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  • What can Best Buy learn from B&H and Apple stores?

          How Best Buy can learn from B&H Photo by Greg Sandoval, cnet.com New York’s top photography store provides a clinic on how to sell tech gear. This is how you sell tech gear: Yes­ter­day I walked into B&H Photo in New York, which claims to be the coun­try’s largest non-chain cam­era store,…

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  • Crack the job application systems

        4 Strategies for Conquering Online Job Application Systems Brie Reynolds, lifehack.org If you’re like the majority of job seekers, you spend quite a bit of time searching for jobs online. While there are lots of other job search methods—networking, company research, career fairs, recruiters, and the like—once you finally find a job… RT…

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  • Why big data is about mining real world behavior

    By STEVE LOHR, nytimes.com Business experts and recent research predict that machine-generated sensor data will become a larger and larger portion of all data produced. That is opening up a huge opportunity for Big Data technology beyond the consumer Internet. RT @nytimesbits: Big Data: Rise of the Machines http://flip.it/X0O7J http://flip.it/82cR0 Bits Blog: Big Data: Rise…

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  • Professions that encourage a lack of empathy?

    Which professions have the most psychopaths? The fewest? Mark Frauenfelder, boingboing.net The Wis­dom of Psy­chopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Ser­i­al Killers Can Teach Us About Suc­cess, by Kevin Dut­ton, has this side-by-side list of pro­fes­sions with the high­est per­cent­age of psy­chopaths (CEO tops the list) and low­est… RT @BoingBoing: Which professions have the most psychopaths?…

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  • Sarah Palin, fruit flies and science funding

    The Fiscal Cliff Is Forcing a Biomedical Day of Reckoning Luke Timmerman, xconomy.com Luke TimmermanSarah Palin, the onetime candidate for the second-highest elected office in the U.S., once delivered a rant on the campaign trail about waste she perceived in federal support of fruit fly research.Scientists everywhere were… http://flip.it/DNFcj Related articles Watch the Palin Turkey…

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  • Design trends for future web developers

    10 New Web Design Trends You Can Expect to See in 2013 Amber Leigh Turner, thenextweb.com Well, it is that time of year where we start to reflect on the past year and look for­ward to the new year. In 2012 we have seen sev­er­al new trends appear in web design, one of the most…

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  • Avoid recruiters and put your skills up for auction

    Hounded By Recruiters, Coders Put Themselves Up For Auction J.J. Colao, forbes.com When Pete Lon­don post­ed a resume on LinkedIn in Decem­ber 2009, the JavaScript spe­cial­ist stum­bled into a trap of sorts. Short­ly after cre­at­ing a pro­file he received a mes­sage from a recruiter at Google. Just days later, anoth­er from… RT @ForbesTech: Hounded by…

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  • Why and what you need to keep learning to stay competitive

    Learning Should Be Your Top 2013 New Year’s Resolution Eze Vidra, thenextweb.com As we get clos­er to the New Year, the rit­u­al of mak­ing res­o­lu­tions begins and we all flock to the usual pat­terns: we want to to eat health­i­er, work out more, get pro­mot­ed, or spend more time with our kids and fam­i­ly. These…

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  • Why you must keep learning to stay competitive

    Learning Should Be Your Top 2013 New Year’s Resolution Eze Vidra, thenextweb.com As we get clos­er to the New Year, the rit­u­al of mak­ing res­o­lu­tions begins and we all flock to the usual pat­terns: we want to to eat health­i­er, work out more, get pro­mot­ed, or spend more time with our kids and fam­i­ly. These…

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  • NYC emerging as a social tech startup powerhouse

    Why 2013 Will Be a Big Year for NYC’s Tech Start-Ups! Alan McGlade, forbes.com New York City has a thriv­ing start-up scene and now is firm­ly estab­lished as the num­ber two inno­va­tion cen­ter behind Sil­i­con Val­ley. The ramp in momen­tum can be felt across the city land­scape from the mayor’s office where Michael… RT @flipboardtech:…

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  • Should I learn app development or HTML5?

    HTML5 vs. Apps: Here’s Why The Debate Matters, And Who Will Win Business Insider, businessinsider.com Tech/Media HTML5 is a new tech­nol­o­gy that allows devel­op­ers to build rich web-based apps that run on any device via a stan­dard web brows­er. Many think it will save the web, ren­der­ing native platform-dependent apps obso­lete. So, whi… RT @SAI:…

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  • How to never get lost again: apps for travel

    Road Tripping In The Digital Age Ryan Lawler, techcrunch.com I’m just wrap­ping up a week-long road trip, in which a trav­el com­pan­ion and I vis­it­ed some friends in South­ern Cal­i­for­nia. We hit up a few dif­fer­ent spots along the way, includ­ing San Luis Obis­po, Santa Bar­bara, Los Ange­les, San… RT @TechCrunch: Road Tripping In The…

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