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Google+ Goes Looking For Love By Andy Meek, fastcompany.com Instead of going for the billion-user benchmark recently set by social titan Facebook, Google+ is trying to harness emotion, says Google’s Vic Gundotra. An interview with Google’s senior vice president for engineering, Vic Gundotra, about… http://flpbd.it/oOkme Related articles Nexus phones to feature ‘insanely great cameras’ says…
4 Steps To Advancing Your Career Via HR’s Myopic Bizarro World By David Clutterbuck, fastcompany.com You can make it without being a sociopath or middling to the point of uselessness. But it’s going to take some insight. Here’s a tough question: If corporate policies and practices in talent management and succession planning work, ho… http://flpbd.it/HOOdE…
Dave Copeland, readwriteweb.com Making my students switch from MS Word to Google Drive not only eliminated the headache of incompatible versions and big email attachments. It’s made them better writers. When I started teaching college writing and journalism… http://flpbd.it/uFfgR How Google Drive Makes It Easier To Teach Writing Related articles Google Drive – Student ePortfolios…
Hey IT Manager, We’re Your Friends Dan Rowinski, readwriteweb.com You know who you are. You are the employee who ignores mandates from the IT department. You use your own devices and apps to get the job done, company policies be hanged. The IT manager might call you a problem employee, but actually y… http://flpbd.it/Y1i7Q Related…
Why Do Britney Spears Fans Use Colon Cleansing Products? Only Facebook Knows Dave Copeland, readwriteweb.com An ambitious Facebook data-collection effort is turning up unlikely patterns in members’ interests. Here’s what that means for online marketers – and you. Ian Lurie, founder and CEO of Internet marketing agency Portent, is looking f… http://flpbd.it/0JbI2
Fisker Automotive to Romney: Who Are You Calling ‘Loser’? Damon Lavrinc, wired.com Photo: AP Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney may be a Michigan-bred entrepreneur with a successful career in business, but the man knows little about the electric vehicle sector. During his first debate with President Bar… http://flpbd.it/NRZsD Related articles Why Do Copyright Monopolists Think They…
Bird brains? Crows remember your face Scott K. Johnson, arstechnica.com One of the most enjoyable facets of studying other species is discovering the amazing things they’re capable of. As humans, the things we tend to find most amazing are the abilities that remind us the most of, well,… http://flpbd.it/YObK6 Related articles The social brain hypothesis…
Crowdsourcing app will “measure the world” for a week through smartphones Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com If you’ve ever had trouble explaining the concept of “big data” to someone—or had trouble wrapping your brain around the buzzword yourself—Rick Smolan wants to help. But how do you demonstrate big data? It’s the somewhat abstract,… http://flpbd.it/okN2Z Related articles How…
Is a résumé relevant in the age of online courses and open source projects? Stack Exchange, arstechnica.com This Q&A is part of a biweekly series of posts highlighting common questions encountered by technophiles and answered by users at Stack Exchange, a free, community-powered network of 80+ Q&A sites. davidk01 asks: My resume is no… http://flpbd.it/XbZep…
Bills, bills, bills: manage your accounts like a real pro Megan Geuss, arstechnica.com No matter your day job, we all have a second gig that saps a couple of hours from our lives every month: operating the administrative branch of your life (or your household). Personal bureaucracy is a sad fact of life, but there…
Yes, Ayn, There Is a Social Instinct | The Crux discovermagazine.com Eric Michael Johnson has a master’s degree in evolutionary anthropology focusing on great ape behavioral ecology. He is currently a doctoral student in the history of science at University of British Columbia looking at… http://flpbd.it/GVRyf Related articles Ayn Rand is Fiction (evergreeninstitute.wordpress.com) Lawmaker Wants…
Never forget a face? Take the test Gerry Everding-WUSTL, futurity.org WASHINGTON U. – ST. LOUIS (US) — A new online experiment tests your ability to remember names and faces, and compares your score with others’. The test, which can be taken from a computer, smartphone, iPad, and other mobile… http://flpbd.it/dn2t5 Related articles Review: Logitech’s Ultrathin…
