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How The Next Stage In Circa's "Modular Content" Model Works
Conventional wisdom holds that we're living in the era of the journalist as personal brand. Yahoo has been proudly adding household names like Katie Couric and David Pogue to its news marquee, while...
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Can Twitter Help Publishers Reinvent Books?
Believe it or not, book publishers are embracing Twitter. For them, the platform represents a way to not only engage with readers, but quite possibly reinvent storytelling itself. But what about...
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All About Google Loon's Low-Cost Space-Based Competitor, Outernet
In 2013 when Typhoon Haiyan brought down most of the Philippines' cell and radio towers, bringing information to a standstill at a crucial moment. The same thing happened again earlier this month in...
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Under The Hood Of Mozilla's New Multi-Core Browser And The Open Source...
Everyone knows Mozilla is a force for open source. But a lesser known story is their advancements in a revolutionary new open source language called Rust, which is what enables Mozilla's futuristic new...
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MakeSpace: When Venture Capitalists Go Startup
MakeSpace is like Dropbox for your physical stuff. The online self-storage service landed funding easily thanks to its cofounders' experience working for venture capital firms. Their backgrounds also...
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How A Game Design Rookie Accidentally Built A $200 Million Hit
When Dan Porter starts working with a new client, he has a unique history from which to draw lessons. The head of digital for agency William Morris Endeavor is best known as the guy who designed Draw...
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Inside Neil Young's Crowdfunded Quest To Fix Your Disastrous MP3 Situation
The mood in the hotel courtyard could hardly be more upbeat. For the mix of musicians and businessmen standing around in the Austin sun, a huge milestone just happened: $2 million raised on Kickstarter...
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How Spotify And Echo Nest Did Their Cultural Due Diligence
Just as the Spotify Radio app immerses users in personalized tunes, so too does Spotify envelope you in a super-charged music culture from the moment you walk into the office.Sure, music is a big part...
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How To Extract Sheet Music From YouTube Videos
Picking out the different parts of a song after it's been recorded is like naming every ingredient of a cooked dessert: It's difficult. With its new algorithmic approach, Chordify is the latest to...
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Your 5-Minute Guide To UX From Squarespace and MailChimp
The job of UX designers is to make users more efficient, in turn increasing their happiness and, by extension, your success. But being in control of that balance between the goals of users and your...
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Why Wolfram|Alpha's Algorithm Still Relies On Human Smarts
The newly released Wolfram Language claims to know everything about everything. The all-knowing language is the driving force behind computational knowledge engine Wolfram|Alpha. But it hasn't gotten...
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This Education Startup Will Keep Your Kids From Getting Too Dumb This Summer
During the summer, most parents declare victory if they can coax the kids off the couch for a trip to the library. Most parents are not Allan and Heather Staker.Last year the Stakers, parents to five...
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How A Stupid Experiment In The Armpit Of NYC Launched Refinery29
Five years ago, Justin Stefano and Philippe von Borries launched what they call one of their stupidest ideas ever: a one-month pop-up shop at the grimy Port Authority bus terminal in Manhattan....
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This Innovative, On-Demand Radio App Could Change News
News radio is quickly becoming old-fashioned. At a time when video, music, and print are all evolving, audio broadcast news has largely stood still. An innovative new app from a legacy media company is...
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What Engineers At Facebook, Pinterest, Snapchat, Airbnb, And Spotify Listen...
For developers, a good soundtrack can be as crucial to productivity as Red Bull or coffee. But what's playing through all those headphones? We asked engineers at Facebook, Spotify, Snapchat, Airbnb,...
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Four Robots That Talk Trash To Your Face
Everyone knows that Siri can be a total bitch sometimes. "She" isn't so fond of Scarlett Johansson in Her or Google Glass, and will often respond passive-aggressively to our human-inputted queries.But...
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Will Pandora Survive The Streaming Music Boom?
Pandora has never had a more pivotal moment than this one. The 75 million user-strong service is synonymous with Internet radio, but a growing list of competitors (which now includes Apple) and its...
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How To Capitalize On Reddit's "Window Of Virality"
Have you ever wondered why most of the posts on Reddit's front page are less than 12 hours old? Or why a post with a score of 4,000 is ranked below a 3,000-score post? It all has to do with Reddit's...
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Why Twitter Should Lose Its Special Symbols
There's an irony to Twitter these days. It's defined by its limitations--140 characters--but those limitations may be getting in the way of its larger ambitions. With investors to please, the company...
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How I Narrowed Down The Location Of Malaysia Air Using "Monte Carlo" Data Models
While networks like CNN claim the search for the missing Malaysia Air flight have "gone low-tech," in fact behind the scenes the opposite happened.Thanks to engineering ingenuity by Inmarsat, a...
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