Wednesday, May 30, 2012



Chef Delivery Services - The 'Kitchensurfing' Booking Service Brings the Cook Home (GALLERY)

trendhunter.com - The ‘Kitchensurfing’ booking service is a way for people to spend more time together within the comfort of their own home by bringing the chef home. For those who would like to get together with ot...

Greg Rubar, Houston Waiter, Receives $5,000 Tip On $26 Bill After Losing Car

huffingtonpost.com - When Brooklyn-based designer and developer Larry Fox took a job as a pizza delivery man to make ends meet, he was horrified at the number of bad tippers he encountered. So last year, the 20-year-ol...

How to Make Reading on Your Computer a Better Experience

lifehacker.com - A lot of us stare at a computer monitor for the bulk of our day and reading long articles or books is rarely a comfortable experience. With that in mind, here's a few steps you can take to make you...

BBC News - Five-year-olds treated for depression and anxiety

bbc.co.uk - Children as young as five are being referred for treatment for depression and anxiety, the BBC has found. Figures showed mental health teams in Sussex are working with more than 1,000 under-18s 

How often should you tweet?

socialable.co.uk - How often do you send Twitter updates out? Is it consistent or completely random and varies? How much is too much and how much is too little? And what about whether you should send scheduled tweets...

Bangladeshi journalists wounded in terrifying machete attack

rawstory.com - DHAKA — Nine journalists were wounded when a gang of men wielding machetes stormed Bangladesh’s best-known online media outlet and began slashing staff, police and witnesses said Tuesday. At least ...

Bob Dylan Got a Medal of Freedom Today -- Keeps Sunglasses on throughout!

vulture.com - And he wore his sunglasses through the whole ceremony.  Below is video of the official presentation – "Maggie's Farm" enthusiast (and President) Barack Obama looks particularly amused – and here is...

5 Ways To Become Increasingly More Creative

modernlifeblogs.com - Creativity, being at the roots of all Life, can be described as the great art of living and whoever witnesses his or her own creative energy at play, witnesses the process of carrying the formless ...

The Surprising Secret to Success—Be Kind to Yourself

psychologytoday.com - Self-Compassion is a skill that can be learned and improved through learning. Children learn by watching how caretakers, especially parents, react to them.  If children get punished for expressing ...

PG Wodehouse prize awarded to Terry Pratchett | Books

guardian.co.uk - One wrote comedies of upper-class English manners, the other writes about a fantastical world set on the back of a giant turtle, but Terry Pratchett has nonetheless been deemed the author who this ...

Windows 8 Secrets: Windows Setup

winsupersite.com - With tech enthusiast web sites from around the world starting to leak Windows 8 Release Preview information, your intrepid “Windows 8 Secrets” co-authors offer a bit of color commentary about what ...

Japan’s hidden tropical island: Aogashima - Boing Boing

boingboing.net - Aogashima (“blue island”) is a tropical, volcanic island in the Phillipine Sea. Despite being over 200 miles away from the country’s capital, Aogashima is governed by Tokyo. In fact, a whole stretc...

Content Scrapers - How to Find Out Who is Stealing Your Content & What to Do About It

blog.kissmetrics.com - If you have been blogging for a while, chances are you are familiar with content scrapers. Content scrapers are websites that steal your content for their own blogs without your permission. Some co...

Tuesday, May 29, 2012


6 Leadership Styles, And When You Should Use Them

fastcompany.com - Taking a team from ordinary to extraordinary means understanding and embracing the difference between management and leadership. According to writer and consultant Peter Drucker, "Management is doi...

10 Signs You Are Addicted To Social Media

jeffbullas.com - Written Jeff Bullas - View Comments Categories: Social Media It was years ago and my children would spend hours either on MySpace or instant messaging and I wondered why they would want to spend so...

The 25 Most Creative Designer Resumes You’ll See This Year

jobmob.co.il - From Jacob: I grew up between Canada, France and Israel where I had my first Internet experience in 1994 and was hooked. Since then I've enjoyed playing a part in growing the Web as a manager-devel...

Women are lighter skinned than men in all human populations! - Science - May 15, 2012 - OMG Facts

omg-facts.com - Scientists originally made this observation before modern science could test why, yet it has since been proven that on average males have darker hair and skin than their female counterparts.  The d...

