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My posts from Kapuno, a community platform I built and ran from 2011 to 2015. This archive only includes my own content—our terms gave users ownership of theirs, and I wasn't going to republish without consent.
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- Ocean Conservation
ScienceOnline Oceans registration opens on May 8th!
Take a few minutes and decide whether you or someone from your organization should attend ScienceOnline Oceans. I attended ScienceOnline in Raleigh in Februa...
- Ocean Conservation
100 million sharks killed, what's next?
Seeing a lot of buzz and would love to know what's the best way of using this study to make an impact. There's been some press that I've attached by David Sc...
- Kapuno Announcements
Redesigned response pages and metrics on all your contributions.
Our goal is to create the best place to have a thoughtful conversation online. Two major design questions that we've been focusing on (1) how do we make resp...
- Ocean Conservation
Schiffman's Shark Sex, MPAs in Bahamas, Sen Ranker's Ocean Acidification Legislation, Thank Daylin Leach, and more...
There is a lot that's been going on in the last two weeks since my last summary update and I thought I'd share a quick summary of work from members of this c...
- Sandbox
More action and accountability after ScienceOnline
I was speaking to several people, including @scicurious, about the fact that the sessions did an incredible job at surfacing problems and integrating perspec...
- Ocean Conservation
Wallace J. Nichols "Blue Marbles" movement spreads at Science Online 2013 (#scio13)
I attended ScienceOnline in Raleigh (#scio13 on Twitter) and was glad to see Cherilyn Jose (http://twitter.com/protectoceans) evangelizing the Blue Marble pr...
- Ocean Conservation
Some interesting updates from community members.
I wanted to make sure to highlight some fun and interesting posts by or shared by community members that I've stumbled upon this week. Chad Nelson, from Surf...
- Sandbox
What constitutes a good product manager and when should we hire one?
Product management is a crucial (yet thankless) role that holds product organizations together. If you're an coder at heart, like myself, you may be a bit le...
- Ocean Conservation
What would you discuss with the ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Rep. Henry A. Waxman?
I spoke with Rep. Henry A. Waxman's district director to share how this community can help his team gather high-quality feedback on policy issues. We have th...
- Technology
Google seems to be 'doing evil' by blocking Windows Phone from maps.
Windows Phone users recently found themselves at a loss when they were no longer able to use Google Maps from their IE 10 browser. Google's explanation was t...
- Technology
Aggregated hubs or niche sites. What's the future?
Niche sites are popping up left and right to build hubs for their communities. HackerNews, StackOverflow and Geeklist (http://geekli.st) are creating a hubs ...
- Technology
Pinterest plans to shut down Punchfork. Another niche hub bites the dust.
Pinterest completed its first acquisition and has decided to shut down the two and a half year old recipe sharing product. The move demonstrates that Pintere...
- Kapuno Product Releases
Updates on product work.
We're just getting started, and will make sure that every conversation reaches your existing networks and your communities. To that end, we've been quietly t...
- Technology
I want a flexible phone for Christmas.
I stumbled upon a Nokia phone concept and was inspired by it. Check out the attached video to see the possibilities. Note it's a research concept, so some of...
- Ocean Conservation
Start conversations via email!
We're excited to announce that we've released the ability to start conversations via email. Our goal is to make it easier for people to be heard and part of ...
- Yembrick's Playground
Welcome to Yembrick's Playground.
John Yembrick was best described by Mark Twain as a "rebellious scalligwag that you can't help but love. His laugh cures the ill and his smile makes the most...
- Technology
How will you be using Twitter Archive?
Twitter's CEO Dick Costello spoke at the Online News Association (ONA) in September and promised that users would be able to download their tweets "by years ...
- Ensuring Happiness on Kapuno
Email digests, updated design, and more!
We're listening and hard at work to improve the experience for our burgeoning communities. Over the past two weeks we've improved the readability, added the ...
- Technology
Should Microsoft ditch the Windows brand?
Bill Gates said, "People everywhere love Windows," but it seems that Dell isn't loving it very much. The iconic brand which helped bring computing to the mas...
- Technology
The battle for measuring the second screen.
Media juggernaut, Nielson, announced that they will be partnering with Twitter to provide a ratings guide for Television second screen activity. They are lat...
- Technology
A data scientist compares mapping accuracy: Apple v Google v Bing v Mapquest fight to the death.
Bradley Voytek, a post-doc in neuroscience and Uber's resident data scientist did an in-depth comparison of the accuracy of map apps. His data demonstrated t...
- Technology
Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google, and now Redbox has instant video. Will you subscribe?
