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Starbucks is reportedly dominating mobile payments in North America | The Verge

Starbucks is reportedly dominating mobile payments in North America | The Verge:

Square, Google Wallet, Isis and plenty others are all working to grab the lion's share of the growing (but nascent) mobile payments market. But, so far, none of these options are as widely used in North America as Starbucks' simple mobile apps, according to new findings from the research firm Berg Insight. Across the continent, Berg claims that about $500 million worth of mobile payment transactions took place last year. "However, the vast majority of these payments were made using Starbucks' phenomenally successful smartphone app, whereas mobile wallets that can be used at multiple merchants have yet to gain traction," the research firm said.

thisistheverge: AmazonFresh local grocery delivery reportedly...

thisistheverge:

AmazonFresh local grocery delivery reportedly expanding to LA, San Francisco this year

The experimental Amazon service that delivers groceries in the Seattle area could be poised for a major expansion.

Uh-oh, FreshDirect.

I Wanna Be Sedated | The Ramones

I Wanna Be Sedated | The Ramones

escapekit: Adventure Supply Kit San Francisco based Student...

escapekit:

Adventure Supply Kit

San Francisco based Student Designer Mia A. Johnson has created this kit designed to aid, inspire, and enter­tain some­one as they set out on an adven­ture of their choos­ing.

"All were in a state of unrest and did not understand one another. Each thought that he alone..."

"All were in a state of unrest and did not understand one another. Each thought that he alone possessed the truth."

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment (via fuckyeahexistentialism)

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New Survey Takes A Snapshot Of The View From Black America - NPR

New Survey Takes A Snapshot Of The View From Black America - NPR:

You might think African-Americans might be more pessimistic about their lives. The housing crisis decimated pockets of black wealth. The black unemployment rate has been nearly double the national average for several years.

There was a sharp divide in attitudes between respondents who described their financial situation as "excellent" or "good" and those who described it as "not-so-good" or "poor." But according to findings from our survey of more than 1,000 African-Americans, you'd be wrong.

A new poll released Tuesday by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health found that the overwhelming majority of black people (86 percent) said they were satisfied with their lives. Nearly 60 percent said they would eventually achieve the American dream of financial security and homeownership. A little more than half of those polled (53 percent) said they felt their lives had gotten better in recent years.

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How to Create Glowing Chuck Taylor All-Star Sneakers

The White House Takes Aim at Patent Trolls | Electronic Frontier Foundation

The White House Takes Aim at Patent Trolls | Electronic Frontier Foundation:

Frustration with patent trolls, and momentum for reform, has been building for some time now. Today, the stakes got even higher when the White House announced that it was actively taking on the troll problem. This is big news, and not just because of the seven legislative proposals the White House recommends (more on those below). Even more important are the five executive actions the President intends to take with or without congressional help.

The news here is good. Not all of these reforms go as far as we'd like, but each takes on dangerous aspects of the patent troll business model. Numerous bills are pending before Congress and key policymakers have spoken out against patent trolls. Taken together with this statement from the White House, the message is clear: the time for patent reform is now.

Live the life you've imagined.

Live the life you've imagined.

"Chris Dannen doesn't much care for gadgets, and he only taught himself to code a few years ago. But..."

"Chris Dannen doesn't much care for gadgets, and he only taught himself to code a few years ago. But that hasn't stopped him from becoming the editor of a rather innovative and unusual technology blog."

- Monday Q&A: Fast times with Fast Company's Co.Labs editor Chris Dannen - Nieman Journalism Lab

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Atoms For Peace 6.3

atomsforpeacetv is a must-subscribe YouTube channel. -Shane

"The lesson here, however, isn't that there's no money in open-source software, but..."

"The lesson here, however, isn't that there's no money in open-source software, but rather that some strategies for monetizing open source are effective, while others are not."

- MySQL Co-Founder Wants You To Pay Up For Open Source – ReadWrite

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Never mind Zynga: Facebook claims its last three months of game revenue are a record - The Next Web

Never mind Zynga: Facebook claims its last three months of game revenue are a record - The Next Web:

Facebook has revealed a snapshot of the amount of activity games receive on its platform. While it has 250 million people playing games on Facebook monthly, the more impressive statistic was the fact that Q1 2013 was the social networking company's best three-month quarter in terms of game revenue. Not only that, but it even saw a record number of people playing games on the site.

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Fuji Rebrand

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m-a-k-k-y: The Beatles [George Harrison] - Savoy Truffle -...

m-a-k-k-y:

The Beatles [George Harrison] - Savoy Truffle

- George wrote the song as a tribute to his friend Eric Clapton's chocolate addiction.

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Mad genius Rickrolls and crashes Vine with full-length music video embed | The Verge

Mad genius Rickrolls and crashes Vine with full-length music video embed | The Verge:

Web developer Will Smidlein managed to bypass the six-second upload limit on Vine today, inserting the entirety of Rick Astley's immortal "Never Gonna Give You Up" into a post that was ultimately taken down by Twitter. "I think I broke Vine," Smidlein tweeted, along with the full embed of the song. He previously tweeted that Twitter engineers had asked him to take the post down.

The first ever Rickroll on Vine occurred the same day that the app became available for Android. Smidlein, 16, declined to say in detail how he got around Vine's upload limitations. But he's not the first to do so: as noted by TechCrunch, in March, the blog OneSoneX described a technique that involves uploading from the camera roll of a jailbroken iPhone. Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The company said earlier today that Vine now has 13 million users.