Year: 2014
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Stunning video shows off Turkey and its people
This masterfully edited video splices together a journey across the Turkish landscape. With all that is going on in this region, it’s important to celebrate the joy and culture of this country too. Watchtower of Turkey from Leonardo Dalessandri on Vimeo.
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A tale of two incentives
Meanwhile, the bullet train has sucked the country’s workforce into Tokyo, rendering an increasingly huge part of the country little more than a bedroom community for the capital. One reason for this is a quirk of Japan’s famously paternalistic corporations: namely, employers pay their workers’ commuting costs. Tax authorities don’t consider it income if it’s…
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Aaron Swartz’s “crime”
If you haven’t seen the documentary, The Internet’s Own Boy – go watch it. Reminders of Aaron’s spirit are everywhere and just today, while searching for something else, I came across this post from Alex Stamos, Chief Information Security Officer at Yahoo. If I had taken the stand as planned and had been asked by…
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Apple Watch Pricing
Model Price Source Apple Watch Sport $349 Announced Apple Watch $449 Ewan Spence Apple Watch Edition $549 The Register Apple Watch Edition $749 Ewan Spence Apple Watch $749 Ben Taylor Apple Watch $999 John Gruber Apple Watch Edition $999 Brian Blair Apple Watch Edition $1,200 TechCrunch Apple Watch Edition $1,499 Ben Taylor Apple Watch Edition…
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Microsoft Buys Minecraft, 3 perspectives
How much money was the company bought for? Microsoft acquired Mojang for a smooth 2.5 BILLION dollars. – Mojang blog post I love you. All of you. Thank you for turning Minecraft into what it has become, but there are too many of you, and I can’t be responsible for something this big. In one…
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Blade Runner Markets of Shenzhen
I really should read Joi Ito’s blog more. He has a fascinating post about a recent trip to Shenzhen where he visited the back alley electronic component markets and observes an ecosystem teeming with activity, rapidly iterating on designs in a way that I’m sure makes Silicon Valley rate of evolution feel glacial. However, the…
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Solve by Entertaining
Love this! Use technology to turn ordinary, functional objects into something that’s fun and interactive. Urban environments offer so many opportunities to shine a spotlight on individuals which can make someone’s day. Also, the obligatory “making of” video below. It’s all part of an advertising campaign for the Smart car, a brand that promotes “urban…
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Connected Address Book
Joseph Smarr’s blog post, Turns out we still need Plaxo (or something like it) had me digging through my archives for some screenshots taken from an old prototype I worked on a few years back. The concept was simple and combined the double opt-in privacy features you get from Facebook with the simplicity of a…
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Where do you get your music?
Digital Music News put together a visual showing the mix of revenue streams for music over the past 30 years. CDs, which represented only 0.5% in 1983 grew to the dominant medium in 2003 when it was 95.5% of revenue. In 2004 downloads appear on the scene (or begin to be counted) at 1.5% and are,…