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This is pretty big news. Square (whom I’ve mentioned before) has partnered with Starbucks to bring mobile payments to every Starbucks in the United States. Square has been leading the way for small businesses and individuals to accept credit card payments without all the hassle. But they’ve been fighting another war as well; payments using […]

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Kyle Neath, on Pace: In Barcelona, once you’re done with the meal your server comes by to take your plates away and asks if you’d like some coffee. Encouraging you to stick around and enjoy the surroundings. I’ve grown used to the pace of American restaurants but I’m not fond of it. When in Ireland […]

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I’d take the time to link to theinnumerable tweets and blogposts I’ve read about photogs being burnt out and fed up with carrying tons of photo equipment. But we’re all feeling this. We’re all sick and tired of lugging around these monstrousbags full of our lenses, filters, lights, and bulky cameras and we’re opting to […]

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Andy Adams of The Theme Foundry: I’d like to suggest that competitors like Squarespace are going to start eating WordPress’s lunch on the “ease of use” front if WordPress does not adapt. Adams goes on to say how important the theme customizer is to helping WordPress to keep its competition at bay. Remember, Matt Mullenweg […]

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Andre Torrez waxes on about how he’s slowly coming to the realization that we all need to back away a bit from the streams of the web: I’ve been posting about this a bit, but I think my time off pushed me even further along to where I was going. I won’t say “off Twitter”, […]

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XKCD has been one of my favorite comics. Randall Munroe – creator of XKCD and was profiled in the New York Times in 2009 – has recently launched "What if?" where he answers hypothetical questions with real physics. So far he’s answered three hypothetical questions: What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball […]

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XKCD has been one of my favorite comics. Randall Munroe – creator of XKCD and was profiled in the New York Times in 2009 – has recently launched "What if?" where he answers hypothetical questions with real physics. So far he’s answered three hypothetical questions: What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball […]

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XKCD has been one of my favorite comics. Randall Munroe – creator of XKCD and was profiled in the New York Times in 2009 – has recently launched "What if?" where he answers hypothetical questions with real physics. So far he’s answered three hypothetical questions: What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball […]

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XKCD has been one of my favorite comics. Randall Munroe – creator of XKCD and was profiled in the New York Times in 2009 – has recently launched "What if?" where he answers hypothetical questions with real physics. So far he’s answered three hypothetical questions: What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball […]

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XKCD has been one of my favorite comics. Randall Munroe – creator of XKCD and was profiled in the New York Times in 2009 – has recently launched "What if?" where he answers hypothetical questions with real physics. So far he’s answered three hypothetical questions: What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball […]

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XKCD has been one of my favorite comics. Randall Munroe – creator of XKCD and was profiled in the New York Times in 2009 – has recently launched "What if?" where he answers hypothetical questions with real physics. So far he’s answered three hypothetical questions: What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball […]

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Jim Ray on why they made Evening Edition: Right now, there’s more “news” than ever before, but it comes in dribs and drabs disguised as news-like updates fed through the same channels as your friends’ baby photos and fart jokes. Evening Edition is a refreshing break away from the realtime stream of terrible news coverage […]

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XKCD has been one of my favorite comics. Randall Munroe – creator of XKCD and was profiled in the New York Times in 2009 – has recently launched "What if?" where he answers hypothetical questions with real physics. So far he’s answered three hypothetical questions: What would happen if you tried to hit a baseball […]

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Om Malik has a different way to look at the success and failure of Digg: If the yardstick of success is making money for the founders, employees and the investors, then Digg will go down in the annals of web history as a colossal failure. However, if your yardstick of success is defined by a […]

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Brian Anthony Hernandez of Mashable sums up the Neilsen study: A new Nielsen study reveals 19% of respondents prefer using Netflix to watch TV programs — up 8% since a year ago — instead of movies or both equally. I would argue that this study revealed very little data of interest. Netflix’s movie catalog hasn’t grownsignificantlyin many, […]

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Eric Schmidt, on Google’s self-driving cars: self-driving cars should become the predominant mode of transportation in our lifetime I’m glad he said "should" but if anyone can jinx a project it is Eric Schmidt.

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Codex 99 which is "either an occasionally updated weblog or incrementally expanded website about the history of the visual arts and graphic design" has an excellent feature on the maps of Gettysburg. Really incredible. Worth some coffee reading time. /via Coudal Partners.

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Dave Balter wrote a great piece about Angel investing and how if it isn’t done right a lot of good-intentioned Angels could lose money but if done right everybody (Angel, VC,Entrepreneur) wins. Ultimately, it’s about following the rules of the investing ecosystem: Angels get things started, venture capitalists create mature, sustainable businesses, and investment bankers […]

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Jason Kottke, today: It’s funny that so many of the things that make Twitter compelling weren’t actually invented by Twitter but by the users and developers. It is true. Linking, @replies, #hashtags, photo sharing, location sharing, and much much more all came from the community and the developers that built cool tools ontop of Twitter. […]

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GitHub: Today we are partnering with Andreessen Horowitz and announcing our first ever outside investment. The amount? $100,000,000. Even in today’s money this is a fair amount of capital for GitHub to have on-hand. What will this be used for? GitHub mentions, in several of the quotes posted to various tech news outlets, that they […]

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Wikiweb: A delightful Wikipedia reader for your iPhone and iPad that visualizes the connections between articles. Sounds gimmicky at first but watch the video demo and you’ll quickly see how this could be not only useful but fun. /via Hacker News.

