February 2012
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“It’s like a writers retreat for computer programmers.”
– David Albert, cofounder of Hacker School, which offers tuition-free computer programming classes. A separate arm of the company, Hackruiter, gets paid up to $20,000 when the students are recruited by companies including Airbnb. Read more-> (via fastcompany)
Instagram Version 2.1 →
parislemon:
instagram:
Good news! Instagram v2.1 is now available in the App Store! Here’s what’s new:
New Feature: Lux
We’ve given you a new way to instantly transform the look and feel of your photos. In just one tap, Lux works its magic by making your photos more vibrant and bringing out details you couldn’t…
Lux is great. Fantastic upgrade.
“The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain...”
– Maya Angelou (via libraryland)
Here are 10 Books You Can Get Now on Spotify →
Fortunately for those of us who use Spotify (and skimmed or Cliff Note’d our way through English classes) there a few audiobooks available thanks to Public Domain.
William Shakespeare Plays and Sonnets (provided by Gnarld.com)
A Tale of Two Cities –by Charles Dickens
Billy Budd –by Herman Melville
2,000 Leagues Under the Sea –by Jules Verne
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court –by...
January 2012
24 posts
“The Boston Consulting group’s (BCG) Digital Manifesto, predicts that the world’s...”
– Internet Economy on Course to Hit $4.2tr by 2016 (via thenextweb)
A "Holy Fucking Shit" Quarter →
Remember back in October when after a rare “miss” by Apple (which was only a miss because analysts are stupid and lazy), the early signs pointed to the potential of a $40 billion quarter? Some thought that was insane given that Apple had never even had a $30 billion quarter before. Well, turns out that projection was a little insane — insanely low.
Try a $46.33 billion quarter.
It’s a number...
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“If you scale up from selling one million phones to 30 million phones, you don’t...”
– Jean-Louis Gassée
Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class - NYTimes.com
(via fred-wilson)
