Starting at the End: 12 New Cities Built From Scratch
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A good city, like a good wine, needs time to develop. As any Civilization-playing geek knows, it takes decades or centuries to turn a cluster of villages into a…
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October 15 2009
Off the Shelf, Onto the Laptop - Libraries Try Digital Books - NYTimes.com
Electronic book borrowing is a convenient way for libraries to remain relevant, but publishers are worried.
October 14 2009
Payvment Enables Retail Storefronts On Facebook Via PayPal’s Adaptive Payments API
In an effort to compete with Amazon’s Flexible Payments API, PayPal recently announced its version of the API, called Adaptive Payments (which we scooped over the summer). PayPal’s API…
The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate - NYTimes.com
A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physicists hope to produce with the collider, might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation…
Web technology is about to change how we learn
The adult education industry is on the cusp of being massively disrupted by innovation in Web technology. Like other industries prior, it would like to pretend that it can weather the storm…
Keepers Of The Court: Foursquare Superusers
Foursquare is a company with all of four employees. Yes, they just hired their fourth, we’ve learned (hello, Nathan Folkman, formerly of Betaworks, where he worked on Bit.ly). And yes,…
How Yelp deals with everybody getting four stars (on average)
“If everybody is special, then one is.”
Such is the problem companies face when crowdsourced criticism tends to be — er — not so critical.
Yelp, a community recommendations site, is…
October 13 2009
The Science of Super Mario Bros.
Some might argue that game design is an art form, something not meant to be taken apart and analyzed, but researchers at IT University of Copenhagen believe that making the game design process…
Peerset Rolls Out Psychographic Data Tool For Advertisers And Brands
Startup Peerset is launching an advertising data tool that generates “psychographic” recommendations and ad placement advice, based on content analysis. Peerset’s proprietary technology…
Delivery Week: The Lazy Man's Answer To Restaurant Week | Serious Eats : New York
If you couldn’t make it off your couch (or out of the office) for Restaurant Week, here’s the event for you: Delivery Week, where you can order three-course prix fixe meals from New York restaurants…
October 09 2009
More Features Piling In The Minivan As Circle Of Moms Expands
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Parenting communities are becoming increasingly common on the web as mothers and fathers turn to social networks to share stories and elicit advice about…
Mystery surrounds this traditional Japanese style of eating. The author offers some insight.
Inside the Nerd Mansions of San Francisco
San Francisco’s renaissance men are supposed to be clever enough to make millions on internet startups and cultured enough to make home design decisions. In reality, they lack both time and taste,…
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