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Sweating The Small Stuff: Sotheby’s Selling Original Steve Jobs Note About Atari Circuit Impr(...)
The auction house Sothebys is selling an official memo from Steve Jobs to Atari about improving the World Cup Football game. The pages -
Apple Responds To DOJ eBook Lawsuit, Calls it “Fundamentally Flawed” and “Absurd”
Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice accused Apple and a number of other large U.S. publishers of conspiring to fix eBook prices and filed
TinyTap App Lets Kids Create Customized iPad Books & Games
TinyTap is a new iPad application designed for kids which introduces a different angle on the record-your-own-voice storybooks craze, by offering a playable book
Gillmor Gang Live 05.25.12 (TCTV)
Gillmor Gang - John Taschek, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recording live at 1pm PT.
MoPub Launches A “Buy It Now” Private Marketplace For Mobile Advertisers
MoPub, an ad serving startup for smartphone apps, is announcing a new way for its publishers to offer
Gadget Of The Week: The Parrot AR.Drone 2.0
There are plenty of ways to get your flight school kicks with your smartphone or tablet — this missile shooting Griffin chopper comes to
SimplyUs Brings Couples Closer, With An App For Organizing Their Lives Together
The latest entrant into the couple-sharing mobile app space is SimplyUs, a Toronto-based startup that aims to make couples happier by adding
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Startup Partners With Top Designers, Celebrities on High-End Capsule Collections
The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your st…
‘Dear Photograph’ Turns 1, Spawns Book, Prepares for App Launch
Surreal. Humbling. Grateful. One year after unleashing Dear Photograph, a blog showcasing photos within photos, Taylor Jones describes his emoti…
11 Hilarious ‘Men in Black’ Parodies
A few weeks ago we found out a lot of people like to dress up with their friends as the Avengers? It turns out, a lot more of you like the Men in Blac…
New Computer Algorithm Knows Your Phony Smile
Have you ever wondered how genuine that smile really is?If your intuition isn’t stellar at gauging real versus fake smiles, this information m…
Are You Game for Tetris: The Movie?
They made a movie out of Battleship, right? So why not Tetris? That’s the plausible conceit behind this (unfortunately fake) trailer for a mo…
10 Ways to Bootstrap Your Startup Office Decor
Building a great company culture is really important to motivate your staff and to get everyone working toward a common vision and feeling a part o…
Texting and Walking: 65% of You Do it
By now you’ve probably seen the videos of the woman falling into a mall fountain or the guy who comes dangerously close to a bear while walki…
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Read/Write Daily: Don't Call It a Pivot
Todays theme is movers and shakers. How about some straight-up tech news for once? Theres a lot of interesting maneuvering going on right now, and since RWW doesnt tend to report on rumors, this seems
How Big Tech Companies Keep Quiet on Big News
Even as all sorts of questions swirl around last week’s initial public offering and this week’s release of a camera app that looks a lot like the camera app it paid $1 billion for last month, Facebook has taken its usual
SpaceX Dragon Berths with International Space Station
After a flawless launch on May 22, the SpaceX Dragon capsule has become the first commercial spacecraft to berth at the International Space Station. After a flyby last night, the capsule approached the station, and station flight engineers Don Pettit
A Five-Year Update: The State of the Web in India
Since this 2006 article on RWW about the Top Web Apps in India, a lot has happened in the Indian web industry. Some new entrants have made a mark for themselves and some existing ones have
College Degrees: More and More, They're Just a Piece of Paper
Faking a computer science degree cost Scott Thompson his CEO job. But with one notable exception, most observers thought he was doing OK, under lousy circumstances.Sure, the lying was wrong, but apart from that, would
Are You A Narcissist? Use Twitter and Facebook To Find Out
A study released last month breaks down patterns on how narcissists use social networks and finds differences in patterns on Facebook when compared with those on Twitter.An individual’s level of narcissism is displayed not in
6 Time Management Strategies for Startups
Many startups seem to be powered solely by excitement over the new business (occasionally mixed with some Red Bull and Starbucks). Startup founders typically devote every waking moment to their companies, and probably even dream about it too. But while
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Ambient video and the changing face of communication
Video is becoming more of a casual form of communication, with people leaving video chat services like OoVoo on in the background for hours on end. Video sharing is becoming more immediate with more live broadcasting of your life.
7 stories to read this weekend 
And one more time, I find myself sitting on a flight back from New York, working on the most important thing I do at the end of the week: pick seven stories (out of dozens) for you to read. Hope
With new U.S. presence, Shopcade expands its social commerce business model
Riding the wave of social commerce, London-based Shopcade launched in November with a platform that lets people earn rewards for recommending products to friends. Now, its expanding its presence stateside and beefing up its business model with new ways users
Andy Carvin on Twitter as a newsroom and being human
In a discussion about his use of Twitter as a reporting tool, NPR strategist Andy Carvin made some interesting points about the value of crowdsourced journalism -- including the importance of being transparent about the process, and the virtues of
Can the Web make mental-health treatment more mainstream?