Redbox has added instant video starting at $6 / month and $8 to add the ability pick up videos from Redbox kiosk locations. Which service(s) do you use?
- Technology
Why Pinterest needs a separate mobile photosharing app?
Pinterest, every girlfriends favorite network, is well-positioned to leap frog Instagram with a well-played mobile photo-sharing app. Although they currently...
- Ocean Conservation
WorldBank Global Partnership for Oceans at Upwell in San Francisco.
Timmy Bouley invited me to join several great minds in Ocean Conservation to converse with the World Bank on their new Global Partnership for Oceans project....
- Technology
Fallout predictions on Twitter's breakup with Instagram.
Background: Instagram's Twitter card integration, which allowed the easy viewing of the photo on Twitter apps, is no more. Although you can still share to Tw...
- Technology
Iran launches its own version of YouTube called Mehr.
A new video site (http://mehr.ir/) which follows the cultural guidelines that the Iranian government imposes was launched to be an alternative to YouTube.
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Is Google+ Communities another group product?
Google+ released "Communities" today and I was intrigued to see whether we (http://kapuno.com) should be scared and quickly found that no, there's nothing to...
- Technology
Would you want to go to Mars?
Mars One hopes to finance a trip to Mars by making the trip in to a reality show. Unlike other plans, Mars One team promises to live on Mars for the remainde...
- Technology
What's your review of Gmail 2.0 on iOS?
Although MG Sielger claims [1] that Sparrow team had "nothing to do with it," the redesigned Gmail definitely has learned from the success of Sparrow. The ma...
- Technology
Firefox integrates Facebook Messenger, will you switch from Chrome?
The browser battle continues to rage and Firefox took a page from RockMelt's play book and added a deep social integration with Facebook Messenger. As of Oct...
- Kapuno Product Releases
Improvements across the board.
Last night we rolled out some updates across to simplify how members and new visitors navigate the site. 1.) We've added the community that the conversation ...
- Ocean Conservation
Some of the best questions have no answer.
Everyone who's in this community was hand-selected, invited or was passionate enough to join based on their love for Ocean Conservation. You're a diverse int...
- Ensuring Happiness on Kapuno
How would you prefer to see email digests from Kapuno?
We're working on a digest email and I'd appreciate feedback on member's preferences. 1.) Frequency: daily email or weekly by default? 2.) How many conversati...
- Technology
What's the next product that will disrupt the smartphone industry?
Phones and tablets are not the end-all of mobile computing and identity. I've thought that the best way to disrupt the phone market is to add some core telep...
- Ocean Conservation
Introductions of the founding contributors.
We built this community around a single question. "Who do we need to bring together to make a real impact in ocean conservation?" With that in mind, we broug...
- Technology
Should new consumer web products be mobile-first?
"Mobile-first" is a product strategy where the design of the mobile experience is prioritized higher than the desktop/web experience. I've debated it with a ...
- Technology
Will you buy the new iMac?
Apples made it 80% thinner and 8 lbs. lighter than the previous model. There is a 21.5-inch iMac and 27-inch model. It also includes fusion drive storage and...
- Kapuno Announcements
Your Community + Your Network = Conversation Nirvana
We've released deeper integrations to Facebook and Twitter. The integrations allow members to share content with their personal network, as well as the commu...
- Technology
Is there room to improve on music discovery?
Whyd has pivoted and is focusing on creating a community of musical taste makers. Their product hopes to make it dead simple to discover, share, and enjoy yo...
- Technology
Instagram releases badges to promote your account.
Instagram launches badges to enable its 100M+ users to share their profile with the world. The move promotes Instagram as well, and it could become a quick w...
- Technology
Amazon releases brand pages for marketers.
Massive news out of Amazon. They're going to provide a content marketing platform for their sellers/brands. Soon we'll see: amazon.com/coke Amazon provides t...
- Technology
Microsoft bets that touch is not the future of wearable computing.
Microsoft has invested over $30 billion dollars in three years for research and development in their Cambridge lab. This investment is based on a belief that...
- Technology
After a study, usability expert calls Windows 8 disappointing.
It's good to see that Jakob agrees with my first instinct on Windows 8 -- its requires a lot more thinking and memory to properly use the OS. His main gripes...
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The future of social TV starts with check-ins.
Viggle acquires GetGlue and their 33 employess for $25M in cash and 48.3M in stock, in hopes of becoming a “dominant force in the exploding social TV market....
- Technology
What would Yahoo! + Facebook search look like?
What searches could they do better than Google other than people search?
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Google's censors are treading on thin ice.
