Last week I was speaking on what would have otherwise been a terrific panel.  It was Frank Artale from Ignition, Tom Duterme from Groupon M&A, Andy Sack from Lighter Capital & Founder’s Co-op, and me talking about funding & exiting.  The only thing that spoiled it was yet another guy in the tech scene putting forth yet another objectifying/patronizing treatment of someone with two X chromosomes. In this case, the recipient of the bogus intro was the panel moderator, Rebecca Lovell. Just in case...  show all text

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The new stable release of Google’s web browser Chrome brings several improvements, most importantly faster browsing and more protection from malicious downloads. From now on, when you start typing in Chrome’s address box (or omnibox, as Google calls it), as soon as Chrome autocompletes the URL you’re likely to visit, it will prerender the page, making your overall browsing experience faster. As far as security goes, Chrome now does checks on executable files you’ve downloaded from the net. It m...  show all text

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Daniel Atwood works with organizations in the social sector to craft meaningful experiences for customers and constituents, and to find innovative product, campaign and messaging ideas in unexpected places. We live in a world where new digital products are solving problems daily — from managing our finances to remembering the groceries. Often, they’re solving problems we didn’t know we had, like the need to connect several times a day in 140 characters or less. Occasionally, they’re creating new  show all text

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First the news: Yes, the rumors are true. We are indeed buying the assets of ContentNext Media from Guardian News & Media Limited. And no, we are not disclosing the terms of the deal, except that we are buying the entire group of properties — paidContent.org, mocoNews.net, contentSutra and paidContent:UK and that a representative of Guardian News & Media will join our board of directors as an observer. A few weeks ago when Paul Walborsky, CEO of GigaOM, came to the board and suggested that we ...  show all text

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I swore I wasn’t going to write about Pinterest again for a while after finishing a six part series of blog posts, but major developments keeping coming and no major news organizations see to be covering them. If you post a pin to Pinterest, and it links to an ecommerce site that happens to have an affiliate program, Pinterest modifies the link to add their own affiliate tracking code. If someone clicks through the picture from Pinterest and makes a purchase, Pinterest gets paid. They don’t ha...  show all text

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Path uploads your entire iPhone address book to its servers 8 Feb 2012 – Singapore It all started innocently enough. I was thinking of implementing a Path Mac OS X app as part of our regularly scheduled hackathon. Using the awesome mitmproxy tool which was featured on the front page of the Hacker News yesterday, I started to observe the various API calls made to Path’s servers from the iPhone app. It all seemed harmless enough until I observed a POST request to https://api.path.com/3/contacts/a...  show all text

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Um grupo formado por alguns dos maiores fundos de investimento do mundo reconheceu o trabalho socioambiental do Grupo André Maggi, maior produtor individual de soja do planeta e antigo alvo do Greenpeace, informa reportagem de Julio Wiziack publicada na edição desta terça-feira da Folha.

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iG São Paulo De acordo com consultoria, demanda por smartphones foi maior do que pela categoria de computadores, que inclui tablets As vendas de smartphones superaram a de PCs pela primeira vez, em 2011, segundo estudo feito pela consultoria de mercado Canalys. Os números de vendas compilados pela consultoria mostram que 487,7 milhões de smartphones foram vendidos em 2011, enquanto os fabricantes venderam cerca de 414,6 milhões de computadores, incluindo tablets. Estudo mostra que smartphones...  show all text

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1. Sporteer Armband "Designed by athletes for athletes," the Sporteer gets an integrated pocket for cash, cards and keys. Cost: $24.99 Click here to view this gallery. If you use your phone as an MP3 player during workouts, or don’t want to go running without it, an armband case is the ideal solution to give you a practical, handsfree way of keeping your handset close. We have found 10 armband cases for the iPhone that offer great solutions for joggers and gymers. Whether you’re looking for...  show all text

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I’m not the most avid user of social media. It’s not the media part that turns me away – I’ve spent more than a decade of my life writing for various print and online publications. I understand the value of sharing information. It’s the social part that gets me – I’m kind of a loner. Social media is like an online conversation, and there are many times when I don’t feel like conversing.

