Daily Archives: August 24, 2012

Hipster Notebook Company Moleskine Is Planning On An IPO

August 24, 2012
Hipster Notebook Company Moleskine Is Planning On An IPO

Evernote See Also Tech Companies Are Learning The Exact Wrong Lesson From The Facebook IPO Evernote Is Launching A Business Version Of Its Incredible App Later This Year EUREKA! Evernote’s CEO Explains How He Organizes His Evernote There’s a business that’s making millions off of taking notes that’s ready to go public. No, it’s...

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CHART OF THE DAY: The Older You Are, The More Important You Consider The iPad To Be (AAPL, GOOG)

August 24, 2012
CHART OF THE DAY: The Older You Are, The More Important You Consider The iPad To Be (AAPL, GOOG)

The older a person is, the more important they consider a tablet like the iPad to be, according to the chart below which comes from Deloitte. As you can see, it surveyed people of varying ages and asked if you own both a tablet and a regular computer, which do you consider to be...

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Gillmor Gang Live 08.24.12. (TCTV)

August 24, 2012

Robert Scoble is an American blogger, technical evangelist, and author. He is best known for his popular blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at Microsoft. Scoble joined Microsoft in 2003, and although he often promoted Microsoft products like Tablet PCs and Windows Vista, he also frequently criticized...

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DScan: A new slit-scan photography app for the iPhone

August 24, 2012
DScan: A new slit-scan photography app for the iPhone

Hidden behind the popularity of the latest puzzle game and to-do list app, there’s a rising number of artistic and experimental apps coming out on iOS. Although Apple has yet to provide an “artistic” or “experimental” category for such apps, awesome work, often created with openFrameworks, continues to appear. Following this pattern, DScan, a...

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Which of these 10 startups will win the Mobilize Launchpad event?

August 24, 2012
Which of these 10 startups will win the Mobilize Launchpad event?

What was a slow-moving glacier of change just a handful of years ago is now a roaring rapid of activity: The mobile market of 2012 and beyond is quickly maturing, driven by factors such as global smartphone adoption, more efficient 4G networks, more intelligent mobile apps and advances in hardware. At a high level, none...

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Etsy Bans Body-Part Sales. Where Do I Find Them Now?

August 24, 2012

It’s right there in fine print: “No human remains or body parts (excluding hair and teeth).” This month the community sale site Etsy changed its sales policy and banned human skulls, bones, skeletons, organs and bodily fluids. That means, right up until an August 8 policy change, you could have bought and sold all that and more on the site....

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Guggenheim Architect To Design Facebook HQ’s New 3,400-Employee Tree-Topped Engineering Building

August 24, 2012
Guggenheim Architect To Design Facebook HQ’s New 3,400-Employee Tree-Topped Engineering Building

Share price be damned, Facebook is expanding. It’s just announced that Guggenheim Museum architect Frank Gehry will design a 3,400 employee engineering office connected to its Menlo Park Headquarters by an underground tunnel. Engineers will hack away in one giant room, separated from the product and ads teams in the main campus. Below you...

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Tech Companies Are Learning The Exact Wrong Lesson From The Facebook IPO (FB, LNKD)

August 24, 2012
Tech Companies Are Learning The Exact Wrong Lesson From The Facebook IPO (FB, LNKD)

Boonsri Dickinson Evernote CEO Phil Libin Bloomberg just reported that Evernote will hold off its IPO until at least 2015. The reason? Facebook’s disaster. Yesterday, Fox Business News’s Charlie Gasparino reported that Twitter will also delay its IPO for longer than it had been planning. The reason? Facebook’s disaster. This is not good. It...

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Pillow Mogul Explains Why Mitt Romney’s Tax Cuts For The Rich Won’t Fix The Economy…

August 24, 2012
Pillow Mogul Explains Why Mitt Romney’s Tax Cuts For The Rich Won’t Fix The Economy…

Oyster.com It doesn’t matter how rich you are. You just don’t need too many of these. See Also GAME ON: Mitt Romney Changes Message On Economy, Advocates Middle Class Tax Cuts And More Government Spending I Love It When People Say I Can’t Understand Romney Because I’ve ‘Never Started Or Run A Business’… Here’s...

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Twitter Puts Some Money Behind Linux, Boosting Its Developer Street Cred

August 24, 2012
Twitter Puts Some Money Behind Linux, Boosting Its Developer Street Cred

Martin Streicher via Wikimedia Linus Torvalds invented Linux. See Also Outspoken Blog TechDirt Will Let Anyone Shut It Down For A Day — For A Price Twitter Just Delivered A Big Blow To Tumblr Facebook’s Revolutionary Data Center Was Designed On A Napkin The Linux Foundation today announced that it has a new big-name...

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