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The Music Startup Meltdown

It’s going to get worse before it gets better…

In the land of microservices, the network is the king(maker)

Hours makes time tracking something everyone should do

Web scraping with Python

Experts estimate that data scientists spend 50% to 80% of their time collecting and cleaning data. The web is often…

As We May Learn

All over the world people are learning about things online, yet there’s no simple way…

Are You Neglecting One of the Most Important Aspects of Your Brand?

A Brief History of Malware: Part Five (2006–2014)

Roulette for the rich

In 1970, ninety per cent of financial flows were used to finance trade or investment in the real economy; only ten per…

Channeling Nonprofit Vision into Mobile App Development

Here’s a closer look at Blueprint’s partnership with the SAGE Youth Mentorship Project and our development process.

The 3 costliest tech problems in advocacy and nonprofit engagement and how to calculate their cost. No. 2 — Huge CAC…

Why You Should Absolutely Not Hire Me

Consider this my anti-resume:

Rockstar

“I want a brand new house
On an episode of Cribs
And a bathroom I can play baseball in
And a king size tub big enough
For ten plus me”
 — “Rockstar”, Nickelback

Career Advancement for Engineers: Client Success is Your Success

Testimony for Roundtable on The Use of 21st Century Technology in Libraries

This is the written piece I submitted on Thursday March 3, 2016 for the New York State Assembly Standing Committee on Libraries and Education Technology Roundtable. It is the work of both myself and…

New Member Profile: Savannah Lim

As its name implies, Design Days is our franchise that looks to promote the intersection of technology…

A Conversation with my SVP of Commerical Sales & Sales Operations

On the problem of Dormant Cyber Pathogens

A cyber-amicus cyber-brief

Your honor — and should it please the court — my name is Tom Lowenthal, and I am not a lawyer. This means that I have about as much business addressing you as the District Attorney has…

From Fortune 500 to Fortune 5: how long-term innovation roadmaps are changing the industry landscape

By Patrick van Hoof, Innovation Director at Huge

We all know the list — the infamous Fortune 500, a collection of the largest US…

Why Diversity Matters in Technology

Technology is in all aspects of our modern life. Today’s technology products are used by us daily. As a business, you have customers from all over the world. Customers have choices. They can quickly stop using your product. Building products and keeping customers…

Even Telstra Executives Need a Coding Lesson

That’s right: even the best tech execs need a basic refresher once in a while!

Having Fun With Puppies and Virtual Reality

An Adorable Experiment

Can virtual reality help to train non techies?

A recent project I worked on was to create a virtual world whereby carers could put themselves into the shoes of an elderly person with frailty. The idea was to help the carer empathize with the person that they are caring for.

IT Departments and the Gordian Knot

The IT equivalent of the Gordian Knot goes something like this: there is a point in time where it…

Open Transit Data for India

Mobility is one of the fundamental needs of human. And mobility with a shared mode of transport is undoubtedly…

I actually like the fragmentation.

I would not want to login to all the different slack teams with one account.

I can imagine a lot of problems caused by a “one account for all teams you join” approach.

19 SEO Tips to Avoid

Recently, we did a series of mini interviews via Twitter, or as we like to call them “Twitter-views,” with SEO experts and influencers speaking at SMX West.

One of the questions we asked was, “What do you see as the biggest challenge in SEO?”

Forget Apps, Now The Bots Take Over

As the number of mobile apps increases while the size of our mobile screens decreases, we’re reaching the limits of the mobile “OS + apps” paradigm. It’s getting harder to download, set up, manage and switch between so many apps on our mobile device. Most mobile…

Welcome to Generation Shift

Exploring Societal Complexity and Innovation for a Sustainable Future

WLPC Talks

Watch Simon’s talks at WLPC in Phoenix.

Managing OpenWRT From The Cloud

Apple vs. FBI: My Boyfriend Sided With The Government, Then He Watched ‘Citizenfour’

What Brands Can Learn from Launch Festival

Walking through the Demo Pits on the last day of this year’s Launch Festival I’m continuing to be stunned by two things: the sheer quantity of caffeine consumed by the tech industry, and the realization that everything exists. If you have ever thought of…

Which Augmented and Virtual Reality platforms should you create for?

For A Confused Person… Call: That Time I Spent Three Days Only Calling People Back

How A Freelancer Builds Awesome Spreadsheet Systems Using Google Sheets

LANDING NEW GIGS THROUGH WORD OF MOUTH REFERRALS ON PORTFOLIO 10

Redefining Social Obligations In Today’s World

I think we’re at an interesting time when each president elect has such radical…

Phishing Emails — Another Poor Example

We all hear about phishing emails. All the time. In fact, there is a never-ending dialogue…

How to be great at your work?

Focusing on developing your Soft Skills.

Curated Funderpicks — March 4, 2016

Despite the pending arrival of spring, it’s still pretty chilly in most of Europe. So we scoured…

Fitbits, Wearables and Privacy: What CSI Cyber Taught Me.

