Daily Archives: March 10, 2013

The 10 Most Controversial Things About Women Sheryl Sandberg Just Said

March 10, 2013
The 10 Most Controversial Things About Women Sheryl Sandberg Just Said

60 Minutes See Also Sheryl Sandberg Will Inspire And Offend On ’60 Minutes’ Tonight This Was The Moment When Sheryl Sandberg Realized How Women Hold Themselves Back Here’s Why You SHOULD Listen To Billionaire Sheryl Sandberg On Gender Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg appeared on “60 Minutes” tonight to explain her controversial views on women...

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Sheryl Sandberg Defends Her Controversial Book: ‘The Very Blunt Truth Is That Men Still Run The World’

March 10, 2013
Sheryl Sandberg Defends Her Controversial Book: ‘The Very Blunt Truth Is That Men Still Run The World’

Email More CBS 60 Minutes Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has ignited tons of press over her controversial new book, Lean In, which will be released tomorrow. During a 60 Minutes segment tonight she defended her message that women need to step up and own their success. Critics say that she is a billionaire who...

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InTrade Was Awesome — Here’s What All The Critics Got Wrong

March 10, 2013
InTrade Was Awesome — Here’s What All The Critics Got Wrong

Sunday, Irish betting site InTrade announced on its website that all trading was being halted. The language is very ominous. It’s unclear if there will ever be trading again. The site was controversial. It was popular among pundits and amateur fans of U.S. politics, as it allowed people to place bets on various real-life...

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What the media industry could learn from games

March 10, 2013

The following is a guest post from Matthias Sala, the founder of the mixed-reality game studio Gbanga, having worked on activity-based advertising at Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, smart vacuum cleaners at the ETH Zurich and self-refilling refrigerators at Siemens Smart Home Lab in Munich. He won the Sentient Future Award for Bin It!, a...

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LG debuts the 4-inch L5II smartphone in Brazil, plans global rollout to Europe, Asia and Africa

March 10, 2013
LG debuts the 4-inch L5II smartphone in Brazil, plans global rollout to Europe, Asia and Africa

LG announced the new Optimus L Series II family of smartphones last month and, following the arrival of the 4.3-inch L7II in Russia in February, the next device — the 4.0-inch L5II — has launched in Brazil, its first stop of an international rollout across Latin America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. The L...

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Cinemagram introduces tagging and lets users import GIFs (bring out the cats)

March 10, 2013
Cinemagram introduces tagging and lets users import GIFs (bring out the cats)

Cinemagram, the app for creating cool GIFs, has been around for some time but this year it’s come under pressure from a very high-profile rival, Twitter’s two-month-old Vine service. Factcyle, the company behind the app, added video editing features in a significant update just two days after Vine’s launch in January, and now there are more...

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How a bad fantasy baseball team turned Nate Silver into America’s top data nerd

March 10, 2013

Nate Silver, writer for the New York Times and America’s favorite nerd, took the stage in Austin at SXSW on Sunday to talk about his favorite topic: data. Needless to say, Silver’s had a few wins this year in that department. He recently published a book called The Signal and the Noise that looks at the role data plays in...

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When it comes to getting news on Twitter, you are who you follow?

March 10, 2013
When it comes to getting news on Twitter, you are who you follow?

As Nate Silver discussed earlier today at SXSW in Austin on Sunday, the polarization of cable news and politics means that if you’re a serious Rachel Maddow fan, there’s only a tiny chance that you also vote Republican, and the same is true of Sean Hannity listeners and chances they’ll go for Democrats. But as...

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The week in cloud: VMware cloud saga continues; Amazon kicks up monitoring wars

March 10, 2013
The week in cloud: VMware cloud saga continues; Amazon kicks up monitoring wars

We’ve heard it before and we heard it again last week: VMware plans to take on Amazon Web Services. GigaOM reported it last July, breaking news of a planned spin off tasked with this job.  Part of that spin-off would revolve around Project Rubicon, a public Infrastructure as a Platform play. CRN followed up in August with...

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The Weekly Good: ProBueno Lets You Offer Up Your Talents And Skills For Good

March 10, 2013
The Weekly Good: ProBueno Lets You Offer Up Your Talents And Skills For Good

Imagine that you’re a pretty good drummer, you’re in a band, and you’d like to give lessons. You could charge for these lessons, of course,...

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