Facebook killed my blog

Facebook Killed My Blog
Wade Roush, xconomy.com

Wade RoushTravels With Rhody has reached the end of the road.Don’t worry, Rhody himself is fine—he’ll turn 16 in a couple of months and his only problem in life is a touch of arthritis. I’m talking about my blog, not my dog.Since 2004 I’ve…

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Achieving inbox zero with Mailstrom

How I Went From 1,000 Emails to Inbox Zero (and Stayed There) with Mailstrom
Adam Dachis, lifehacker.com

Inbox zero: it’s the impossible dream that gets further and further away as you let your emails pile up, but you don’t have to get stuck with the clutter. Thanks to an awesome webapp called Mailstrom, I finally got my thousand-email inbox under…

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America’s Visual IQ: Both Amazing And Embarrassing

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united states currency eye- IMG_7364_web (Photo credit: kevindean)

By Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan, fastcodesign.com

A new Pew survey tests our visual recall of current events. Twitter logo? Check. Chinese flag? What’s that, bro?!

You’ve prob­a­bly heard how (depress­ing­ly) lit­tle Amer­i­cans tend to know about his­to­ry. But what about their visu­al recall …

 

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Using LinkedIn to land a job

4 Secrets For Using LinkedIn to Land a Job
Chelsea Gladden, mashable.com

It’s the largest and most popular social networking platform on the web for professionals, but can LinkedIn really land you a job?More About: contributor, Feature, job search series, Jobs, linkedin

Chelsea Gladden

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Visualizing top cities for bicycling

Biking and Walking to Work
idvsolutions.com

Bicycling.com came out with a rank­ing of the top US cities for bicy­cling. I took their top ten cities and dot mapped every com­muter in and around them, col­ored by their method of com­mute, to get …

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3 billion check-ins let Foursquare highlight the most awesome places

3 billion check-ins let Foursquare highlight the most awesome places in the U.S.
John Koetsier, venturebeat.com

Three billion check-ins and tens of millions of tips ought to add up to something. In Foursquare’s case, that means the “Best of” series, which highlights “the most awesome places in cities across the U.S.”The location-based social network, which …

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Find out who has viewed your LinkedIn profile

Find out who has viewed your LinkedIn profile
by Matt Elliott, cnet.com

A clever trick lets you find out who has viewed your LinkedIn profile without upgrading your account.

If you are unem­ployed, unhap­py at your cur­rent job, or sim­ply curi­ous about other oppor­tu­ni­ties, then you like­ly keep close tabs on yo…

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Safe Shepherd Protects Your Social Networks

English: This image is an example of a blockin...
English: This image is an example of a blocking cluster in a social network. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Safe Shepherd Protects Your Social Networks, Keeps Your Data Off of Creepy People Search Engines
Alan Henry, lifehacker.com

Safe Shepherd is a privacy protection service that already scrubs your personal data from creepy people search engines, but the service also now keeps tabs on your social networks like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram to make sure you’re…

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Restaurants Turn Camera Shy

English: The New York Times building in New Yo...
English: The New York Times building in New York, NY across from the Port Authority. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Airbnb And The Unstoppable Rise Of The Share Economy

Airbnb And The Unstoppable Rise Of The Share Economy
Tomio Geron, forbes.com

On paper, Fred­er­ic Lar­son is just one data point in five years of U.S. gov­ern­ment sta­tis­tics show­ing under­em­ploy­ment in dozens of indus­tries and stag­nant income growth across the board. The 63-year-old pho­tog­ra­ph­er with two chil­d…

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