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Naqeshny: A debating platform to help you make informed decisions
thenextweb.com
Naqeshny is a brand new social network, launched out of Egypt, which brings the art of debate into a public online arena. Naqeshny, which literally means ‘discuss with me’, is the brainchild of Cairo-based developer and designer firm, Mash. Offered both in English and Arabic, the site makes it easy...
An unexpected side effect of remote work: Denser communities
gigaom.com
Will the rise of remote work mean we’re more spread out or more densely packed together? Obviously the latter, you could argue, pointing to the fact that logging in to work via the web allows colleagues to be spread from Abu Dhabi to Austin. But there is a case to...
Ageism And Startups: If You're Over 30, Are You Too Old?
www.businessinsider.com
Inc Magazine's staff is writing a new book, Breakthrough Entrepreneurship: The Proven Framework for Building Brilliant New Ventures. While conducting research, Inc ran into ageism. VCs, they found, tend to think entrepreneurs over 30 aren't good investments. Investors gave five reasons why they prefer younger founders: The best tech...
70 Groups Tell Congress To Put The Brakes On Any Further Efforts To Expand Intellectual Property
www.techdirt.com
Over 70 different groups, including many who were central to the January 18th online protests against SOPA, have put together a letter asking Congress to put a halt to any attempts to further expand intellectual property laws. The key point: Now is the time for Congress to take a breath,...
The death of Firefox
www.extremetech.com
It doesn’t look good for Firefox: Almost every month for the last three years, Firefox has lost ground to Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Safari. For most of 2009 the trend was fairly straight as it fended off Chrome and nibbled away at IE, but between 2010 and today Firefox has...
Xperia U, HTC One X and One S coming to Orange UK
www.engadget.com
Orange, the only cellular network that's also one of your five-a-day has announced that it'll be releasing Sony's Xperia U, HTC One X and One S to smartphone demanding Britons in the second quarter of the year. Depending on your point of view, it's either fantastic or terrible that...
What media companies could learn from a student newspaper
gigaom.com
It’s become obvious by now that many newspaper companies are struggling when it comes to making the transformation from print to digital. Shutting down the print version on certain days — as Advance Publications and Canada’s Postmedia have recently done with many of their titles — and putting up...
Temple Run developer shares a behind the scenes look at making a runaway hit iOS game
venturebeat.com
Imangi Studios’ Natalia Luckyanova (pictured left, with husband and business partner, Keith Shepherd) was gracious enough to spend a little bit of time this past weekend answering our questions about their runaway hit, Temple Run. With a combination of a smart development cycle and an ability to take advantage of...
Does size matter? Over-the-ear vs. in-ear headphones
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They sound very different -- that's easy -- but from a sound-quality point of view, which is better? [Read more]...
Google shows off Project Glasses in new, slightly disorienting video
thenextweb.com
Google has released a video on YouTube that creates a vision of how Project Glasses could work in the future. It’s shot from the point of view of a person wearing the spectacles and has a slightly disorienting effect, but is pretty cool non the less. Geolocation, calendar and messaging...
We, the Web Kids
www.theatlantic.com
Piotr Czerski is a Polish writer and commentator. Here, he lays out the kind of political/literary manifesto that seems to pop up from time to time, usually in Europe. The essay, as translated by Marta Szreder, was posted to Pastebin under a Creative Commons license. I repost it here with...
Study: Facebook Timeline Improves Fan Engagement For Brands
www.readwriteweb.com
Facebook posts by brands live longer on Timeline than they did prior to the social network’s massive overhaul, according to a study released Monday. While the analysis by London-based social media analytics firm Sotrender is limited in scope, covering just 130 brands headquartered in the U.K. and 5,000 posts, it is...
The Web vs. the Cloud: Which Metaphor Survives?
www.readwriteweb.com
Ask yourself this: Would you install ReadWriteWeb as an app? You might, if you were convinced that it did something useful for you, and if you didn't have to pay much (or anything) for it. You may already have installed Dropbox, and services like Pinterest and LinkedIn are now...
UK Daily Deals Aggregator Coupobox Sells Up To DealCollector In Another Sign Of Consolidation
techcrunch.com
Today comes news of a small but indicative acquisition in the area of daily deals: the UK-based deals aggregator Coupobox has been bought by rival site DealCollector for a song: the price was in the “lower six figures,” according to Stavros Prodromou, the founder and former CEO of the company. The acquisition...
Why Apple's Former Mobile Ad Chief Thinks His New Company Is Better Than iAd (AAPL)
www.businessinsider.com
We just had coffee with Lars Albright, co-founder of Quattro Wireless (bought by Apple for $275 million in 2009) and former director of publisher partnerships at Apple (iAd sales, basically) to hear about his new venture, SessionM. The company is dedicated to improving engagement in mobile advertising by rewarding consumers...
Kickstarter: These Nerdy Glasses Will Record Your Life
techcrunch.com
While the use case for these glasses can quickly become quite dubious, the YouGen.tv glasses by Vergence Lab are pretty cool. Not only do they instantly change from sunglasses to clear Buddy-Holly-style specs they also record your life as it happens. Created by Jon Rodriguez and Erick Miller, the...
