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December 13, 2013
10 Gift Ideas For The Tasteful Alcoholic
For the innovative imbiber who won't settle for anything less than the boozy best, here are 10 gifts for the classy drinker in your life.
What to get the friend who aspires to Mad Men's boozy workdays and always has a fully stocked bar? Indulge his or her happy hour habit with beautiful drinking accessories, of course!
This Pen 3-D Prints Live Cells On A Damaged Bone
Surgeons can precisely position cells on the site of injury and speed up recovery.
Everyone from McDonald's to Apple is jumping on the 3-D printing bandwagon. But it's only when you see live cells being printed right onto a damaged bone that you finally start to grasp what this technology is capable of.
Danah Boyd's Data & Society Program Wants Your Help Freeing The Data
The Data & Society research think tank is looking for its first expert fellows.
The Data & Society Research Institute is a self-described "new think/do tank in New York City dedicated to addressing social, technical, ethical, legal, and policy issues that are emerging because of data-centric technological development." Now it has revealed it is looking for its first expert fellows, people who will help the mission to help more people access data.
Flying With Kids? Hire A Flight Nanny
The concept service would be like Uber for nannies.
Here's an idea: what if harried parents traveling with their kids could hire a short-term nanny, to get through the flight? That's the gist behind Flight Nanny, a concept brewing over at Altitude, the Boston-based product design firm.
"Bored" With Traditional Releases, Beyoncé Puts Out A New Album In Secret
With a strategic and secretive overnight launch of her new "visual album," Beyoncé gives the music industry a nudge toward change.
Surprise! In the early hours of Friday morning, Beyoncé unexpectedly released a new self-titled album full of 14 songs and 17 music videos. The "visual album," currently exclusive to iTunes, temporarily shut down the service as people rushed to download it.
The Monsters And Aliens Of America's Best B-Movies, Mapped By State
This print of the Altered States Of America is the best way to teach geography to a sci-fi or fantasy fan.
In League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, legendary comics magus Alan Moore imagined a Victorian England in which all of the most fantastic people, places and events in fantastic British fiction had actually happened, from the death of Sherlock Holmes to the invasion of the Tripods.
Starbucks Channels Old-World Mysticism In New Big Easy Store
The coffee company evokes early 1900s merchant culture for its latest outpost in New Orleans's French Quarter.
Starbucks has opened a new store in New Orleans that's designed to channel the mystical feel of the city itself. Evocative of an early 1900s apothecary, the store is latest in Starbucks's portfolio of hyper-local shops aimed at being part of a neighborhood's culture, rather than disturbing it.
A Photographic Tour Of Earth's Most Bizarre And Beautiful Creatures
From the sea angel to the whirligig beetle to the Priapulid (penis worm), a new book features 540 full-color photographs of creatures humans would otherwise never get to see.
Did you know that the most familiar categories of animals, like mammals, birds, and amphibians, account for just 4% of the roughly 1.5 million species on our planet? Animal Earth: The Amazing Diversity of Living Creatures, a new book by zoologist Ross Piper, focuses on that oft-forgotten 96% of species. In 540 full-color photographs, Piper documents the bizarre and beautiful creatures that inhabit our world but are often too tiny or obscure for us humans to see.
December 12, 2013
Inside The Company That Powers Twitter's New Tailored Audience Program
Twitter's new Tailored Audiences product lets advertisers show Promoted Tweets to people who have expressed interest in their brands elsewhere on the web.
Nobody likes to feel like their web activities are being blatantly tracked, particularly not by marketers. So Twitter is experimenting with a more subtle way to get brands in front of its users with a new product called Tailored Audiences. The idea behind Tailored Audiences is simple: If a customer expresses interest in a brand somewhere other than Twitter--say, the brand's website--chances are they'll respond positively when shown a relevant Promoted Tweet from the same brand on Twitter. In the best case, that customer will be more likely to purchase a product or service sold by that brand.
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