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How Team Obama’s tech efficiency left Romney IT in dust Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com Despite running a campaign with about twice the money and twice the staff of Governor Mitt Romney’s presidential bid, President Barack Obama’s campaign under-spent Romney’s on IT products and services by $14.5 million, putting the… Related articles Obama’s Budget Would Cap Romney-Sized…
The Rising Science Of Social Influence — How Predictable Is Your Online Behaviour? Ferenc Huszár, techcrunch.com Techcrunch recently ran a piece by Michael Wu of Lithium. The following is a response written by Ferenc Huszar, who, prior to joining Peer Index PeerIndex as lead data scientist, was was a PhD student at the Machine Learning…
Giftly Looks to Disrupt Traditional Gift Card Market Elise Craig, xconomy.com Elise Craig When CEO Tim Bentley founded Giftly, a site that allows users to give gift certificates through recipients’ credit cards, he realized business would be heavily seasonal. The three big holidays for gift cards ar… http://flpbd.it/Ec3yc Related articles Hackers Team Up To Steal…
Let The App Creation Era Begin: Yapp Events App Builder Launches Out Of Beta Jordan Crook, techcrunch.com Remember the time when web sites were reserved for businesses, or niche designers? Before the days of Tumblr and WordPress and even MySpace (where I learned my first bit of basic code). Now anyone can easily build a…
Big Data News of the Week: Sexy and Social Data Scientists Gil Press, forbes.com In a week when tech vendors traditionally go on a news hiatus, the people who actually do big data came to the fore. InformationWeek reported on the gathering of nearly three dozen data scientists from academia and… http://flpbd.it/qnGXj Related articles Big…
Meet the Guy Who Owns Only 15 Things Yuka Yoneda, ecouterre.com If you’re thinking of adopting a more minimalist lifestyle for 2012, take a page from the playbook of Andrew Hyde, an itinerant blogger-cum-interface designer who owns only 15 items. Currently residing in New York City—he’s lived… http://flpbd.it/JE2Br Related articles Minimizing My Life (undeniableruth.com) 15…
(via Mitt Romney’s Facebook page is losing fans by the minute.) Related articles If Mitt Romney hadn’t been secretly filmed with his “47%” comment and won the presidency, we’d already be in WW3 by now. (alterman47.org) Mitt Romney Announce Plans to Run for Pope (godshmod.wordpress.com) Romney Called Tesla a “Loser” In the 2012 Presidential Debates.…
Evolution of the American voter: ‘The tectonic plates of politics are shifting’ Gary Younge in Albuquerque, guardian.co.uk As US demographics change – becoming less white, less religious, more urban – the electoral rhetoric of Republicans and Democrats is failing to keep up. Gary Younge reports Kasha Nelson, 31, was only supposed to go hiking with…
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