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  • Why and what you need to keep learning to stay competitive

    Learning Should Be Your Top 2013 New Year’s Resolution Eze Vidra, thenextweb.com As we get clos­er to the New Year, the rit­u­al of mak­ing res­o­lu­tions begins and we all flock to the usual pat­terns: we want to to eat health­i­er, work out more, get pro­mot­ed, or spend more time with our kids and fam­i­ly. These…

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  • Why you must keep learning to stay competitive

    Learning Should Be Your Top 2013 New Year’s Resolution Eze Vidra, thenextweb.com As we get clos­er to the New Year, the rit­u­al of mak­ing res­o­lu­tions begins and we all flock to the usual pat­terns: we want to to eat health­i­er, work out more, get pro­mot­ed, or spend more time with our kids and fam­i­ly. These…

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  • NYC emerging as a social tech startup powerhouse

    Why 2013 Will Be a Big Year for NYC’s Tech Start-Ups! Alan McGlade, forbes.com New York City has a thriv­ing start-up scene and now is firm­ly estab­lished as the num­ber two inno­va­tion cen­ter behind Sil­i­con Val­ley. The ramp in momen­tum can be felt across the city land­scape from the mayor’s office where Michael… RT @flipboardtech:…

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  • Should I learn app development or HTML5?

    HTML5 vs. Apps: Here’s Why The Debate Matters, And Who Will Win Business Insider, businessinsider.com Tech/Media HTML5 is a new tech­nol­o­gy that allows devel­op­ers to build rich web-based apps that run on any device via a stan­dard web brows­er. Many think it will save the web, ren­der­ing native platform-dependent apps obso­lete. So, whi… RT @SAI:…

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  • How to never get lost again: apps for travel

    Road Tripping In The Digital Age Ryan Lawler, techcrunch.com I’m just wrap­ping up a week-long road trip, in which a trav­el com­pan­ion and I vis­it­ed some friends in South­ern Cal­i­for­nia. We hit up a few dif­fer­ent spots along the way, includ­ing San Luis Obis­po, Santa Bar­bara, Los Ange­les, San… RT @TechCrunch: Road Tripping In The…

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  • Why Apple, Google and Microsoft are not doomed

    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…

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  • FDA finally tries to regulate pharma social media, God Help Them

    FDA Guidance on Responding to Unsolicited Requests for Off-Label Information pharma-mkting.com Two days after Christ­mas, on Decem­ber 27, 2011, while most of us were still on vaca­tion, the FDA qui­et­ly issued “Guid­ance for Indus­try Respond­ing to Unso­licit­ed Requests for Off-Label Infor­ma­tion About Pre­scrip­tion Drugs and Med­ical… RT @pharmaguy: FDA Guidance on Responding to Unsolicited Requests…

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  • Teen with cancer creates his own musical goodbye wishes

    (via Zach Sobiech, Teen With Cancer, Records Touching Song To Say Goodbye (VIDEO)) Related articles Dying Teen Sings Farewell Song (foxnews.com) “Clouds,” a song by 17-year-old osteosarcoma patient Zach Sobiech (boingboing.net) Teenager with cancer writes a song to say goodbye (telegraph.co.uk) A song by 17-year-old osteosarcoma patient (scienceroll.com)

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  • How and why to get an iPhone without the contract

    (via What can you do with an unlocked iPhone 5? Here are 3 options — Apple News, Tips and Reviews) Related articles Deal Alert! iPhone 5 on Sale at Walmart for $127 (dailysavings.allyou.com) Apple Takes The Wraps Off iPhone 5 (misco.co.uk) Apple May Already Be Testing the New iPhone and iOS 7 (mashable.com)

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  • Why Straight Talk is the best iPhone plan for information and knowledge workers

    Since most  information and knowledge workers don’t spend nearly as much time chatting on a phone these days as managing data in other forms (email, messages,  sites, social media), it increasingly makes little sense to spend the thousands of dollars a year charged by major carriers for a their phone services. Fortunately, some smaller companies…

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  • Straight Talk and other pay as you go iPhone carriers

    (via Straight Talk: It could let you dump AT&T or T-Mobile — Mobile Technology News) Related articles Consumer Reports: Prepaid Phone Plan Can Be Smart Way To Save (pittsburgh.cbslocal.com) Revealed: Secrets of a smartphone bill under $50 (redtape.nbcnews.com) Prepaid Phone Plans Give U.S. Cell Phone Users a Choice in a Post Paid World (z6mag.com) A…

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  • T Mobile as an alternative to iPhone mobile carrier contract lock in

    (via NYC and 13 more cities get T-Mobile’s iPhone-friendly upgrade — Apple News, Tips and Reviews) Related articles You Can Finally Change Your iPhone’s Carrier Logo Without Jailbreaking (cultofmac.com) Life After The iPhone: How AT&T’s Bet On Apple Mobilized The Company (forbes.com)

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  • TMobile offers real 4G on iPhone for half the price

    (via T-Mobile expands 4G network, sort of offers 4G iPhone | Dialed In – CNET Blogs) Related articles ScrewMat for iPhone 4 Repair, iPhone 4S Repair, and iPhone 5 Repair Now Available in Canada with Wi West Wireless (prweb.com) Seattle iPhone carrier recommendation (ask.metafilter.com) Apple working on iPhone 6 running on iOS7: Report (ibnlive.in.com)

