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Instagram Founder’s Girlfriend Learns How To Code For V-Day, Builds Lovestagram
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This might just be the sweetest Valentine’s Day story I’ve ever heard. It’s definitely the sweetest Valentine’s Day story I’ve ever written. Kaitlyn Trigger is a marketing director at Rally.org. She also happens to be Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger’s girlfriend of two and a half years (The 26 year old...
You Can Buy Me Love, But Please Don’t Buy Me Gadgets
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Valentine’s Day is just around the corner, and the majority of us are likely scrambling to find that special gift. (The rest of us, meanwhile, are cursing couples.) A Valentine’s Day gift is usually more important than others because it’s a one-on-one situation, unlike Christmas or birthdays. Just one gift,...
Zuckerberg’s girlfriend and Steve Jobs’ liver transplant inspired Facebook’s new organ donor feature
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As we reported earlier, Facebook has today rolled out a new feature that allows users in the US and UK to share that they’re an organ donor on their Timelines. ABC News has now released an interview with Mark Zuckerberg that explains more about the thinking behind its introduction. Zuckerberg...
Zuckerberg’s girlfriend and Steve Jobs’ liver transplant inspired Facebook’s new organ donor feature
“The Hacker Company”: Facebookers Snag A Vintage Sign For New HQ
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It all started last April when former Facebook engineer Chris Putnam (of fame) was visiting his girlfriend’s mom in Lake City, FL and saw the striking sign — ‘The Hacker Company.” Putnam, who had left Facebook in August 2010 to do his own thing, felt an immediate affinity for the...
Twitter-driven search leads to the rescue of a carjacking victim
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We all love the quintessential image of the superhero – cape flowing in the wind, underwear worn over pants, coming out of nowhere to save the day. While Twitter certainly doesn’t fit the stereotypical criteria, the social networking tool has some superhero, save-the-day qualities about it. Over the weekend Twitter...
Zuckerberg will soon be worth $6.5 billion more than Yahoo, which once tried to buy Facebook for $1 billion
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Come next Monday, ‘Facebook IPO Week’ will be in full effect, and so it’s interesting to look backwards to see just how we got to where we are today. Here’s some fun numbers, to put the massive incoming Facebook offering in perspective: Yahoo, who once tried to buy Facebook, has a...
Zuckerberg will soon be worth $6.5 billion more than Yahoo, which once tried to buy Facebook for $1 billion
Ultra-Targeted Advertising: Man Uses Pandora For Marriage Proposal
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When I was younger, my parents liked to listen to the big soft rock stations in Los Angeles. Once in a while, the sappy love songs would be interrupted by an emotional dedication from a boy/girlfriend to their significant other. It was awkward, but also kind of beautiful. But mostly...
Send your lover a digital Valentine with Lovestagram
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Valentine’s Day is less than a week away, and if you’re looking for a cute and Earth-saving way to show your special someone how much you care, we’ve got you covered*. Kaitlyn Trigger, girlfriend of Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger, created Lovestagram, a simple Valentine creator that uses your Instagram photos. Trigger built...
Twitter-powered search helps save carjacking victim
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A Johannesburg man was saved from a carjacking thanks to his assailants forgetting to take his cellphone, and the power of Twitter. The man was driving through Honeydew in north-west Johannesburg on Saturday evening when two armed men forced him into the boot of his car. Thankfully, he had...
Man takes virtual augmented reality girlfriend for a walk in the park
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The proliferation of relatively cheap motion sensors in recent years, combined with development tools such as Microsoft's Kinect SDK, means that augmented reality (AR) hacks are really starting to take off. As if to showcase just what's possible with current consumer AR tech, a Japanese YouTube user has produced...
The Epic Oracle - Google Spat: In Pictures
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The case pitting Google against Oracle over the use of Java in Android is turning into a spat of epic proportions. The opening arguments are in the books, with Google trying to portray Oracle as a spurned girlfriend trying to wrangle money out of a failed relationship. Oracle, meanwhile,...
Help! I’m Being Forced To Pirate Game Of Thrones Against My Will!
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Today is the first day of Spring. Which is weird. Because Winter is coming. At least for some big media companies, that is. Here’s my situation: I recently started watching the HBO series Game of Thrones (based on the George R.R. Martin A Song of Fire and Ice series of...
Black SMS iPhone App Encrypts Your Texts, Lets Playas Play
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Maybe you’re just a secretive person. Or perhaps you are in the middle of leaving your job, and are talking to a boss from a competing company. Maybe you have a girlfriend… and another girlfriend. Whatever the case may be, you don’t want people reading your texts. In fact, when...
Football coach resigns after posting nude Facebook photo
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A high school football coach intends to post a nude photo to his girlfriend on Facebook. Instead, it is publicly visible. Ten minutes is enough for a parent to see it....
