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  • Accelerators Are the New B-school

    Flash Steinbeiser, inc.com Inc.com staff As more young entrepreneurs find success from their business accelerator contacts, the usefulness of traditional business school is put into question. Turns out, more and more young entre­pre­neurs favor the busi­ness con­tacts… http://flpbd.it/tBMY1 Accelerators Are the New B-school Related articles Brad Feld to write foreword for the book Accelerate (howtowriteabusinessplan.com)…

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  • Klout and other ways to measure your influence

    Beyond Klout: Better Ways To Measure Social Media Influence Adam Popescu, readwrite.com Mea­sur­ing social influ­ence online is becom­ing a more sophis­ti­cat­ed, refined and gran­u­lar process. While the much-maligned early leader in the mar­ket, Klout, has scooped up a lot of head­lines over the past few years, there’s a bet­ter… http://flpbd.it/7Qp5t Related articles Is Klout Gaining…

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  • The only way to change health behavior is to make it like TV

    Medutainment has the power to save lives By Guest Author, wired.co.uk Culture This is a guest post by Jonathan Cloo­nan, Glob­al WPP Fel­low and Account Direc­tor. Fol­low him on Twit­ter on @Cloonanj Medu­tain­ment. Yes, you read that right. And no, it’s not a typo. Does the word make you flinch? Is it… http://flpbd.it/ynZd9 Related articles…

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  • Marcin Jakubowski is building the DIY machines for a new civilization

    Open-source blueprints for a modern off-the-grid civilization By Aaron Souppouris, theverge.com Marcin Jakubows­ki dreams of liv­ing off the grid. Over the past few years, he’s been work­ing on a set of 50 machines he believes nec­es­sary to found and sus­tain an inde­pen­dent, mod­ern com­mu­ni­ty. He wants to “take every­thing that… http://flpbd.it/XhbyO Related articles What If…

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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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  • Samsung patents voice recognition for emotional state

    Samsung patent ties emotional states to virtual faces through voice, shows when we’re cracking up Jon Fingas, engadget.com Voice recog­ni­tion usu­al­ly applies to com­mu­ni­ca­tion only in the most util­i­tar­i­an sense, whether it’s to trans­late on the spot or to keep those hands on the wheel while send­ing a text mes­sage. Sam­sung has just been grant­ed…

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  • Medium attempts to be a better source of information

    Medium wants people to eat their ‘information vegetables’ by Donna Tam, cnet.com Obvi­ous CEO and Twit­ter co-founder Evan Williams says his new project is about cre­at­ing con­tent that focus­es on qual­i­ty over speed. SAN FRAN­CIS­CO — Evan Williams, Twit­ter co-founder and CEO of Obvi­ous, wants to change the wor… http://flpbd.it/fk1nt Related articles Biz Stone Working…

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  • Sokanu uses science to find out what you’re good at

    Sokanu Says Science Can Help You Find Your Dream Job Eric Johnson, allthingsd.com Why do you work where you do and are you happy there? If the answer is “no” for the sec­ond ques­tion, Spencer Thomp­son has a new answer for the first. Thomp­son, 21, is the CEO of Vancouver-based Sokanu, which offi­cial­ly launch­es this…

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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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  • Why Panasonic Lumix GH3 will be the best video tool

    Panasonic Lumix GH3 launches on December 13th, but pricing remains a mystery Mat Smith, engadget.com Pana­son­ic’s forth­com­ing mirror-less mul­ti­me­dia won­der has been given a release date. Yep, the Lumix GH3, with its ‘unlim­it­ed record­ing time’ and mag­ne­sium alloy build, will arrive in the Land of the Ris­ing Sun just over a month from… http://flpbd.it/IcIl5 Related…

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  • Stitcher is the best podcast app keeps the news flowing

    Stitcher keeps the news flowing for desktop users with new web-based app Zachary Lutz, engadget.com Stitch­er is already a heavy hit­ter in the world of mobile apps, but users will now find their favorite radio shows and pod­casts are acces­si­ble from the desk­top. Today, the com­pa­ny announced an HTML5 ver­sion of its pop­u­lar app that’s……

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