Akin to the "Innocence of Muslim" video that caused an international uproar, a recent video was posted to YouTube that showed a precision missile attack that...
- Technology
Instagram surpasses Twitter with respect to daily active users.
With Twitter hitting a plateau, is Instagr.am Facebook's trojan horse play to win real time news? Instagram could add link sharing and take on Twitter and Pi...
- Ensuring Happiness on Kapuno
Making Kapuno the first place to post.
We're actively working to improve the publishing experience so you can reach your community on Kapuno as well as your existing networks. At this moment we're...
- Technology
Tweetro to tweet no more?
To all those who are still building businesses on Twitter, stop, breathe and consider a job in sanitation. When Twitter released its new API policy, they set...
- Technology
Will a re-design save MySpace?
I'll draw a line in the sand and will say that MySpace's resurrection will not be as a phoenix born from the ashes. You can put lipstick on a pig but it's st...
- Technology
Will Google go the way of Microsoft?
GOP is attacking Google claiming that they are unfairly tampering with search results to promote their own products. This is a really interesting precedent t...
- Technology
Yahoo! plans to shed 20% of their employees and benefits just 7 months after a 14% cut.
I recall that on April 5th Yahoo! announced a cut of over 14% of their employees. Now again, they're saying another 20% cut is needed. They will also be cutt...
- Technology
Android gains traction, accounts for 72% of the world market. Do iPhones or Androids rule where you live?
The most interesting part about smartphone ownership is that it seems smartphones dominate regionally. In Pittsburgh, where I grew up, android is much more p...
- Technology
Ban.jo, the first location based browser.
Banjo claims $3M (not stated active) users with access to 400M via the social network integration. ● Connect with Friends: Receive notifications when friends...
- Technology
Big week for DataSift, $15M in funding and a partnership with Bit.ly
With the partnership with bit.ly, DataSift will now have clickdata on the Twitter firehose they already process for their hundreds of business clients. This ...
- Technology
Benchmarks of browsers based on app performance shows IE10 performing well.
Although IE10 didn't beat Chrome 23 it was a close second. Check out the attached article for more on the benchmark and dray but detailed platform preview of...
- Technology
Do we need college still? Bill Gates thinks so.
There's a hot debate of whether our current higher-education system is broken. Should we still push college as the next step after high-school?
- Technology
Flickr co-founders new company Glitch closes it's doors.
Glitch which had over $5MM from AZ16 and others closed its doors stating, "Glitch has not attracted an audience large enough to sustain itself and based on a...
- Technology
Foxconn hopes to replace 1MM workers with robots.
10,000 Foxbots have been deployed so far, with 200,000 more to come before 2013. Jobs move to China, and they lower costs touse robots. Looks like the next l...
- Technology
iOS6 bug that's causing data overages.
Originally was a problem reported by "This American Life", a popular podcast, which led a curious team to investigate. The investigation resulted in a startl...
- Technology
Is technology solving the big problems?
There are several perspectives, including a recent MIT Tech Review article, that are stating that we're not solving the big problems. The problems being solv...
- Technology
Is quantum cryptography in reach?
Two key points from the article: A challenge is that light "leaks" from even the best fiber optic cables; current systems employ multiple devices called "rep...
- Technology
Personal finance wizard, HelloWallet, gets a facelift.
What personal finance apps do you use?
- Technology
Share from Facebook mobile was just added, what other obvious features are missing?
I was amazed to realize that there wasn't a share feature in mobile. This seems incredibly odd from a company which states its mission "is to give people the...
- Technology
Watch YouTube on Wii.
Google's overthrow of cable continues as it taps yet another distribution channel for YouTube content. Is YouTube the future for cable cutters?
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Will Google's Ingress bring AR to the masses?
Most people don't understand the value of augmented reality (AR). When Google or any massive company pushes a new technology, it socializes it with the world...
- Technology
Would you spend over $50K to switch to solar?
The article guides the reader through the changes, work done, value and concludes with estimating about 7 years to break even. Would you switch?
- Technology
Airbnb launches neighborhoods to help travelers understand what experiences are available where they're staying.
It's an interesting move. I'm wondering whether they will actually begin to help members plan on-the-fly events. AirBNB may have the penetration to make it h...
- Technology
Apple forgets about the details and states iPad is .37mm vs .37in thick on a promo page.
Any other examples of times when a company accidentally mis-stated a feature?
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Can Sincerely beat Facebook in gifts?
Can Sincerely beat Facebook in gifts?
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Citations and fines are being given out to car sharing companies in SF, is it fair?
