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That's No Space Station: Tumblr @ Yahoo: Day 1 →

chartier: New purple dashboard option All other dashboard color options are retired By June 1, you will have to update your avatar to be one of those damn cartoon people things All new post buttons (icon and background) are now purple Every sentence you write will automatically get an exclamation…

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Every Arrested Development Running Gag in One...

The time for goofing around on Recurring Developments, an interactive map of every running gag — every awkward shoulder rub, every huge mistake, every “Her?” – in the first three seasons of Arrested Development has just begun. If you can’t catch up on the episodes by brazenly just watching television at work, this is probably the next best thing, though it would probably serve to keep an...

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Twitter Music Is Live Today, And It Is Pretty... →

To say that Twitter Music is debuting today would be to discount the man hours Ryan Seacrest and other celebrities have spent assaulting their earholes with it.

Apr 18th

What are you doing May 26? Shut up, doesn’t matter, cancel all your plans right now. You have new plans, and they’re awesome, because you, like any decent, right-thinking person, are going to be watching 15 new episodes of Arrested Development when they arrive on Netflix at 12:01 PDT May 26. Netflix had the decency and wisdom to bring the show back on a Sunday, which means you won’t have to...

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Google Creates 'Calculator' To Tell You If Your... →

Mobile advertising has always had and attribution problem, making it difficult to discern it’s effectiveness due to poor analytics. Jason Spero, Google’s head of mobile strategy is trying to change that. Google has developed a new marketing/measurement tool designed to quantify the value of mobile advertising. Hopefully convincing marketers that its a worthwhile advertising channel.

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How to Make the Most of Mobile Local Search →

Great little Q&A With Cindy Krum, CEO, Mobile Moxie

Feb 24th

Ice breakers for talking to strangers: A Q&A with... →

Feb 21st

Want A Shot At Getting Yourself Some Google...

Heads up, gadget geeks — Google is opening the floodgates on Google Glass. Well, kind of, anyway. As of today, you can appeal directly to Google to tell them what cool things you would get up to with Google Glass wrapped around your head. Tell them on Twitter or Google+ why you’d be a great Google Glass guinea pig and just $1500 later, you could be the envy of all your friends while also never...

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This guy throwing a snowball at a boat with a hose on it may be the very definition of “writing a check your ass can’t cash.” They are city employees. It’s not like they’re allowed to just turn that hose on anyone who messes with them, right? Wrong.

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Facebook Puts The Hammer Down On Fraudulent Likes

A number of Facebook pages are about to get less popular. The social network is cracking down on “Likes” that come from spambots, which are not known for their discerning tastes in entertainment or products. Despite this lack of refinement, bots have proven plenty capable of espousing positive opinions about…well, pretty much anything programmers tell them to. Concerned about the effect these...

Sep 4th

Sometimes Quora Can Make Me Laugh.

Read Quote of Mark Rogowsky’s answer to Facebook: Should Mark Zuckerberg slowly phase advertising out of Facebook’s ecosystem? on Quora Should Mark Zuckerberg slowly phase advertising out of Facebook’s ecosystem? This piece suggests that Sheryl Sandberg be let go based on her failure to develop an effective monetization strategy, and killing Mark’s intention to...

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The theme song for high school summer nights.

Jul 28th

Recent Reads

Haruki Murakami poster I started to reread The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle because I saw a friend post a Haruki Murakami quote on Facebook. Amazing book.

Jul 28th

Good Eats

Sanford You have to go during the week, but the Chef’s Surprise never disappoints. El Tondero Named after Peru’s traditional dance, and the food dances in your belly. The Saltado de pollo is amazing! Blink Bonnie’s Not local to where I live, but been going there for years. It has the best steak on the planet.

Jul 28th

Using Twitter To Identify Psychopaths →

In a world where social media is progressively becoming more important to the mainstream,researchers have now used Twitter to determine whether a user is a psychopath. A group of folks from the Online Privacy Foundation and Florida Atlantic University, with some help from data-competition website Kaggle, have come up with a way to mathematically determine if a Twitter user tends toward the more...

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“I am excited about the new Samsung. Not the phone: The refrigerator.”

– Siri

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