- Pictures and vision
"So the titanic showdown between Facebook and Google might not be the News Feed vs. Google+ after all. It might be Facebook Camera vs. Project Glass." (project_glass sharing photography dopost google facebook )
- Jonathan Franzen: the path to Freedom | Books | The Guardian
"Question No. 3 is: I read an interview with an author who says that, at a certain point in writing a novel, the characters "take over" and tell him what to do. Does this happen to you, too? This one always raises my blood pressure. Nobody ever answered it better than Nabokov did in his Paris Review interview, where he fingered EM Forster as the source of the myth about a novelist's characters "taking over", and claimed that, unlike Forster, who let his characters sail away on their passage to India, he himself worked his characters "like galley slaves"." (jonathan_franzen writing )
- Mustafa’s Space Drive: An Egyptian Student’s Quantum Physics Invention | Fast Company
"Mustafa invented a way of tapping this quantum effect via what's known as the dynamic Casimir effect. [...] It's horribly technical, but the end result is that Mustafa's use of shaped silicon plates similar to those used in solar power cells results in a net force being delivered. A force, of course, means a push or a pull and in space this equates to a drive or engine. In terms of space propulsion, this is amazing" (dopost engineering invention space technology )
- MailOnline adds a new social reading experience for you! | Mail Online
Surely the Facebook audience will be a perfect match for the Mail Online's content: "MailOnline’s Facebook app adds a new social reading experience which allows you to share news you’re reading on MailOnline with your friends on Facebook and for you to discover what they are reading too." (launch sharing dopost mail_online facebook )
- A Big Offer For The New York Times… – Business Insider
"The New York Times Company continues to shrink, selling off one asset after another in an attempt to delay the inevitable–a significant restructuring of its flagship newspaper." (financials rupert_murdoch wsj nytimes newspapers )
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