October 2011
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Steve Jobs’s Genius →
Walter Isaacson wrote in the New York Times
…on Steve Job’s imagination
Mr. Jobs’s intuition was based not on conventional learning but on experiential wisdom. He also had a lot of imagination and knew how to apply it. As Einstein said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
…on America’s advantage for finding the next Steve Jobs
China and India are likely to...
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Siri & 911 →
Siri, Apple’s recently introduced natural language voice technology, has the potential to change not just our 911 system, but also to be one of the biggest consumer-facing technologies in health care that we’ve seen in decades.
What I Want From a Digital Publication
smarterbits:
I spoke yesterday about the issues plaguing the print industry as they make the switch to digital publications, and it got me thinking about what exactly I imagine a digital magazine to be. So I tried answering those questions by looking at the ways I consume news and text currently. Here are my conclusions.
Little amounts of advertisement. Preferably none.
I have some tolerance...
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The Art of Right Now →
Ever have a conversation with someone who, every two minutes, picks up their phone to check for messages?
Ever been at a party and watched someone’s eyes dart around behind your head while you’re talking?
The answer to both questions is most likely ‘yes’ and in addition to having had that happen to you, you’ve probably done those very same things to someone else at one time or another.
So,...
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Slides: How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity →
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Repairing the World.
Before moving to Washington, D.C. I never fully visualized the problem with homelessness. I grew up in New York City in a middle class family, I saw homeless people all the time when I would walk around Manhatten. For sometime I grew quite cynical believing many, not all, of these people were just lazy, or were drug addicts, or had some kind of problem.
In Washington, D.C. the homeless population...
This Startup Costs Me Thousands Of Dollars...
parislemon:
…simply because they didn’t exist yet.
Codecademy.
About 6 years ago, I decided I was going to go back to school to learn how to code. I had very casually dabbled with some simple stuff ranging from HTML to C++, but decided I needed a more formal setting to truly learn. I was wrong.
It’s not that I didn’t learn anything going back to school — I did. But I was wrong that I...
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Sunday's Must Read: A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve... →
Steve’s final words were: OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.
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Histories of the traveling libraries →
bobulate:
Some little-discussed history of the traveling library:
One day in 1905, an Allegheny farmer was hoeing a garden patch near the road of his farm when he heard the sound of wheels and hooves behind him. Turning around, he was amazed to find a large and foreboding black wagon drawn by two horses. He was certain it was a hearse. Indignantly, the farmer waved it on, shouting, “You...
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40 Things That Will Make You Feel Old →
The Weekender consist of fun things I found on the internet all week curated on Sundays for your viewing pleasure.
Oversaturated: Is Instagram’s Popularity Changing... →
A conversation with Instagram’s co-founder Kevin Systrom
How did you develop the idea of the Instagram filter? It started off as a mobile check-in app that let you post pictures and videos. People ended up liking the photo posting more than the checking in, so we built in camera functionalities and made the focus photos, not check-ins. Initially, it didn’t have any filters. Then I was on a...
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The Prince of Polo - Ralph Lauren's $13 Billion... →
A great profile from Fast Company
David Lauren is turning his father’s empire into a digital leader—and shaking up the fashion industry.
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YouTube Plans to Create New Online Channels →
It appears that internet TV is the next space in our digital revolution. It is going to be very interesting to watch it happen since we know it’s coming.
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10 ways Evernote can train you to think like a... →
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Embedded in Academia : 40 Hour Work Weeks Suck →
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Gates to students: Don’t try to be a billionaire,... →
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On Knowledge.
Knowledge is a powerful thing, while growing up in school people tend not to value how much knowledge is being thrown at them every day. I am fervent believer that you should learn something new everyday. From day 1 to the day you graduate college you are getting a foundation. From that day forth you should be working to construct a tower of personal knowledge as tall as the Empire State...
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Why I take sketch breaks instead of internet... →
When I need five minutes to untangle my brain I reach for my pile of art pens and the closest post it note (the back of a print out will also suffice).
Something I have never tired, but something I will try this week. Finding time not to be in front of a screen, is becoming harder and harder.
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Daring Fireball: Apps Are the New Channels →
iTV will make some real sense.
Top ten topical Halloween costumes for 2011 →
Netflix. Wear red. Demand double the candy and refuse to offer any more services. Kind of apologize, but only after thousands of people stop giving you any candy at all.
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Watchcuriositycounts:
TEDx in a Box, ingenious concept by IDEO.org to give TEDx organizers in under-resourced areas and informal settlements around the world the tools necessary to host TEDx events
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Marco Arment: "I paid good money for this and it's... →
I bought my first iPad magazine1 last weekend: one issue of The New Yorker.