It seems like it's not very business friendly to attack these nacent businesses. They seem to be operating safely, as, I'm confident, we'd all hear about any...
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Google Fiber clocks 700Mbps speeds in pilot city, Kansas.
Google Fiber clocks 700Mbps speeds in pilot city, Kansas.
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Google testing analytics for posters on Google Plus. Will that keep you posting?
They provide impressions, clicks and click-through rate on posts by day. No word on if and when it will be opened up to a broader audience.
- Technology
Halo 4 rakes in over $220MM in 24 hours after launch. Are you in line?
Halo 4 rakes in over $220MM in 24 hours after launch. Are you in line?
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Hipmunk hopes to reduce the agony of hotel search.
Hipmunk hopes to reduce the agony of hotel search.
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Mashable has a newer tablet friendly design.
With the new design are new ad units are "responsive." Meaning, they will resize based on the size of the screen or viewport. Interesting to see, but it's ha...
- Technology
Quik.io exits stealth to launch content streaming iPad app.
"We developed Quik.io to help the consumer find an easy and secure way to share content on iOS devices". -- Quik.io CEO Michael Chen
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Walmart continues to learn from early-stage companies. Launches subscription food business.
Walmart continues to learn from early-stage companies. Launches subscription food business.
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Windows buys 17.8% of Barnes & Nobles and releases Windows 8 for Nook.
From the article: As part of the two companies' pact, Microsoft agreed to invest $300 million for a 17.6 percent stake in a new Barnes & Noble subsidiary tha...
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Elon Musk slams Mitt Romney, "Who's the winner now?"
Governor Romney stated during a debate that the president invested in failed technologies and described the co's as "losers." He included Elon Musk's Tesla M...
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Google's new Nexus line is getting rave reviews and selling out quickly. Will you convert from iOS?
Google's new Nexus line is getting rave reviews and selling out quickly. Will you convert from iOS?
- Technology
How did big data and tech help Pres. Obama clinch the win?
Learn more about how they didn't and about the campaign CTO Harper Reed.
- Kapuno Product Releases
Improvements to our emails.
We received a lot of feedback on how to improve our emails. We've taken the first step and allowed them to dynamically resize based on where you're reading t...
- Technology
Marc Cuban says he's taking his brands off Facebook.
Cuban was pretty bent out of shape when a Facebook dialog told him it would cost $3k to reach 1MM of his followers. Will he actually leave? Is it warranted? ...
- Technology
Microsoft changes leadership, is it enough?
The facts from the release: Windows Live President Steven Sinofsky will be leaving the company and that Julie Larson-Green will be promoted to lead all Windo...
- Technology
Murfie enables its users to listen to their music in more places by partnering with Sonos.
Excerpt from article: Sonos has announced support for music service Murfie, which is a site that enables users to store their physical CD collection offsite ...
- Technology
Should Tesla Model S be the car of the year?
Attached links on the background on how the pick model of the year, the announcement and the details past winners since 1949 below the list. 2013 Tesla Model...
- Technology
Some perspectives on Couples Pages on Facebook. What's yours?
Some perspectives on Couples Pages on Facebook. What's yours?
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Square has, yet another, clone, Bank of America. Should square be scared?
Note that Bank of America, like Paypal, set base rate at 2.7% compared to Square's 2.75% On features from the article: Bank of America will offer next-day ac...
- Technology
Vimeo allows content creators to add a pay wall. Would you pay for their video content?
Vimeo PRO members will have access to the feature in early 2013.
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What are some best practices in hiring a data scientist?
What are some best practices in hiring a data scientist?
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A billion dollar company is founded every two months?
I would say that the post considers pre-public market valuations which, many would agree, are inflated right now. It would be much less frequent if we actual...
- Technology
Elad Gil analyzes the top 100 companies by market cap.
His takeaways: A. Tech and B2B companies are equally represented in the top 100. B. If you remove outliers Google & Amazon, it takes a long time to create va...
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HootSuite's privacy fail. Would it stop you from using the service?
From the HootSuite support note: The failing system resulted in email notifications intended for our new Seesmic users being sent out repeatedly and in some ...
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Is crowdfunding app creation a game changer? SellAnApp thinks so.
The launched in to private beta on Nov 6th. Their pitch: SellanApp is the first integrated platform to mock-up, crowd fund, develop and publish mobile Apps i...
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Samsung hits Apple with a $20 price hike on processors required for their mobile devices.
The question is whether Apple will take the margin hit or pass it on to the consumer. I'm betting they'll take the hit.
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Solar cells that could be sprayed on.
Solar cells that could be sprayed on.
