Image: Robert Johnson In a movement meant to rival the change wrought by Arab Spring, Kalle Lasn of the counterculture magazine AdBusters organized a Twitter led protest Saturday called Occupy Wall Street. In response, thousands gathered in New York’s Financial District. The Wall Street subway station stairwell was closed on one side as multiple...
In much-discussed Op-Ed in the New York Times earlier this summer, Buffett complained that he only paid 17% of his income in tax while his secretary paid 36%. The details as to how this proposed tax will be calculated have yet to be decided. The Republicans will no doubt go insane at the proposal,...
We just got a tip from Yvo Schaap, a Netherlands-based developer, telling us that he has proof that several streaming music services — not just MOG, Spotify, and Rdio — will be partnering with Facebook for its big music product. (We trust Schaap. He was the guy who figured out how to add Google...
It wasn’t all that long ago that we’d have probably thought it a bit crazy to meet someone online, then have that develop into a real-world relationship. But now, with the rise of dating sites (and in some cases with those, the crazier the better), it’s not at all uncommon. What’s interesting to me...
Over the past few years, a lot has been made of “crowdsourcing” trends. It seem like everything — from graphic design and logos to funding — can be made better, faster, or cheaper thanks to crowd. Stephen and Sunil decided to test whether crowdsourcing creative content, specifically an entire web series, could be accomplished...
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What is fitness? The first definition of fitness is: “health”. Health is defined as “the general condition of the body or mind with reference to soundness and vigor: good health; poor health.” So to explore the future of fitness, we need to know how technology will impact our health. According to famed futurist Ray Kurzweil, within this century we...
TripAdvisor, the leading hotel and travel reviews site, will be spun out from its parent Expedia this month, and shareholders are giddy. With 50 million reviews and counting, the site is shaking the travel industry to its core. Underlying TripAdvisor’s success is a powerful long-term trend: ratings websites threaten to make many brands irrelevant....
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Photo sharing app Instagram is one of the major success stories from the app world, notching up a cool million downloads within three months of launch in October 2010. Today it has over 9m registered users and well over 10m downloads under its belt, despite only being available on the Apple App Store. Sometimes an...
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Visit the CenturyLink resource center for relevant briefs and reports to help you better manage your enterprise. Learn how smart businesses harness the power of customer data to improve satisfaction and sales: Unleashing the Power of Customer Data. Litmus, a company that tracks and tests email campaigns has taken a close look at where...