Launched with $650,000, NY-based Talktala believes it can bring counseling to more consumers with a Web platform that provides anonymity and more affordable prices.
Behind the scenes of a failed Kickstarter project
A little more than half of the projects on Kickstarter fail. But understanding those failures can help others avoid the same fate. So, I spoke to one of the founders of a failed project to understand what lessons others might
New medical spectrum will untether patients from their monitors
Soon, a stay in intensive care will no longer mean being physically tethered to every monitoring device imaginable. The FCC has designated a slice of radio airwaves for medical body area networks, which will allow hospitals to cut the cord
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Tears, Tantrums & Tech: How to deal with mentor overload on an accelerator program
Mentors: if you’re on an accelerator program, you’re going to be facing a lot of them. How do you deal with being bombarded by so much (sometimes conflicting) advice? In...
“I’m not a Luddite” – Andrew Keen talks about his new book Digital Vertigo
Andrew Keen. The writer and broadcaster who managed to irritate a large group of people on the Web with his last book, “The Cult of the Amateur”, was in London...
Good news for social video apps: Facebook introduces “trending videos” to your news feed
Last month, Facebook introduced a feature called “trending articles” that stuck a slideshow into your news feed of popular news articles via your friends that you might have missed. It...
Apple re-releases iOS 5.1.1 update for iPhone 4 GSM units only
Apple has released another version of the iOS 5.1.1 software for GSM versions of the iPhone 4 only, reports iPhone hacker iH8sn0w. This update is build number 9B208 and no...
If Tetris was made into a movie, this would be its trailer
We love all things geeky here at The Next Web, including the amazing game from our childhoods, TETRIS. I’ve had this game on Nintendo, Game Boy, iPhone and every other...
Airbnb updates its iOS app to give you offline access to your messages and itineraries
Among some usability tweaks and bug fixes, Airbnb has announced an update to its iOS app which brings a new cool feature: offline access for messages and itineraries. If you’ve...
According to its App Store reviews (from Yahoo! employees), Axis is a hit
Yahoo! came at the tech world in a blur this week, launching its new search and browsing tool Axis. Response has been lukewarm, especially since the launch didn’t go completely...
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The Art of Computer Typography
Ever since I came across Jürg Lehni’s essay on typographic technology and digital fonts, Typeface As Programme, I’ve been fascinated with the story of Donald E. Knuth and his unexpected contributions to typography.You see, Knuth is a professor and computer
Get your free copy of Getting Real
Getting Real, our book about a smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application, is now available as a free PDF (it used to cost $19).We’ve use the Getting Real methods to develop all of our products. Here’s
A good day's work
It’s easy to convince yourself that working until your eyes bleed and your fingers cramp is simply what must be done when starting something new.You can dangle yourself the carrot that it’s just until you get out of the first
You only get one chance to be a beginner
When you’re new to something, all the pain is out in the open. You stub your toes until they’re black and blue on things the veterans have all learned to avoid. This is both a curse and a gift.A curse
All the oxygen trapped in a bubble
There are many good reasons to be concerned about whether the internet industry is in another bubble. Once shaky, unproven businesses hit the NASDAQ, the chance that granny is going to lose her pension fund goes up big time. That’s
Three quick Rails console tips
I was bouncing around the Rails API documentation yesterday, and I noticed a few rails console tricks I haven’t seen before. There’s been plenty of posts about irb and Rails before, but I’m hoping you’ll learn something new here. The
We're hiring: Help us significantly improve conversion and retention
We’re looking for another teammate. This time we’re looking for someone who is completely focused on improving conversion and retention. You love moving the needle, one small step at a time.Conversion could be financial (get more people to start a
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Top Stories: May 21-25, 2012
Heres a look at the top stories published across OReilly sites this week.White House launches new digital government strategyThe nations new strategy for digital government is built on
Visualization of the Week: 30 years of tech IPOs
This weeks visualization comes from The New York Times, which tries to shed a little light on Facebooks initial public offering by showing how it compares to the 2,400 technology IPOs that have occurred since 1980.The visualization begins with a
Publishing News: Kindle Fire and "your ad here"
Heres what caught my attention this week in the publishing space:Kindle Fire home screen may be for saleRumors flew this week saying Amazon plans to launch an
Developer Week in Review: Oracle's big bet fails to pay off
Ive been taking the opportunity this week to do some spring office cleaning. Unfortunately, I clean my home office infrequently enough that at a certain point, cleaning it becomes more an exercise in archeology than organization. Theres nothing like finding
Four short links: 25 May 2012
Meet The New Boss, Worse Than The Old Boss -- transcript of a thoughtful music industry insider considering the effect of the net on the business. The other problem? I’ve been expecting for years now to see aggregate revenue flowing
Strata Week: Visualizing a better life
Here are a few of the data stories that caught my attention this week:Visualizing a better lifeHow do you compare the quality of life in different countries? As The Guardians Simon Rogers points out, GDP has commonly been the indicator
Knight Foundation grants $2 million for data journalism research
Every day, the public hears more about technology and media entrepreneurs, from when they started in the garages and the dorm rooms, all the way up until when they go public, get acquired or go spectacularly bust. The way that
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The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of Media In the early...