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Ziff Davis acquired by j2 Global for $167MM.
Ziff Davis acquired by j2 Global for $167MM.
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How to turn your iPhone in to a keyboard.
Although it's not practical or commercial, it's a cool piece of technology. Could you see more uses?
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Should you be able to vote from your mobile phone? Nick Bilton think so.
Should you be able to vote from your mobile phone? Nick Bilton think so.
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Which chat service(s) do you use and why?
There's GChat, Facebook, and Skype among many others. Which are you signed on to?
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A phone that's a projector -- do you want one?
A phone that's a projector -- do you want one?
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Kansas City startups are buying residential property for access to Google Fiber.
Kansas City startups are buying residential property for access to Google Fiber.
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Microsoft translates language in real-time.
They claim to have made a 30% accuracy improvement by utilizing a neural net in addition to Hidden Markov Models that have historically been deployed to solv...
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Romney's big-data infrastructure failure may have cost him the election.
Romney's big-data infrastructure failure may have cost him the election.
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Top 10 richest European tech entrepreneurs.
1. Hasso Plattner, SAP: 7.3 billion 2. Xavier Niel, ILIAD, 4.2 billion 3. Klaus Tschira SAP: 2,9 billion 4. Andreas von Bechtolsheim, SUN Microsystems, Googl...
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What could you do with an exaflop of processing power?
Attached an article about the race to an exaflop and a good video that discusses the challenges of getting to exa-scale.
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Another database, RethinkDB tries to make you rethink using Mongo and others. Will you?
Here are some benefits & features they tout. Simple programming model: - JSON data model and immediate consistency. - Distributed joins, subqueries, aggregat...
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Can you reverse engineer the human brain?
About Blue Brain Project from their site: Reconstructing the brain piece by piece and building a virtual brain in a supercomputer—these are some of the goals...
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Do you use Stripe for payments? What's on your wishlist.
Do you use Stripe for payments? What's on your wishlist.
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Facebook testing comment threading. Yet another nail in Disqus' coffin?
Facebook introducing threading is huge for the industry. As the defacto platform for over a billion people, FB is in a unique position to educate a huge popu...
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Have you implemented a responsive design?
Responsive design is a phrase that's been getting a ton of buzz recently. It's hotly debated in the design & UX communities. I'm interested to hear what peop...
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Who's going to win the living room, Google, Apple, or Microsoft?
The battle for the living room continues as Google begins to pilot new GTV features in Europe next week (Nov 13th). Microsoft has Xbox and Apple has Apple TV...
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Facebook dives deep on their big-data stack.
Memorable excerpt: "Over half a petabyte of new data arrives in the warehouse every 24 hours, and ad-hoc queries, data pipelines, and custom MapReduce jobs p...
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Foxconn to manufacture in the US.
From the article: "...since the manufacturing of Apple’s products is rather complicated, the market watchers expect the rumored plants to focus on LCD TV pro...
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Google puts more money behind its investment arm, Google Ventures.
Have you worked with Google Ventures?
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Groupon misses earnings, again.
From CNBC article: "Groupon went public a year ago at $20. Its stock has lost roughly 80 percent of its value since then amid concerns about its business mod...
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Mars Curiosity team switches back to using earth time.
Have you been following the Curiosity mission?
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Priceline acquires Kayak for $40/share in cash and stock. What's the impact on the travel industry?
Priceline acquires Kayak for $40/share in cash and stock. What's the impact on the travel industry?
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Square Wallet + Starbucks at 7,000 locations. Will you use it?
Square Wallet + Starbucks at 7,000 locations. Will you use it?
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Twitter accounts were compromised. If you get an email, tell us about it.
Twitter accounts were compromised. If you get an email, tell us about it.
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Vivek Wadhwa adds seven items for the newly elected president.
1. Immigration reform 2. Education 3. Freedom and competition 4. Invest in sustainable renewable energy solutions 5. Abolish software patents 6. Fund basic r...
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Wikipedia takes a page from Khan Academy and now allows video.
I think this is a massive disruption. The Wikipedia community is the most vibrant, productive community online today. That said, video is a very hard egg to ...
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Advertisers beware, "Do Not Track" is in Tuesday's Chrome release.
From the Ars article: Do Not Track in Chrome is turned off by default, so readers who want it turned on should click on the customization menu in the top rig...
- Kapuno Product Releases
Improving quality of shared conversations.
We've made several upgrades to the experience of Kapuno conversations when shared to social networks. You'll notice that shared conversations and responses n...
- Technology
Microsoft to release new Office 15 and versions for iOS and Android.
Do you use office, if so, for what?
