- The Shard Of Glass | Silent UK – Urban Exploration & Underground Photography
Astonishing photographs of an illicit — and dangerous — night on The Shard. Assuming this is genuine, of course. (london photographs the_shard )
- Shard and fraud? – expert real-time event photography
"If you’ve left your social media alone for the Easter hols, you might just have missed this fascinating tale of the guys who crept and leapt their way to the top of the Shard and took some unbelievably good photos. Unbelievably good? Well, let’s have a closer look." (scepticism the_shard photography )
- Microsoft Buys Netscape In AOL $1 Billion Patent Deal – Peter Kafka – News – AllThingsD
"Here’s a deal that would have made many minds explode back in the 1990s: Microsoft is buying Netscape. Or at least most of the important parts of the company that used to be synonymous with “Internet.”" (netscape dopost patents acquisition aol microsoft )
- Facebook to Acquire Photo-Sharing Start-Up Instagram for $1B – Kara Swisher – News – AllThingsD
"Facebook has just announced that it will acquire Instagram, the popular mobile photo-sharing service, for $1 billion in cash and shares." (dopost instagram acquisition facebook )
- BYOD is unstoppable. Smart companies must build apps — Tech News and Analysis
"The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement has gained unstoppable momentum. And thanks to the burgeoning mobile app market, employees have high expectations for these tools." (enterprise_computing dopost mobile )
- Steve’s Google Platform rant | Hacker News
Steve Yegge on how Amazon get platforms (and Google doesn't) (platforms google soa cloud_computing amazon )
- Like Samantha Brick, I have been hated for my good looks | Life and style | The Guardian
"Just last November a woman I've never met stopped me outside a supermarket to give me a poppy." The problems of being excessively good-looking. (satire daily_mail humour )
- How journalists bungle apologies: They keep talking | Poynter.
"Here is how you apologize: “I’m sorry.” Maybe “We’re sorry.” If your apology includes the words “if,” “but,” or especially “however” it is not an apology. It’s a justification, which is not the same thing." (journalism april_fool dopost apologies )
- www.kanbangames.net
A collection of kanban games. (dopost games kanban )
- Surprise: Microsoft makes list of top 20 Linux kernel contributors — first time ever – GeekWire
"The company, whose CEO Steve Ballmer once famously compared Linux to [cancer], is now one of the top 20 contributors of code to the open-source operating system’s kernel, according to a new report out this morning from the nonprofit Linux Foundation." (open_source linux microsoft dopost )
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