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Facebook’s Brilliant Disaster
So I guess you’ve heard about the recent initial public offering that didn’t turn out the way it was supposed to. The company’s Wall Street advisers misjudged the market, and, on its first day of…
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Game Closure Poaches Zynga’s CTO Of Mobile To Lead HTML5 Game Development
Last we heard from Game Closure, the young startup had just turned down offers from Zynga and Facebook on its way to a $12 million raise from Highland Capital, Greylock, Benchmark, General Catalyst,…
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Type + Code: Processing For Designers
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Super intern Maeghan Smulders lands 47 job offers (and one job) after 112...
Maeghan Smulders at the offices of BNotions, an androi
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X-rays and iPads: The network healthcare evolution
Photo illustration by Aurich Lawson At the rate technology has changed everything else in our lives, by now we should have the equivalent of tricorders in our smartphones—instant access to our…
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4 days ago
Why We Lie
Research shows that nearly everyone cheats a little if given the opportunity. Dan Ariely, author of the new book, "The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty," explains why. (Photo courtesy Shutterstock)…
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Mind-Controlled Games Become Reality
Answers allows you to tap the knowledge of Community members. Answer a question below or ask a question. Q: Where would a person exchange foreign coins in larger quantities. Are there locations…
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How to Read Mathematics
This article is part of my new book Rediscovering Mathematics, soon out in paperback! You can purchase the book at MAA or Amazon. How to Read Mathematics Shai Simonson and Fernando Gouvea Mathematics…
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Touchless Interactions
Marketers spend countless hours working on content strategy, retaining agencies and media companies to syndicate their message to get users to “touch” and experience their content.…
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6 days ago
The next Xbox, Apple’s TV, and where you plug in the darn controllers
It was a disappointment, when Microsoft made it known that the next Xbox will not be hitting the market until next year. There had been oodles of, and I would posit not totally unfounded, rumors that…
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6 days ago
For Tech Start-Ups, New York Has Increasing Allure
In Tech, East Chases West: As technology companies focus more on creating consumer products, New York is emerging as a viable alternative to Silicon Valley. When Doug Imbruce wanted to start an…
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6 days ago
A plan to stop ordinary folk from buying cars
A pedestrian paradise IT IS a fast-growing Asian country with slow-moving cars. Indonesia’s traffic jams make molasses look runny. The delays may be irksome, but they are symptoms of a boom.…
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6 days ago
Pentagram Celebrates its 40th Anniversary
RT : Pentagram celebrates its 40th anniversary with this charming motion graphic by
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How Tim Cook is changing Apple
FORTUNE -- In February of this year, a group of investors visited Apple as part of a "bus tour" led by a research analyst for Citibank. The session started with a 45-minute presentation by Peter…
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7 days ago
using a cast iron skillet ain't so hard!
cast iron cookware in a nutshell: 1) use a good cast iron skillet with a glassy-smooth cooking surface (Griswold or Wagner). The new cast iron with the rough cooking surface is gonna be frustrating…
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7 days ago
Climbing Into the Future, or Just Into an Artist’s Whimsy
Cloud City, this summer’s commission for the roof garden of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Participatory art is all the rage these days, an ever-expanding category and, increasingly, a means for…
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7 days ago
How To Evolve Your Career
Call it vocational Darwinism: seeing similarities between the Galapagos Islands and our recession-era ecosystem, Nacie Carson wrote The Finch Effect to help you be more like those titular…
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7 days ago
Reinventing Education To Teach Creativity And Entrepreneurship
As you read this, students all over the country are sitting for state standardized exams. Schools spend up to 40% of the year on test prep, so that, shall we say, no child is left behind.…
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8 days ago
5 Lessons For Using Open Innovation To Maximize The Wisdom Of The Crowd
Whether you like it or not, competition today is fierce. And it’s only going to get fiercer. Where the old battleground was price and efficiency, the new one will be innovation and time to…
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8 days ago
5 Opportunities For Ed Tech To Amplify Children’s Curiosity, Not Destroy It
