Tag: London

  • Bio hacking healthcare

    (via Biohacking Healthcare – Part 1 – Forbes) Related articles Biohacking (wewanttolearn.wordpress.com) guardian tecnologia: Kickstarter must not fund biohackers’ glow-in-the-dark plants | Martin Lukacs (guardian.co.uk) Saudi Prince Sues Forbes Magazine (intheq8.com)

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  • Glaxo intrapreneurs convince big pharma to help developing world

    Turning Big Pharma Toward The Developing World, From The Inside BY MARZENA ZUKOWSKA, fastcoexist.com How three intrapreneurs at GlaxoSmithKline created a program to help diagnose disease in places without access to medicine, and how they convinced the company to support it. How many high-end research sci­en­tists does it take to make a dent in ……

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  • The invisible UI

    No to NoUI Timo, elasticspace.com ‘The best design is invisible’ is the interaction design phrase of the moment. The images above are from my ever-expanding collection of quotes about how design and technology will ‘disappear’, become ‘invisible’ or how the… No to NoUI – Timo Arnall http://flip.it/DXd0v http://flip.it/BZVXF Related articles The curse of the invisible…

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  • 11 Traditional Breakfasts From Around the World

    11 Traditional Breakfasts From Around the World bootsnall.com It could be that a lone bagel and a cup of cof­fee to-go is your idea of break­fast, and the only time you actu­al­ly sit down for this impor­tant meal is on week­ends and hol­i­days, but what about when you trav­el? What hap­pens when you are i……

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  • 5 Affordable Round the World Routes

    admin, bootsnall.com Too many round the world travel dreamers give up on traveling the world before they even begin, and many of them do it because of costs. We’re here to give tips on how to best use Indie and highlight 5 affordable trips to make your dream more of a… RT @BootsnAll: 5 Affordable…

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  • New York start-ups’ own flavour

    bbc.co.uk How New York’s new tech firms differ from Silicon Valley rivals RT @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/ZhrRt New York start-ups’ own flavour Related articles Dubstarts jobs fair to link up start-ups with job-seekers (siliconrepublic.com) Immigration and America’s…

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  • Figure your real career aptitude with data and online tools

    How To Find The Best Job For You By David Zax, fastcompany.com Should I really become an explosives worker? Spencer Thompson’s Sokanu wants to be like a Match.com for careers. There aren’t many 21-year-olds you should talk with for career advice. But when that 21-year-old, like Spencer Thomp­son, has built … RT @FastCoLead: Find the…

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  • The relationship between coffee shop density and political party

    Coffee shops vs. 2012 election results ilovecoffee.jp Coffee shops vs. 2012 election results – I Love Coffee http://flip.it/UB02D http://flip.it/FQbvX Related articles Death Wish Coffee is World’s Strongest (techeblog.com) Coffee Coffee Coffee (writingformultimedia.com)

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  • Yapp events app builder

    Let The App Creation Era Begin: Yapp Events App Builder Launches Out Of Beta Jordan Crook, techcrunch.com Remem­ber the time when web sites were reserved for busi­ness­es, or niche design­ers? Before the days of Tum­blr and Word­Press and even MySpace (where I learned my first bit of basic code). Now any­one can eas­i­ly build a…

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  • UK puts entire government on the web, others to follow

    Government’s digital services portal Gov.uk comes out of beta By Ian Steadman, wired.co.uk Technology The gov­ern­ment’s cen­tralised por­tal for all its online ser­vices, Gov.uk, final­ly launched today after two years of devel­op­ment. It rep­re­sents the flag­ship of the gov­ern­ment’s “dig­i­tal by default” pol­i­cy, an idea fir… http://flpbd.it/VuGse Related articles Designs of the Year (digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk) GOV.UK…

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  • NYC is fast becoming a hub of health IT

    New Accelerator Is On A Mission To Turn NYC Into A Hub For Healthtech Startups Rip Empson, techcrunch.com Accel­er­a­tors and incu­ba­tors have been pop­ping up left and right over the last few years, becom­ing, as Peter Relan recent­ly put it, “an indus­try seg­ment in their own right.” And while that indus­try seg­ment has become more…

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  • Sokanu uses science to find out what you’re good at

    Sokanu Says Science Can Help You Find Your Dream Job Eric Johnson, allthingsd.com Why do you work where you do and are you happy there? If the answer is “no” for the sec­ond ques­tion, Spencer Thomp­son has a new answer for the first. Thomp­son, 21, is the CEO of Vancouver-based Sokanu, which offi­cial­ly launch­es this…

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  • Micro-distilleries tap into molecular sciences and artisanal interests

    Just when you thought Miller Lite was the pinnacle of the US beverage industry, the same interest in local, organic and clean tech is creeping into this sector as well with the increasing prevalence of micro distilleries. Filter: Micro-Distilleries Lead the Geek Booze Craze | Wired Magazine | Wired.com. Related articles Prichard’s Distillery Opens Their…

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  • Using Census data for life science intelligence

    Many government resources are a great way to gather intelligence for life science companies: Census Bureau Homepage. Related articles New Microdata from the Census Bureau (kauffman.org) New Data from Census Points to Falling Job Creation (kauffman.org) Kauffman Foundation-Funded U.S. Census Bureau Data Highlight Importance of Business Startups to Job Creation in the U.S. (kauffman.org)

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