By making his Los Angeles-based underwear startup a membership service, you will not only cease to find yourself in a sock or panty deficit, you will stay hip to the latest fashions in the process. (via With Underwear Vending Machines, MeUndies’ Jonathan Shokrian Reexamines Shopping for Basics)
made for people like me. - http://jenconsalvo.me/post...
When a US Airways plane landed in the Hudson River on a freezing January day in 2009, some of the earliest photos came from users posting to Twitter and Flickr. Now, a new app called Spread is helping more user-generated photos make the news. (via Sell Your Photos to News Outlets with Spread) - http://jenconsalvo.me/post...
This open-source Android app helps protect the identity of subjects in human rights videos. ObscuraCam detects faces automatically (you can select any it misses) and then offers various options to obscure them, including blurring with pixels and erasing completely. The app also deletes metadata such as location and camera type. These features grew... - http://jenconsalvo.me/post...
Cardfed is a truly international company. It was started in Amsterdam after founder Ville Kulmala moved there from Finland and incorporated in Hong Kong. Kulmala now lives in Thailand, and his 8-person team is scattered about in Amsterdam, Hong Kong, and Helsinki. Kulmala tells me they have physically worked from 25 countries in the past 3 years.... - http://jenconsalvo.me/post...
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Jonathan Zittrain does a nice job of explaining SOPA, comparing its draconian provisions to China and Iran. He explains more in depth here.
(And sorry, Danny Goldberg, but “you need something to stop theft” isn’t good enough. Proportionality matters.)
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Did you know that the U.S. Office of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been seizing the domain names of websites suspected of engaging in copyright infringement or participating in counterfeit goods sales that violate trademarks? The government has even seized a number of linking sites that don’t seem to be hosting illicit materials.... - http://jenconsalvo.me/post...
Major companies with three or more female directors achieved significantly better financial results than those with none between 2004 and 2008, according to a 2011 study by Catalyst, a nonprofit research group. In general, they outperformed companies with zero women on boards by 84% for return on sales, 60% for return on invested capital and 46%... - http://jenconsalvo.me/post...
If you want to give yourself a gift this holiday season, look no further than the app store. Many iOS and Android apps are discounted for the holidays, and others are completely free (see below). These are limited-time offers, so download them while they’re hot! (get them here: Get It Now: Dozens of iOS and Android Apps Free During the Holidays) - http://jenconsalvo.me/post...