It’s easy to be depressed about the state of our educational system. Progress is often trapped in a political holy war between over-testing, which dulls curiosity and boil the humanity away…
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8 days ago
The Future Of Collaboration
A Collaborative Fund-curated series on creativity and values written by thought leaders in the for-profit, for-good business space. Can Online Video Usher In A New Age Of Empathy? Written by: Hunter…
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8 days ago
Dia Outlines New Plan for Building in Chelsea
After the Dia Art Foundation announced plans to build on the footprint of one of its previous exhibition sites in Chelsea — giving it a major presence in New York for the first time since 2004 — Dia…
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8 days ago
Zentangle: Pattern-Drawing as Meditation
If greater creativity and more mental balance are among your new year’s resolutions, look no further than Zentangle — a type of meditation achieved through pattern-making, created by artist duo Maria…
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8 days ago
Microsoft's View of the Future Workplace is Brilliant, Here's Why
Quite simply, our workspaces will have to change to digital workspaces. And only a few companies like Microsoft and IBM are talking about this. What I’ve seen in my research with executives…
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9 days ago
What CEOs Expect From An Interview Candidate
Having written about what CEOs look for in the resumes of job applicants last week, I enjoyed it so much I thought I’d bring you along for the first interview. First interviews are tricky…
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9 days ago
Principia Arbiter – Aen on thinking and design.
The 44-pixel block is, in many ways, the basic unit of mea sure ment for the iPhone inter face, estab lish ing the visual rhythm of many iPhone apps. That met ric is sig nif i cant as the rec om…
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George Loewenstein gets real about behavioral economics
Economic theory often informs public policy. So it’s no surprise that, in recent years, as pockets of economists have taken a cue from psychology and started to form models that assume human…
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9 days ago
How your emotions can cost you money
Economist George Loewenstein brings together economics and psychology to study how we make decisions.(MONEY Magazine) -- If you haven't been feeling emotional about money lately, you must have an…
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9 days ago
#10: Economist George Loewenstein
Classical economics is based on the premise that people act rationally, making logical decisions about how and why they spend their money. But a year that brought economic panic and the worst…
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George Loewenstein
George F. Loewenstein (born August 9, 1955)[1] is an American educator and economist. He is the Herbert A. Simon Professor of Economics and Psychology in the Social and Decision Sciences Department at
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Facebook's IPO Was Bound To Be A Mess, It's A Young Company
Getty ImagesThe Facebook IPO is only a few days old, and the organizations involved have emerged with tarnished images. What’s more, the actions and inactions of the parties related to the IPO have…
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9 days ago
The Homeland Creators Have an Explanation for Everything
Homeland showrunners Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon.
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9 days ago
Mad Men Recap: Hare Krishna
When Don Draper pulled the brim of his hat down over his eyes and said a dashing farewell to Joan in "Christmas Waltz," I felt something I hadn’t yet felt during this otherwise excellent…
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9 days ago
The Killing Recap: Butterfly Effect
This week on The Killing, we meet Rosie Larsen’s real father, David Ranier, and he seems to be pretty great. He’s handsome. He lives in one of those TV houses whose kitchens make you…
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9 days ago
Regulators Ask If All Facebook Investors Were Treated Equally
Mark Lennihan/Associated PressA number of lawsuits were filed in connection with Facebook‘s I.P.O.As Washington intensifies its scrutiny of the initial public offering of Facebook, the company’s…
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9 days ago
10 Tools to Get the Most Out of Netflix
Netflix offers thousands of movies and TV shows online, but finding videos you want to watch can nonetheless prove challenging. Luckily, there are tons of mash-ups, search engines and other tools…
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9 days ago
Work While Traveling the World
Beta   On Blog Art + Travel in Renaissance Italy I’ve been obsessed with art, art history, and Renaissance Italy since I was a teenager. Art was by far my
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Mountain Lion on Mac Will Change TV and Delight Cord Cutters
The next iteration of Mac OS X is coming. It doesn't have a launch date yet, but it likely will by the time Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference wraps up next month.  While most of the…
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15 days ago
Is Square an unpleasant place to work?
