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Sunday, May 15, 2016

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Cause I Run Kickstarter (+Q&A!)

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Michael



runsterinc.com - I’ve always had a unique relationship with nature as an athlete. I have vivid memories of weaving in and out of the woods during cross country meets as early as kindergarden. My young, short body s...

GeoOrbital Wheel | Make your bike electric in 60 seconds

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Michael



kickstarter.com - The Patent Pending GeoOrbital wheel is an evolution of the orbital wheel (the wheels on the TRON Motorcycles). The GeoOrbital wheel replaces a standard bicycle front wheel to turn your bike into a ...

6 Reasons Platforms Fail

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Rob Llewellyn



hbr.org - The success of platform businesses like Alibaba, Airbnb, and Uber is so remarkable that discussion about them often misses just how hard they are to build. For every successful platform, there are ...

Transform Your Bike into an Electric Bicycle with No Tools| Interesting Engineering

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Michael



interestingengineering.com - Bicycling is one of the biggest forms of transportation around the world, and there’s now a method of motorizing your bike without any tools. The GeoOrbital wheel allows you to simply replace your ...

Search isn't about search anymore, it's about social

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Chris Abraham



biznology.com - Search will never be the same as it was as recently as a few years ago. Google is severely penalizing sites that are buying links or are invested in private blog networks. Sites that have dominated...

4 iPhone tricks you might not know

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Jefferson Faudan



mashable.com - The iPhone has been around for almost nine years, but there are still some tricks you can do on your phone that you might not know about. SEE ALSO: How to trick your iPhone into freeing up storage ...

6 Laptop Security Tips for Frequent Fliers

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Tamara Dull



windowsitpro.com - Potential laptop theft. Unsecured in-flight Wi-Fi. Long TSA lines. It’s enough to turn road warriors into road worriers. As the summer travel season approaches, here are some tips and best practice...

Amazon Launches YouTube-Like Service: This Week in Social Media : Social Media Examiner

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Reg Saddler



socialmediaexaminer.com - Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. Amazon Targets YouTube Wi...

ThinkGeek's first New York City store is geek heaven

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Jefferson Faudan



mashable.com - While comic book stores aren't what they used to be — if you can even find one in your city — geek culture and all things related, including video games and collectibles, is more popular than ever....

Please don’t learn to code

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techcrunch.com - Basel Farag is an iOS Engineer (he thinks). Besides GPU processors, robits and AI, Basel enjoys learning about computer science, astronomy and philosophy. He was once referred to as "the Daft Punk ...

Does Fingerprint Access Make Your Phone Less Secure?

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Reg Saddler



fastcompany.com - Smartphone makers must perform a delicate balancing act between security and ease of use in their devices. For example, the biometric fingerprint readers on newer phones are usually discussed in th...

Highlights from Disrupt NY 2016

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TechCrunch



techcrunch.com - The doors to TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2016 opened May 9 at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal. The three-day conference hosted 2,300 attendees and hundreds of thousands more tuning in online. Indeed, Disrup...

An update on the state of the Ars redesign

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Ars Technica



arstechnica.com - Yesterday we launched an ambitious new redesign aimed at improving the site's functionality and performance while putting in place the building blocks for new expansion plans, including secure brow...

What Your Resume Should Look Like in 2016

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Anthony Casas, PhD



time.com - “In today’s job market, your resume needs to immediately stand out,” says Dawn Bugni, a professional resume writer in Wilmington, N.C. Attention spans are at an all-time short, with hiring managers...

Sony Pictures Targets Torrent Sites With Preemptive Takedowns - TorrentFreak

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Reg Saddler


torrentfreak.com - While it’s not widely publicized, many larger torrent sites regularly remove links to infringing files. This allows copyright holders to somewhat limit the availability of their works on the Intern...

WhatsApp encryption is affecting FBI’s work in ‘huge ways’

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TweetSmarter



digitaltrends.com - If you thought Apple won the encryption war against the FBI — think again. FBI Director James Comey says we can expect more litigation from the U.S. government, as it tries to access more and more ...

