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Silicon Valley is Hacking Your Food | Inc.com
Silicon Valley is Hacking Your Food | Inc.com. Related articles Silicon Valley's answer to SXSW: Iggy Pop, Big Data, self-driving cars (bizjournals.com) 10 Silicon Valley businesses hit the Inc. 500 (bizjournals.com) Brazilian government launches Silicon Valley office (zdnet.com) Hey everyone, Jeff Bezos lives in Seattle and Amazon is not a 'Silicon Valley' company (geekwire.com) Leading … Continue reading Silicon Valley is Hacking Your Food | Inc.com
RelayRides: why renting will soon be easier than owning
Why Renting Cars Could Soon Be Easier Than Hailing a Taxi Marcus Wohlsen, wired.com San Francisco-based RelayRides just announced a deal that puts new corporate and technological weight behind its vision of ubiquitous mobility. Why Renting Cars Could Soon Be Easier Than Hailing a Taxi http://flip.it/N6Z4N http://flip.it/nT1vk Related articles Why Renting Cars Could Soon Be … Continue reading RelayRides: why renting will soon be easier than owning
Silicon Valley Goes Hollywood: Top Coders Can Now Get Agents
Ashlee Vance, businessweek.com (An earlier version of this story ran online.) Max Nanis’s website prominently features about two dozen head shots of the skinny, scruffy 22-year-old Southern Californian with his shirt off … RT @Techmeme: Silicon Valley Goes Hollywood: Top Coders Can Now Get Agents (@valleyhack / Businessweek) http://flip.it/8vMDb http://flip.it/mGvsQ http://flip.it/Xvjbf Silicon Valley Goes … Continue reading Silicon Valley Goes Hollywood: Top Coders Can Now Get Agents
Collabfinder: make hackathons a part of college life
CollabFinder Wants To Make Hackathons A Part Of College Life By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com A growing list of schools are turning to the “serendipity engine” to help students find cross-discipline collaborators for passion projects. After he graduated from UCLA with a degree in philosophy, Sahadeva Hammari emailed one of his… CollabFinder Wants To Make Hackathons … Continue reading Collabfinder: make hackathons a part of college life
Hollywood is learning from Silicon Valley
6 Lessons Hollywood Is Learning From Silicon Valley By Nicole LaPorte, fastcompany.com NoCal to SoCal: Cash and talent are nothing compared to equity and IP; corner offices do not equal happiness; and get off that damn phone! The differences between Northern and Southern California have long formed the basis for a… 6 Lessons Hollywood Is … Continue reading Hollywood is learning from Silicon Valley
Good Eggs: the Amazon of local food
Good Eggs Aims to Be the Amazon of Local Food By Alexandra Chang, wired.com Good Eggs, which launched last summer as the Etsy of local food, is expanding in a bid to become the Amazon of local food. The San Francisco-based company launched a new web platform Thursday that lets users select items from local … Continue reading Good Eggs: the Amazon of local food
Data science of the porn industry
What The Average American Porn Star Looks Like [Infographic] By Francie Diep, popsci.com One man’s study of 10,000 porn actors reveals their most popular names, roles, hair color and other characteristics. Your average American porn star, it turns out, is likely to be a brown-haired California-born woman named Nikki Lee. That’s … RT @PopSci: Infographic: … Continue reading Data science of the porn industry
10 year old boy starts recycling business
10 Year-Old Boy Launches His Own Recycling Business, Donates 25% Of Profits To Homeless Children Lana Winter, inhabitots.com “It’s so easy to do nothing. But it’s really good to do something!” This is the philosophy of wise beyond his years Vanis Buckholz, a 10 year-old boy who launched his own recycling business in his home … Continue reading 10 year old boy starts recycling business
California to Give Web Courses a Big Trial
California to Give Web Courses a Big Trial - NYTimes.com http://flip.it/JgDqM http://flip.it/8W5cC Related articles NYTimes rejects the MOOCopalypse (computinged.wordpress.com) Bill to Create 'New University of California' Dies (insidehighered.com) California Bill Brings Online College One Step Closer (tutoringtoexcellence.blogspot.com)
The Booming Market for Specialized Master’s Degrees
(via The Booming Market for Specialized Master’s Degrees - Businessweek) Related articles Foursquare's New Series D Round Of $41M Helps It Delay Tricky Questions About Its Valuation (techcrunch.com) Bloomberg Businessweek's Big Story On Samsung Fails To Mention One Of The Biggest Reasons For Samsung's Success (embargozone.com)
Bits Blog: Car Insurance by the Mile
By QUENTIN HARDY, nytimes.com A California company is selling car insurance by the mile, using in-car sensors to log data. The longer plan is to have a running monitor of the car’s health. http://flip.it/iV6qk Bits Blog: Car Insurance by the Mile Related articles Car insurance prices 'start to fall' (bbc.co.uk)
Washington, Massachusetts Top TechNet State Broadband Rankings
Washington, Massachusetts Top TechNet State Broadband Rankings John Murrell, allthingsd.com If the local broadband climate is a major factor in deciding where in the U.S. to settle your family or business, TechNet has some guidance to offer. The technology advocacy group surveyed the states to compare indicators on… http://flip.it/fEhqx Related articles Washington state No. 2 … Continue reading Washington, Massachusetts Top TechNet State Broadband Rankings
Lumoback Posture-Monitoring
Start-Up Behind Lumoback Posture-Monitoring Gadget Raises $5M Liz Gannes, allthingsd.com Lumo BodyTech, which makes a wearable waistband that tracks posture and movement and vibrates when the wearer slouches, has raised $5 million in Series A funding led by Madrona Venture Group. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based start-up double… http://flip.it/mi6cM Related articles Posture Police (wired.com) LUMOback Posture … Continue reading Lumoback Posture-Monitoring
