Daily Archives: October 21, 2012

How To Watch Porn At Work (And Get Away With It)

October 21, 2012
How To Watch Porn At Work (And Get Away With It)

Email More Courtesy of Jest.com See Also The World’s Biggest Sinkholes Presenting The 10 Most Outrageous Ski Homes Currently On The Market The 27 Best Cities For Doing Business Harris Interactive conducted a poll on employee’s online video habits at work. While workers are consuming your standard news clips and viral videos, the...

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This Photo Suggests Apple Might Make A Serious Change To The iPad (AAPL)

October 21, 2012
This Photo Suggests Apple Might Make A Serious Change To The iPad (AAPL)

Email More The photo below comes to us from Apple.Pro via 9to5Mac and it shows two iPads–with the usual dock port we’re accustomed to and another with the smaller Lightning port that Apple introduced with the iPhone 5. If genuine, then it suggests that the iPad could be in line for a big makeover...

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Marissa Mayer’s Yahoo Interested In Buying Open Table And Other Tech Cos — Yahoo Media Screwed

October 21, 2012
Marissa Mayer’s Yahoo Interested In Buying Open Table And Other Tech Cos — Yahoo Media Screwed

Jolie O’Dell Flickr SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Marissa Mayer, who earned a reputation for decisive action and intensity during her 13-year stint at Google Inc, has spent her first months as Yahoo Inc CEO quietly moving the Internet pioneer back to its roots in technology. Long torn between whether it should focus on media...

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LG trolls elevator passengers to show how ‘lifelike’ its new IPS monitors are [Video]

October 21, 2012

For technology manufacturers, there’s no better way of showing off what your new product can do than deploying it in a real-world environment, where people can see for themselves. To show off its new IPS monitors, LG combined nine of its displays, arranged them in a three-by-three grid, and fix them to a floor...

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How to age better (off topic but a must watch)

October 21, 2012

This aired a few months back in the UK but I’ve only just gotten a chance to watch it.  It’s not only a prime example of the great work the BBC can provide but, more importantly, it might just change your life. I won’t give away the conclusion because I think it’s important you...

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Yahoo faces the Mayer dilemma as quarterly earnings are released: focus on media or go social

October 21, 2012

A drastic turn in Yahoo’s future could be announced tomorrow as the search engine company releases its first quarterly earnings report since it brought on Marissa Mayer as CEO. The former executive at Google has made some moves during her short tenure as the leader, but Reuters is reporting that the next announcement on...

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DS2DIO: Jon M. Chu builds YouTube a home for dance video

October 21, 2012

From music videos to Evolution of Dance, dance has always managed to find an audience in the online video world. But DS2DIO, one of the more recent entries in the YouTube channel initiative, aims to become a central hub for the wealth of dance-related content out there. Founded by director Jon M. Chu and...

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What I learned while live-tweeting a friend’s funeral

October 21, 2012

There’s been a lot written about how social-media tools like Twitter and Facebook interfere with our daily lives, prevent us from living in the moment, get in the way of face-to-face interactions, and so on — and all of this is true, to some extent. But I am a firm believer in the idea...

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Dilbert disses cloud (or at least cloudwashing)

October 21, 2012
Dilbert disses cloud (or at least cloudwashing)

When Dilbert takes aim at cloudwashing, maybe it is the beginning of the end for that annoying practice which threatens the credibility of tech companies. Dilbert’s boss (he of the awesome two-point hairdo) tells Dilbert to move some of the company’s functions to the Internet but to call the Internet “cloud.”  Why? Because no...

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VCs Don’t Like Content: Here Are Three Reasons Why

October 21, 2012
VCs Don’t Like Content: Here Are Three Reasons Why

Editor’s Note: Kevin Gao is cofounder CEO of Hyperink, a next-gen publishing platform. Previously, he worked at shopkick, McKinsey, and self-published 2 ebooks. You can follow him on Twitter here. In Silicon Valley, there’s a widespread belief that VCs don’t invest in content businesses. Here are 3 reasons – based on my experience with Hyperink...

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