Check Your Genome Caleb Garling, wired.com berkeleylab/Flickr Gene mutations can predict how you’ll respond to certain substances. Here’s what genetic testing outfit 23andMe can tell you about how you might react to the drugs below. Drugs for which your 23andMe results can… http://flpbd.it/jyQOz Related articles Check Out The Geekiest Black Friday Deal Ever (GOOG) (embargozone.com)…
A Disappointing Presidential Debate For Energy And Climate By Climate Guest Blogger on Oct 5, 2012 at 10:30 am, thinkprogress.org by Bill Becker If Mitt Romney and Barack Obama had been able to look through the television cameras at who was watching their first debate, it undoubtedly would have been more interesting than the debate…
Mitt Romney calls Tesla Motors ‘losers’ By Ryan Singel, wired.co.uk Politics In the back and forth of 3 October’s presidential debate over tax breaks to energy companies, Republican nominee Mitt Romney argued that President Obama’s grants and tax breaks to renewable energy companies equalled 50… http://flpbd.it/cDfBf Related articles Mitt Romney Announce Plans to Run for…
Need A Career Role Model? Indiana Jones Is Your Guy By Tom Teodorczuk, fastcompany.com What does an archaeologist-slash-action hero out to save the world from maniacal Nazis have to do with battling boring corporate bureaucracy? Everything. Wall Street. Glengarry Glen Ross. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.… http://flpbd.it/9rGZB Related articles Charlie Ergen on Dish’s…
Making Visible the Invisible: Meaning, Not Content, Matters in Social Data Eric Openshaw and Alexander Pentland, Vice Chairman, Deloitte and Founder/Director, MIT Connection Science and Engineering Center, allthingsd.com There is no question that in today’s connected world — where few activities go untracked and undigitized — social data is everywhere, being generated by the terabyte.…
People and Their Stuff: Huang Qingjun’s “Family Stuff” and Sannah Kvist’s “All I Own” core77.com The Chinese phrase si da jian literally translates as “four big things,” and in 1950s China, it referred to four objects every family wanted to own: A sewing machine, a bicycle, a wristwatch and a radio. Over the decades the…
Could ePatient Networks Become the Superdoctors of the Future? BY ANITA HAMILTON, fastcoexist.com As technology allows patients to pool their knowledge, can the collective experience of the sick create better care? There’s something seriously wrong with a health care system that makes patients wait a month or more just to get a doctor’s… http://flpbd.it/5v6PX Related…
How To Be A Happy And Successful Creative Freelancer (Or Work With One) fastcocreate.com Freelancers share their best practices for being their own boss, and why you should so totally just do it. When talking to creative freelancers, there’s one phrase that’s often repeated: “I don’t mean to sound cheesy or cliché but…” What… http://flpbd.it/doJLS…
Measuring An Employee’s Worth? Consider Influence By E.B. Boyd, fastcompany.com The performance review of the future will include services like Salesforce.com’s Chatter and its Influencers feature, which measures how much weight you carry among your peers. Today, your performance review is based on things like sales numb… http://flpbd.it/xZePm Related articles Salesforce.com Announces Timing of its…
Would You Recognize Yourself With A Completely Symmetrical Face? By Jordan Kushins, fastcodesign.com Julian Wolkenstein explores a scientific concept of beauty with a unique portrait series. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Right? Even though everyone’s charmed by wildly different kinds of physical characteristics (thank… http://flpbd.it/v6WiS Related articles Non Turing-Recognizable from symmetric difference…
Can We Shop Our Way To Change? BY ERIC SMILLIE, fastcoexist.com Through new partnerships with major companies, the formerly tiny Carrotmob is now aiming to use consumers’ buying power to shape global supply chains. When Carrotmob organized its first buy-in at a liquor store in San Francisco’s Mission… http://flpbd.it/CoIY5 Related articles SaveOnBrew Adds Hundreds of…
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