As a past employee of Square, I will say it was the best place I ever worked, then slowly became the worst. The culture is absolutely one of brainwashing with transparency constantly being touted as…
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15 days ago
Want Facebook Shares? HK’s 8 Securities Offers $200 Of Them If You Join Its Trading Platform
With Facebook announcing its ballsy stock price of $38 yesterday and all eyes now on what will happen with the social network when it finally goes public today, a new trading platform in Hong Kong, 8…
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15 days ago
The Facebook Offering
Find a company Company value In billions Year of I.P.O. To view an interactive version of this graphic, use a browser with SVG support, such as Chrome, Firefox,
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Missing link
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16 days ago
This gallery is a curated selection of software developed with Cinder.
About Features Gallery Reference Forum Blog Download Featured Project Planetary by Bloom Planetary is a stunningly beautiful way to explore your music collection, available on iPad. Fly through a 3D…
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16 days ago
I’m Through With Paper
Hello, Retina screens. Goodbye, ink on paper. Image courtesy Apple I didn’t expect to quit paper so easily. Sure, I love technology, but I also love reading, and I’ve always found paper to be the…
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What Eduardo Saverin owes America. (Hint: Nearly everything.)
When Eduardo Saverin was 13, his family discovered that his name had turned up on a list of victims to be kidnapped by Brazilian gangs. Saverin’s father was a wealthy businessman in São…
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16 days ago
20120512 | Material Matters II
Description: Material Matters II is a two-day intensive design, prototyping, and fabrication workshop to be held in New York City during the weekend of May 12-13, 2011. As the next installment in the…
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16 days ago
Vimeo Co-founder Starts DIY.org, An Online, Social Scrapbook For Kids
Used to be, if your kid crayoned a portrait of the family dog, you slapped it on the refrigerator for all to see (“all” being, well, the rest of the household). But such small-time…
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16 days ago
Twitter is tracking you on the web by Dustin Curtis
In a blog post today announcing Twitter's new tailored suggestions system is something that has left me shocked: an overt admission by Twitter that it is transparently tracking your movements around…
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16 days ago
Computer scientists show what makes movie lines memorable
ScienceDaily (May 8, 2012) — Whether it's a line from a movie, an advertising slogan or a politician's catchphrase, some statements take hold in people's minds better than others. But why?…
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5 Reasons to Download Autodesk Inventor Fusion Now
Autodesk, maker of CAD programs AutoCAD, 3DS Max and Maya, has announced a new addition to its family of products: Autodesk Inventor Fusion. It is an amazing “prosumer” extension to…
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Glitch Textiles « Phillip Stearns
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Google launches Knowledge Graph, a new intelligent search platform
Google has just launched Knowledge Graph, the latest refinement to its search engine product that seeks to provide users with more relevant and in-depth responses to search queries. Along with the…
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16 days ago
How Facebook learned to take its time with Timeline
Facebook's never been a company known for its reliance on focus groups or user feedback. On the contrary, the social network has consistently deployed new features, designs, and policy changes when…
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16 days ago
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Reuters Agrees: The Next iPhone Will Be Larger
The Wall Street Journal made waves yesterday. Citing unnamed sources, the Journal reported Apple is ordering larger touchscreens for the next iPhone. Now, citing its own unnamed sources, Reuters…
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16 days ago
Pipe: file sharing in the Facebook age is about to get real
A new app for the social network wants to turn peer-to-peer into friend-to-friend Previous Story Watch this: Iron Man sketched out on a 1984 Macintosh "We've set up the hottest club in East Berlin,…
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17 days ago
How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet
Web startups are made out of two things: people and code. The people make the code, and the code makes the people rich. Code is like a poem; it has to follow certain structural requirements, and yet…
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17 days ago
How To Turn A Job You Hate Into A Job You Love
This is a guest post by Nisa Chitakasem, co-author of the book, How to Get the Job You Want. She blogs at Career Blog. Getty Images Even people who are relatively happy at work go through periods…
