Stitcher keeps the news flowing for desktop users with new web-based app Zachary Lutz, engadget.com Stitcher is already a heavy hitter in the world of mobile apps, but users will now find their favorite radio shows and podcasts are accessible from the desktop. Today, the company announced an HTML5 version of its popular app that’s… … Continue reading Stitcher is the best podcast app keeps the news flowing
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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 … Continue reading 50 Amazing Job Perks
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 … Continue reading Udacity Raises $15 Million as Money Pours into Online Education
Interactive Fractal Tree of Life
Interactive Fractal Tree of Life Zooms In On Earth’s Entire Evolutionary History By Rebecca Boyle, popsci.com A new interactive website shows a phylogenetic tree of everything, as zoomable as Google Earth. From protozoans to people, there is a lot of life on this planet, and it’s all connected to a common ancestor from which everything … Continue reading Interactive Fractal Tree of Life
7 Web Tools Every Start-Up Needs
7 Web Tools Every Start-Up Needs | Inc.com Related articles Afghan president orders US forces out of key province - NBCNews.com (worldnews.nbcnews.com) Cuban leader Raul Castro says he will retire in 2018 - Reuters (reuters.com)
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 … Continue reading Google+ Goes Looking For Love
How Google Drive Makes It Easier To Teach Writing
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 … Continue reading How Google Drive Makes It Easier To Teach Writing
It’s Time For Your Drive-By Energy Audit
It’s Time For Your Drive-By Energy Audit BY MICHAEL J. COREN, fastcoexist.com An ambitious company is attempting to use thermal cameras attached to cars to capture images of how every building in America is wasting energy. It’s the Google Maps for home efficiency. At the rate of two to three million buildings per mont… http://flpbd.it/LDbMq … Continue reading It’s Time For Your Drive-By Energy Audit
Food Makers, Today on Google Hangout
Food Makers, Today on Google Hangout On Air, 2pm Pacific (5pm Eastern) By Stett Holbrook, makezine.com All things food and beverage is the subject of today’s Google Hangout at 2pm PDT (5pm EDT), as MAKE debuts a new bimonthly Hangout on Air. Look for these hangouts to cover the wide world of food and drink … Continue reading Food Makers, Today on Google Hangout
Tech Figures Raised At Least $27 Million For Obama Campaign
Tech Figures Raised At Least $27 Million For Obama Campaign buzzfeed.com Leaked fundraising documents show Silicon Valley emerging as a key source of Democratic money and power. Valley money bests Hollywood. President Obama with Google chairman (and occasional advisor) Eric Schmidt SAN FRANCIS… http://flpbd.it/mrFd3 Related articles Razor Burned: The Beard-less Women of Obama's Tech Team … Continue reading Tech Figures Raised At Least $27 Million For Obama Campaign
Google and Landsat Create Time-Lapse Videos
Google and Landsat Create Time-Lapse Videos Showing 40 Years of Environmental Destruction in the Amazon | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building Andrew Michler INHABITAT INTERVIEW: Green Architect & Cradle to Cradle Founder William McDonough INHABITAT: What inspired you to write ‘Cradle to Cradle‘ (the book) and launch the Cradle to Cradle … Continue reading Google and Landsat Create Time-Lapse Videos
Just how hot is it in the US right now?
Just how hot is it in the US right now? - Boing Boing. Related articles As Climate Changes, Urban Planners Help Cities Adapt (wbur.org) BBC Burnt Over Climate Change Claim UK Will Be As Hot As Madeira (chimalaya.org) Plan Panel Seeks to Rewrite India's Climate Change Stance (chimalaya.org) Climate change is real, Canadians say, but … Continue reading Just how hot is it in the US right now?
Your Inner Ecosystem | On Point with Tom Ashbrook
Your Inner Ecosystem | On Point with Tom Ashbrook Envwining a new healthcare industry based on the biome not synthetic chemicals. Related articles Interdependence of Life - Earth's Ecosystems (floydmiddle.typepad.com) How does the ocean biome collapse? (ask.metafilter.com) A Day in Eden - St Austell, United Kingdom (travelpod.com) Breitling BlackBird. the Arctic Tundra, the Antarctic Tundra, … Continue reading Your Inner Ecosystem | On Point with Tom Ashbrook
Wikinvest: another crowdsourced, cloud investment startup
See your portfolio in a whole new light - Wikinvest. Related articles Zemanta now with SlideShare, 5min, Wikinvest, bigger images and 17.9% less fat (zemanta.com) Online Investment Portfolio Manager Comparison: My Wish List (mymoneyblog.com) SigFig Is a Powerful Investment Tracker and Portfolio Advisor (and We've Got Invites) [Investing] (lifehacker.com) Bringing more transparency to 401(k) fees … Continue reading Wikinvest: another crowdsourced, cloud investment startup
SES Conference & Expo | Education for Today’s Experienced Marketing & Advertising Professionals
SES Conference & Expo | Education for Today's Experienced Marketing & Advertising Professionals. Related articles Demand for SEO Professionals Has Never Been Greater [Study] (conductor.com) Organizational Structure for Paid and Natural Search Teams | Conductor Blog (conductor.com) Learning SEO - Where to Start (distilled.net) Interview with Kevin Gibbons, MD of Quaturo (arhg.net) SES Conference and … Continue reading SES Conference & Expo | Education for Today’s Experienced Marketing & Advertising Professionals
Hybrid Calling: Say Goodbye to Big Cell
Over the past month I've been using Google voice and other Wifi based VOIP apps as my primary personal phone service due to a disinterest in paying Verizon >$100 a month over a 2 year contract for a piddling number of calls and text messages. Now, it appears that a few companies including Republic Wireless … Continue reading Hybrid Calling: Say Goodbye to Big Cell
