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Its funny. People love watching active user graphs on social media sites, but as we have seen no one has been able to really cash in on their users. They can attract them, and investors throw money with the hopes it will translate to advertising dollars. Look look we have even more users than last quarter! Even if this graph was still rising, it has no correlation to profits. I do not get it. Right now sites are sitting on mines of data/users that are only worth anything as long as investors place value in them. Everyone is still just holding onto the promise. 

Pinterest’s Hype Bubble Has Burst, And Now It Is Actually Losing Users

Monthly active users are down from 11.3 million on March 1 to 11.15 million on April 1 to just 8.3 million today.

What do I do when my Employer Wants to be too Social?

I disagree with all these suggestions of the article. With a little planning you can have a 2nd facebook ready to go for any interviewer. Make it public to searches and display some public info of your choosing. Find the controls to the machine and project your professional identity. In a culture that accepts invasive technologies of absent presence, then you’re online identity should be situated, conditional, and completely optional.

http://lifehacker.com/5896413/what-do-i-do-when-my-employer-wants-to-be-too-social?tag=ask-lifehacker

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different levels of infinity, different levels of information

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“People degrade themselves in order to make machines seem smart all the time.”

Jaron Lanier - You are not a gadget

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“An unnerving element of this gadget (iPhone) is that it is haunted by a weird set of unpredictable user interface delays. One’s mind waits for the response to the press of a virtual button, but it doesn’t come for a while. An odd tension builds during that moment… It’s the ghost of UNIX, still refusing to accommodate the rhythms of my body and my mind.. the idea that a symbol is more important than the flow of time and the underlying continuity of experience.” Jaron Lanier from You are not a Gadget

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Quantum Levitation and The physics behind

Video courtesy of the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC), representing the science center and museum field worldwide.

Coolest Printer Concept Design. #geek porn

Instant Heart Rate is the most accurate heart rate monitor app for iPhone and it does not need any external hardware.
Easy to use: takes less than 10 seconds from opening the app to getting a reading.

Place your finger gently over the camera. Hold it steady for at least 10 seconds. Your current heart rate will be shown on the display.

It works by tracking color changes in the light that passes through your finger.

Color changes? We still got some way to go until its a pulse oximeter, but once we get a infrared flash on your phone we are golden. It would be interesting to see a hack. Either way, your smart phone will continue to become one of your most important personal health tools.