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Please sign this petition and share it. Those right-wing...

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:27:44 +0200

Please sign this petition and share it.

Those right-wing organizations are pretty annoying in Croatia.

A revised version of David Bowie’s Space Oddity, recorded...

Mon, 13 May 2013 00:04:20 +0200

A revised version of David Bowie’s Space Oddity, recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station. Best cover ever?

How Foursquare Could Tell You Where To Find Hapiness

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:47:00 +0200

There are some potentially great insights for mobile marketers and app designers to be gained by using location awareness to forecast a user’s likely mood and openness to new experiences.

Recently, Foursquare introduced an updated version of its iPhone app that emphasizes discovery and learns what you like in order to make better recommendations about what you should do next.

But what if Foursquare could also make recommendations based on what would make you happy?
Read more.

How they imagined life in space in 1930s - more pics.

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 23:50:46 +0200

How they imagined life in space in 1930s - more pics.

Google Glass has arrived like a piece of sci-fi memorabilia sent...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 23:51:00 +0200

Google Glass has arrived like a piece of sci-fi memorabilia sent from the future. But with all the talk about wearing the Internet on your face and whether or not these glasses can ever be fashionable, the most obvious and important story has gone untold: What is Google Glass actually like to use? You can read more about this on Fast Company.

As Google and other companies begin to build wearable technology like glasses and watches, an industry not known for its fashion sense is facing a new challenge - how to be stylish. I wrote more about this for Zimo - and you can read it here.

Tim Cook explained what makes Apple considerably better than...

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:07:51 +0100

Tim Cook explained what makes Apple considerably better than Samsung, Microsoft, Google and Amazon, when asked about innovation.

In short - Apple’s leadership and skills, in hardware, software and service.

Read the full story here.

How can we pull our attention from our phones when the Internet...

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 12:00:40 +0100

How can we pull our attention from our phones when the Internet is a superorganism of all mankind’s thought?
How can you design a product to be part of a network when networks are living, changing things?

Rest in peace Aaron Swartz. Technology’s greatest minds...

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 21:52:53 +0100

Rest in peace Aaron Swartz.

Technology’s greatest minds say goodbye to Aaron Swartz.

SpaceX and Elon Musk shared few more details about plans for...

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:37:00 +0100

SpaceX and Elon Musk shared few more details about plans for Mars colony.

Price: $500,000 per person
Inhabitants: 80,000
Investment: $36 billion
When: In 12-15 years

Can’t wait :)

What is the future of gamification? After hype comes the fall,...

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:35:22 +0100

What is the future of gamification? After hype comes the fall, Gartner would say.

Something is wrong, and it comes down to bad design. Companies get crazy about points and badges, while not creating enough meaning in motivation and objectives. Read more here.

"And it won't even be close..."

Thu, 22 Nov 2012 20:55:47 +0100

"And it won't even be close...":

parislemon:

Damon Porter for PCMAG.com:

Buoyed by Black Friday sales, more tablets than laptops are projected to ship in the North American market for the first time ever in the fourth quarter - and it won’t even be close, according to NPD DisplaySearch.

Porter specifically points to this post by Richard Shim, a Senior Analyst on DisplaySearch’s Analyst Blog. You may know how I feel overall about these types of numbers, but focus on the “and it won’t even be close” part. Specific numbers aside, this is happening.

For what it’s worth, NPD doesn’t expect tablets to overtake notebooks worldwide until 2015.

At that point, perhaps PCMag will rebrand as TabletMag.

Six former Nokia employees teamed up in Finnish startup...

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:53:16 +0100

Six former Nokia employees teamed up in Finnish startup Jolla.

Today they unveiled Sailfish - mobile OS based on MeeGo platform.

It really looks great, somewhere between Windows Phone 8 and Android. With Blackberry 10 coming in January, I hope we’ll have five lovely mobile operating systems soon.

You can read more about Jolla and Sailfish here.

Mobile Web overtakes desktops in China as over 50% new Internet...

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 22:35:00 +0100

Mobile Web overtakes desktops in China as over 50% new Internet users come from rural areas.

Number of mobile Internet users is now 388 million, while Android is a leading mobile OS with around 90% market share. Read more here.

In the picture: Guangxi Province in China

gregmelander: HTC 8X The industrial design for the new HTC 8x...

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:29:55 +0100

gregmelander:

HTC 8X

The industrial design for the new HTC 8x Windows Phone in my opinion is the best out there. It really compliments the modern design language of the interface from Microsoft. Seeing it in person today made all the difference.

parislemon: Never Apologize For Having An Opinion — Especially...

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 22:49:22 +0100

parislemon:

Never Apologize For Having An Opinion — Especially When You’re Right

A stunning oil painting by Leonid Afremov.

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:19:17 +0100

A stunning oil painting by Leonid Afremov.

TED reached it’s billionth video view! To celebrate their...

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:39:00 +0100

TED reached it’s billionth video view!

To celebrate their billionth view, yesterday they launched a brand new section on the site: Playlists. These collections of great talks take the topics we, the viewers of TED Talks, consistently shown the most interest in.

Happy birthday Dr. Carl Sagan!

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 22:09:00 +0100

Happy birthday Dr. Carl Sagan!

WIREDInsider: POLITICS GETS SOCIAL

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 23:14:12 +0100

WIREDInsider: POLITICS GETS SOCIAL:

wiredinsider:

Image via @BarackObama

We would be foolish to ignore the impact social had on this election. Whether it was (possibly illegally) Instagram-ing your ballot, or tweeting at an astounding 300,000 tweets-per-minute, this was truly a social campaign. Here’s some other great tidbits:

Scientists Find Achilles’ Heel of Cancer Cells

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 00:18:25 +0100

Scientists Find Achilles’ Heel of Cancer Cells:

singularitarian:

Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum) and Heidelberg University Hospital have identified the HDAC11 enzyme as a promising target for new cancer therapies. If this molecule is turned off, cancer cells stop growing and die. Normal cells, however, are not affected by blocking HDAC11. The researchers are now looking for compounds that block selectively HDAC11.