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Obama lays out plan for Technology.
President Barack Obama to NY Tech Meetup Dear Members of NY Tech Meetup: Thank you for carrying forward the entrepreneurial spirit that makes us a nation of ...
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Real-time election board by Fox News & Huff Po, choose your bias carefully.
Real-time election board by Fox News & Huff Po, choose your bias carefully.
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Should Facebook buy Tumblr?
I haven't heard great news about Tumblr's monetization efforts, so I wouldn't be too quick for Facebook to pull on, yet another, channel it's failing to mone...
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StackOverflow is beginning to move beyond QA and use its community to crowd source knowledge.
StackOverflow is beginning to move beyond QA and use its community to crowd source knowledge.
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Statistician, Nate Silver predicts 50 out of 50 states, here's some more about his methodology.
Attached the methodology and background by Wikipedia.
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Twitter reported highest conversation activity in its history with over 327,452 tweets per minute when Obama won re-election.
Twitter reported highest conversation activity in its history with over 327,452 tweets per minute when Obama won re-election.
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What cool projects have you seen coming out of developing countries?
I've recently stumbled upon three stories which have inspired me. First was a urine-powered generator, then solar bottle lamps and finally, was a story about...
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Amazon integrates "Send to Kindle" plugins with Firefox and Chrome.
Safari plugin "coming soon."
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Microsoft sunsets Live Messenger to centralize chat on Skype. What do you use for messaging?
Microsoft sunsets Live Messenger to centralize chat on Skype. What do you use for messaging?
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New York Times interaction voter information map.
New York Times interaction voter information map.
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Next release of iOS includes buying movie tickets with Siri. Will you?
Next release of iOS includes buying movie tickets with Siri. Will you?
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Reports of long lines in New York and elsewhere.
Good luck voting today!
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Want to keep up to date on the election on your iPhone. Download Cir.ca.
What do you think of the app?
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3D printed bacon? Well, they've got the structure down but not the flavor.
3D printed bacon? Well, they've got the structure down but not the flavor.
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Any tips on improving JavaScript performance?
Any tips on improving JavaScript performance?
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Catch-up on the debates before the big day. Good luck making it to the polls.
What were your favorite moments?
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Company tries to make transmitting files via radio practical in India.
Some key points: - "The hope is to give rural India a taste of the internet via radio" - It's a very slow transfer rate; note that sending 2mb takes 14 minut...
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Gaga's manager, Troy Carter talks the future of social media.
Gaga's manager, Troy Carter talks the future of social media.
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On the heels of the election, two differing view-points on Obama.
On the heels of the election, two differing view-points on Obama.
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Facebook works on Prism, a solution to running multiple Hadoop jobs across disparate data-centers.
Facebook works on Prism, a solution to running multiple Hadoop jobs across disparate data-centers.
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Two visions for large scale 3D printing of shelters.
Two visions for large scale 3D printing of shelters.
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"Fusion Drive" to be added to Mac's going forward.
Note the article get quite technical. "...the technology uses Core Storage to bind together the physical hard disk drive and the physical solid state drive i...
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Jony Ive takes over roles as czar of design at Apple. Is this just organizational politics, or a major shift in design ethos?
Jony Ive takes over roles as czar of design at Apple. Is this just organizational politics, or a major shift in design ethos?
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Mobile manufacturer and OS update. Samsung is winning. Android is beating Apple by 18%.
According to BI, Samsung is shipping more phones than any other manufacturer, including apple. While, comScore places Android and iOS at ~87% of the OS marke...
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NASA next new media campaign - text message updates when the Intl. Space Station passes over-head.
NASA is, by far, one of the best government agencies at engaging the public. I'd go further to say one of the best organizations out there. The Curiosity mis...
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Wikipedians battle over Hurricane Sandy article and whether or not to speak of the linkage to climate change.
Should climate change be included in the discussion on Wikipedia or not?
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AllFacebook examines the question: does Facebook usage change our brains?
This isn't a new pitch to the world. For added context, I attached an article from 2009 with similar assumptions. For good or bad, Facebook and systems like ...
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Anyone considering switching to Windows 8?
Just got my Surface in the mail and have really enjoyed the interface and interaction model. I don't think it's for everyone as it is built for the multi-tas...
- Kapuno Announcements
Connect your Twitter account to your Kapuno account so we can promote you on shares.
Connecting your Twitter account is awesome for multiple reasons: 1.) You can sign-in with Twitter 2.) When a conversation or response you create is shared to...
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Google continues to connect G+ to it's other products. What do you use Google+ for?
