- The problem with nerd politics | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Nerd determinism (which advocates that technological freedom will triumph) versus nerd fatalism (which advocates that political compromise will triumph). (dopost freedom technology politics )
- Geofeedia helps journalists locate real-time photos, tweets where news breaks | Poynter.
"Geofeedia, a service that comes out of private beta today, aims to solve [the search for breaking news] problem by enabling location-based searches for social media content." (launch local search geofeedia dopost )
- You’ll never believe how LinkedIn built its new iPad app (exclusive) | VentureBeat
LinkedIn iPad app is 95% HTML5: not so interesting. Generic picture of woman using iPad: less interesting. How LinkedIn built their app: very interesting. (dopost html5 linkedin ipad software_development )
- Facebook Hires Team From Android Photosharing App Dev Lightbox To Quiet Mobile Fears | TechCrunch
"Facebook has just closed a deal to hire the full team of seven employees from Android photosharing app developer Lightbox, which should reduce worries that mobile will be its downfall." (dopost mobile facebook lightbox )
- Lightbox Blog — Lightbox is joining Facebook!
"Today, we’re happy to announce that the Lightbox team is joining Facebook, [...] Facebook is not acquiring the company or any of the user data hosted on Lightbox.com. In the coming weeks, we will be open sourcing portions of the code we’ve written for Lightbox and posting them to our Github repository." (dopost recruitment facebook lightbox )
- Facebook giveth, Facebook taketh: A curious case of video apps — Tech News and Analysis
"Facebook is good at hoarding data, but is terrible at interpreting the data: putting a proper context around it and then putting it to use." (dopost acquisitions a_b_testing facebook )
- Lightbox Blog — Lightbox is joining Facebook!
"Today, we’re happy to announce that the Lightbox team is joining Facebook, [...] Facebook is not acquiring the company or any of the user data hosted on Lightbox.com. In the coming weeks, we will be open sourcing portions of the code we’ve written for Lightbox and posting them to our Github repository." (recruitment facebook lightbox )
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