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June 20, 2015
The Recommender: Daniel Salo, Who Totally Shreds!
The best things on and off the Internet this week, curated by Fast Company employees.
[image error]Danny SaloPhoto: Celine Groaurd for Fast CompanyName: Danny Salo
Role at Fast Company: Online photo editor. I make sure there's plenty of gorgeous pictures with the words you read.
Twitter: @salophoto
Titillating Fact: I've been skateboarding since I was 13 years old and have a mean 360 flip. This also means I'm almost always injured in some way. Ask to see a bruise!
June 19, 2015
This Publishing Startup Wants To Crowdfund Books For Indie Bookstores
Inkshares, a crowdfunded book publishing platform, is working with indie bookstores to help them launch their own imprints.
A fledgling publishing company is offering a new tool to indie bookstores: crowdfunded imprints.
Google To Exclude Revenge Porn From Search Results
Google will start honoring requests to remove "revenge porn" from its search results.
Google will soon begin pulling revenge porn from its search results, on a per-request basis. In a blog post, Google Search senior vice president Amit Singhal wrote that the search giant will honor requests to take down nude or sexually explicit images posted without a person's consent:
Why Apple Shifted Music From Download Dominance To Streaming Sameness
Competing with Spotify, Rdio, and the rest won't be easy. Then again, Apple doesn't have to beat them for the effort to be worthwhile.
Last week's launch of Apple Music represented a turnabout for Apple when it comes to how it delivers music. The company, which had long been a dominant leader in downloadable music—all the way back to the iPod era—has seen the market shift to less-profitable streaming services with greater reach and apps for multiple platforms, most notably Spotify.
Now You Can Go Shopping On Twitter
If you like Demi Lovato or Game of Thrones, Twitter really hopes you'll buy things from its app.
Twitter is beginning to roll out pages for products and places with e-commerce integration. The pages, which include purchase buttons, are part of the social networking site's increasing foray into e-commerce and monetization.
This Undulating Cabinet Is Like Joy Division's Album Cover Come To Life
If you like Unknown Pleasures, you'll enjoy looking inside Sebastian Errazuriz's Wave Cabinet.
If you ever wanted to own a cabinet that channels the cover art of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures, here's your chance: the Wave Cabinet, a sideboard created by New York artist and designer Sebastian Errazuriz, is a piece that collapses and expands like a waveform made out of wood.
Why Facebook's New Photo App Won't Be Available In Europe
The Moments app uses facial recognition technology to identify people's faces.
Facebook's latest standalone app Moments won't be making its way to Europe due to privacy concerns.
The Pregnancy Test Of The Future Is Flushable, Private, And Sustainable
The pregnancy test hasn't changed in years. This startup is redesigning one of the most important moments in a woman's life.
The at-home pregnancy test was a huge innovation in women's health, but it hasn't changed much in quite some time. That might lead you to believe that its current form is flawless—well, far from it. As any woman who has used one knows, the stick-shaped device that clues women into one of the most important details of their lives has a few shortcomings: It's hard to keep private, requires a sharpshooter's aim, and eventually winds up in a landfill.
What Would Arianna Do?
Companies like Accenture are looking to improve employee well-being with Oprah-approved online courses led by gurus like Arianna Huffington
Arianna is hosting office hours, and the questions are arriving fast and furious.
Can You Find The Corporate Logos Hiding In These Faces?
What do you get when you combine the logos of Corona, Walmart, WD-40 and Amazon? A stoner with a crown.
Corporate logos are designed to convey all kinds of messages, but humor is generally avoided when it comes to something that billions of people could potentially see. But with a little rearranging, the blog Whats His Face? shows us that even these symbols of international finance can be amusing if looked at in the right way. By combining corporate logos in creative ways, the blog turn them into surprisingly expressive faces. The blog sees these portraits as "a slightly fun and different way of looking at the brands that surround us." And with every company under the sun merging together, some of these logo remixes don't seem so far fetched.
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