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  • Linguistic analysis decodes true messages of Obama and Romney

    Gesture analysis reveals what Obama and Romney care about By Liat Clark, wired.co.uk Science An analy­sis of the body ges­tures of Barack Obama and Mitt Rom­ney dur­ing the pres­i­den­tial debates sug­gests that how can­di­dates speak could reveal what they real­ly care about and affect whether or not vot­ers believe what they… http://flpbd.it/HeO5x Related articles Mitt…

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  • Inforgr.am makes everyone a graphic designer

    Infogr.am Launches To Kill The Careers Of Struggling Infographic Designers Mike Butcher, techcrunch.com Infogr.am wants to cre­ate a sort of Adobe Illus­tra­tor in the Cloud, allow­ing any­one to cre­ate cool info-graphics on the fly. Back in Feb­ru­ary Euro­pean accel­er­a­tor Hack­Fwd invest­ed in the start­up from Riga, Latvia, and now it’s fully… http://flpbd.it/t9zRD Related articles Latvia…

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  • Shareist helps you manage your content

    Shareist Is A Content Management System For Your Content Management System (That’s A Good Thing) John Biggs, techcrunch.com As a major media fig­ure on the Inter­net, I often find it dif­fi­cult to man­age all of my con­tent out­lets. I have a Twit­ter feed con­nect­ed to my Face­book con­nect­ed to my Tum­blr. I also have a…

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  • Twelve south: Put your Mac book at eye level, live longer

    Twelve South introduces HiRise for MacBook stand, shipping now for $70 Darren Murph, engadget.com Hot on the heels of its HiRise for iMac release, the Mac-only acces­so­ry maker known as Twelve South is out­ing a sim­i­lar riser for Mac­Book prod­ucts. Engi­neered to hoist Mac­Books from 11 to 15 inch­es up off of one’s table, the…

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  • Why your body is the next target for social technology

    Smart Body, Smart World: The Next Phase of Personal Computing Sarah Rotman Epps, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research, allthingsd.com In the past half-century, com­put­ing has evolved from the main­frame to the desk­top to the shoul­der bag to the pock­et, and now it’s tak­ing over new fron­tiers: our phys­i­cal bod­ies, and the phys­i­cal envi­ron­ments that we inhab­it.…

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  • Do not believe the marketing about fancy HDMI cables

    Still more reasons why all HDMI cable are the same by Geoffrey Morrison, cnet.com Peo­ple still have ques­tions about HDMI. Here are more answers. Even after two arti­cles, and a tremen­dous amount of page hits, there still seems to be lots of ques­tions about HDMI cables. I cred­it this to the com­plex­i­ty of the top……

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  • Why Pharma conferences need to be about what patients really need

    Let Patients Create- A Rally Call Jon Gwillim, eyeforpharma.com Précis: There’s an old say­ing; “if you want some­thing done prop­er­ly, do it your­self”. My back­ground is as a con­fer­ence researcher and organ­is­er – for phar­ma, with phar­ma. I focused on dig­i­tal oppor­tu­ni­ties, case-studies and… http://flpbd.it/CdnZ6 Related articles ePharma Summit Top 5 (portal.lillycoi.com) Bad Pharma Audiobook…

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  • Createspace and the best tools for publishing an ebook

    CreateSpace, Smashwords and Author Solutions Dominate Self-Publishing Market | Bowker theindependentpublishingmagazine.com Bowk­er Press Release: Self-Publishing Sees Triple-Digit Growth in Just Five Years, Says Bowk­er® Cre­ate­Space, Smash­words and Author Solu­tions dom­i­nate infra­struc­ture land­scape New Prov­i­dence, NJ – Octo­ber… http://flpbd.it/aqbXh Related articles 12 Basic Steps to Publishing through Create Space (megaphonesociety.wordpress.com) Formatting Your Ebook (ashleyfarley.net) Amazon &…

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  • LinkedIn disrupts biotech pharma recruiting

    LinkedIn: The Quiet Force Transforming Biotech & Pharma Luke Timmerman, xconomy.com Luke Tim­mer­man Mark Levin’s busi­ness is biotech­nol­o­gy, so it’s no sur­prise he knew zilch about a tech com­pa­ny called LinkedIn as recent­ly as two years ago. But these days Levin sounds like he can bare­ly do his job with­out… http://flpbd.it/TIANz Related articles LinkedIn: Revolutionizing…

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  • Why telecommuting saves costs, time and your health

    The Perks of Working From Home Jennifer Shore, mashable.com If you’re part of the 86% who drive to work every day, you can devise ways to lower your gas costs, save time and improve your health — by telecom­mut­ing. The cur­rent work­force totals more than 128 mil­lion peo­ple, and while eight out of 10… http://flpbd.it/nTXRQ…

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  • The anthropology of why constant contact makes you alone

    In Constant Digital Contact, We Feel ‘Alone Together’ Fresh Air from WHYY, npr.org In Constant Digital Contact, We Feel ‘Alone Together’ Fresh Air from WHYY As soon as Sher­ry Turkle arrived at the stu­dio for her Fresh Air inter­view, she real­ized she’d for­got­ten her phone. “I real­ized I’d left it behind, and I fel… http://flpbd.it/lzBmU…

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  • Upright sleeper: How to sleep on a plane

    $40 device keeps your head from falling off your shoulders when you sleep on a plane Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.net I can’t sleep for more than 30 min­utes or so on a plane. After that, I’m awake for the dura­tion of the flight, no mat­ter how long it is. I won­der if this neck-propper-upper would help?…

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