May 2012
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May 30th
31 Acronyms and Initials All Spelled Out - Mental... →
May 29th
Facebook Camera Could Backfire and Get All Of FB’s... →
May 29th
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Editorial: I’m done with Android  →
Fantastic read. 
May 29th
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May 29th
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The Full Story: How Toy Story 2 Got Deleted Twice,... →
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May 27th
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May 27th
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May 25th
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May 25th
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Facebook Camera →
While I think this is a cool idea, I wish Facebook would just make there standard application work properly. Facebook should have one application that does everything. At current count they 4 - Facebook, Messenger, Page Manager, and Camera. The only apps that make sense to me are Facebook and Page Manager everyone else shoulde built into a streamlined Facebook app. parislemon: It’s about...
May 24th
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What's the Next Instagram? →
Technology Review has a good write-up of a variety  video-gram apps (aka instagram like video apps). While I think these apps are the next step for mobile sharing, I don’t really think the infrastructure exists to support them yet. People like instagram for a lot of reasons, primarily ease of use and upload time. The upload time and ease of use on video-gram apps is horrendous. Until these...
May 23rd
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The Lure of the Store: How Apple Gets Incentives... →
May 23rd
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The Mark of Maker’s Mark  →
May 23rd
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Chris Dixon: Four types of mobile apps  →
May 23rd
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Core iOS apps being replaced, one at a time
bijan: The home screen on my iPhone has changed quite a bit over the years. The most obvious thing is Apple’s very own core apps have been replaced by 3rd parties. The default camera app has been replaced by Camera+, Hipstamatic and Instagram The default notes app has been replaced by Simplenote The default messenger app has been replaced by Kik The default calendar app has been replaced by...
May 23rd
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In a Crane at 1,100 Feet, There Is No Room for... →
Amazing NY Times interview with a crane operator building the New World Trade Center. 
May 22nd
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MySpace Ghost Town →
A very funny read.
May 22nd
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May 22nd
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“This is the true story… of seven strangers… picked to live in a...”
– Reflections from 20 Years of ‘The Real World’
May 22nd
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May 21st
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Podcast To Oblivion →
May 21st
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Foursquare: Today's best-executing startup - Anil... →
May 21st
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May 20th
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A Sunday Recipe: Homemade Wendy's Chocolate Frosty... →
May 20th
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May 18th
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May 18th
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Relax, Facebook Is Not Making Bono Richer Than... →
May 18th
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Rise of the Tech Bandits →
A really great read on the rise of the tech blogging community. 
May 18th
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Dan Lewis: Jeff Bezos on eBooks ... in 1998 →
danlewis: In 1998, Jeff Bezos sat down with the Commonwealth Club to discuss the history and future of Amazon. The speech itself is amazing — one of my favorite things I’ve read ever. But today, I discovered that he also did a Q&A with the audience. One question in particular shows just how forward looking Bezos has been. Q. What is the future of purely electronic books, for example, of...
May 18th
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These Are The Technical Reasons Why Facebook’s iOS... →
May 17th
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Facebook's Technology Timeline  →
(h/t Next Draft)
May 17th
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NY Times: Joe Weisenthal vs. the 24-Hour News... →
I love profiles of hard and fast working journalists. I think it is kind of a dream job for me. 
May 17th
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May 17th
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May 16th
Mobile money in Africa: Press 1 for modernity  →
Many people know that “mobile money”—financial transactions on mobile phones—has taken off in Africa. How far it has gone, though, still comes as a bit of a shock. Three-quarters of the countries that use mobile money most frequently are in Africa, and mobile banking in some of them has reached extraordinary levels.
May 16th
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Sarah Lacy: The Irony of the Social Media Era: It... →
May 16th
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May 16th
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May 15th
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Last Great Thing — What's the last great thing you... →
A really great website you should check out, only one post a day. 
May 15th
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May 15th