I've used G+ since it started and have found the most practical use is hangouts and event planning as it integrates with Google Calendar. That said, I'm slow...
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How to add Twitter Cards to your blog or product.
We just implemented Twitter Cards and I'd like to share how it works. Like Facebook Open Graph options, Twitter Cards require you to add the HTML mark-up on ...
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Noam Chomsky interview claims that AI research is asking the wrong questions.
Attached the article and video of the interview. Noam Chomsky via (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky): (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguis...
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Twitter hopes to be your election hub, has it won?
Tech companies are now fighting with old guard media to take over as the place people go for election updates. Facebook, Bing, Google and Twitter all have el...
- Technology
Watch out Instagram, Twitter's going to add photo filters.
Instagram is a lot more than photo filters now. It's about the network. That said, I do think this move will definitely stop the growth and lower the amount ...
- Ensuring Happiness on Kapuno
Bringing Kapuno alive, next steps.
Over the last week, we've brought on many friends and prior members from our testing period. We've also welcomed new members who've stumbled upon our communi...
- Technology
Promoting a post on Facebook, is it worth it? A poor man's analysis.
I promoted a post for my personal account yesterday evening. You can see it in the attached photo and it's publicly viewable on my profile (http://www.facebo...
- Kapuno Product Releases
Updating feed attachment design.
Now that we're seeing more content, we've cleaned up how feed posts with multiple attachments are rendered to make them more compact (see attached before/aft...
- Technology
Why should robots walk?
I'm confused why Boston Dynamics (funded by DARPA) continues to research humanoid forms of motion. We already have drones that can fly, and if you need to na...
- Technology
Are you going to help fund plasma thrusters for interplanetary travel?
Their video attached at bottom. Yanked from (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2027072188/plasma-jet-electric-thrusters-for-spacecraft) Plasma Jet Electric...
- Ensuring Happiness on Kapuno
Clear your notifications or you'll be emailed.
Notifications on Kapuno require the member to click to view them or mark them as read or we'll send an email. There are three ways to mark a notification rea...
- Technology
Have you seen TNW's redesign and Quartz? Is this the future design of news sites.
They're moving to a more feed-like model with a left-hand navigation to flip through posts. What do you think?
- Technology
What do you think of Air New Zealand's Hobbit-themed safety video?
What do you think of Air New Zealand's Hobbit-themed safety video?
- Technology
Yahoo! building content cross-promotion relationships to increase reach.
From the article: Yahoo has struck a deal with Wenner Media, which lets the Us Weekly and Rolling Stone publisher get its stuff on Yahoo’s site and vice versa.
- Technology
Google crisis mapping for Sandy. Any other examples co's using tech profits for social good?
Google crisis mapping for Sandy. Any other examples co's using tech profits for social good?
- Technology
MyShoebox launches in hopes of backing up and centralizing the storage of all your photos.
From TechCrunch: MyShoebox (http://shoeboxapp.com) is launching to solve that problem by providing mobile and web apps to aggregate and organize user photos ...
- Technology
Tariq Krim slams TechCrunch for their recent piece on his company, Jolicloud.
I've attached Tariq's criticism and the original article. About Tariq Krim (http://tariqkrim.tumblr.com/about) Tariq is "a serial entrepreneur and angel inve...
- Technology
Transformer explosion at Con Ed Plant, E14th and FDR.
Video (explosion at 16s in), image and additional info on how transformers can go wrong attached below.
- Technology
We have over 100 members waiting for several communities but need leaders.
We require 25 committed contributors to get a community launched. Those contributors commit to guiding conversations, helping to set content standards for th...
- Technology
Arctivity soft-launches in hopes of simplifying adventure travel planning.
The founders' story (from http://www.arctivity.com/about): We are four skiers & snowboarders who have been planning private winter and activity-vacations tog...
- Technology
Here are some tips for apps, real-time information and listings of live webcams for those in the path of Sandy.
Would love updates on what's happening across the east coast. Leave a response if you have a story, tip, or want to provide another resource. Fingers crossed...
- Kapuno Product Releases
On-boarding improvements.
October 29th, 2012's release was focused on the on-boarding process. There are many updates; sadly, if you've already finished signing up, you won't experien...
- Ensuring Happiness on Kapuno
Welcome to our third mini-flight of invitees.
We're bringing in small groups one at a time, to learn and improve the first-time experience. Introduce yourself if you're just coming in. Some Background - ...
- Technology
Will Google's new LG Nexus 4 beat iPhone?
Attached a long-form video by Verge that describes the Nexus line of products including the tablet. Also attached a product comparison for the phone. Can App...
