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How insular Silicon Valley companies exclude good job candidates by enforcing a “culture fit” — The next thing Silicon Valley needs to disrupt big time: its own culture — There's a problem with Silicon Valley and the subcultures that imitate it.
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Facebook Doesn't Understand The Fuss About Its Emotion Manipulation Study — * Updated with an additional statement from Adam Kramer, the Facebook data scientist who conducted the study. — This weekend, the Internet discovered a study published earlier this month in an academic journal …
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| Sebastian Deterding / Tumbling Conduct: |
Frame Clashes, or: Why the Facebook Emotion Experiment Stirs Such Emotion — The PNAS article “Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks” is currently causing quite some emotional outpour itself. — Here's an abstract of the article (and here's the full text):
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| Tim Rogers / D Magazine: |
Woot founder Matt Rutledge is self-funding a new company called A Mediocre Corporation to conduct e-commerce experiments — This Internet Millionaire Has a New Deal For You — The breakfast with Jeff Bezos started awkwardly and ended with an indignity that Matt Rutledge didn't even catch at first.
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| Timothy B. Lee / Vox: |
Marc Andreessen on how regulation and short-selling are killing the IPO — The IPO is dying. Marc Andreessen explains why. — Twenty years ago, a 22-year-old Marc Andreessen co-founded Netscape, the company behind the first commercially successful web browser.| Bill Wasik / Wired: |
Inside Highway1, PCH's incubator to help hardware startups prototype and manufacture products — The Man Making Silicon Valley Go Crazy for Hardware — Liam Casey, the founder and CEO of PCH, which is trying to create a platform to take hardware startups from “zero to Apple.” Ian Allen| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Fly is a simple video-editing app that lets you shoot from four iPhones at once — There are simple video-editing apps, and then there's Fly, a new iPhone app that lets you edit a short movie inside literally one screen. Fly works by importing four of your videos into the app's editor … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Riley v. California ruling suggests the Supreme Court is rethinking its stance on privacy of digital data — Why the Supreme Court May Finally Protect Your Privacy in the Cloud — When the Supreme Court ruled yesterday in the case of Riley v. California, it definitively told the government …
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SCOTUSblog, The Daily Beast, Just Security, CNBC, ACLU, Vox and Guardian
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| Kaylene Hong / The Next Web: |
Akamai: Global average web speed up 24% annually to 3.9 Mbps, 20% of connections now above 10 Mbps — 1.1K — The global average internet speed is continuing its steady increase, growing 1.8 percent quarter-over-quarter and 24 percent year-on-year to reach 3.9 Mbps, according to Akamai … | Parker Higgins / Medium: |
A bogus SoundCloud takedown reveals a much larger issue with private sites and the public domain — A bogus SoundCloud takedown reveals a much larger issue with private sites and the public domain. — I received a bogus copyright takedown notice for using public domain audio on SoundCloud yesterday.
Tweets: @mariabustillos, @dancohen and @anildash
| Alex Chitu / Google Operating System: |
Quickoffice apps to be discontinued following integration into Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides — QuickOffice Will Be Discontinued — 2 years ago, Google bought Quickoffice, one of the best mobile apps for editing Office files. At that time, Google explained that “Quickoffice …
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Google Apps update alerts, MacRumors, 9to5Google, App Advice, iMore and xda-developers
| Seth Rosenblatt / CNET: |
Google delays multi-language support in Google Now — Web giant pulls back on an announced update to Google Now that would've allowed multilingual people to switch at will between languages. — A new feature to let multilingual Google Now users switch between languages on the go has been delayed.
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CNET, Android Central, Business Insider, 9to5Google, BGR, Android Central, PhoneArena and Android Authority
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