Time study says 'digital natives' switch between devices and platforms every two minutes, aren't as emotionally engaged with media
www.theverge.com
A new study revealed by Time indicates that those who grew up with mobile tech are restless and emotionally detached consumers, switching between TVs, magazines, tablets, smartphones, or channels within platforms about 27 times an hour while experiencing "fewer highs and lows of emotional response." The study says that...
Time study says 'digital natives' switch between devices and platforms every two minutes, aren't as emotionally engaged with media
Samsung Not Worried About Apple’s TV: “TVs are ultimately about picture quality”
techcrunch.com
In what may, in a couple years, be remembered as a telltale remark of overconfidence, Samsung’s AV product manager said today in an interview “TVs are ultimately about picture quality. Ultimately. How smart they are…great, but let’s face it that’s a secondary consideration.” Pride goeth before a fall, Samsung! It’s...
Google: AT&T’s CEO doesn’t understand how Android phones get updated
9to5google.com
In response to last night’s report where AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson told a questioner that the fault of phones not getting updates was Google’s. Stephenson blamed Google, saying, “Google determines what platform gets the newest releases and when. A lot of times, that’s a negotiated arrangement and that’s something we...
Sprint CEO defends company’s decision to bet it all on Apple’s iPhone
www.bgr.com
Sprint chief executive Dan Hesse is being watched closely by the company’s board of directors, but the CEO has to answer to investors and subscribers as well. Last year in October, Hesse revealed that the company is placing a massive $15.5 billion bet on Apple’s iPhone, and in a...
Opening up the voluntary sector: using data to drive innovation
www.guardian.co.uk
The voluntary sector should use open data to be true innovators and improve service delivery, fundraising and campaigningThere's a lot of debate in the sector about open data. How do we share, what do we share, should we share. Having worked in the public sector (who are required by law...
DeNA Continues China Push, Partners with Renren on Mobile Games
www.techinasia.com
Japanese social gaming giant DeNA (TYO:2432) is announcing today that it is allying with Chinese social networking site Renren (NYSE:RENN) in an effort to bring more mobile games to the service the Mobage social gaming platform. Renren had about 154 million users as of March 2012. According to the...
Comcast fires back over Xfinity TV on Xbox 360, says no way, no how it's violating net neutrality
www.engadget.com
Complaints by Netflix's Reed Hastings and a handful of politicians must have rankled Comcast CTO Tony Werner, as he just posted a particularly detailed explanation of why Comcast believes the Xfinity TV app on the Xbox 360 isn't violating net neutrality. We'd previously heard the argument that the Xfinity...
Android 4.1 SDK hands-on
www.engadget.com
Too lazy to download and install the brand new Android SDK yourself, don't feel like tweaking an AVD for optimal operation? Don't know what an AVD is? We don't blame you, and that's why we're here. We fired up Jelly Bean in the Android emulator and started poking around...
'We, The Web Kids': Manifesto For An Anti-ACTA Generation
www.techdirt.com
One of the striking features of the demonstrations against ACTA that took place across Europe over the last few weeks was the youth of the participants. That's not to say that only young people are concerned about ACTA, but it's an indication that they take its assault on the Internet...
Netflix Deal Reveals Apple's Secret Sauce: iTunes Pay Channel
www.fastcompany.com
As announced this week, the new Apple TV brings a new UI, better internal specs, and full HD capability to the table. But there's the business equivalent of an Easter egg hidden in it for Netflix subscribers: From now on, if you want to join Netflix you can do it...
Apple is 10 years behind Microsoft on security, expert says
www.bgr.com
Apple may be the most valuable company in the world, but when it comes to security, the Cupertino-based company doesn’t hold a candle to Microsoft. Kaspersky Lab co-founder and chief executive Eugene Kaspersky on Wednesday told CBR that Apple is a decade behind Microsoft in terms of computer security. ”I think they...
Aaron Sorkin’s Steve Jobs Movie Probably Won’t Be “Cradle To Grave” Biography
techcrunch.com
Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin offered some early thoughts today on movie adaptation of Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs, which he has signed on to write. Sorkin was speaking at the D10 conference, and it sounds like he hasn’t actually written any of the screenplay yet — he said the initial stages of...
Twitter just aired its first ever TV commercial promoting its brand new hashtag pages [Videos]
thenextweb.com
Twitter aired its first ever TV commercial today during the 2012 Pocono 400 Nascar race. The ad features driver Brad Keselowski, who finished in a disappointing 24th place, using his phone to share his point of view with the world. The ad is the first on the list below, but...
Sprint CEO: iPhone users are more loyal, use less data
9to5mac.com
Last year in October reports from the Wall Street Journal revealed Sprint CEO Dan Hesse had convinced the company’s board to take on a staggering commitment of approximately $20 billion to purchase 30.5 million iPhones over four years. At the time Hesse said Sprint “would likely lose money on...
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