Why Aren’t Most QSR/Fast Casual Loyalty Programs Living Up to their Brand’s Promise?

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loyalty360.org - Quick Service Restaurants (QSR) and Fast Casual restaurants have virtually written the playbook about how to deliver quality to millions – and billions – of customers across all aspects of the dini...

RedPoint Global Tackles Omni-channel Communication with Advanced CRM Programs

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Loyalty 360



loyalty360.org - In today’s metric-driven marketing landscape, a company is nothing without its data. Just as important as gathering this data, however, is partnering with the right data management provider to comp...

Better CX: Understanding (and Breaking Down) Cross-Org Silos

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Loyalty 360



loyalty360.org - Managing the customer experience is often thought of as the domain of those parts of the business that deliver the experience. Those with the greatest intimacy or connection with customers on a day...

Microsoft’s Increasing Number Of Promoted Apps In The Start Menu With Anniversary Update - Thurrott.com

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thurrott.com - When the anniversary update arrives in late July, it will bring with it many new features, updated themes, and now we are learning that it will also include additional promoted apps in the Start me...

Rainmaker Rewind: The Importance of Creating a Life Plan, with Michael Hyatt - Copyblogger

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Stephan Stavrakis



copyblogger.com - I hope you’re learning valuable information from the recently evolved Rainmaker Rewind. Because there’s so much great content out there, it was difficult to choose only 10 this week. This week on R...

BYOPC: Expanding the Intel NUC and Troubleshooting a USB Problem - Thurrott.com

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Paul Thurrott



thurrott.com - For the past two months, I’ve used a tiny Intel NUC mini-PC every day as my main computer, and the experience has for the most part been very positive. But having twice run into USB issues, I decid...

This is what Instagram's new business profile looks like

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Anita Nelson



thenextweb.com - Earlier this year, Instagram confirmed that it was developing business profiles — a la Facebook Brand Pages. Recently, we managed to snag a peek at just what these new offerings look on iOS thanks ...

Windows 10 Build 14342, Azure Expansion: Microsoft Roundup - InformationWeek

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Jefferson Faudan



informationweek.com - This week's updates from Redmond focused on Windows 10, Azure, MSN China, and Outlook 2016 for Mac. Windows Insiders in the Fast ring received preview build 14342 for PCs. This update brought impro...

Sheryl Sandberg talks about her husband's death for the first time publicly

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Jefferson Faudan



money.cnn.com - She talked about the "deep fog of grief" and how she has been able to again celebrate "moments of joy." Sandberg's husband, Dave Goldberg, died in May 2015 of a cardiac arrhythmia while the two wer...

Start Getting The Jobs You Want With This Employment Advice

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Rolf Joho


careersandjobs.org - It is not difficult to understand the reason.It can be difficult to go to a lot of places that need your skills. There are a few things you can do to make the process a little easier. The tips list...

Study: Amid sea of disposable apps, health and fitness reigns supreme

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Jason Frovich



appleinsider.com - Study: Amid sea of disposable apps, health and fitness reigns supreme By AppleInsider Staff Friday, May 13, 2016, 08:59 pm PT (11:59 pm ET) Recent data gathered by Yahoo-owned firm Flurry Analyti...

Test Drives! The 2016 Mazda CX-5! – stupidDOPE | Art, Travel, Culture, Design, Music, Lifestyle

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LeVar Thomas



stupiddope.com - The world of automobiles is forever changing and evolving right along with technology. Recently we had the chance to get behind the wheel of a 2016 Mazda CX-5 to experience the new updates and upgr...

Setting Goals: In Pursuit of Fabulous!

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a Mom Entrepreneur



lainaturner.com - How often do you set a goal and then fail to follow through, get discouraged and give up, or completely forget about it 3 days later and are on to the next? It used to happen to me all the time. I ...

Make a custom menu to insert favorite Unicode characters in Windows with CatchChar

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Dany


helpingthings.com - See more details on WhizFolders by visiting WhizFolders.com. Download and install CatchChar. Then run it and it sits in the tray icon area. To bring up its menu, press the hot key combination Alt-S...