Daily Archives: February 14, 2013

Want To Work At Facebook? Here’s The Skill They REALLY Want (FB)

February 14, 2013
Want To Work At Facebook? Here’s The Skill They REALLY Want (FB)

Business Insider Facebook’s Ken Rudin See Also Oracle’s Customers Are Not Interested In Its Super Important New Cloud, Analyst Says Tech Workers Got Big Pay Raises Everywhere But The Valley, Survey Says Mobile Devices Have Become ‘Prosthetic Brains,’ Web Guru Says Facebook has 41 job openings on its data and analytics team. That’s a...

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How This Year’s Flu Managed To Outsmart Google

February 14, 2013
How This Year’s Flu Managed To Outsmart Google

Flickr The Carnival Poop Cruise Is Finally Over The FDA Just Approved a Bionic Eye that Lets Blind People See Congressman’s Alleged Twitter Mistress Is Actually His Long Lost Daughter Chris Dorner Is Dead, Long Live Chris Dorner The Hard Times of Whitney Cummings Scientific hindsight shows that Google Flu Trends far overstated this...

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Marin Software’s CEO Gave Me This Document On Google Ad Pricing Right Before He Filed His IPO (GOOG)

February 14, 2013
Marin Software’s CEO Gave Me This Document On Google Ad Pricing Right Before He Filed His IPO (GOOG)

Marin Software Chris Lien, founder and CEO, Marin Software In late January, I had a nice meeting with Marin Software CEO Chris Lien, and we chatted about Google’s new product listing ads (PLAs), which form the backbone of Google Shopping. Marin handles a lot of online advertising for various clients, such as Macy’s, Gap...

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San Francisco partners with License123 to give business owners an easy license and permit resource

February 14, 2013
San Francisco partners with License123 to give business owners an easy license and permit resource

The city of San Francisco has unveiled a new resource to help businesses handle the pain point of licenses and permits. Led by the city’s Office of Civic Innovation, entrepreneurs and small business owners who are interested in creating a business will have a one-stop shop in which to find the information they need....

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This musical glass rendition of “Hallelujah” should give you the chills

February 14, 2013

I’m adding this glass harp version of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” to my list of ridiculously talented street artists on YouTube. If you’re looking for more, here are a couple other videos of his work. Or, you could go see him live in Prague, Czech Republic. (hat tip Reddit) Article source: TNW http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~3/H4hwT-crrj0/

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Staples to begin selling Apple products in the US

February 14, 2013

A Staples executive has confirmed that the office supply retailer will soon begin selling Apple products in the US, as noticed by 9to5Mac. Regis Mulot, Staples’ Senior Vice President of Global Human Resources, broadcast the announcement on Twitter. “After Canada, #Apple products are coming to #Staples in US. Great news!” Mulot wrote. Staples already...

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Dating Apps Are Full Of Dudes

February 14, 2013
Dating Apps Are Full Of Dudes

In my quest to find love through my smartphone, I am starting to feel that I have embarked on a fool’s errand. According to mobile analytics firm Flurry, there are a paucity of women using dating apps. Essentially, dating apps are for dudes. Analyzing the top 20 dating apps on Flurry’s platform, the company...

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Obama To Hold "Fireside Hangout" On State of the Union Address

February 14, 2013
Obama To Hold "Fireside Hangout" On State of the Union Address

Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s radio series of 30 “fireside chats” was a key way to connect the presidency to homes across the nation in 1933 and 1934. More than 75 years later, President Obama is using Google+ to “Hangout” with his constituents.  In his ongoing series paying respect to the New Deal broker, Obama’s “Fireside Hangout”...

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Can Big Data + Big Dating = True Love?

February 14, 2013
Can Big Data + Big Dating = True Love?

Guest author Mat Young is senior director of products at Fusion-io, In recent years, big data and technology have infiltrated nearly every part of our lives – and dating is no different. Today, approximately 20% of relationships begin through some sort of online or mobile dating service. It’s estimated that there are 90 million single...

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The Brainpickings brouhaha and the problem with affiliate links

February 14, 2013
The Brainpickings brouhaha and the problem with affiliate links

There’s been a lot of sound and fury recently about a blogger named Maria Popova, who makes her living by curating links to smart content on her Brainpickings blog. Popova has been quite vocal about how she doesn’t like traditional advertising and instead relies on donations from her readers, in much the same way...

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