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  • T Mobile to make iPhone plans more affordable

    (via T-Mobile to offer cheapest iPhone 5 in 2013 – Tapscape)

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  • How the iPhone can streamline cumbersome medical care

    Top Ten Medical Uses of the iPhone internetmedicine.com (SOURCE: John Ben­nett MD: www.internetmedicine.com) Decem­ber 15, 2012 The cre­ation and wide­spread use of the iPhone has impact­ed many indus­tries, and now has affect­ed Med­i­cine in many ways. In many­cas­es the iPhone appli­fies the po… http://flip.it/0JXBc  

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  • Anthropological indicators of air pollution emerging: nose hair length

    This Weird Map Visualizes Air Pollution as Nose Hair Length smithsonianmag.com If there’s one thing nobody wants, it’s real­ly long nose hairs. Which is per­haps why Clean Air Asia has decid­ed to start visu­al­iz­ing each per­son’s air pol­lu­tion expo­sure as super-long, dis­gust­ing nose hairs. The group says: The more… This Weird Map Visualizes Air Pollution…

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  • Things banned by the Bible punishable by death

    76 things banned in the Bible, most of which are punishable by death Xeni Jardin, boingboing.net An oldie but good­ie single-purpose Tum­blr list­ing things banned in Leviti­cus, the banny-est of all scrip­tures. The sex stuff you can imag­ine (no bonk­ing ani­mals, dudes if you are a dude, divorcées, your grand­moth­er, or your own chil­dren… RT…

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  • Location based culture data app

    Sitegeist: mobile app mines public data to tell you about the spot you’re standing in Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net Nicko sez, “Sitegeist is a free Android and iPhone app from the Sun­light Foun­da­tion that helps you to learn more about your sur­round­ings in sec­onds. Sitegeist takes pub­lic data about the peo­ple, hous­ing, his­to­ry, envi­ron­ment and thing……

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  • Case lets you film people with an iPhone laying flat (like presidential campaign fund raisers)

    iPhone case allows you to take photos with phone held horizontally Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.net The Mir­ror­Case for the iPhone lets you take pho­tos while hold­ing the phone flat, like an old-timey cam­era. It seems like a good way to shoot video of your­self, too – just set it on a table and do your thing.…

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  • A bike horn that helps you avoid homicidal drivers

    Loud Bicycle: Car horn for your bike Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.net An out­stand­ing Kick­starter project – a bike horn that is as loud as a car horn! Cycling in traffic can be frightening and dangerous. The Loud Bicycle horn prevents accidents by alerting motorists with a familiar sound. The safety benefits of … RT @BoingBoing: Loud…

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  • Tweet analyzer ranks trustworthy Tweets during emergencies

      Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net In “Cred­i­bil­i­ty rank­ing of tweets dur­ing high impact events,” a paper pub­lished in the ACM’s Pro­ceed­ings of the 1st Work­shop on Pri­va­cy and Secu­ri­ty in Online Social Media , two Indraprastha Insti­tute of Infor­ma­tion… Machine-learning algorithm develops heuristics for trustworthy tweets in time of emergency Related articles Machine-learning algorithm develops heuristics…

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  • Why steam punk is a usability testing tool for new technologies

    Being More Human | Next | Output Kathleen Holt, oregonhumanities.org Being More Human Intel’s res­i­dent futur­ist on how the steam­punk cul­ture offers clues to build­ing a bet­ter tomor­row East­er week­end 2011, I was at the bar of the Dou­ble­tree Hotel at Sea-Tac Air­port watch­ing a parade of sorts: a… Being More Human | Next |…

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  • Rustic eco chic in the Facebook cafeteria

    Facebook’s Cafeteria, By The Masters Of Rustic Chic By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com Roman & Williams has created nostalgic interiors that most others can only emulate. Here’s the lunchroom they created with Facebook. Google ruined every­thing. Microsoft gave out free soft drinks, but Google let employ­ees eat gourmet food for… RT @FastCoDesign: Facebook’s Cafeteria, By The…

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  • Demographics and info-graphics: how to understand America

    Infographic: Animated Maps Of America’s Shifting Demographics By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com At what rate are Americans coming, going, living, and dying? These animated maps tell a fascinating visual story. Most of this elec­tion sea­son’s post­mortems have focused on demo­graph­ics, a vague phrase that refers to the chang­ing face of t… RT @FastCoDesign: Infographic: Animated Maps…

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  • LittleBits: learn to make things this Christmas

        LittleBits, A Starter Kit For Aspiring Engineers And Makers By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com It’s like your momma always said: Life is like a box of adorable electronic components. It’s a ques­tion that comes up fair­ly often in inter­views with tal­ent­ed engi­neers: How did you get inter­est­ed in elec­tron­ics? The answer usu­al­ly… RT @FastCoDesign:…

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  • Car deaths by time of day

    Infographic: Showing When People Get Killed In Cars, Using Excel By Kyle VanHemert, fastcodesign.com John Nelson’s charts and maps on traffic fatalities are a reminder that a good data viz doesn’t always require graphic design chops—or software. With the abun­dance of data visu­al­iza­tion projects we’ve seen over the last few years, it’s hard… RT @FastCoDesign:…

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