Cloud Shield, Twine’s Gateway To The Full-Blown Internet Of Things By John Pavlus, fastcodesign.com Co.Design gets an exclusive first look at Cloud Shield, which makes Twine a full-blown internet device. Welcome to the Internet of Things. If you’re not afraid of hacking together a bit of code and plugging tiny wires into a credit-card-sized… Cloud … Continue reading Twine cloud shield and the Internet of things
Coworking Spaces From GRid70 To Grind Help Employees Work Beyond The Cube By Greg Lindsay, fastcompany.com AT&T, Zappos, and other companies are sharing office space with strangers— and not to save rent. In 2011, when the electronics firm Plantronics redesigned its headquarters in Santa Cruz, Califo … http://flip.it/LxPAI Related articles The Science of Serendipity in the … Continue reading Co working spaces and working beyond the cube
Wired Opinion, wired.com Whereas the success of yesterday?s Fortune 500 companies — like U.S. Steel and Amoco — once depended on resources, today?s Fortune 500 companies — like Google and eBay — depend on access to talent. Wired Opinion Our Dated Immigration Policies Could Torpedo the Tech Economy | Wired Opinion | Wired.com http://flip.it/SMrXJ http://flip.it/RGIu7 … Continue reading Our Dated Immigration Policies Could Torpedo the Tech Economy
Age of Context Draft Introduction Shel Israel, forbes.com [NOTE: I am writing a new book called Age of Context with Robert Scoble. We hope it will be ready at the end of September. This is a draft introduction. It will be changed several times before we publish the book and what we want the m… … Continue reading Age of context
Watch: Days Pass In Minutes In These Hypnotic Beach Videos By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com An L.A. artist attempts to capture the passage of time within a single video frame—no drugs needed. Xárene Eskandar wants you to feel awe. The Los Angeles media artist, whose past work ranges from tree pods to a Google marriage proposal,… … Continue reading Hypnotic time lapse videos
Big Tech: The Power of Paying: What Consumer Hotshots Can Learn From Corporate Drudges Ryan Tate, wired.com When choosing a platform API to build upon, paying cash up front can help you avoid paying in time and regret later. Ryan Tate The Power of Paying: What Consumer Hotshots Can Learn From Corporate Drudges http://flip.it/mKa4L http://flip.it/sPIOD … Continue reading Consumer startups and the power of paying
Samuel Arbesman, wired.com Our species can?t seem to escape big data. We have more data inputs, storage, and computing resources than ever, so Homo sapiens naturally does what it has always done when given new tools: it goes even bigger, higher, and bolder. We did it in… Samuel Arbesman http://flip.it/is0gV http://flip.it/57gRu Stop Hyping Big Data … Continue reading Stop Hyping Big Data and Start Paying Attention to ‘Long Data’
The No-Hire Emails That That Incriminate Apple, Google, Adobe and More Jamie Condliffe, gizmodo.com A court filing has just been made public which sheds light on the “no-hire” gentleman’s agreements that have pervaded the tech industry—and reveals how Steve Jobs threatened litigation to prevent companies from stealing his staff.Notably, former P… The No-Hire Emails That … Continue reading The No-Hire Emails That That Incriminate
Farhad Manjoo, slate.com A few years ago, Google’s human resources department noticed a problem: A lot of women were leaving the company. Like the majority of Silicon Valley software firms, Google is staffed mostly by men, and executives have long made it a priority to… The Happiness Machine http://flip.it/mYVIV http://flip.it/sQE6T The Happiness Machine Related articles … Continue reading The Happiness Machine
Startups: Tim O’Reilly’s Key to Creating the Next Big Thing Steven Levy, wired.com Entreprenuer, author and investor Tim O’Reilly has been seeing around corners for decades now. Here’s what he sees coming next. Steven Levy RT @BootsnAll: “Create more value than you capture.” http://flip.it/RvVYw http://flip.it/pgvMk Related articles 16 Things I Might Change If I Was … Continue reading Startups: Tim O’Reilly’s Key to Creating the Next Big Thing
