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Klein: Harvard Liberal-Arts Failure Is Wall Street Gain

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:09:52 -0500

Klein: Harvard Liberal-Arts Failure Is Wall Street Gain:

In recent years, many top universities have tried to guide their students into careers other than finance.

DNA Sequencing To Go - Technology Review

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 14:24:46 -0500

DNA Sequencing To Go - Technology Review:

A British startup is commercializing a USB-sized sequencing machine.

Reed Hastings on Netflix’s Recent Rise and Fall

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:25:14 -0500

Reed Hastings on Netflix’s Recent Rise and Fall:

Bloodied by last year’s $12 billion wipeout—Netflix C.E.O. Reed Hastings remains adamant about his goal: moving from red envelopes to streaming video. With Hollywood hailing his vision and needing his business, Netflix has started to rebound. But not everyone is sold.

Start Making

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:39:28 -0500

Start Making

King of New York

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:39:18 -0500

King of New York:

My, what royal taste you have! You’ve conquered 3 spots on our List of NYC’s best venues! But you don’t reign supreme yet. See how you fare on our leaderboard at http://bit.ly/wvYTXg

Brainstorming Doesn’t Really Work

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:09:55 -0500

Brainstorming Doesn’t Really Work:

Online version of the weekly magazine, with current articles, cartoons, blogs, audio, video, slide shows, an archive of articles and abstracts back to 1925

Charting The Social Bonds That Power Y Combinator’s Innovation Engine

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:40:06 -0500

Charting The Social Bonds That Power Y Combinator’s Innovation Engine:

Money’s a poor indicator of how ideas really flow in the Valley. For that, you’ve gotta trace the social bonds that actually determine all those fortuitous encounters that birth the Next Big Thing. And if you’re tracking social bonds, there’s no better subject than startup incubator Y Combinator, a …

Clear for iPhone - Breathtakingly-simple todos for iPhone and iPod touch

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:24:31 -0500

Clear for iPhone - Breathtakingly-simple todos for iPhone and iPod touch:

Say hello to Clear for iPhone. With its beautiful interface, and gestural interactions you already know how to use, it’s the future of todo lists.

Fast Company: The Women of Twitter - Magazine

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:24:34 -0500

Fast Company: The Women of Twitter - Magazine:

As Twitter reshapes news and entertainment, Jacob Weisberg tours its headquarters to find a team dedicated to openness, spontaneity—and relentless expansion.

Perry Hewitt, One of the Few Female Chief Digital Officers? One of the Few, Period. - Forbes

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:58:05 -0500

Perry Hewitt, One of the Few Female Chief Digital Officers? One of the Few, Period. - Forbes:

In recent interviews, we’ve talked about the lack of women in the technology world, but we haven’t yet touched on the need for more women in leadership roles in academia. In 2009 The White House Project found that women hold just 23% of the leadership roles in academia, this despite […]

Does The Online Education Revolution Mean The Death Of The Diploma?

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:26:20 -0500

Does The Online Education Revolution Mean The Death Of The Diploma?:

Education is changing, and it’s changing fast. Anyone can put together a personalized educational experience via digital textbooks accessible by iPad, video learning from top university faculty, or peer-led discussion. People of all demographics are gathering their own seeds of education and cultiva…

With Millions Of New Records, Inflection Delivers One-Two Punch To Ancestry.com

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:24:21 -0500

With Millions Of New Records, Inflection Delivers One-Two Punch To Ancestry.com:

Inflection may be the hottest Silicon Valley company you’ve never heard of. That’s largely because they’ve invested all their time in just building a big business, and almost none of it in talking …

What Brightcove, Facebook tell us about Mass. start-up climate - The Boston Globe

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 23:40:16 -0500

What Brightcove, Facebook tell us about Mass. start-up climate - The Boston Globe:

Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin, founders of TheFacebook, had their first meeting with a venture capitalist at The Charles Hotel. At a venture capital firm next door, Jeremy Allaire, a successful entrepreneur, sketched plans for Vidmark, short for “video marketplace.’’ The companies, now known a…

Big Data’s Impact in the World

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:10:40 -0500

Big Data’s Impact in the World:

For those who can make sense of the explosion of data, there are job opportunities in fields as diverse as crime, retail and dating.

Andy Cohen

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 14:57:03 -0500

Andy Cohen:

Here’s What: You’re a man/woman about town, hitting up all the right places. And by “right,” we mean a healthy combo of the trendy and the timeless. “Mazel” to you.

We have a Linner

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:54:51 -0500

We have a Linner:

NEW YORKERS have always liked larger-than-life personalities in their sporting heroes.