Category: Digital Health

  • 50 Amazing Job Perks

    MoneyTalksNews, huffingtonpost.com Mon­eyTalk­sNews: Tech com­pa­nies will go to amaz­ing lengths to recruit tal­ent­ed employ­ees – and keep them from jump­ing to com­peti­tors. An increas­ing­ly impor­tant part of the equa­tion is ben­e­fits. A recent New York Times… http://flpbd.it/fG8hC 50 Amazing Job Perks Related articles Get Creative with Job Perks (business.time.com) Looking for a Lesson in Google’s…

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  • Udacity Raises $15 Million as Money Pours into Online Education

    Udacity Raises $15 Million as Money Pours into Online Education bloomberg.com Cour­tesy of Udac­i­ty Udac­i­ty, the dig­i­tal uni­ver­si­ty co-founded by arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence and robot­ics pio­neer Sebas­t­ian Thrun, has raised $15 mil­lion, join­ing a crop of online edu­ca­tion star­tups to attract ven­ture cap­i­… http://flpbd.it/1FyIx Related articles Google Launches HTML Game Development Course with Udacity (apievangelist.com) Is…

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  • Don’t Hire the Best Person for the Job

    Jessica Stillman, inc.com START IT UP According to one expert’s counter-intuitive advice, here’s who you should hire instead. Inter­view­ing for many small busi­ness own­ers is more of an art than a sci­ence, rely­ing on gut instinct and a col­lec­tion of care­ful­ly… http://flpbd.it/k2Svl Don’t Hire the Best Person for the Job Related articles Slow into Flow…

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  • Zillow Adds 1.8M Foreclosed And Pre-Foreclosure Homes To Its Real Estate Listings

    Zillow Adds 1.8M Foreclosed And Pre-Foreclosure Homes To Its Real Estate Listings Anthony Ha, techcrunch.com Online real estate ser­vice Zil­low is expand­ing its real estate list­ings today by adding “pre-market inven­to­ry” — specif­i­cal­ly, homes that have either been fore­closed or are in the fore­clo­sure process. Increas­ing the selec­tion of… http://flpbd.it/vNkbI Related articles No longer a…

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  • The digital campaign

    The Digital Campaign: How Obama And Romney Are Targeting You Rae Ann Fera, fastcocreate.com Hors­es and bay­o­nets may have become the lat­est Inter­net meme to come from the last of the sur­pris­ing­ly comedic pres­i­den­tial debates (see also: binders), but as a metaphor for how candidates—who, as of yes­ter­day, were locked in a dead… http://flpbd.it/DViFx Related…

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  • Marijuana Majority Website

    Marijuana Majority Website Highlights Celebs And Tech Leaders Who Support Pot Legalization Josh Constine, techcrunch.com Suc­cess­ful peo­ple, not just “lazy ston­ers”, want pot laws to change. That’s the mes­sage of new web­site Mar­i­jua­na Major­i­ty, which dis­plays over 600 influ­encers includ­ing Peter Thiel, Sean Park­er, Paul Bucheit, and Dustin Moskovitz… http://flpbd.it/bDBXj Related articles Idaho braces for…

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  • 3rd Ward: Our Creative Community

    (via About Us – Our Creative Community – Brooklyn, NY – 3rd Ward) Related articles ♥ / 3rd Ward (swiss-miss.com) Q&A: Jason Goodman, CEO, 3rd Ward (smartplanet.com) 3rd Ward – Brooklyn, NY, Full time, remote, H1B (news.ycombinator.com) For the Love of Art: A Valentine’s Day Networking Event in NYC (fracturedatlas.org) “Creating Hipsturbia”: Is Gentrification Pushing…

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  • An Epidemic of Absence

    Book review: An Epidemic of Absence takes on the worms you’re missing Diana Gitig, arstechnica.com An Epi­dem­ic of Absence: A New Way of Under­stand­ing Aller­gies and Autoim­mune Dis­eases could be co-marketed with the Thomas Rock­well’s chil­dren’s clas­sic How to Eat Fried Worms. It begins with the author, Moi­ses… http://flpbd.it/sV12A Related articles ‘Everything hurts’: inside the…