Who Are The 3 Biggest Losers Of Social Media?

jeffbullas.com - Written Jeff Bullas - View Comments Categories: Social Media Facebook has become the biggest party pooper since the term “social media” was invented with it’s success sucking the oxygen out of the ...

RBC: Here Are Four Super Obvious Reasons Apple's Stock Will Go To $700 In The Next 12 Months - Business Insider

businessinsider.com - The company doesn't hasn't announced much in the last few months. The product roadmap is pretty well drawn out. It's about to deliver one of its weaker earnings quarters. And the stock is down, som...

Why Google Should Be Worried About Facebook | Techland

techland.time.com - I have written a few columns questioning Facebook’s long term value. And amidst all the recent news about the company’s IPO woes, it seems like investors may be skeptical as well. Even though I may...

Are You Prepared To Investigate A Social Media Crime Scene? | V3 Kansas City Integrated Marketing and Social Media Agency

v3im.com - Posted by Guest on May 29, 2012 · Leave a Comment  Crimes are being committed across social media channels every day, every hour, every second. A complete lack of strategic vision or counsel upon j...

Entrepreneur & Social Business Vision: What We Can Learn From Kenny Rogers

pammarketingnut.com - My dad loved to play the guitar. I can remember him writing his own music and singing along with Neil Diamond and Kenny Rogers. It seems like just yesterday we were riding in his blue Chevy truck w...

Pamela Redmond Satran: Weirdest Baby Names On The New National Roster

huffingtonpost.com - With over 33,000 baby names on the new national roster -- a full 50 percent more than were in common use a quarter century ago -- you figure there have to be some weird choices among them. Nameberr...


Those aren’t stars

techi.com - Not everything that twinkles in the night sky is a star or a planet. Satellites have the same basic appearance as stars and unless you’re looking at them for a long time, the human eye cannot tell ...

How the Chicken Conquered the World | History & Archaeology

zqi.bo.lt - The chickens that saved Western civilization were discovered, according to legend, by the side of a road in Greece in the first decade of the fifth century B.C. The Athenian general Themistocles, o...

Facebook’s Brilliant Disaster - NYTimes.com

nytimes.com - No, I’m not talking about Facebook. I am referring to Splunk, an 8-year-old, money-losing data analytics company that went public five weeks ago. Splunk’s investment bankers priced the stock at $17...

Monday, May 28, 2012


German teen solves 300-year-old mathematical riddle posed by Sir Isaac Newton

foxnews.com - DRESDEN, Germany –  A German 16-year-old has become the first person to solve a mathematical problem posed by Sir Isaac Newton more than 300 years ago. Shouryya Ray worked out how to calculate exac...


7 Apps You Don't Want To Miss

mashable.com - Less than two months after announcing its plans to acquire Instagram, Facebook has released its own Instagram clone: Facebook Camera. Much like Instagram, the app lets you view your friend's latest...


Cornell Chronicle: A robot learns how to tidy up after you

news.cornell.edu - Sooner than you think, we may have robots to tidy up our homes. Researchers in Cornell's Personal Robotics Lab have trained a robot to survey a room, identify all the objects, figure out where they..

The 8 Questions That Create Perfect Landing Page Copy

blog.kissmetrics.com - Since you’re reading this post, I think it’s safe to assume that you’ve taken a crack or two at writing landing page copy. It’s probably also safe to assume that you’ve come to the realization that...

It’ll Be A Miracle If The Facebook Phone Doesn’t Suck

techcrunch.com - Here we go again: Facebook is apparently trying for the third time to get its phone project off the ground — snatching up iOS design and engineering talent left and right Nick Bilton is hearing. We...

Building a computer disaster recovery toolkit - PC & Desktop Computers

cnet.com.au - Once you let someone know you're technically savvy, the chances of you becoming their main point of contact for all tech support, increases greatly. If you've happened to have made your career in a...

Saturday, May 26, 2012


The Newest Dazzling Daft Punk Coca-Cola Bottle…

bitrebels.com - If you remember, earlier this year Coca-Cola released its first Daft Punk inspired limited edition bottle design. The design itself was a little too gaudy for my taste, but it definitely reflected ..

