May 2012
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chartsnthings: Amanda Cox and countrymen chart the... →
chartsnthings:
On Thursday Facebook had the third-largest I.P.O. ever. In the week leading up it, my colleague Amanda Cox spent some time thinking how to best explain and contextualize this offering to readers. What follows is a series of sketches from Amanda, who shared her project folder with me for this…
Very cool analysis at work.
April 2012
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March 2012
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February 2012
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KAYAK Mobile is dropping active support and maintenance for our BlackBerry application.
We are sincerely sorry to BlackBerry users, but we have regrettably come to this practical decision.
When we started KAYAK in 2004, we issued BlackBerries to the entire engineering team so we could communicate instantly 24/7. Today we’ve all switched, and it seems our users are doing the same. Our...
Smartphone Shipments Top PCs For The First Time... →
Last year a total of 487.7 million smartphones were shipped. Only 414.6 million PCs, which include tablet PCs, shipped.
December 2011
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November 2011
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More important news that no one will hear -...
iheartchaos:
Well shit, that’s fucking sad. The Western Black rhino of Africa has officially been declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Good night, sweet rhino species. We’re sorry if we fucked things up for you.
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August 2011
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Awesome Female Voice playlist from Eric Mortensen →
ericmortensen:
A 2 hour Spotify mixtape, a work in progress and a mouthful:
Bowery Electric – Floating World Portishead – Humming Björk – Possibly Maybe Cibo Matto – Sugar Water Lovage – To Catch a Thief Tricky – Overcome Massive Attack – Paradise Circus Lamb – I Cry Nelly Furtado – My Love Grows Deeper, Part 1 Sneaker Pimps – Walking Zero CocoRosie – Werewolf Goldfrapp – Black Cherry Madonna...
Every technology company I have is getting hit by patent lawsuits that are the...
– Mark Cuban - If You Want To Create More Jobs, Change Patent Law (via david-noel)
July 2011
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June 2011
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May 2011
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March 2011
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February 2011
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At 4 p.m., the battles appeared to tip decisively in the protesters’...
– Summary of a week in Egypt is an awe-inspiring story of people power.
How Cairo, Washington Were Blindsided by Revolution - WSJ.com
January 2011
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The value of liberal democracy used to be sacred in the West.
Now some people...
– David Cameron’s big ideas: Facebook and Spotify.
David Cameron’s Davos speech in full - politics.co.uk
All the same conspiracy theories as last year too… “So and so was offended”…...
– Ricky Gervais (via ericmortensen)
TeuxDeux →
david:
I’ve been using TeuxDeux as my calendar and task list for the last couple months. I can’t recommend it enough.
Amen.
http://lifehacker.com/5726764/why-the-mac-app-store... →
Why the Mac AppStore is a step forward to a limited, curated, censored future.
VLC player yanked from iPhone AppStore citing “incompatibility between the...
– This may be bigger than just VLC. By now it is quite hard to build anything without ingredients based on GNU GPL. Is Safari Webkit not already based on it?
(via Wired UK)
December 2010
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