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New research shows that teens and young adults are frequently using social networking sites and mobile technology to express suicidal thoughts and intentions as well as to reach out for help. The findings suggest that suicide prevention and int…
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Reblogged from Tim Boileau, Ph.D.: See on Scoop.it – aect Have smartphones in every pocket made memorization obsolete? Tim Boileau’s insight: The phone in your pocket is now a performance suppotot tool. See on http://www.scientificamerican.com Re…
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Reblogged from GigaOM: Over six months after the European Commission reached an ebook pricing settlement with four publishers and Apple (s AAPL), the EC has approved a similar settlement with Penguin. Penguin, which was trying to clear the deck…
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Bonjour, America! | Things I grab, motley collection
See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT The French Canadian immigration experience shows that our obsession with border security is inconsistent with our history, undermines our economic vitality and is likely to fail. pler…
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Reblogged from TechCrunch: If you’re a working journalist (or even an aspiring one), you’re probably getting tired of hearing that it’s important to build your personal brand. Now, leaving aside the obnoxiousness of the phrase “personal brand,”…
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Reblogged from VentureBeat: Google’s new tabbed Gmail layout has been rolling out for a while now. I was finally subjected to it. I hate hate hate it. (Disclosure: I own Google stock.) The goal of the new Gmail tabs is admirable: To make it ea…
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Company that wants to be an “online Harvard” to get accreditation | Things I grab, motley collection
Reblogged from GigaOM: Minerva Project, a startup aspiring to build an online Ivy League-caliber university from scratch, just checked a major item off its to-do list. On Wednesday, the company plans to announce a partnership with the Claremont…
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Reblogged from TechCrunch: Google today announced three new features for its Cloud Storage service that brings it closer to feature parity with Amazon’s Web Services (AWS). Just like AWS’s S3, Google’s Cloud Storage now offers Object Lifecycle …
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Reblogged from TechCrunch: Google today announced three new features for its Cloud Storage service that brings it closer to feature parity with Amazon’s Web Services (AWS). Just like AWS’s S3, Google’s Cloud Storage now offers Object Lifecycle …
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For example, much has been made of the likely underperformance of a particularly high-profile type of collaboration tool — enterprise social networks (ESNs) — if rollout is conducted without the requisite supporting behavioral, cultural, and pro…
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Money should be a public utility (a unit of account, a store of value, and a medium of exchange), not an instrument by which banks extort unnecessary interest payment from the public — like a private toll booth on a public road. Cheap labor and…
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Save Money by Collecting Accomplishments Instead of Items | Things I grab, motley collection
There’s nothing wrong with being a collector, but if the items you collect can be consumed, like books, movies, or games, you can save space and money by tracking the things you’ve completed, rather than filling your home with a physical collect…
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MBank And The Future Of Responsive Banking | Things I grab, motley collection
Reblogged from TechCrunch: I’m not a huge fan of banks and when senior director Michal Panowicz approached me about mBank my interest was pigued. How could a banking spin-off of BRE Bank and founded in 2000 create one of the coolest, most high-…
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‘Email Courtesy of My Idea Pipe’ | Things I grab, motley collection
See on Scoop.it – Things I Grab (Here and There): THgsIGrbHT Overthinking and overexplaining the variations people use on “Sent from my iPhone” plerudulier‘s insight: This being the Summer season, period during which most people are on vac…
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