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  • Ditch the pricey telecom Internet with Freedompop

    Still Seeking to Shake Up Mobile Market, FreedomPop Also Looks to Rattle Home Broadband Ina Fried, allthingsd.com Free­dom­Pop, a start-up aim­ing to offer free and low-cost mobile broad­band access, is now tak­ing aim at the home Inter­net mar­ket as well. The com­pa­ny, backed by Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom, plans on Wednes­day to start tak­ing pre­ord……

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  • Why the iPod touch is the perfect VOIP soft phone: Freedompop

    FreedomPop Aims to Turn an iPod Touch Into an iPhone, With a 4G Add-On Ina Fried, allthingsd.com Wire­less start-up Free­dom­Pop is announc­ing plans on Tues­day to start sell­ing an add-on that effec­tive­ly gives an iPod touch many of the capa­bil­i­ties of an iPhone. The $99 add-on brings wire­less data capa­bil­i­ties to a third-generat… http://flip.it/lw7Sl Related…

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  • Language and cognitive systems guru Kurzweil asked to head Google engineering

    Ray Kurzweil becomes a Googler, named Director of Engineering Alexis Santos, engadget.com Come Decem­ber 18th, futur­ist extra­or­di­naire Ray Kurzweil will be join­ing Google’s ranks as Direc­tor of Engi­neer­ing to work on projects that involve machine learn­ing and lan­guage pro­cess­ing. Specifics regard­ing those projects, how­ev­… http://flip.it/K9Okf Related articles Ray Kurzweil’s Goal at Google is to enable…

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  • I’m Tim Ferriss, and This Is How I Work

      lifehacker.com Tessa Miller View Profile • Google Plus • RSS When we kicked off the How I Work series in August, we encour­aged read­ers to tell us whose pro­duc­tiv­i­ty tips and tricks they were dying to know. No one has been more… http://flip.it/zcWep I’m Tim Ferriss, and This Is How I Work Related articles Tim Ferriss…

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  • Windows 8 is another UX fiasco

    Nielsen Norman Group: UX Research, Training, and Consulting nngroup.com Windows 8 — Disappointing Usability for Both Novice and Power Users Sum­ma­ry: Hid­den fea­tures, reduced dis­cov­er­abil­i­ty, cog­ni­tive over­head from dual envi­ron­ments, and reduced power from a single-window UI and low infor­ma­tio… http://flip.it/XhVs9 Related articles Are you a Designer? – Windows 8 UX Design Camp in Finland…

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  • UX makeover from ISite design

    UX Makeover ISITE Design, isitedesign.com Sub­mit­ted by Jes­si­ca Cheng S… on Novem­ber 12th, 2012 in UX Makeover: Laying the Foundation to Support Your Website Content Of the many ben­e­fits we enjoy being part of the ISITE Design team is a true com­mit­ment to pro­fes­sion­al… http://flip.it/5zdH7 Related articles ISITE Design’s Kam Figy Recognized as Sitecore Most…

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  • Ginger.io behavioral health IT startup

    Smartphone app that assesses behavioral health raises $6.5M Stephanie Baum, medcitynews.com A health IT startup that got its start evaluating college students behavior based on their smartphone use has raised $6.5 million, according to a company statement.The San Francisco behavior analytics firm Ginger.io co-founder and CEO Anmol Madan… http://flip.it/vRhhX Related articles Guest Post: The Ginger.io…

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  • Google knowledge graph on drugs

    Google: This is your Knowledge Graph on drugs by Casey Newton, cnet.com Google’s evolv­ing data­base of the rela­tion­ships between peo­ple, places and things gets a new dose of med­i­cine. Search­ing for infor­ma­tion about med­i­cine on Google? You’ll soon find drugs inject­ed into your search… http://flip.it/tRy2u Related articles Google Adds Non-Profit Details To Knowledge Graph (searchengineland.com)…

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  • Popcorn: turn video into a computable medium

    Popcorn: Content Creation that Tastes Good iqagency.com A new type of video content creation. This post is about a brand new dig­i­tal tech­nol­o­gy for video called Pop­corn. It’s one of a num­ber of tech­nol­o­gy led efforts to broad­en what video is capa­ble of, and in a world where soon 90% of da… http://flip.it/EZTdB

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  • Best lenses for your micro four thirds camera

    (via Top 10 Native Lenses for Micro Four Thirds cameras 2012 | OSGFilms) Related articles Panasonic’s Beginner-Friendly Lumix GF6 Brings Wi-Fi to Micro Four Thirds (gizmodo.com) Panasonic 14-140mm f/4.0-5.8 OIS Video Optimized Micro Four Thirds Lens for Panasonic Digital SLR Cameras@’ (hkzwes.wordpress.com) Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera: The 1080HD RAW Pocket Camera (cultofmac.com) Olympus M. Zuiko…

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  • The relationship between coffee shop density and political party

    Coffee shops vs. 2012 election results ilovecoffee.jp Coffee shops vs. 2012 election results – I Love Coffee http://flip.it/UB02D http://flip.it/FQbvX Related articles Death Wish Coffee is World’s Strongest (techeblog.com) Coffee Coffee Coffee (writingformultimedia.com)

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  • Why creative writers are the best tech futurists

    Make it So: Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction – “Sex with Technology” Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.net Here’s an exclu­sive excerpt from Make it So: Inter­ac­tion Design Lessons from Sci­ence Fic­tion, by Nathan She­droff and Christo­pher Noes­sel. Many designers enjoy the interfaces seen in science fiction films and television shows. Freed from … Make it So:…

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