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  • Dirty White Gold: a Film That Exposes Cotton Farming’s Dark Side

    Fund “Dirty White Gold,” a Film That Exposes Cotton Farming’s Dark Side ecouterre.com Photo by Shut­ter­stock Jour­nal­ist Leah Bor­romeo’s documentary-in-the-making, “The Cot­ton Film: Dirty White Gold,” fol­lows the life of cot­ton from seed to store, trac­ing who it touch­es and how their live are effect­ed. The incred­i­ble… http://flpbd.it/5ti7j

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  • Measuring debate performance on Twitter

    Measuring debate performance on Twitter – POLITICO.com Related articles Things Get Rough on Twitter Over Gun Debate (mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com) Social Media Strategy for Small Business 2013: A Totally Honest Look at Social Networks (amsterdamprinting.com) Shocking NASCAR Crash Video Raises A Serious Debate (businessinsider.com) Infographic: 2012 Service Desk Industry Round-Up (sunrisesoftware.co.uk) oLyfe Reveals Social Media Sentiment around…

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  • Survey Says GOP Women Are Prettier

    Survey Says GOP Women Are Prettier – The Daily Beast Related articles House GOP Strips LGBT, Native American Provisions In VAWA (addictinginfo.org) You: As House GOP leaves women unprotected from violence, citizens fight back (allvoices.com) The GOP’s sequester messaging muddle (politico.com) Americans aren’t buying what GOP is selling (maddowblog.msnbc.com) Poll: Obama approval hits 3-year high,…

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  • Fake Reviews Shadow Brands Selling Online

    Fake Reviews Shadow Brands Selling Online Related articles Reality Check: 10-15% Of Brands’ Social Media Fans, Likes And Reviews Will Be Fake By 2014, Says Gartner (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) (techmeme.com) Facebook cracking down on fake ‘Likes’ (cnn.com) Operation Unlike Is A Go: Page Fan Counts Are Dropping Because Facebook Is Deleting Fake Accounts (techcrunch.com) Facebook deleting…

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  • Fast Exercises To Find Your Purpose And Passion For Work

    Fast Exercises To Find Your Purpose And Passion For Work | Fast Company Related articles 5 Easy Steps To Make Your Job Descriptions Go Viral (mashable.com) Job Hunting? (RED) and 180+ Others Are Hiring (mashable.com) Why Most Employees Wish They Had A Different Job (forbes.com)

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  • Blacksocks, App For Sorting Socks

    Blacksocks, App For Sorting Socks, Is In Fact A Real Thing Reuters, huffingtonpost.com By Natasha Baker TORON­TO (Reuters) – If match­ing socks is a daily prob­lem a new app that sorts them into pairs and even lets users know when it is time to buy a new pair may help. The free iPhone app called…

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  • Body Language Expert: Romney ‘Hyperactive,’ Obama ‘Measured’ in Debate

    Body Language Expert: Romney ‘Hyperactive,’ Obama ‘Measured’ in Debate by Lloyd Grove, thedailybeast.com The pundits may be calling Denver a slam-dunk for Romney, but David B. Givens, who analyzed the candidates’ mannerisms, disagrees: the governor looked ‘aggressive and manic, simultaneously,’ while Obama was ‘cool.’ The gov­er­nor was manic and t… http://flpbd.it/uwyKR Related articles Jimmy Carter:…

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  • Perhaps The Only Good Thing About Expensive Gas Is The Decrease In Teens Driving Drunk

    Perhaps The Only Good Thing About Expensive Gas Is The Decrease In Teens Driving Drunk Mary Beth Quirk, consumerist.com (Stu­dio d’Xavier) Try­ing to think of any rea­son pay­ing more at the pump is a good thing would stump the aver­age con­sumer (thin­ner wal­lets after pay­ing with cash?), but one and pos­si­bly the only good side…

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  • Google+ Goes Looking For Love

    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…

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  • 4 Steps To Advancing Your Career

    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…

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  • Hey IT Manager, We’re Your Friends

    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…

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  • Why Do Britney Spears Fans Use Colon Cleansing Products?

    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

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  • Crowdsourcing app will measure the world for a week through smartphones

    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…

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