- Kapuno Product Releases
Simplifying the feed and readability improvements.
It's the morning of October 28th, 2012, and we're happy to report on our our latest release. This release was focused on improving readability and simplifyin...
- Ensuring Happiness on Kapuno
A day later, we've made some major changes. First set of major upgrades are live.
Yesterday, we talked about how much we've learned and set four goals for the week focused on improving the sign-up process, making publishing content a prior...
- Kapuno Product Releases
Many major upgrades to Publishing flow.
Tonight, October 26th, 2012, we're excited to tell you that we've released several major upgrades: 1.) Members can now publish conversations from their Home ...
- Technology
AlwaysPrepped opens up its beta for teachers.
They hope to aggregate all the disparate data & metrics teachers receive to save teachers time. I've attached a link to their site and their recent pitch vid...
- Kapuno Product Releases
Increased called to action on Publisher and helpful links.
Small release the evening of October 24th, 2012. - Added a post button to the inactive 'Publisher' tool to clarify the call to action. - Fixed a typo in foun...
- Kapuno Policy
Organizational (non-person) accounts on Kapuno
We noticed the creation of organization accounts and wanted to come forward with an official policy. Organizational accounts are welcomed; however, there is ...
- Ensuring Happiness on Kapuno
Upgrades from our first members' feedback. What to expect over the next week.
We have a lot more invites to go out but are phasing it to ensure that we improve through the process. We've learned a lot from the first 100+ that have join...
- Technology
Want to LiveStream the World Series? Brian Rue explains how.
First link is Brian's post and the second is some backstory and flaming of Fox. Excerpt from Brian's blog... MLB.tv has a legit, HD, live stream of the World...
- Kapuno Policy
We're activating this community for conversations related to membership policy, community guidelines and moderation policy.
We're activating this community for conversations related to membership policy, community guidelines and moderation policy.
- General
We've created a Policy Community and have laid out our first policy on Organizational accounts.
Join the policy community: http://kapuno.com/community/ao5uqvqaarxuq
- Kapuno Product Releases
Fixed issue with founder's invitations failing to add members to communities.
Found an issue with some founder's invitations that were failing to add members to Kapuno Announcements community. This would've cause confusion as new membe...
- Kapuno Announcements
Getting started is easy.
Kapuno is the first place to start a conversation with the right community. Every conversation and response can be easily shared on post with your existing n...
- Kapuno Announcements
Invites are starting to be delivered. Welcome to the first members!
Starting Wednesday October, 24th, 2012, Kapuno will begin to deliver invitations to our first members. We're activating the Technology community (http://kapu...
- Technology
Technology community is now launching!
We are proud to announce that the Technology community is now launched and open for conversation. This community is for technologists to discuss the past, pr...
- Kapuno Product Releases
Verified accounts, improved email settings, and minor bug fixes.
October 23rd, 2012 release: - Verified account badge on profiles (see Bradley Votek's profile: http://kapuno.com/people/ao2rexyaabvxc). If you'd like your ac...
- Ensuring Happiness on Kapuno
Welcome invitees. Please, introduce yourself in the responses.
Say hello, tell us a story, your spirit animal or your favorite color, ex. "Hi, my name is Cyrus. I like to eat pop rocks with my imaginary cat." I'd recomme...
- Technology
Why does the world need Kapuno Communities?
It's getting easier to listen but harder to be heard We're becoming connected in so many ways. We can now interact in real-time with our friends, our profess...
- Technology
Will you buy the new iPad?
Curious about people's thoughts on the topic. Attached a CNet review, the promotional video and an Engadget comparison. Interesting update from VentureBeat b...
- Sandbox
You're welcome to test posting here. No need to join the community to test it.
To learn more about posting: http://help.kapuno.com/customer/portal/articles/717309
- Ensuring Happiness on Kapuno
If you have opinions about product development, community development and user experience, please join this community.
The "Ensuring Happiness on Kapuno" community will take part in discussions about the future of the Kapuno product. It's where the product team will come to t...
- Working at Kapuno
How to apply for a job at Kapuno?
If you'd like to apply for a job, just email jobs@kapuno.com with your attached resume, a link to your LinkedIn, or your homepage. A cover-letter isn't requi...
- Kapuno Announcements
Kapuno Communities is now live!
For the last year, we've been working to craft a product that makes it dead simple for individuals to share their ideas with the right people. Kapuno was bui...
- Kapuno Product Releases
The first release of Kapuno Communities is staged!
After several months of alpha testing, we're exited to have our first release build ready for production. We're currently doing a review of functionality and...