Virgin America Is Awesome. Except When It's The Opposite Of Awesome.
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I love Virgin America. It’s my airline of choice. If I have any say in the matter, I take them every time. If they don’t fly to a city, I often don’t fly to that city. Best airline experience in the U.S. — bar none. Except when they blow...
Donald Trump Gives Mark Zuckerberg A Big Lecture About Why He Needs A Pre-Nup
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Donald Trump was on Squawk Box this morning. After chatting for a bit about Jamie Dimon, and how regulation is hurting the banking system, Trump turned to a subject that really animated him: Marriage, divorce, and pre-nuptial agreements. Said Donald: Here's my question... but Mark Zuckerberg is going to be...
Uber-Geeky Wedding Proposal: In Binary, Wearing a Bender Mask
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Guy makes girlfriend decode binary proposal. It might be the geekiest wedding proposal yet....
Facebook debuts ‘life-saving’ option to add organ donation to Timeline
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After teasing a new “life-saving” feature yesterday, Facebook has announced the ability to add organ donation status to a person’s Facebook Timeline. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared on Good Morning America early today to talk about the feature, saying that the idea of it came from having dinner with...
Remembering the Legacy of Apple CEO Steve Jobs at D10
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For better or worse, much of D10 has been a reflection on the legacy of Steve Jobs, the iconic Apple founder who died last year. However, the conversation moved from the background to the foreground on Wednesday afternoon as two longtime friends – Ed Catmull and Larry Ellison took part...
iPhone owners ready to close the deal, 75% want to pay by phone
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Forget your girlfriend, your mobile phone is fast becoming a better companion in times of crisis — you know, when you need to score the best deal on that sexy gadget or you’ve left your wallet in the car. New data from Nielsen shows that nearly one-third of U.S....
Car insurance: satellite boxes 'make young drivers safer'
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In-car devices have cut crashes by 20% and could bring big drop in premiums, says insurerCar insurance based on satellite technology has led to a 20% fall in crashes involving young drivers, according to one of the UK's biggest general insurers.Telematics, or "black box" insurance, involves in-car tracking equipment to...
Responsinator: A simple & effective way to test your site design on a range of popular screen sizes
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These days, everyone is consuming content differently. My mom has a netbook, I have a laptop, my friend has a 27-inch iMac, my girlfriend has a smartphone and her mom has an iPad. Today’s content is increasingly being viewed on more devices and browsers than ever before — and designers have to...
Man live-tweets his marriage proposal
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A Canadian man surreptitiously posted live updates of his 12-hour proposal to his girlfriend on Twitter to an audience of more than 1,500 followers....
A Day In The Life Of Alexis Ohanian, Hero Of The Internet
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Alexis Ohanian co-founded Reddit, and sold it to Conde Nast. Now he has a new publishing venture, Breadpig, and he's turned into chief evangelist of the Internet. When the SOPA/PIPA debates were raging, Ohanian was one of the must public voices fighting against the legislation. As one of the busiest,...
See what this guy’s girlfriend built 3 months after learning how to code
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If I had extra time in the day to do things that I was passionate about, I would learn how to code. I’m not sure which language that I’d start with, but I’d definitely love to build stuff. Alice Zappe decided to learn how to do just that, and her...
Recharging Your Startup Batteries
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A while ago we had a VC meeting with one of the smarter VCs I’ve met. During the meeting, I told him a joke that another VC wanted to sign me and my co-founder, as long as I don’t get married in the next 3 years and that Omri, my...
Fast Talk: How The Kindness Of Strangers (And A Hot Dog Vendor) Helped Save Karmaloop
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Karmaloop CEO Greg Selkoe tells Fast Company about the frightening early days of his now hugely successful retail company. A few years ago, he was borrowing from family just to make payroll.Greg Selkoe is CEO of Karmaloop, the world’s largest online retailer of streetwear. In recent years, Karmaloop has spun...
Facebook pic of Romney allegedly leads to domestic assault
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A Tennessee man allegedly smashes his girlfriend's laptop and assaults her after seeing a picture of the Republican presidential candidate on her Facebook page. He reportedly thought it was a photo of her lover. [Read more]...
Connect with people and places you love this Valentine’s Day
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A few months ago, we shared an engagement story about a Google engineer who used Google Maps to help coordinate an elaborate proposal to his girlfriend. It served as a great example of how Google Maps can be more than just a handy tool for directions; it can help connect...
South African carjacking inspires Twitter-led rescue
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A man in Johannesburg sparked an elaborate rescue mission after he sent a text message from the boot of his car after he was carjacked, and his girlfriend posted a desperate message on Twitter....
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