work on several television projects, for producers like Steven Bochco, on shows that were to be set in the future. In providing technical advice, one thing I mentioned to prop and set designers was that rapid prototyping and 3D printing had advanced…
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“Amazon is squeezing everyone out of business,” said Randall White, EDC’s chief...”
– Amazon’s E-Book Pricing a Constant Thorn for Publishers - NYTimes.com (via infoneer-pulse)
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“The resume of the future should enable candidates to tell their story without...”
– The Cloud Will Kill The Resume, And That’s a Good Thing | TechCrunch (via infoneer-pulse)
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Retweet This!!!! →
parislemon:
I was positive — POSITIVE — that the “Windows RT” name was a joke when I first heard it earlier.
Turns out, it wasn’t a joke.
It should have been a joke.
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“Although a world leader in digital search capability, Google took the position...”
– Google Is Faulted for Impeding U.S. Inquiry on Data Collection - NYTimes.com (via infoneer-pulse)
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“What Google’s Vic Gundotra didn’t talk about when he announced the changes this...”
– Why Does The New Google Use So Much Whitespace? | TechCrunch (via ideasatrandom)
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Wikipedia Goes To College →
infoneer-pulse:
Wikipedia is the current king of the encyclopedia world. Encyclopaedia Britannica, remember, announced they were ceasing print publication several weeks ago. Now Wikipedia—and their parent Wikimedia Foundation—want to conquer the final frontier: Academia. If Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales and his acolytes have their way, professors will edit Wikipedia pages in their fields, add content...
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Fun Facts About the 11 "Greatest Books for Kids"
mentalflossr:
Parent & Child magazine recently put out a list of the 100 Greatest Books for Kids. Here are the top 11, along with some flossy tidbits about each.
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World Bank decides to make its research open... →
infoneer-pulse:
The World Bank is the frequent target of criticism, protests, and even riots. Critics feel the organization exerts a disproportionate influence on the economies and policies of less powerful nations. As a large, transnational bureaucracy it can be impenetrable at the best of times, moreso if those manning the fiduciary barricades are resistant to change.
Perhaps it is the...
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RIAA: Innovation is the Best Way to Kill Piracy →
infoneer-pulse:
It took more than half a decade, but there’s finally something we can agree on with the RIAA. After suing college students, shutting down LimeWire and pushing for draconian anti-piracy laws, the RIAA now finally admits that the best answer to illegal downloading is innovation. A milestone, but unfortunately also a message that is bundled with the usual creative statistics that...
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One Man's Quest to Make Information Free →
infoneer-pulse:
Carl Malamud once told a senior official at the Securities and Exchange Commission that he wanted to put the agency’s filings online. “I just don’t think people who use the Internet are going to be interested in this stuff,” Malamud remembers the official saying in 1993. Malamud bought all the filings and put them online anyway, using a computer borrowed from his friend Eric...
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“Most people resist change. Most organizations resist change. The hard-working...”
– Innovations in Higher Education? Hah! - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education (via infoneer-pulse)
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Thought You Should See This: Unilever's Open... →
thoughtyoushouldseethis:
In Why Unilever Is Betting On Open Innovation For Sustainability, Joel Makower reports how Unilever is pushing the envelope when it comes to open innovation, having published its own list of ‘wants’ on which it is actively seeking outside help. These range from super serious,…
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Instagram acquired by Facebook, service will stay... →
thenextweb:
More to follow
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“In November 2006, Google bought the video sharing powerhouse YouTube for an...”
– Instagram Just Became The YouTube of Photos (via thenextweb)
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“It’s so much more than that. It’s a state of mind. It’s an approach to a...”
– Startups, This Is How Design Works (via 9-bits)
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Crazed kitty attacks owner, smashes window to... →
newsweek:
Worth clicking through for the photos. :(
[Update: Dear publishers, please don’t add that “read more: link” thing when we copy/paste. It’s hacky.]
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Facebook returns the favor and sues the shirt off...
bitshare:
Well this is an interesting twist, but it was expected. After Yahoo! stupidly decided to sue the pants off of Facebook, Facebook has decided to volley this back to Yahoo! with a counter suit of their own. Facebook said they would defend themselves against Yahoo!, but I don’t think Yahoo! expected a counter suit.
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Abandoning "Android" To "Play" In The Tablet Space →
parislemon:
The idea put forth by Charlie Kindel is that Google will transition the brand from “Android” to “Play” to help with image/marketing.
This is not as crazy as it sounds.
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“Well, I believe the definition of whether you love your job, is whether you look...”
– Alex MacCaw, When you should quit your job (via 9-bits)
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“If each function across the publishing company is responsible for their own...”
– Metadata is everyone’s responsibility - O’Reilly Radar (via infoneer-pulse)
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“We adore chaos because we love to produce order.”
– M.C. Escher (via crankyangela)
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Badass JavaScript: WebKit.js: Yes it has finally... →
badassjs:
I knew this was going to happen eventually, it was just a matter of time. WebKit has been ported to JavaScript, and no, this is not just some Emscripten compile, it is a full hand port of the popular browser engine to JS. WebKit.js uses WebGL as a rendering backend and basically enables…
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Google's Best Mobile Business: The iPhone →
parislemon:
Speaking of Android being a nice little business for companies not named Google, it’s only fair to point out that the iPhone is also a nice business for companies beyond Apple. In fact, as Charles Arthur writes for The Guardian:
The figures also suggest that Apple devices such as the iPhone, which use products such as its Maps as well as Google Search in its Safari browser,...
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Technoccult: Holding a Gun Makes You Think Others... →
technoccult:
I wonder if this remains true even if the test subject is just carrying a gun, but not holding it in their hands (ie, if it applies to cops with holstered guns):
The researchers varied the situation in each experiment – such as the having the people in the images sometimes wear ski masks,…
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Oscar-Winning Films Recreated With Peeps
mentalflossr:
The Washington Post recently announced the winners of its sixth annual Peeps Show diorama contest. This year’s finalists were heavy on politics, but over six years, many of the best entries depict scenes from our favorite movies.
Read More: Hollywood Peeps: 15 Oscar-Winning Films in Marshmallow
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Who Makes Money from Campaign Spending? →
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futurejournalismproject:
ProPublica turns campaign spending on its head a bit with an interactive that lets Users track who’s making money off it. So, instead of looking at who’s donating to campaigns and Super PACs, they look at the top 200 recipients of campaign largesse.
Topping the list, Mentzer Media Services. The former Swift Boat Veterans for Truth video producers have raked...
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