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Promoted Post: Washington Post to have Promoted Trend during election
http://thenextweb.com/us/2010/11/02/promoted-post-washington-post-to-have-promoted-tweet-during-election
Promoted Post: Washington Post to have Promoted Trend during election. According to a new blog post by Twitter. About the election tomorrow, the Washington Post will become the first news organization to pay for a Promoted Trend. All Killer, No Filler. We’re bringing Momentum to New York: our newest event, showcasing only the best speakers and startups. Still, talk about media reversal, right? On the blog post. Twitter also talks about how CNN, MSNBC and The New York Times. Share on Facebook (4). Happy t...
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Sunrise Connects Google Calendar and Facebook in One Handy Daily Email
http://thenextweb.com/lifehacks/2012/09/05/sunrise-snapshot-day-fast-becoming-favorite-daily-email
Foursquare designers launch Sunrise, the new must-have daily email. By Courtney Boyd Myers. Despite naysayers as famous as Mark Zuckerberg crying out that email’s end is nigh it’s not. Email is wildly convenient (attachments, reply all, Boomerang! And still handles the majority of our current work and personal communication processes. It might need a significant redesign, as German designer Tobias Van Schneider has recently pointed out. But it still still rules the Internet. Here at The Next Web. Sunrise...
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How Bonus Plans Can Incite Mutiny Instead of Motivate
http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2014/11/11/bonus-plans-can-incite-mutiny-instead-motivate-employees
How bonus plans can incite mutiny instead of motivate your employees. Ernie Capobianco, CEO, Sq1. A digital conversion optimization agency. The generally accepted or prevailing attitude about bonus plans is that they can serve as an effective motivator and incentive to increase productivity and employee performance. Another conference. Great. This one’s different, trust us. Our new event for New York is focused on quality, not quantity. Why is this so? One such problem is that bonuses foster such a compe...
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iMessage Denial Of Service Prank Crashes Messages
http://thenextweb.com/apple/2013/03/29/imessage-denial-of-service-prank-spams-users-rapidly-with-messages-crashes-ios-messages-app
IMessage denial of service ‘prank’ spams users rapidly with messages, crashes iOS Messages app. Over the last couple of days, a group of iOS developers has been targeted with a series of rapid-fire texts sent over Apple’s iMessage system. The messages, likely transmitted via the OS X Messages app using a simple AppleScript, rapidly fill up the Messages app on iOS or the Mac with text, forcing a user to constantly clear both notifications and messages. All Killer, No Filler. The second part of that, he ex...
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No, THIS Is The Best Business Card Ever
http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2010/06/22/no-this-is-the-best-business-card-ever
No, THIS Is The Best Business Card Ever. Posterous On A Mission To Get Your Content Off Of Dying Platforms. Share on Facebook (3). Share on Twitter (30). Happy to hear your thoughts on alexkaiserwilhelm@gmail.com. Alex Wilhelm is a San Francisco-based writer. You can find Alex on Twitter,. You can reach Alex via email at alex@thenextweb.com. All posts by Alex. Shh Here's some distraction. Watch an iPhone fall to its death in this crazy bungee jumping incident. Snapchat is down for many users [Updated].
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Wearable Tech for Tracking When Cows Are 'in Heat
http://thenextweb.com/gadgets/2014/03/24/wearable-tech-tracking-cows-heat-sure
Wearable tech for tracking when cows are ‘in heat’? Sure, why not? Year for wearable tech, but there’s no reason for it to stop at humans. That’s right, although it’s not quite the bovine Fitbit you might have been thinking of. The company behind the Silent Herdsman (formerly known as Embedded Technology Systems. An altogether less catchy name) cow collar has bagged another 3 million investment to bring it (and other new services) to farmers around the world. New York, are you ready? Ben is European Edit...
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Podcasting Microphone Showdown: 3 Blue Mics Compared
http://thenextweb.com/gadgets/2010/12/29/podcasting-microphone-showdown-3-blue-mics-compared
Podcasting Microphone Showdown: 3 Blue Mics Compared. It’s almost a new year and maybe you, like many, are considering doing a podcast. While this isn’t the time or place to go into the finer details of podcasting, it’s certainly the time and place to look at your most important piece of equipment your microphone. While many people simply settle for the included microphone on their laptop, or maybe spring for a $20 headset from the local Target, you’re not one of them. You want good sound, right? It’s a ...
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13 of The Best Memes From 2013
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/12/27/13-of-the-best-memes-from-2013
13 of the best memes from 2013. The power of the collective conscious of the Internet is most clearly reflected in memes. These ideas or styles, which can take the form of anything from an image to a misspelt word, spread from person to person in the online world all across the globe, with a lot of them eventually reflected in images with text (though that may not be the case all the time). Which memes took the Internet world by storm in 2013? Another conference. Great. Using that the Shiba Inu dog from ...
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UN Women's Rights Group Drops Uber Employment Initiative
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/03/21/un-womens-organization-spurns-ubers-employment-initiative
UN women’s organization spurns Uber’s employment initiative. Has had a bad week. And things were not looking up at its conclusion. On March 10, Uber, the taxi service with a less-than-stellar reputation for protecting the safety of its women passengers and drivers, went on the offensive for women’s rights. It touted a high-profile partnership with UN Women. All Killer, No Filler. We’re bringing Momentum to New York: our newest event, showcasing only the best speakers and startups. How I got 6.2 milli...
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Hundreds of Dropbox Passwords Leak Online, but No Hack
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2014/10/14/dropbox-passwords-leak-online-alleged-hack
Update] Hundreds of Dropbox passwords leaked online but Dropbox denies it was hacked. A thread surfaced on Reddit. Today that contained links to files containing hundreds of usernames and passwords for Dropbox. Accounts in plain text, but it’s unclear where they were obtained from. In four Pastebin files linked to from the site, a few hundred username and password pairs were listed in plain text as teases for a full leak from an anonymous user, who asked for Bitcoin donations for continued leaks. Dropbox...
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