Play By Your Own Rules
Play By Your Own Rules [https://medium.com/work-education/6152adc41de9]: (via Instapaper [http://www.instapaper.com/])
Moves for iPhone
Moves for iPhone [http://www.moves-app.com/]: Moves is the perfect extension of my ‘data silhouettes [https://www.maxtb.com/2012/08/15/fitbit-klout-and-your-data-silhouettes/]’ theory — amazing little free app that dispatches with the OTT accuracy of Fitbit, Fuelband etc and provides the only realistic conclusion you can get from them
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Vine is Twitter's route to selling visual ads in your stream
Imagine you have a stream of info with riveted users but all you can put in there is text. Want to expand the options? What better way than to introduce something for your users first and foremost that can be monetised in more powerful ways later on. Sponsored tweets are
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The Re-Tale of Retail: HMV, community and the future
With the news of HMV’s demise today, following close on the heels of Jessops, Game and other similar massive retail chains, I’m seeing a couple of interesting things converging. When I was little, I remember an independent CD shop and videogame shop on my high st. But the
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Thoughts on 'Culture Shock' by Will McInnes
What are we working for? As someone who just left an agency to craft my own role, it’s a question I’ve been considering myself a lot recently. Is the purpose of a company to create more and more profit? Is it to change the world? Is it to
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Beaten: Xbox Mini could give Apple TV a run for its money
Today, a lesson. Don’t leave blogs making predictions about tech in your drafts folder so long that the rumour mill of those ideas coming true catches up with you [http://t.co/ODNo441t]. Looks like Microsoft is considering the Xbox Mini that I’d been toying with in the
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Who do you trust with your data?
Thanks to the cloud, there’s basically no reason to lose important data ever again. Photos, phone numbers, videos, music – not only can you now store it out there in the ether but, in doing so, you open it up to a whole new world of possibilities, collaboration and accessibility.
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So Far With... iPad Mini
Having owned at least one of every generation of iPad so far, what is the iPad Mini like? * It’s smaller, obviously. But the only time it really feels it is when trying to enter text. You can manage quick notes if you use the ‘split keyboard’ trick and it’
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What happened next...
You remember that time I left my job and launched my own independent consultancy? Well, about that. It never actually happened. Despite registering the company, hiring accountants, developing my business plan and doing all those things you do when you’re launching a campaign to take over the world, life
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Facebook - What a difference a day makes
Yesterday I was just thinking about going back to retroactively add in my technology history to my Facebook timeline after a comment from a Wired reader declared that technology journalists should make theirs public to provide context to their articles. Of course, I was going to set it as private
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Fitbit, Klout and your data silhouettes
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/83346641@N00/4617759902] I never thought the Fitbit would exactly change my life – indeed, I bought it over the competition precisely because it was the cheapest way to dip my toe in the water of the ‘quantified self’ [https://plus.google.com/107128067330174980092/posts/jDpJV4S5Hyw]
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Journalists vs Bloggers: How not to do it.
> @maxtb [https://twitter.com/maxtb] @tchl [https://twitter.com/tchl] The nuances are invented by aspirants who yearn to work as professional journalists but lack the ability. — Tim Luckhurst (@TCHL) August 9, 2012 [https://twitter.com/TCHL/status/233670107631603713] I enjoy good writing. I enjoy strong investigative writing that