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February 13, 2014
Satisfy Your "Game Of Thrones" Lust With Art From The "Winter Is Coming " Exhibit
If HBO's 15-minute featurette got you excited for Season 4, this might melt your eyeballs.
As high anticipation goes, for many fans of HBO's Game of Thrones the wait for the April 6th start of the series's fourth season ranks somewhere between the birth of their first child and the first time they passed Level 30. When the network released a 15-minute featurette, filled with hints and glimpses at the epic's latest televised chapter is only reminded the rest of us how much we're looking forward to it all--and how far away the first week of April feels.
Caribou Coffee Launches New Blend With A Five-Story Pinterest Board
Brand pins some promotion hopes to a social move at the Mall of America.
Seeing as so many people spend an incredible amount of time looking down at their phones or tablets to flip through their various social media feeds, Caribou Coffee decided to do something that would get people to look up. Way up.
February 12, 2014
9 Reasons Being A Startup Founder Doesn't Suck
We've all heard about how being a founder is the worst. Here are nine things I've learned that suggest otherwise.
Over the last few years I've read a number of articles about why being a company founder sucks. While I can empathize, I think we need more public dialogue about why being a founder is worth it, not just long-term but in the moment too.
Arianna Huffington Partners With DonorsChoose For Her New Book
People who pre-order the book, Thrive, before March 25 will receive a DonorsChoose gift card equal to the book's list price.
DonorsChoose, one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies of 2014, draws inspiration from the better parts of the crowdfunding model: Public school teachers from across the country submit their requests for new projects or teaching supplies for the classroom, things like laptops, Kindles, or textbooks. Visitors who make it to DonorsChoose.org can fund whatever projects they'd like, for as little as $1.
VSCO Cam Photo App Now Lets You Follow Other Users
The best photo-editing app on iOS just entered the social media world. But it's not Instagram--yet.
Fans of VSCO Cam love the app for its advanced photo-editing chops and sublime film-like filters. Now its creators are looking to expand into a new arena, one the majority of smartphone photographers should be familiar with: Social networking. VSCO Cam for iOS just rolled out a new update that expands its Grid feature into a scrollable, browsable stream. (Android users will get it soon, too.) Now, users can follow other VSCO users in the community to keep track of their photo exploits.
Disney Is Launching A Startup Accelerator
Mickey Mouse, the venture capitalist. Ten media and entertainment startups will receive upwards of $120,000.
The Walt Disney Company announced Wednesday it is launching a three-month Los Angeles-based accelerator in partnership with Techstars.
Travelers Can Now Pay For Flights Via Social Media
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines said the decision to add payment via social media came from customer requests.
Passengers can now pay for their flights via social media on KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. The company announced Tuesday that passengers will be able to use Facebook and Twitter to book flights, reserve seats, arrange for extra baggage, and pay for these services.
Radiohead's New App: Even Stranger Than Thom Yorke
Available for iPhone and Android, the Polyfauna app takes the band's 2011 album and brings it to life as a strange, trippy ecosystem of color and sound.
In listening to Radiohead's eighth album, 2011's The King Of Limbs, Stan Donwood, a veteran cover artist and a visual collaborator with the band since the 1990s, said that the music conjured "immense multicoloured cathedrals of trees, with music echoing from the branches whilst strange fauna lurked in the fog." The subsequent sketches that Donwood made have now informed the band's latest project: an app called Polyfauna. It's a trippy exploration of an immersive, ever-changing world where sound, flora, weather, and animals are all intertwined.
First Look: Inside Getty's Quest To Change The Public Perception Of Women
Sheryl Sandberg of Lean In fame has partnered with Getty Images to overhaul the stock image. The result? Tattooed moms, dads changing diapers, and girls on skateboards.
Stock photography is often eye-rollingly awful, but is especially so when it features women. To wit, in 2007, Getty's top selling image of a woman featured her lounging around naked in bed, wrapped up in linens, gazing passively into the camera. Given that the financial and pharmaceutical industries are Getty's biggest buyers, and that most women don't actually lay around like bored trophy wives all day, this made little sense.
One Company Is Trying To Count And Track All Of New York City's Pedestrians
How do you keep track of the mass of people moving around the country's biggest city? Get access to all the cameras we've put up. Now you can know if the grocery store is crowded before you leave home.
Surveillance in public urban spaces is becoming more and more ubiquitous, whether or not people are aware of it. Thanks to advances in computer vision technology, the cameras that are watching people on the New York City streets are now counting and tracking them, too.
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