5 Top Facebook Apps to Market your Business and Brands

jeffbullas.com - Written Jeff Bullas - View Comments Categories: F-Commerce, Facebook, Facebook Marketing There are two companies we can blame for creating time wasting “apps” and ecosystems on the social web that ...

The Fallacy of Information Overload - Brian Solis

briansolis.com - Some of you know me through my work in studying how social media and disruptive technology impact business and culture. Others have worked with me in translating insights into action and change wit...

Symantec releases free iAntivirus for the Mac

betanews.com - While there are still Mac users who will proclaim that their systems are immune to viruses and malware, recent high-profile virus infections show that this is simply not the case. Even for anyone s...

The butler did it! Pope's butler is the leak behind Vatileaks - Boing Boing

boingboing.net - VatiLeaks is pretty much what it sounds like: leaks from the Vatican, which culminated in, "Your Holiness: The Secret Papers of Benedict XVI," a blockbusting book from journalist Gianluigi Nuzzi, w...

Fab.com and the Value of Online Word of Mouth - NYTimes.com

nytimes.com - “It’s Happy Socks Day at Fab,” says Jason Goldberg, the company’s chief executive and founder, as he checks digital dashboards on his iMac screen that continually chart customer sharing and spendin..

Office 15: The Mile-High View

winsupersite.com - The next several months should prove to be monumental from a Microsoft platforms perspective. But it’s not just Windows 8, Windows Server 8, and Windows Phone 8 that promise to recast Microsoft’s c...

LiveLeak.com - How to get laid making cotton candy

liveleak.com - : I never knew Making Cotton Candy Could be So Intense. You need to be registered in order to add comments! Advertise on Liveleak ProChan - Anonymous Interaction Hot Girls on Cam Webcam Chat with G...

Clutch Blog – Infographic: The Epidemic Of Bad Infographics

clutch.mtv.com - There are many valuable informational graphics on the Internet but there's many, many more sprawled out over the web whose value ranges from meh to pure garbage. We've decided to address this issue...

Friday, May 25, 2012



10 Most Comfortable Tech Companies to Work In

techxav.com - Everyone including me loves to work for famous and big tech companies such as Google and Yahoo. Not only because of the money but also for the “comfort”. I’ve complied pictures of the working envir...

When You Can't Innovate, Copy - Ndubuisi Ekekwe - Harvard Business Review

blogs.hbr.org - Nothing breeds copycats like a successful business venture. When a new business idea is incubated and executed successfully, cloners naturally emerge and imitate. To mitigate the investing risks as...

Is This The First Logo Based On Touch-Screen Gestures?

fastcodesign.com - There’s been a lot of talk about the New Aesthetic since this year’s SXSW. If you haven’t heard of it, that’s okay! This overview is a good place to start. Some argue that the New Aesthetic is the ...

'Men in Black 3': Pros And Cons

news.moviefone.com - This weekend, "Men in Black 3" finds Will Smith donning the Ray Bans once again for another intergalactic adventure as Agent J. In the threequel, J must travel back to the year 1969 to prevent the ...

What Horrible Right-wing (or Criminal) Cause Is Your Favorite Sports Team Connected To? |

alternet.org - When the New York Times dropped its bombshell last week disclosing a secret 54-page proposal outlining how a Republican Super PAC would spend $10 million attacking President Obama and painting him 

Another wedding gown gone viral: Zuckerberg Edition | Blog

blog.ziggytek.com - From Omghaute: As many of you may know by now, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg married his long-time girlfriend (now wife) Priscilla Chan. He also updated his status on his Facebook page with a photo ...

Hygiene Hypothesis: Banishing germs from your life can make you seriously ill - Economic Times

articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com - Although filarial infection was common in the country, no one had ever thought of linking it to diabetes. After two years of experiments and analysis, Aravindhan and his colleagues got a result tha...

How to fund your projects online without annoying everyone - CNN.com

edition.cnn.com - Editor's note: Brenna Ehrlich and Andrea Bartz are the sarcastic brains behind humor blog and book "Stuff Hipsters Hate." Got a question about etiquette in the digital world? Contact them at netiqu...

The $17,000 Tweet: Don’t Ever Underestimate…

bitrebels.com - This is such a fun story about using Twitter, making bets and following through. A few days ago, the person behind @poultrykeeper sent the tweet you see below after his boss insisted Twitter is a w...