Month: October 2013

Some recent saved favorites from Pocket: Developing robots that collaborate with people: The National Science Foundation (NSF), in partnership with NIH, USDA and NASA, has announced about $38 million in investment for developing robots that cooperatively work with people to enhance individual human capabilities, performance and safety. – http://www.kurzweilai.net/developing-robots-that-collaborate-with-people Top Reviewers On Amazon Get Tons … Read moreThursday’s Recommended Reads

Some recent saved favorites from Pocket: Ex-Facebooker Gifts the Social Network’s Data Platform to the World: Many developers dream of working for a high profile company like Google or Facebook. But not Jonathan Gray. The first time Facebook called and offered him a job, he turned them down. But Facebook kept calling. – by Klint … Read moreWednesday’s Recommended Reads

Some recent saved favorites from Pocket: How I deal with users who steal: It costs $19.99/yr for musicians to use, or is free if you refer 5 new users. The referral system works well, and is responsible for about 30% of daily new users. Some users fake it though. They “refer” 5 people by making … Read moreTuesday’s Recommended Reads

Some recent saved favorites from Pocket: Profitless Prosperity: If a Company is making huge profits this year but will not make any profits in the future, it is worthless in the eyes of an investor. But if it loses money this year and next year and may lose money for a few more years, it … Read moreMonday’s Recommended Reads

Some recent saved favorites from Pocket: Slaves of the Internet, Unite!: NOT long ago, I received, in a single week, three (3) invitations to write an original piece for publication or give a prepared speech in exchange for no ($0.00) money. – by TIM KREIDER – http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/opinion/sunday/slaves-of-the-internet-unite.html LinkedIn Conquered Work — Now It Wants the … Read moreSunday’s Recommended Reads

Some recent saved favorites from Pocket: Chinese Internet Giant Tencent Goes From Snapchat “Role Model” To Potential Investor: Snapchat is looking to raise up to $200 million at a valuation of $3 to $4 billion and one of the potential investors that founder Evan Spiegel has talked to the most is Chinese Internet giant Tencent … Read moreSaturday’s Recommended Reads

Some recent saved favorites from Pocket: Anticipatory Commerce: the Evolution of Intent on the Web: Intent to purchase is the engine of the consumer web. Creating and capturing intent motivates almost every dollar invested into ecommerce and advertising. Intent is also the fuel for the Internet’s most successful business model, Google’s AdWords + Search. – … Read moreFriday’s Recommended Reads

Some recent saved favorites from Pocket: LinkedIn CEO: By next year, 50% of our traffic will be mobile: SAN FRANCISCO — At a mobile-focused press conference today, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner made some bold claims about his company’s quest to become a more modern, more mobile service. – by Jolie O’Dell – http://venturebeat.com/2013/10/23/linkedin-ceo-by-next-year-50-of-our-traffic-will-be-mobile/ Starbucks Links … Read moreThursday’s Recommended Reads

Some recent saved favorites from Pocket: Smartphone users struggle connecting to in-car infotainment systems: Computerworld – As Toyota owners know, using Bluetooth to sync an iPhone to the in-car Entune infotainment system to use its bundled Internet apps doesn’t work. There’s been abundant user complaints about Toyota’s fussy Infotainment system in the blogosphere. – by … Read moreWednesday’s Recommended Reads

Some recent saved favorites from Pocket: Review: Qualcomm’s Toq Is a Watch Smart Enough to Keep It Simple: For all the technology companies large and small talking of smart watches as a mass-market inevitability, those that have launched are muddled and disappointing (see “So Far, Smart Watches Are Pretty Dumb”). – by Tom Simonite – … Read moreTuesday’s Recommended Reads

Some recent saved favorites from Pocket: To Catch Up, Walmart Moves to Amazon Turf: SAN BRUNO, Calif. — A plucky Silicon Valley company, forced to compete for talented engineers, is trying it all — recruiting billboards on Highway 101; workplace perks like treadmill workstations and foosball tables; and conference rooms named after celebrities like Rihanna … Read moreMonday’s Recommended Reads

Some recent saved favorites from Pocket: 20 minutes at Rucker Park: Thomas “TJ” Webster Jr. waits impatiently for the ball to be tossed in the air. The only white player on the court, he can sense the eyes of the few dozen spectators lounging around the steel and plastic bleachers. – by Flinder Boyd – … Read moreToday’s Recommended Reads

Some recent saved favorites from Pocket: The Internet Owes Its Sense of Humor to This Man: There are many forms of fuck at Bob Odenkirk’s disposal: the anguished, slow-motion version he emits while watching bad comedy (“It’s just a fffuckin’ mess!”), the whispered yet still damnably loud variant he uses when remembering one of his … Read moreToday’s Recommended Reads

Some recent saved favorites from Pocket: Sleep helps brain stay fit by clearing waste: AFP – Like a janitor sweeping the halls after the lights go out, major changes occur in the brain during sleep to flush out waste and ward off disease, researchers said Thursday. – by REPORTAGES – http://www.france24.com/en/20131017-sleep-helps-brain-stay-fit-clearing-waste; http://venturebeat.com/2013/10/15/wearables-are-about-to-blow-up-industry-sales-to-hit-19-billion-by-2018/ ‘Bionic man’ makes … Read moreToday’s Recommended Reads

Some recent saved favorites from Pocket: Latest Google Glass Firmware Gives A Tantalizing Glimpse At A Ton Of Future Features: Last weekend, I finally got my own Google Glass unit. Since then I’ve been trying to adapt to using it and all its features, but as always there are a few things no Explorer can … Read moreToday’s Recommended Reads

Some recent saved favorites from Pocket: Meet the Man Behind the World’s Best Ad Agency Twitter Feed @RGA’s Chapin Clark explains how not to be boring: Ad agency Twitter feeds are, as a rule, about as interesting as a couple at Home Depot debating which paint chip would best match their duvet. One consistent exception … Read moreToday’s Recommended Reads

Some recent saved favorites from Pocket: Inside 23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki’s $99 DNA Revolution: The $126 million genetic-testing company can tell you how to live smarter, better, and longer. It can also tell you what might kill you–or the ones you love. There’s a lot you can do for your child with 99 dollars. – … Read moreToday’s Recommended Reads

From my Pocket to yours … The Precise Art Of Mobile Push Notifications: Editor’s Note: Semil Shah works on product for Swell, is a TechCrunch columnist, and an investor – as a disclaimer for this post, he is an advisor to one of the companies mentioned here, Refresh. He blogs at Haywire, and you can follow him on Twitter at @semil. – by Semil … Read moreToday’s Recommended Reads