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The New York Giants official website accidentally announced the winner of Super Bowl XLVI more than 24 hours before Sunday’s big game even started, by the look of images floating around the web. The error was immortalized Saturday in this TwitPic screenshot (above), which Jeff Frias posted to Twitter. No signs of the mistake are left on the team’s site other than a reported link that leads to the image below: The Giants have yet to publicly confirm whether this whammy is real or the handy-work ...  show all text

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The 54th Grammy Awards ceremony is only eight days away and the Recording Academy is kicking off the next phase of its digital and social campaign. Under the heading of “We Are Music” the Academy and its partners are harnessing the power of social, mobile and digital to make the award show more modern than ever. The Recording Academy made the decision to invest in social and digital media several years ago (you can read Mashable’s past coverage of the 2010 and 2011 campaigns) and the organizati...  show all text

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Excitement about goals is often diminished by our fear of failure or the drudgery of work. If you’re short on passion, it might be because your goals are too small or the fear is too big. Do a job for a long time and achieve what you set out to achieve, and suddenly, the dream job becomes a trudge instead. The job hasn't changed--your dreams have. Mostly, though, it's about our fear. Fear is the dream killer, the silent voice that pushes us to lose our passion in a vain attempt to seek safety....  show all text

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Nova York, 4 Fev 2012 (AFP) -O CEO da empresa americana Micron Technology (especializada em semicondutores e memórias eletrônicas), Steve Appleton, morreu e...

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Live stream video on Twitter using twitcam. Powered by livestream. twitcam allows Twitter users to start streaming on their own channels, complete with live chat. Video tweet to millions using live streaming video technology courtesy of your friends at livestream. Use a webcam or screen capture program and start tweeting video today!

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Da Agência Brasil Brasília - As chuvas voltaram a castigar Minas Gerais. De acordo com o último boletim divulgado pela Defesa Civil, 221 municípios jáArtigo no MSN Notícias

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TeachStreet founder Dave Schappell traveled from coast-to-coast over the past 12 months entertaining offers for his Seattle-based startup. But, at the end of the day, he found the best fit right in his own backyard. Amazon.com has acquired TeachStreet, the 5-year-old online marketplace that matches students and teachers. Terms of the deal aren’t being disclosed, but this is looking very much like a “talent acquisition.” The entire TeachStreet team has already joined AmazonLocal, the daily deal...  show all text

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Google doesn’t want you to believe everything Microsoft is writing about its privacy policies — especially not in the ads for alternative Microsoft products set to appear in major newspapers. The search giant published a blog post written by policy manager Betsy Masiello, in hopes of sorting out the myths and facts behind its new privacy policy. Microsoft, among other sources, have been criticizing Google for its disloyalty to users, acting in favor of its own self-interest. Particularly, accus...  show all text

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Pinterest, the website which lets people collect and share photos online with a “virtual pinboard,” has steadily amassed a very dedicated following of users that spreads far beyond the app-obsessed early adopter crowd. On Tuesday, a new study out of content sharing company Shareaholic showed just how powerful the Palo Alto, California-based startup has become. Shareaholic's survey (click to enlarge) Pinterest is now driving more referral traffic on the web than Google+, YouTube, Reddit, and L...  show all text

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Facebook just filed the preliminary prospectus for its long-awaited initial public offering (IPO). As rumored, the company is seeking to raise $5 billion. If Facebook manages to raise this capital, it will be on a shortlist of biggest tech IPOs of all time. Investment bank Morgan Stanley will act as lead underwriter, with Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan and others to take secondary positions. Shares are expected to hit the market in May. For longtime followers of the social network, this is an ex...  show all text

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Jevon MacDonald is the co-founder and CEO of GoInstant, a shared browsing service used for sales and support co-browsing. He blogs at StartupNorth.ca and was previously a founding partner of Dachis Group. Follow him on Twitter @jevon. Enterprise software has shifted from boring, client-based software to sexy SaaS products. This “consumerization” of enterprise brings the user experience closer to how we buy and use consumer software and apps today. Anticipating the complete consumerization of en...  show all text

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As melhores histórias das últimas 24 horas, seleccionadas pelos leitores do jornal colaborativo DoMelhor: fonte clavedosul.blogspot.com Ultrassom nos testículos, o anticoncepcional masculino do futuro A aplicação de ultrassom nos testículos pode suspender a produção de esperma, segundo pesquisadores que estudam uma nova forma de contracepção masculina. Ler na fonte | votar/partilhar o artigo fonte tecnologiasdeultimogrito.com Cientistas descobrem o limite de velocidade das partículas quântic...  show all text

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In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdan Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdan — who, since being emancipated, had moved to Ohio, found paid work, and was now supporting his family — responded spectacularly by way of the letter seen below (a letter which, according to newspapers at the time, he dictated). Rather than quote the numerous highlights in this letter, I'll simply leave you to enjoy it. Do...  show all text

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