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  1. Interacting with the computer using natural hand motions like in Minority Report? Device sold for 70$? Count me in. uclick.at/UCQuYQ 1:38 PM May 23rd via ud
  2. "Facebook isn't Google; it's Yahoo or AOL.", "Facebook [...] will fall with everybody else." - we'll see... uclick.at/lE0A-g 3:26 AM May 23rd via ud
  3. The Facebook Fallacy: "For all its valuation, the social network is just another ad-supported site." uclick.at/KD6x7w #bubble 3:21 AM May 23rd via ud
  4. Google has now acquired Motorola Mobility. Bumps its no. of employees from 30K to more than 50K. Apple employs 60K. uclick.at/ci2JSg 6:27 AM May 22nd via ud
  5. Internet Explorer has been overtaken by Chrome. uclick.at/tWR3rg 1:35 AM May 21st via ud
  6. View on Freiburg from Schneeburg instagr.am/p/K2YXLTl5E5/ 6:13 AM May 20th via Instagram
  7. Schneeburg instagr.am/p/K2XAcQl5Ea/ 6:01 AM May 20th via Instagram
  8. "Buyers are ... needful of a job to be done... If the job is important enough, money will be found to hire a product." asymco.com/2012/05/19/an-… 10:42 AM May 19th via Echofon
  9. "Studies indicate that consciousness, perceptions [..] can be experienced [..] when the brain shows no [..] activity." uclick.at/LEyEdQ 12:24 PM May 18th via ud
  10. Interview with Clayton Christensen (The Innovator's Dilemma): "jobs-to-be-done is a bigger idea than disruption" 5by5.tv/criticalpath/36 11:41 PM May 16th via Safari on iOS
  11. Seven iPad keyboard tricks macworld.com/article/116674… 12:45 PM May 13th via Echofon
  12. "An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." -- Oscar Wilde 2:46 PM May 9th via Echofon
  13. Haha RT @lucethoughts: This Game of Thrones/US politics comparison is easily the funniest thing I've seen all week. i.imgur.com/8T2eq.jpg 5:53 AM Apr 26th via Echofon
  14. The primary difference between North and South Korea - The Oatmeal - theoatmeal.com/comics/north_s… 8:31 AM Apr 25th via Echofon
  15. @thomasfuchs Turn iPhone off and switch it on again. Simplest way to fix this although it reminds me of days working with Windows. 7:24 AM Apr 18th via Twitter for Mac in reply to thomasfuchs
  16. Seriously: How to get more likes on Facebook zite.to/IjmEsS via @zite 11:45 AM Apr 12th via Zite Personalized Magazine
  17. Facebook has social relevance. Twitter has real-time information. People don’t really want to use Google+ gizmodo.com/5895010/the-ca… 1:03 PM Mar 23rd via Echofon
  18. This makes me want to see this movie again: "An interactive animation explaining Inception, the movie." uclick.at/lUoedg 10:44 AM Mar 23rd via ud
  19. Because: "Tablets are pretty much by definition all display; nothing is more fundamental to the tablet" codinghorror.com/blog/2012/03/w… 3:42 PM Mar 19th via Safari on iOS
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