Month: April 2013
April 7, 2013
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Mad Men has just started. I’ve been wondering how it will end. Here are 12 possible finales:
http://schafer.com/2013/04/12-possible-mad-men-endings/
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I always get my hopes up when “Loki” is trending but it’s always the boy band boy’s dog, not the Norse trickster god.
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The Case vs Ad-Supported Platforms | Digiday
Dalton Caldwell isn’t your typical Silicon Valley programmer. For one, he’s run an advertising business, ad-supported music service iMeem. The dual experiences of being a Silicon Valley technologist and knowing the ad business make Caldwell an interesting critic of the emergence of…
April 6, 2013
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The Disciplined Pursuit of Less – Greg McKeown – Harvard Business Review
Why don’t successful people and organizations automatically become very successful? One important explanation is due to what I call “the clarity paradox,” which can be summed up in four predictable phases: Phase 1: When we really have clarity of purpose, it leads to success. Phase 2: When we have…
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I love following Charles Darwin ( @cdarwin ) on Twitter. He’s a natural twitterer.
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“Trending in Canada” is both incredibly vague and incredibly specific this morning. pic.twitter.com/IAHw52UalG
April 5, 2013
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♫ “There ain’t no party like my Nana’s tea party” ♫
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A Verdict That Alters an Industry – NYTimes.com
The federal court jury’s decision Friday in a smartphone patent lawsuit between Apple and Samsung is expected to alter the dynamics of the highly competitive mobile phone industry. For Samsung, which lost on almost every count in the closely watched trial in San Jose, Calif., and was ordered to pay…
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All data everything.
April 4, 2013
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#cargocult RT @moonpolysoft: Build a hadoop out of bamboo and coconuts. That’s how you get the big data planes to land on your island.
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Rap Ballads. LOL.
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Huh. Videos that take a bit of effort to understand may increase comprehension over simple ones.
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The dawning of the “App Physics” era will create a huge leap in UI development much like animation and even color offered.
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Was not expecting to say this but the Facebook Home UI is pretty amazing.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/4/4183390/htc-first-with-facebook-home-hands-on
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Roger Ebert Hails Human Existence As ‘A Triumph’
http://onion.com/10CxCBk
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Excellent. That’s where I’m headed. RT @AlexOsterwalder: @saila @kenschafer Go to
http://Stattys.com
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Ting isn’t just supporting Sprint phones, it’s hinting at a much freer device market — Mobile Technology News
Ting , the innovative mobile virtual network operator that offers pay-for-what-you-use shared plans , is expanding it mobile phone options. Instead of buying a device directly from Ting, the company will roll out a BYOD, or Bring Your Own Device, phone option in the last quarter of this year.…
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Imagining the Ting iPhone plan
https://ting.com/blog/imagining-the-ting-iphone-plan/
via @tingFTW
April 3, 2013
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I’m just going to assume that Jeremy Irons is on drugs here rather than an insane homophobe.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/03/jeremy-irons-on-gay-marri_n_3009495.html
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Six Steps to Put Christensen’s Jobs-to-be-Done Theory into Practice – Forbes
Nine of the ten most valuable companies in America can trace their greatness to reconceiving a market’s boundaries. From ExxonMobil XOM -0.59% to Apple AAPL +0.75% to Wal-Mart, these firms expanded markets that others saw as static. How can companies in today’s economy – seemingly hemmed in on all…
April 2, 2013
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Wait a minute… What happened to Joe Carter, George Bell and John Olerud?
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Thinking I’ll try following the Jays this season. Used to be a big fan of the game but lost interest when we had kids.
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The universe isn’t a fractal, study finds – Technology & science – Science – LiveScience – NBCNews.com
Stars crowd together into galaxies, galaxies assemble into clusters, and clusters amass to form superclusters. Astronomers, probing ever-larger volumes of the cosmos, have been surprised again and again to find matter clustering on ever-larger scales. This Russian-nesting-doll-like distribution of…
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April 1, 2013
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We were poor when I was young, but not “Winter’s Bone” poor. Holy crap THAT’S poor.
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Here’s Seth Godin taking an hour to give (amazing) off-the-cuff advice to start-ups.
http://blog.intelligent.ly/2013/02/seth-godin-video/
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A 3-minute video with solid tips on how to be more productive.
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The Wrong Side Absolutely Must Not Win – Reason.com
The past several weeks have made one thing crystal-clear: Ourcountry faces unmitigated disaster if the Other Side wins. MORE ARTICLES BY A. Barton Hinkle Pipeline Brings a Property Rights Fight to Virginia 10.03.16 12:00 pm The NCAA and the ACC Oppose Discrimination, Sometimes 9.21.16 12:00 pm…