Minority Report tech: coming to your living room
Dan Lyons, readwrite.com The company is called Leap Motion, and if you want to get an idea of how much everyone in San Francisco is buzzing about them, consider this: A few weeks ago I was visiting a different hot new startup in San Francisco, and in the middle of their d… RT @rishad: Huge … Continue reading Minority Report tech: coming to your living room
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 … Continue reading How to never get lost again: apps for travel
Americans have too much stuff
UCLA Researchers Find American Families Have Too Much Stuff and Too Little Time inhabitots.com Families drowning in too much stuff is the focus of a new book, Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century: 32 Families Open Their Doors, by researchers at UCLA’s Center on Everyday Lives of Families (CELF). To get information fo… RT … Continue reading Americans have too much stuff
UC Berkeley LEED bioscience building
UC Berkeley’s LEED Gold-Designed Energy Bioscience Building Leads by Example Andrew Goodwin, inhabitat.com UC Berkeley’s new Energy Bioscience Building is home to the Energy Biosciences Institute, a public-private partnership that develops solutions to global energy challenges. The five-story, $133 million biofuels research facility was designed by… RT @inhabitat: UC Berkeley’s LEED Gold-Designed Energy Bioscience Building … Continue reading UC Berkeley LEED bioscience building
New York start-ups’ own flavour
bbc.co.ukHow New York’s new tech firms differ from Silicon Valley rivalsRT @BBCNewsUS: Is NYC’s Silicon Alley a credible rival to California’s Silicon Valley? What is bringing start-ups to the big city? http://flip.it/jeKDV http://flip.it/ZhrRtNew York start-ups' own flavourRelated articlesDubstarts jobs fair to link up start-ups with job-seekers (siliconrepublic.com)Immigration and America's high-tech industry (economist.com)A comprehensive List of … Continue reading New York start-ups’ own flavour
Silicon Valley, meet Genome Valley
Maggie Koerth-Baker, boingboing.net More than 100 biomedical and life science companies are clustered in Genome Valley, a research park in Hyderabad, India. (Via Joanne Manaster) Silicon Valley, meet Genome Valley Related articles The Other Silicon Valley That The Tech Industry Is Leaving Behind [Video] (techcrunch.com) Silicon Valley to boost … Continue reading Silicon Valley, meet Genome Valley
Gatorade contains flame retardant according to petition
Petition Claims Ingredient In Gatorade Is A Flame Retardant, Unsafe For Consumption Mary Beth Quirk, consumerist.com (Clean Wal-Mart)Gatorade is under fire from a new consumer petition claiming that the company’s beverage contains an unhealthy ingredient, brominated vegetable oil (or BVO), that was developed as a flame retardant. Opponents of the emulsifier, whi… Related articles Top … Continue reading Gatorade contains flame retardant according to petition
Silicon Valley’s Hottest Commodity: The Design-Savvy Founder
Eric Markowitz, inc.com Inc.com staff Don’t get an MBA. Don’t even learn to code. If you really want to start a great company, hone your design skills. Reams have been written about the importance of founders that can code—or, in Silicon Valley parlance, the… http://flpbd.it/5lhZ9 Silicon Valley's Hottest Commodity: The Design-Savvy Founder Related articles Silicon … Continue reading Silicon Valley’s Hottest Commodity: The Design-Savvy Founder
Visualizing who spends what on political campaigns
A Visualization Of The Most Invisible, And Influential, Part Of Political Campaigns By Emily Elert, popsci.com An animation by Northeastern University’s LazerLab shows what’s being donated, and where. When I hear the phrase “political action,” I think of public demonstrations. But the most influential form of political action has nothing to do… http://flpbd.it/hwnao Related articles … Continue reading Visualizing who spends what on political campaigns
Get Back Inc.: Saving, and Creating, the Best American-Made Industrial Furniture
Get Back Inc.: Saving, and Creating, the Best American-Made Industrial Furniture core77.com Connecticut-based designer Tim Byrne has my dream job: He founded and runs Get Back Inc., a company that scours the American countryside gathering up U.S.-built furniture from the Industrial Revolution era and onwards. Gems like t… http://flpbd.it/d8EfS
Stanford professors create startup to expand high quality university education online
The Stanford professor whose online computer science course went viral is now at it again.. From Silicon Valley, A New Approach To Education : All Tech Considered : NPR. Related articles Stanford University Students Launch Sites By Hand, A Social Business for Global Development of Personal Websites and Effective Web Solutions (prweb.com) Menlo Ventures' Pishevar … Continue reading Stanford professors create startup to expand high quality university education online
Maker Faire: DIY heaven
Maker Faire - Make Faire Bay Area 2012 May 19th & 20th. Related articles Get free tickets to Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend from Craftside (craftside.typepad.com) Maker Faire ticket winners and Make Ready Journal giveaways in our booth #220 (craftside.typepad.com) Connecticut: 3D Printers Turn Library Into Place of Dreams (infodocket.com) MAKE Honored by the … Continue reading Maker Faire: DIY heaven
Stanford’s Online High School Raises the Bar
Stanford’s Online High School Raises the Bar - NYTimes.com. Related articles StartX, Stanford's nonprofit accelerator, nabs $800,000 funding grant (venturebeat.com) Inside Stanford's creativity factory (management.fortune.cnn.com) The Way of the Future: Coursera (jaypgreene.com) Home Schooling As the 21st Century Model for Public Schools? (etcjournal.com) Dear Candice, I'm Sorry About The Internet - LockerGnome (lockergnome.com) The … Continue reading Stanford’s Online High School Raises the Bar
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