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Khoi Vinh: As is common when big box stores close up shop, when the Wal-Mart in McAllen, Texas shut down, the town was left with a 124,500 square foot building. They decided to turn it into a public library, with surprisingly attractive results. What an excellent use of this space.

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Google recently scuttled a few of their products with very little fanfare. What worries me, and others, is that one day Google Reader will be on this list. I think it is only a matter of time.

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Matthew Ingram wrote a good piece entitled Why links matter: Linking is the lifeblood of the web for Gigaom. First, about giving credit: In the days when newspapers ruled the world of information, giving credit to other outlets was (and often still is) discouraged. Rewriting or “matching” a story that someone else broke — or […]

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Dalton Caldwell on what Twitter could have been: Nowadays, every time Iget a K-Mart ad in my feed, or see wonky behavior in the official clients, or see Twitter drop another bomb on their developer ecosystem, I think back and wish the pro-API guys won that internal battle. From an outsider’s perspective it is really […]

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Ever wonder what "Obamacare" or the PPACA means in layman’s terms? Okay, explained like you’re a five year-old (well, okay, maybe a bit older), without too much oversimplification, and (hopefully) without sounding too biased: The community, site, and power of Reddit is currently unmatched on the web.

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Ever wonder what "Obamacare" or the PPACA means in layman’s terms? Okay, explained like you’re a five year-old (well, okay, maybe a bit older), without too much oversimplification, and (hopefully) without sounding too biased: The community, site, and power of Reddit is currently unmatched on the web.

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Ever wonder what "Obamacare" or the PPACA means in layman’s terms? Okay, explained like you’re a five year-old (well, okay, maybe a bit older), without too much oversimplification, and (hopefully) without sounding too biased: The community, site, and power of Reddit is currently unmatched on the web.

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Ever wonder what "Obamacare" or the PPACA means in layman’s terms? Okay, explained like you’re a five year-old (well, okay, maybe a bit older), without too much oversimplification, and (hopefully) without sounding too biased: The community, site, and power of Reddit is currently unmatched on the web.

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Ever wonder what "Obamacare" or the PPACA means in layman’s terms? Okay, explained like you’re a five year-old (well, okay, maybe a bit older), without too much oversimplification, and (hopefully) without sounding too biased: The community, site, and power of Reddit is currently unmatched on the web.

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Ever wonder what "Obamacare" or the PPACA means in layman’s terms? Okay, explained like you’re a five year-old (well, okay, maybe a bit older), without too much oversimplification, and (hopefully) without sounding too biased: The community, site, and power of Reddit is currently unmatched on the web.

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Ever wonder what "Obamacare" or the PPACA means in layman’s terms? Okay, explained like you’re a five year-old (well, okay, maybe a bit older), without too much oversimplification, and (hopefully) without sounding too biased: The community, site, and power of Reddit is currently unmatched on the web.

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Posthumously published interview with the late Adam Yauch of The Beastie Boys. One of the reasons that I wanted to direct our music videos was that I disliked music videos so much. I basically hated music videos. From early on I was pretty much trying to go against what music videos were doing, so I […]

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For the past week or so I’ve been publishing Daring Fireball-style links for the links category (or as some call them, the link list). I’ve been going back and forth on whether or not to link this way for years. (The things geeks worry about.) Readers find these style of links much more beneficial. Especially […]

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I have a bunch of old voice memos that I recently discovered are still on my iPhone. I’m not sure if I’ll share them all but I’ve decided to share this first one from May 20, 2010 about how opinions can go viral. Originally recorded on an original iPhone on May 20, 2010 (presumably on […]

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Michael Margolis on Twitter: Wait… This Nexus Q does far less than AppleTV, requires an Android device to use, is much larger, and is 3x the price? See what I mean? /via Kara Swisher.

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Remember when Facebook’s iOS application was used during an Apple keynote to show how great an app could be built by third parties? In fact, when Apple only allowed mobile web applications on the iPhone and when they began allowing native applications Facebook was used as a shining example for both ways of building an […]

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Adam Curry, arguably one of the two people that invented Podcasting (of course, I’m referring to Dave Winer although there were others), has some thoughts on Apple’s new Podcasting app and how he feels they’ve left the door to discovery wide open and how Podcasting could be rebooted. Considering that a podcast is no different […]

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Mike Rundle on Twitter: And to everyone trying to build great mobile-web-in-a-native-shell iPhone apps, give up. Facebook couldn’t do it, and neither can you. I agree with Mike. Mobile web applications that perform as fast or faster than native / compiled applications on iOS is simply not on the horizon. Could it happen? Could Webkit […]

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The Nexux 7 is a 7" tablet from Google. Naturally it runs Android but it runs a version of Android that no one else has yet and, if Android’s track-record stays intact, not many older Android-powered devices will ever run. I’m skeptical only because I’ve never seen an Android device that I’ve liked. But who […]

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I’ll withhold judgement on the Nexus 7 until I have one in my hands. But I’ll immediately call the Nexus Q a dud without ever having laid eyes on it. Terrible industrial design, marketing, and execution.

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I linked to this a few days ago on Twitter. You do follow me on Twitter, right? Satellite Eyes by Tom Taylor is a nifty little utility that uses your Mac’s current location to create a Desktop Background image based on the map of your area. There are a few preferences to make it all […]

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