The Best Time to Buy Anything During the Year Whitson Gordon, lifehacker.com A bit of planning can save you a ton of money when it comes to buying throughout the year. Here’s your comprehensive, always up-to-date guide on the best times to buy everything this year.Every year year, we compile a list of the best … Continue reading The Best Time to Buy Anything
Anonymous Forum Users Can Be Identified By Linguistics By CARMEL MELOUNEY, fastcompany.com Researchers discover ways to identify the authors of anonymous online comments through linguistic analysis. If you want to ensure your anonymous comments online really do stay anonymous, it’s probably wise to start using leetspeak. … http://flip.it/IVsls Related articles Linguistics Identifies Anonymous Users (disinfo.com) … Continue reading Anonymous Forum Users Can Be Identified By Linguistics
Codecademy’s New API Lab Lets Wannabe Devs Tinker With NPR, Twilio, SoundCloud, And More By Sarah Kessler, fastcompany.com Learning to code is more fun when you’re building something you can use. Codecademy’s new lesson plans use APIs to help students build more complex projects earlier. After completing the first HTML project at online programming school… … Continue reading New API Lab Lets Wannabe Devs Tinker
Google Analytics For Real Life: Tracking Retail Customers Through Smartphones By Neal Ungerleider, fastcompany.com A new technology debuting at New York’s National Retail Federation expo lets retailers track in-store customer activity through their smartphones’ MAC addresses. A new product released at this year’s National Retail Federation expo in New Y… RT @FastCompany: Google Analytics For … Continue reading Google Analytics For Real Life
JSTOR begins offering free yet limited access to its online academic library By Ben Kersey, theverge.com Online digital library JSTOR will begin offering free access to its catalogue of journals, papers, and books. The Register & Read program will now allow individuals to register for the service, but members will only be able to read… … Continue reading JSTOR begins offering free yet limited access to online literature
How Google’s Ray Kurzweil will teach computers to understand human language By Nathan Ingraham, theverge.com Futurist and artificial intelligence guru Ray Kurzweil has just started at Google and gave an interview to Singularity Hub days after starting his new work. For starters, Kurzweil plans to dive into natural language… RT @verge: How Google’s Ray Kurzweil … Continue reading How Google’s Ray Kurzweil will teach computers to understand human language
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Google And Berg Team Up To Create An Internet Of Things By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com In 2011, Berg worked with Google to imagine the service’s manifestation in real life. Here’s the remarkable, working prototype they came up with. Google is ridiculously powerful. The service isn’t just search. It isn’t just maps. It isn’t j… RT … Continue reading Google And Berg Team Up To Create An Internet Of Things
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Teenager Gets New iPhone For Christmas… Along With 18-Point Contract From Mom Killian Bell, cultofmac.com Imagine your delight as a teenage boy who’s just unwrapped a shiny new iPhone for Christmas. It’s probably your first smartphone — maybe even your first cellphone period — and you can’t wait to turn it on and start playing … Continue reading Xmas rules for proper iPhone conduct
Hounded By Recruiters, Coders Put Themselves Up For Auction J.J. Colao, forbes.com When Pete London posted a resume on LinkedIn in December 2009, the JavaScript specialist stumbled into a trap of sorts. Shortly after creating a profile he received a message from a recruiter at Google. Just days later, another from… RT @ForbesTech: Hounded by … Continue reading Avoid recruiters and put your skills up for auction
Contrary to media frenzies, Apple is not giving up on innovation (it is actually becoming a more efficient, responsible, transparent and happier place to work). The Year of Doom For Microsoft, Google and Apple Haydn Shaughnessy, forbes.com 2012 was the year of the doom merchant in business. In the fantasy world of dying planets earth … Continue reading Why Apple, Google and Microsoft are not doomed
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