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  • Buffer social media turns from websites to mobile streams

    With Over 400,000 Users, Social Media Manager Buffer Gets A Refresh On Web & Mobile, Moves Away From Being A Destination Site Sarah Perez, techcrunch.com Buffer, the social media man­ag­er that allows you to sched­ule posts to Twit­ter, Face­book and LinkedIn, is today launch­ing a redesign of its ser­vice on both web and mobile. The…

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  • Check this online posters

    Checkthis Updates Its Social Posters: Share Visually Compelling Content Without Setting Up A Blog Romain Dillet, techcrunch.com Check­this received a major update today, mak­ing it more than ever a visu­al com­ple­ment to the text-only updates on social net­works. The ser­vice enables users to cre­ate com­pelling posters and share them with their friends. But users now…

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  • Loccit converts your Facebook media into physical stuff

    UK Startup Loccit Sells 8k Facebook ‘Memory Books’ In 48 Hours, Wants To Turn Your Digital Media Footprint Into Physical Stuff Natasha Lomas, techcrunch.com There’s a cot­tage indus­try of star­tups that want to sell your social net­work­ing con­tent back to you in a new form, such as Past­Book and Mem­olane. Loc­c­it, a UK-based ecom­merce start­up…

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  • Scoop.it lets you create your own digital magazines

    Content Curation Startup, Scoop.it, Rolls Out Big New Redesign To Help Businesses & Pros Increase Their Visibility Online Rip Empson, techcrunch.com Scoop.it launched last Novem­ber to give any­one and every­one the abil­i­ty to cre­ate their own dig­i­tal mag­a­zines — to aggre­gate and dis­trib­ute con­tent from across ye olde Inter­nets accord­ing to their par­tic­u­lar inter­ests —…

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  • Transcriptic biotech startup funded by Google Ventures

    Biotech Startup Transcriptic Receives $1.2M In Seed Funding Led By Google Ventures And FF Angel Catherine Shu, techcrunch.com Start­up biotech com­pa­ny Tran­scrip­tic has raised $1.2 mil­lion in a seed fund­ing round from a wide group of investors led by Google Ven­tures and FF Angel (Founders Fund‘s seed stage arm), and pri­vate investors Mark Cuban and…

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  • Better mail apps for the Mac

    From The Makers Of Orchestra Comes Mailbox, The Best Email Management App You’ll Ever Use Ryan Lawler, techcrunch.com Every now and then, I get my hands on an appli­ca­tion or a piece of tech­nol­o­gy that I can’t wait to tell the rest of the world about. Some­thing that is a joy to use, tack­les a…

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  • Best of Apple App Store 2012

    Apple’s Best Of App Store 2012 Rewards Creativity, Google; Skype And Rovio Take Top App Spots Darrell Etherington, techcrunch.com Apple has released its annu­al “Best Of” fea­ture for the iTunes and App Stores, and this year there are some apps at the top of the list that indi­cate Apple is inter­est­ed in reward­ing apps that…

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  • Move to the Cloud in the Least Expensive iPad Mini

    By NICK BILTON, nytimes.com Apple charges $100 more for storage when you buy the the 32- gigabyte iPad Mini over the 16-gigabyte model. But if you take the time to move your files and other material online, using a number of free or low-cost services, you will be able to buy… RT @nytimesbits: Move to…

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  • Field Notes in Ergonomic Diversity: Standup Workers Speak

    By STEVE LOHR, nytimes.com Growing numbers of office workers are joining the ergonomic diversity movement. They are standing up, sometimes even walking at treadmill desks, while working. The health risks of sitting for hours are prompting workers to consider alternatives to… RT @nytimesbits: Field Notes in Ergonomic Diversity: Standup Workers Speak http://flip.it/GgQIC http://flip.it/ygsCd Field Notes…

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  • Artist visualizes his life online

    BigPic: Two And A Half Years Of Computer Use In One Incredible Image By Colin Lecher, popsci.com A map of when artist Marcin Ignac used his computer, when he didn’t, and what he was seeing For a project titled Every Day of My Life, artist/programmer/designer Marcin Ignac used soft­ware to track, mea­sure, and visu­al­ize his…

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  • How to describe environmental science to conservatives

    Concept Of “Purity” Makes Conservatives Care About Environmental Issues By Rebecca Boyle, popsci.com Re-framing environmental rhetoric so it appeals to conservatives can really work, a study finds. It’s not that polit­i­cal con­ser­v­a­tives don’t care about things like cli­mate change, recy­cling and deforestation—it’s that they don’t care ab… RT @PopSci: Pro tip: Framing environmental issues in…

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  • Visualizing aging via web app stimulates financial literacy

    Digital Tool Ages Your Face To Scare You Into Saving Money By Colin Lecher, popsci.com People save more for retirement when they see older versions of themselves, so Merrill Edge is more than happy to make you look old and wrinkly. Did you know that if you see an age-enhanced ver­sion of your­self, you’re more…

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