Watched the episode on demand yesterday of CSI: Cyber that featured people getting targeted for abduction via their FitBit-type wearable. The series features a myriad of possibilities of things that can happen to you with your use…

Outlook now a part of Apple Watch App Repertoire

The Future of VR might be at Risk

Unless you do something about it

Future of Virtual Reality Gaming

The Best Way To Make Small Business Shipping Easier For You and Your Customers

How to learn emacs

The article is worthwhile if the message is the use of existing dark fiber as an agnostic carrier for services is faster and more cost effective than build your own. But, in regards to Google having created a new or unusual method of providing services, it’s merely a headline. This is done everyday with Dark Fiber. There are businesses that only…

World’s Top 10 Richest Tech Billionaires 2016

According to Forbes, there are 1,810 billionaires in the world this year. Their…

5 Insider Tips to Launch Your Career as a Successful Freelancer

1. ‘Don’t worry’

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My understanding is that an addiction has a time slot to get alive during a day.

If during this time slot, he or she, gets well engaged with some activity he or she starts on a path of slowing down and getting out.

Someone must help for some time in sustained way.

We did it with our father and it worked.

Why we’re finally building something for ourselves

The best bits of Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016

MWC 2016: what a week

Leaked: SXSW Interactive 2016 Opening Keynote Speech

I’m sorry, if you are constantly getting blocked and told to “leave me alone”, then decide to threaten them and send emails and mail to the FBI, employers, friends and relatives and try to fake their identity, it is more than just a case of “misunderstanding”. There were plenty of times in the article when he could have backed off.

Apple and Google, encryption and privacy.

Apple, Google, and Microsoft are often portrayed as competitors. They’re not. At least not in a direct way. Apple makes its money by selling you expensive gadgets. Microsoft makes money by selling you expensive, “must have” software. Google makes money by…

Dear Mr. David Graham,

I can no longer beat around the bush, so here it is. Are you Gutbloom?

I have been thinking about what all three of the sudonames have in common. That being that they are agitators. In that way, I tip my hat to Mr. Gutbloom(you). In that way, he/you is/are winning.

The Game Changers…

A look at who and what is changing the wearable tech industry.

It’s like the boss sending out emails at 10:30pm. Whoever responds at 11pm is the chum who will be expected to be always available. Slack is awesome for managers who can dip in and out and send requests left and right. I know I have a Slack problem. I manage it by turning Slack off for the periods of time I want to get work done that requires focus…

Challenges to Recruiting and Hiring the Right Call Centre Agents

If you struggle with finding and hiring the right call centre agents for your company, you may understand the challenges that encompass this industry. Whether you are a retail or service-oriented business, it can be difficult to find high-quality agents or to…

Orwell’s “1984” now live!

This morning, I came across a disturbing article stating that the FBI has won its fight with Apple over unlocking Syed Farook’s iPhone. I don’t see anything on the major media outlets just yet— they seem more concerned with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

The fourth law of robotics.

“The fourth law of robotics states that the first thing a sentient machine does is to get rid of the other three.”

In our search for knowledge we often forget what is the purpose of this quest and will it be beneficial in the future. The large purveyors of Big Data have…

This 3D audio headphone calibrates to your anatomy

100 Resources, Tips & Resources

Since the final edition of the book appeared, while it’s been years, very little has changed with regard to technology, so the big assortment of stage-by-step colour photographs and directions remain important today. The only difference when developing a gaming Computer and selecting a Steam…

Q&A with Ather Sharif, Creator of The Accessible World Conference #TAW16 in Philadelphia

Today’s Science

March 01–2016

ONE

“Deep Speech 2 can recognize spoken…

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Full Story Practice

Barn Fire

What: A fire in a barn where 25 horses were stabled; 15 horses died (13 thoroughbred and two saddle horses), 10 horses escaped, two escaped with their backs on fire;

Resistance is futile…

The biohackers are here!

Level 1 : Road to nerd

Ok, so never done this before… blogging that is and I am not too sure how to go about blogging. So I am just gonna jump straight in with a simple plan of just talking about what I experience on a daily basis in a week with hopes of improving my writing and story telling skills. Then…

Good read! I honestly would say that the best time for you to have gone to the men in blue would have been when he “visited” you at school all those years later. But as of right now, I would almost suggest getting a white hat hacker or a PI to do some digging, and maybe have them try to scare him off (just showing him that he’s being watched should…

3 Smart ways to automate an Indian Kitchen-Part 2

Metaphor for Looking Ahead By Looking Back

By pushing NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to its limits, an international team of…

Architectural Design Plans And Their Relevance

Architectural Design Plans are the vision of the designer and the architect of how a building will eventually look, once finished, on paper. These professionals spend endless hours meticulously planning and evaluating each design idea for its viability and its soundness before…

Congratulations to Tr3Dent on winning IoT Award!

Where The Heck Is Technology (and the World) Going?

I’m totally with you in this point. I’m in an internship in tech while my background is in electrical engineering. I negotiated the requirements for the internship and got it!

Keeping your Personal and Financial Information Secure On-and-Offline

Sony denies working on a mobile VR headset

So there.

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Braven BRV-PRO Gets Some Great Add-Ons

At a car event a few months ago, I won this:

Mucho movimiento. Bonitas fotos.

Que tal vas muchacho?

Contains some really compelling terms and sentences. Another helpful resource on the path of my self-discovery. Thank you!

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