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17 days ago
How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit
T. Mills Kelly encourages his students to deceive thousands of people on the Web. This has angered many, but the experiment helps reveal the shifting nature of the truth on the Internet. …
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17 days ago
6 Navigation Apps That Go the Extra Mile
With a smartphone and the right app, you can find any spot on Earth. But the best navigation apps do a lot more. Look out for that speed trap. Here are six mobile navigation tools. To make the list,…
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17 days ago
Jeff Fong | The 100 Most Creative People in Business 2012
Airports may be frustrating, but give them this: "The signage is so clean, pure, and direct, it helps you navigate a very complicated environment," Jeff Fong says. "I wondered, Can we apply that same…
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17 days ago
A good interface can override loyalty to a brand
Having a great interface can override loyalty to a brand, meaning that a devout Times reader might access their news from the Guardian if the Guardian's app is better, according to Ian Wharton,…
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17 days ago
Greece to hold fresh elections as unity talks fail
Alexis Tsipras's Syriza alliance took a surprise second place in the 6 May election with opinion polls suggesting it would come out on top in event of a new ballot. Photograph: Yorgos…
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17 days ago
Travelwise: The cities that never sleep
In a 2011 study of the world’s 24-hour cities, Cairo was ranked the “most 24-hour” of all. Just behind Egypt’s capital came Montevideo, Beirut, six Spanish cities (Malaga,…
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20 days ago
What Eduardo Saverin Owes America (Hint: Nearly Everything) | PandoDaily
What Eduardo Saverin owes America. (Hint: Nearly everything.) <- amazing piece
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Circle: If Highlight And Path Had A Beautiful Ambient Location Child
The people behind college flirting network Likealittle have launched a new app in the App Store, Circle, an app that attempts to be more granular and thoughtful about the burgeoning ambient location…
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21 days ago
What to Expect from the Maps App If Apple Ditches Google Maps in iOS 6
The current version of Maps, powered by Google, could be replaced in iOS 6. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired Apple might be moving away from its dependence on Google for its Maps app. Apple will…
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21 days ago
html5shiv and Serving Content From Code Repositories | Zoompf
Html5shiv and Serving Content From Code Repositories...
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Daring Fireball: iOS Low-Hanging Fruit
★ iOS Low-Hanging Fruit
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Processing Article
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HBO Has Only Itself To Blame For Record 'Game Of Thrones' Piracy
HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ is on its way to becoming the number one pirated show in America. Of course, they have only themselves to blame for this. A Lannister may always pay his…
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23 days ago
7 Must-Read Books on Maps
From tattoos to Thomas Moore s Utopia, or what Moby Dick has to do with the nature of time. We re obsessed with maps a fundamental sensemaking mechanism for the world, arguably the earliest form of…
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23 days ago
How to Build a Startup from a Beach
So you decided to start a company. You assembled your team and are ready to start hacking. What now? Pack your bags and head to Hawaii! Rent a house. Code up a storm. Hit the beach. Rinse and repeat…
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23 days ago
There Were 1.6 Million Tweets About Gay Marriage Yesterday
At exactly 3:01 yesterday afternoon, I looked over at TweetDeck and saw this:Well, good for Barack Obama. This is what leadership is about RT @emilybazelon: He did it!-- James Fallows (@JamesFallows)…
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23 days ago
Aiming For The Google Maps Behemoth, UpNext Releases Vector Mapping iPhone App
UpNext, an angel funded New York start-up, makes beautiful maps. Using a number of clever views, the team has built a wildly unique way to navigate your city and, more important, see buildings,…
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23 days ago
Datavisualization.ch Selected Tools
Tableau Public Type: Desktop ApplicationTechnology: Windows, JavaScriptLicense: Free to use Links Gephi A visualization and exploration platform for networks with dynamic and hierarchical graphs.
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24 days ago
TechCrunch | Simple Rolls Out iPhone App, But Still No Word On Public Launch
Simple (formerly known as BankSimple), the startup with $13.1 million in funding to build a better banking experience for customers, has today introduced its first mobile application,…
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