- Scott Hanselman – Subtle but Very Important Twitter Tips and Techniques You Should Know (cause no one will tell you)
Just that. (tips twitter )
- SwiftKey™ – Intelligent text prediction for Android smartphones, by TouchType Ltd.
"SwiftKey is able to predict your next word with incredible accuracy, based on what you’ve already entered." (accessibility android app )
- Basic Fun Fisher Price Record Player : Chessex Polyhedral Dice
Do you remember the Fisher Price record player? Well it's back… sort of. The reader reviews are fascinating. On the one hand R. Vrshek of Chicago says "The new one appears to be identical and is very well-made." But iSkyscraper of New York was curious: "I was perplexed as to why this needed batteries and why the discs looked different than I remembered though, so I took a closer look yesterday at it…" Oh, how times change. (toy fisher_price childhood progress )
- Creators, disruptors: the critical role of entrepreneurs | Creative Disruption
"True change often comes from those who have never operated within the sector. What did Craig Newmark or Jim Buckmaster know about classified advertising? Andrew Black had worked in dozens of places, but never in a bookies when he had the idea for Betfair. [...] [BT] employed some of the biggest brains in the UK [...] But it wasn’t any of them who came up with Skype. [They] didn’t just see the potential of the new, the knew the inertia and vulnerability of the old." Waldo on creative disruption. (simon_waldman startups innovation business_models )
- The Guardian on your Kindle « Mark’s Blog
It was bound to happen… "Since moving to Switzerland, I’ve found that I really miss being able to get The Guardian in the morning on my way into work. [...] Fortunately, The Guardian has an excellent API for accessing its content, and the lovely interface produced by Phil Gyford for reading the paper in a cleaner interface suggested that I could similarly generate a bare bones version of the paper for my Kindle." (kindle guardian open_platform )
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