How to Migrate All Your Data to iCloud from Google without going mad
How to Migrate All Your Data to iCloud from Google with Minimal Fuss. Related articles Apple extends iCloud storage following downgrade glitch (reviews.cnet.com) How to share documents with iCloud (macworld.com) Apple Gives Previous MobileMe Users An Extra Year Of iCloud Storage (geeky-gadgets.com) Apple extends iCloud storage upgrade for MobileMe users another year (engadget.com) iCloud.com Still … Continue reading How to Migrate All Your Data to iCloud from Google without going mad
Simple Online Time Tracking Software – Harvest
Simple Online Time Tracking Software - Harvest. I've used this software to track time on a team and it worked pretty darn well. It is part of the Basecamp portfolio which I also use for project management and is entirely cloud based so is very easy to set up and rollout with minimal IT resources. … Continue reading Simple Online Time Tracking Software – Harvest
Narrative Science: Using computational linguistics to automate storytelling
The new startup Narrative Science is slowly replacing many of the stories you read every day by using computational linguistic algorithms to summarize data from online sources on subjects from finance to sports. It is also scaring the pants off of journalists everywhere. Narrative Science . Related articles Could algorithms replace writers? (raventools.com) We've sold … Continue reading Narrative Science: Using computational linguistics to automate storytelling
Fat-wallet and other hot deals sites compared
One thing I learned when working in e-commerce is that before buying anything online or off you should Google it and see what deals are available at hot deals sites like Fat-wallet. Here is a review of the top deals sites: http://hot-deals-review.toptenreviews.com Related articles Mobile wallet changes won't come until incentives do as well (lexingtonlaw.com) … Continue reading Fat-wallet and other hot deals sites compared
Culturomics: hard + soft science using the Ngram viewer
I’ve been playing around with the new Google N Gram viewer and the emerging field of culturomics, the application of high-throughput data collection and analysis to the study of human culture. It’s interesting to see that Timothy was more common in 1920 and that information has grown faster than knowledge In 500 Billion Words, a New … Continue reading Culturomics: hard + soft science using the Ngram viewer
Bob Servant: the spammer’s nightmare
Bob Servant - Official Website. This guy is hilarious. He has decided to write back to spammers and harass them into submission with bizarre ploys. Related articles hiding from spammers (ask.metafilter.com) Reddit Thinks I'm a Spammer (amir.rachum.com) Spammers flood Facebook's own Help Center (nakedsecurity.sophos.com) 5 Popular Twitter Habits That Make You Look Like a Spammer … Continue reading Bob Servant: the spammer’s nightmare
Blogdigger: how to make sure your blog shows up on search
Blogdigger : Blog Search Engine - Search Blogs. Be sure to confirm your blogs are up to date on them. See also day pop, live journal, slashdot, naymz, ziggs, findmeon, claimID, naggist, goloco.org, geni Related articles Google Launches Industrial Strength Blog Search (firstdigital.co.nz) Ping and Distribution Sites I use : BlogBuzzer (elaineossipov.wordpress.com) tgapp-smallpress 0.3.3 (pypi.python.org) … Continue reading Blogdigger: how to make sure your blog shows up on search
Google NGram viewer taps 500 billion words to uncover cultural trends
In 500 Billion Words, a New Window on Culture - NYTimes.com. Related articles Are words the atomic unit of a dynamic system? (sappingattention.blogspot.com) Optimal algorithm for finding all ngrams from a pre-defined set in a text (cs.stackexchange.com) The cyberpragmatics of bounding asterisks (languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu) Google Labs' NGram Viewer: what we learned from 5 million books (nextlevelofnews.com) … Continue reading Google NGram viewer taps 500 billion words to uncover cultural trends
Google Ngram Viewer: Sciences vs. Religion
Google Ngram Viewer. Related articles Google Labs' NGram Viewer: what we learned from 5 million books (nextlevelofnews.com) Colossal is shrinking, but massive continues to grow (diginsider.com) Optimal algorithm for finding all ngrams from a pre-defined set in a text (cs.stackexchange.com) Semantics: Ecohydrology vs. Hydroecology (snowhydro1.wordpress.com) Digital Signage in the Workplace Trends (themarlincompany.com) The Rise of … Continue reading Google Ngram Viewer: Sciences vs. Religion
The politics of the internet: orkutificação or becoming “orkutised”
In contrast to utopian ideals of some, the Internet like most other domains of social conduct is rapidly being divided into closed networks, haves and have nots. MySpace has been branded "lower class" and in Brazil wealthier citizens are migrating to Facebook from Orkut (Google's social network) and branding those who still use the older … Continue reading The politics of the internet: orkutificação or becoming “orkutised”
You are not a gadget: Considering the social side of new technologies
A good critique of some of the risks and issues of today's exploding use of online social media. Jaron Lanier argues it is creating a wealth of fake, fragmented social relationships, endlessly rehashed content and demeaning true human talents. And this is coming from a hardcore techie who developed VR. However his parents relocated to New … Continue reading You are not a gadget: Considering the social side of new technologies
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