The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of MediaIn the early 1990s when I began my career in PR there were clip reports. These were physical books that contained press
It was a sizzling summer for social media. As we move into fall,...
It was a sizzling summer for social media. As we move into fall, here’s a look at some of the major milestones.
¶ Could Mobile Apps Be Wilting in the Heat of Summer?
Image credit: Financial TimesIt’s hard to believe, but mobile marketing didn’t really get going in earnest until Apple launched its App Store in 2008. Three years later there are now marketplaces on all five major device platforms
The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of Media In the early...
The Clip Report: An eBook on the Future of MediaIn the early 1990s when I began my career in PR there were clip reports. These were physical books that contained press
The Clip Report - Volume 1 In the early 1990s when I began my...
The Clip Report - Volume 1In the early 1990s when I began my career in PR there were clip reports. These were physical books that contained press clips. It seems downright
It was a sizzling summer for social media. As we move into fall,...
It was a sizzling summer for social media. As we move into fall, here’s a look at some of the major milestones.
¶ Could Mobile Apps Be Wilting in the Heat of Summer?
Image credit: Financial TimesIt’s hard to believe, but mobile marketing didn’t really get going in earnest until Apple launched its App Store in 2008. Three years later there are now marketplaces on all five major device platforms
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Wikipedia losing contributors, to streamline editing
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales says the user-generated encyclopedia is losing volunteer contributors, and must simplify its editing procedures. Originally posted at News - Digital Media
See what's new in Thunderbird
As Thunderbird joins Mozillas rapid-release program, the e-mail client re-orients itself for a new roadmap. But wheres it going? See what the Outlook alternative offers in this new First Look video. Originally posted at The Download Blog
Twitter revamping mobile site for iPad users
The company is tweaking its mobile twttter.com site using HTML5 to make it more user-friendly for iPad users. Originally posted at News - Digital Media
How to tweet like a man
Sociolinguistics gives us the keys to more masculine or feminine tweeting. Hint, guys: Google my jeep my ni$$@, http it up, bro. 4 sale. need $. Originally posted at Crave
72 people charged in online child porn ring
52 people have already been arrested as part of an investigation that launched in December 2009. Originally posted at The Digital Home
Yahoo Mail suffers outage; users react
The service has been unavailable for many, and affected users are taking to Twitter to complain. Yahoo says it has fixed the issue. Originally posted at The Digital Home
Gmail voice calling offering lower international rates
Accessible through Gmail, Googles phone call feature is now available in 38 different languages with cheaper rates across more than 150 international regions. Originally posted at News - Digital Media
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Best New Mashups: News Mashups Using Bing, Google and Yahoo
A year ago we took a look at mashups that deliver the latest news to users. This week, we want to revisit that category and see what new tools have been created to help users
Developers Love Legalese?
At this years SXSW, API hub Mashery conducted a survey of attending developers and discovered something interesting:  They care more about getting Commercial Terms of Service (TOS) than code samples from their APIs.  Does this
Aculab Adds Faxing to Cloud Platform
Although much of the world boasts of moving to a non-paper work environment, faxes still pour through fax machines in certain environments (e.g. contracts, signatures, etc.). Aculab suggests that service providers, to this day, process thousands of faxes a day.
Get Fashionable With NYC Fashion Hack Day 2012
Have an eye for fashion, live in NYC and love hacking APIs? If yes, then NYC Fashion Hack Day 2012 is tailor made just for you. The event is hosted by Gilt Groupe, Tumblr
The ReferralCandy API: Tell Your Friends About It
ReferralCandy is an online marketing company that specializes in referral marketing. The company provides a plug-and-play platform that makes referral marketing easier. Techinasia.com notes that ReferralCandy modeled their structure after Dropbox’s two-sided incentive referral program.
Which APIs Are Handling Billions of Requests Per Day?
A year ago we asked who belongs to the API billionaires club and listed several APIs that can count their API requests in the billions. Now there are many more API billionaires serving billions of
ChowNow Extends Functionality with API Release
ChowNow originally changed ordering takeout by allowing customers to place an order directly from a restaurants Facebook page. Recently, ChowNow has launched an API that takes the ordering to another level. The API allows developers to deliver the same functionality
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