It was $4.99. Most entire apps (including mine) cost $4.99 or less, once, and this magazine is $4.99 for just one issue. Ignoring what content and apps “should” cost, and despite knowing that this is a very good magazine, this felt expensive.
As I was flipping through it, when I saw the first of many full-page ads, I...
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How to Solve the Mystery of Spotify and the... →
I am loving Spotify a ton, but this really pisses me off.
Pixelmator 2.0 Launches on Mac App Store →
The Pixelmator Team today released Pixelmator 2.0, the latest version of its groundbreaking image editing tool that provides everything needed to create, edit, and enhance still images. Pixelmator 2.0 features new drawing and retouching tools, Content-Aware Fill, a Healing Tool, a Smudge Tool, and more. Designed from the ground up for OS X Lion, Pixelmator 2.0 now supports Full Screen, Versions...
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A Television - "is a guaranteed product for... →
Nick Bilton writes at the NY Times that an Apple branded television is a foregone conclusion. The idea of incorporating Siri into the alleged device excites me a lot.
Just imagine telling your TV “I want to cook chicken” and it brings up a bunch of recent Food Network shows that show chicken recipes.
Also the TV Guide, which was revolutionary would be obsolete. You could tell siri,...
Let's Talk TED Talks →
John Britton has a fantastic idea:
TED Talks spark discussion.
Every time I watch a TED Talk I want to discuss it. Inevitably this leads to me telling my friends about it and my related ideas before ending with “just watch the video.” Sometimes they watch right away, sometimes they don’t watch at all. Regardless, I always have to wait before I can find someone to talk to about all my new...
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Huawei, Chinese Tech Giant, Aids Iran →
Huawei Technologies Co. now dominates Iran’s government-controlled mobile-phone industry. In doing so, it plays a role in enabling Iran’s state security network.
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Fraser Speirs: A Week With iOS 5 →
I’m home now and there’s not one task that cropped up during the week that I had to say “I’ll have to wait until I get back to my Mac to finish this”. That, to me, is the interesting bit.
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How does the iPhone 4S camera stack-up against... →
A photo comparisons from all iPhone version cameras (First generation iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, the new iPhone 4S), a point & shoot camera, the Canon S95 ($500), and a professional dSLR, the Canon 5DMKII ($4000 ) in two situations: 1. A macro setting to test detail and quality of the cameras; 2. A backlit skyline shot.
Click here to see the photos.
The iPhone 4S is...
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iPod Creator Turns to Building a Better Thermostat →
Like the boxy mp3-players everybody hated a decade ago, the digital thermostat has long been low-hanging fruit in terms of redesign potential. Tony Fadell, the former Apple senior vice president in charge of the iPod and iPhone division, decided to snatch that fruit with the launch of his new learning thermostat, Nest. It looks and works, unsurprisingly, kind of like an iPod with a click...
Richard Branson on the Birth of Virgin Atlantic →
Good ideas sometimes just happen.
“In ’79, when Joan, my fiancee and I were on a holiday in the British Virgin Islands, we were trying to catch a flight to Puerto Rico; but the local Puerto Rican scheduled flight was cancelled. The airport terminal was full of stranded passengers. I made a few calls to charter companies and agreed to charter a plane for $2000 to Puerto Rico. Cheekily leaving out...
WatchApps for Autism - Autistic people whose condition prevents them from speaking are making breakthroughs with the help of tablet computers and special applications that allow them to communicate, some for the first time. Lesley Stahl reports.
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Why 9 to 5? →
Sathish Manohar
Even though I have office space, 9 to 5 never worked for me. I end up checking twitter, facebook, reading hacker news, techmeme, watching diggnation or Steve Jobs. I thought, this is a problem of mine. I was wrong. It is the problem of the office.
Best tech-related correction ever?
cnnmoneytech:
From Sunday’s New York Times…
Correction: October 22, 2011
An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the premise of “Angry Birds,” a popular iPhone game. In the game, slingshots are used to launch birds to destroy pigs and their fortresses, not to shoot down the birds.
At Waldorf School in Silicon Valley, Technology... →
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Watchfastcompany:
You might think of Bit.ly simply as a service that shortens links for your Twitter feed. But to Hilary Mason, the company’s chief scientist, Bit.ly is building a fresh new way to know what’s going on in the world.
Check out this video to learn more about Bit.ly’s mission and what inspires Mason to keep innovating.
Read more about how Bit.ly reveals the web and the world.
See...