At this point, you're almost weirder if you don't use any social networks than if you were a social media obsessive who tweets, Facebooks, Instagram and hashtags the hell out of your vocabulary. It's how weird the world is now. Social networks are real life. But who are the people who make up these worlds? If there are 12 personality types in social networks, which one are you?
Mexico-based designer Alan Betacourt has created some wonderful logotypes for legendary scientists, including Newton, Feynman, Darwin, Galileo, and Einstein.
There are many things that change your life. There can be certain moments that tell you who you are and what you are meant to be.
There can be certain life experiences but there can also so be some wise words which can create the same impact.
And the impact of wise words are even intense when they are presented in a designed form.
The path to YouTube stardom varies from person to person and their success level or notoriety can often follow them for a long time. While it’s too early to say whether or not it can last the rest of their lives (YouTube is just a decade old), for some who have found stardom, it seems to be sticking with them.
People despise being told the areas they're lacking and how they can improve. But, for a few tools that make winning easier, it's worth swallowing your pride.
A recent post by LinkedIn on the arsenals of highly successful entrepreneurs shows what weapons of war these figures use for battle and what they can't get through their workday without.
"Their answers ranged from smartphones, to bike lock keys, to brilliant colleagues," LinkedIn editor Francesca Levy told Mashable. She says more than one-third of the 60 influencers who contributed can't live without their mobile devices — no small surprise. But they're not using those devices just for Internet surfing, texting or even business calls. "Peter Guber, owner of the L.A. Dodgers, uses his phone to watch a live feed of his new AAA stadium being constructed. Craigslist founder Craig Newmark treats his gadgets as customer service tools because he self-identifies as a customer service rep and nerd."...
Adam Orth, the Microsoft Studios creative director who came under fire for controversial comments on "always-on" consoles, has left the company. The news was first reported by Game Informer, and Polygon has independently confirmed his departure with two sources. It's unclear, however, whether Orth was fired or left his position voluntarily. Microsoft declined to comment to Polygon, saying "We do not comment on private personnel matters."
If you want to start a small business, you craft a plan, make some financial decisions, complete some legal statements and you are done. Sounds easy and simplistic enough. You know what, freelancing is also an easy business. However, there is more you can do than just sitting in front of your computer, marketing your services, delivering projects to satisfy and please clients.
With great wealth comes great responsibility.
That's how we judge the tycoons of tech. While many of them spend their money on expensive luxuries, like cars, houses, planes — even islands — they are also expected to use their prosperity to do good works.
That's the implicit demand of the tech industry.
Some are astoundingly generous, giving tens of millions —even hundreds of millions — to their favorite causes. How much they give says a lot about them. Which causes they support does, too...
This could really be happening. Just weeks after a baby girl was functionally cured of the HIV virus, early treatment has been found to put HIV into seemingly permanent remission in 14 adults. It's breathtaking progress in the fight against HIV.
The 14 patients were part of a group of 70 examined at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. They all began receiving anti-retroviral (ARV) medications between 35 days and 10 weeks of contracting the virus. The patients then stayed on the drugs for an average of three years, but all eventually stopped. ARV drugs can keep HIV in check, but can't totally remove it from your system. And typically, when you stop taking the drugs, the virus re-emerges. Except, that hasn't happened with these 14 patients.
Reid Hoffman started his professional life with the intention of becoming an academic.
But then he realized: "in order to be a professional scholar, you have to dedicate a vast majority of your career to writing esoteric books that only 50 people will understand."
So instead, he got into the technology industry with a job at Apple, where he helped build eWorld, Apple's version of America Online.
Next, he started a company called SocialNet. It failed.
A friend of Hoffman's, Peter Thiel, recruited him to join a startup, PayPal. It sold to eBay in 2002.
Then Hoffman went on a long trip to Australia. There, he decided to create an Internet company.
It's still around.
It's LinkedIn.
Today, it's worth $19 billion – and Hoffman is its biggest shareholder.
Before Angry Birds, Call of Duty, and Halo, there was Pong. And before that there was Tennis (cartridge 3) for the Magnavox Odyssey. And that machine was Ralph Baer's baby. An inventor by trade, Baer developed the first working prototype, "the Brown Box," in 1968, and just four years later, the Odyssey burst onto store shelves, jump-starting console gaming as we know it.
What does portrait photography refers to? It is an old concept in photography designed to take photo for a person with focus on the face. While the person may not be the only element in the photograph, he or she still should be the main object in the composition.
Marissa Mayer recently demanded all Yahoo employees work in a corporate office. They're no longer allowed to work from home, unless it's with good reason.
Yahoo has faced world-wide backlash for this decision.
That's because many people have proved to be successful, despite not working in an office environment.
"Yours truly has never worked out of an office, and never will," Virgin founder Richard Branson wrote shortly after the Yahoo memo was leaked.
Forbes has released its annual billionaires list.
This is the 27th year the publication has put together the ranking.
A majority of the individuals on the tech portion of Forbes' massive list are self-made.
Bill Gates is still the richest man in technology, his net worth increased by $1 billion between 2012 and 2013.
Following technology news via Twitter can get dry and boring pretty easily.
Thankfully there's a cadre of people working to mix it up with funny tweets about tech (or something else entirely).
Our hats are off to these hilarious folks deriving comedy from the weird world of technology.
You can follow them all at once by following this Twitter list here...
Let’s take a look now at one super-talented pencil artist coming from Indonesia. Adi Nugroho’s portfolio is stunning … just amazing how realistic pencil drawings can get. In Adi’s portfolio there are various portraits, but the majority of them is dedicated to celebrities. Below, you may see about 40 artworks handpicked by our team. If that’s not enough for you … make sure to visit his dA site. Enjoy!
Sachsen, Germany based artist Anne Teubert is talented in pencil art who draws realistic portraits and figures of celebrities and people with rich emotions.
In her upcoming book, Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg talks about the invaluable mentors who have helped her succeed — including Larry Summers, Mark Zuckerberg, and others.
We can all learn something from those around us, no matter how vastly different their worldview, if we're open to it. That's how the world's most successful people got to where they are today.
Until natural language processing improves, only humans can tell what’s important. So Facebook today starts rolling out the option to pay to promote a friend’s posts and get them seen by more people. This will help critical posts bubble to the top of the feed, and let Facebook earn some money too. The feature respects privacy controls, but could still make you look like a self-important prick.
Facebook began testing the ability to promote your own posts in May 2012 and rolled the feature out to the US in October. See, your average Facebook post only gets seen by about 16% of your friends because they aren’t online soon after you post, or you never interact with them on Facebook. Promoted Posts artificially boost your posts so they appear in the news feed to people Facebook wouldn’t have shown them to.
A new venture is indubitably an exciting new phenomenon for budding entrepreneurs who are eager to see their labor of love witness rapid popularity and financial fecundity. In the rush to achieve these ends, however, burgeoning businesspersons ought not to forsake self-development, a factor that will benefit them immensely in the long run.
If you’re an up-and-coming entrepreneur, you’ll find the following self-growth tips useful for achieving all-round success...
