Is BitTorrent The Future Of Book Publishing? Tim Ferriss Is Banking On It John Paul Titlow, readwrite.com If you walk into your local Barnes & Noble looking for a copy of Timothy Ferriss’s new book, good luck. Even though he’s a New York Times best selling author, the giant book retailer refuses to sell The … Continue reading Tim Ferriss disrupts book publishing with bit torrent
By DAVID STREITFELD, nytimes.com Tim Ferriss’ “4-Hour Chef” is the first big book to be published by Amazon. With the traditional bookselling outlets unwilling to stock or publicize the title, publisher and author are pulling out all the stops to move copies and show… http://flpbd.it/bCv0s Tim Ferriss and Amazon Try to Reinvent Publishing Related articles … Continue reading Tim Ferriss and Amazon Try to Reinvent Publishing
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Udacity Raises $15 Million as Money Pours into Online Education bloomberg.com Courtesy of Udacity Udacity, the digital university co-founded by artificial intelligence and robotics pioneer Sebastian Thrun, has raised $15 million, joining a crop of online education startups to attract venture capi… http://flpbd.it/1FyIx Related articles Google Launches HTML Game Development Course with Udacity (apievangelist.com) Is … Continue reading Udacity Raises $15 Million as Money Pours into Online Education
Daily Infographic: How Facebook Photos Go Viral By Emily Elert, popsci.com George Takei—an actor some of you may recognize from the original Star Trek series, has a knack for posting viral photos on Facebook. Recently, the social media giant asked Stamen, a San Francisco design firm, to create a… http://flpbd.it/gbz2V Related articles 8 Steps to … Continue reading How Facebook Photos Go Viral
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Over the past years, I've realized that my devices and the information they store is increasingly important to me. But unlike many commercial sectors from pharmaceuticals to shipping, there was no consumer level technology to easily, inexpensively and legally monitor them and their use. However recently new applications such as Prey and Apple's Find my … Continue reading Prey: Affordable tools emerge to track and visualize the travels of your devices
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An excellent overview of the potential of online video to re-invent education by hedge fund analyst and creator Salman Khan. Salman Khan: Lets use video to reinvent education | Video on TED.com. Related articles Let's use video to reinvent education: Salman Khan on TED.com (ted.com) An Olympic phenom gives out gold, silver … Continue reading Using video to re-invent education (TEDTalks)
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