- No. # reason to quit Facebook: Enough of watching activity streams of people who merely floated through your life
The timeline of insignificant people is the number one reason people will stop using Facebook. 'Mind-boggling privacy settings and inability to categorize "friends"' are just the most popular Facebook peeves. Jill Krasny…
Topic: Facebook, Quit facebook | Read more
- Uncool youth - Part 1: Hunger Games vs Bully
Global film business is a teen film business. That, I get. But, teens only watch escapist movies like Hunger Games (which itself is a rip off from old movies and stories), not the more important movie Bully (about school…
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- The Success Manual has been updated!
The updated version of The Success Manual has more content and is easier to use. The book has 600+ pages of compiled wisdom on 125 important traits, skills and activities, helping you grasp instantly great ideas from …
Topic: Books and Literature, Ebook, Book summary, Remarkable | Read more
- Introducing Rules for Writers: Collection of useful writing advice from great writers and books
Rules for Writers is a nifty collections of 200+ Big Ideas about writing from Great Writers and some useful books about writing. The advice is arranged across fiction writing, non-fiction writing, business writing, an…
Topic: Books and Literature, Ebook, Writing, Book summary | Read more
- Introducing Rules for startups: Collection of useful tips from 50+ great books on entrepreneurship
Rules for Startups is a never-before compilation of big ideas about startups from 50+ Best Books on Entrepreneurship.
Useful tips from the 50+ useful books for all you entrepreneurs out there have been arranged acro…
Topic: Books and Literature, Ebook, Startup, Book summary | Read more
- Introducing The Gist: Condensed knowledge from 200+ greatest business and self-improvement books
The Gist contains 1000+ Big Ideas From 200+ Greatest Business & Self-Improvement Books of all time.
The Gist will help you learn instantly from the gist of 200+ all time great business and self-improvement books - c…
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- Journalists hall of infamy: People who got caught copying, fabricating…
So, Mike Daisey might have fabricated some parts of Apple/Foxconn awful factories in China, that doesn’t deny the truth about the awful working conditions under which your shiny, over-priced, status-gizmos are made, and …
Topic: List, Business, Media, Journalism, Controversey, Simpleguide, Scandal | Read more
- Should you buy the new iPad? Don't waste your money, go for these options instead
The new, funnily-named Retina screen, is the only thing worth noting in the new iPad. I am not sure what version it is. Will the ipad in 2020 be called iPad 11 or whatI am digressing. Anyway, the new, improved HD-quality…
Topic: Gadget, Ipad, Apple | Read more
- Why the friction of paper money defined our lives (and how bad a cashless future will be)
While the poor (and salaried) like the rise of electronic payments - the direct bank-to-bank money transfers - salary or subsidy, it doesn\'t matter, as long as you get the money fast and secure.
But, consider the f…
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- Yes, waitressing is a real job: Wall Street isn't a real job
Whatever prejudice you might subscribe to, any job that involves you serving other people's needs is a job. Damn all old stereotypes, waitressing is a job. It might be something you would do all your life - but, it is …
Topic: Business, Job | Read more
- Nike's FuelBand: Do we need yet another wearable exercise monitor?
Will you fork up $149 for Nike's new Fuelband exercise bracelet, gleaming LED lights and all, when there are better, cheaper options in the wearable exercise monitors in the market?
One can imagine middle-class t…
Topic: Geek, Gadget, Health | Read more
- 11 most important figures about birth control in the United States
Forget about politics and morals. At end of it, birth and birth control are about money. These are the most important figures on the subject that you must know:
1. Generic versions of birth control pill costs $9/month…
Topic: Health, Birth control | Read more
- $50 LED light bulb from Philips: A luxury item (cheaper ones already in the market)
Philips won a $10 million contest run by the US government, the L Prize from Department of Enenrgy, to build the best (theoritically) eco-friendly and affordable LED bulb.
The prize-winning LED bulb will soon be launc…
Topic: Gadget, Geek, Eco-friendly | Read more
- Adventures in teen smoking: Behind the epidemic is heavy marketing by tobacco companies
The idea behind all tobacco advertising is that smoking makes you 'cool', without having to do anything 'harmful'. Not surprisingly, 2.6 million teenagers smoke cigarettes. 1 out 4 high schooler smokes.
Now, let's loo…
Topic: Health | Read more
- Draw Something: Pictionary meets Scrabble
Some call the hot new app 'Draw something' (12 million downloads and 7.1 million daily active users, in less than 5 weeks of introduction) the next 'Words with friends', the next 'time waster', because time-wasting is …
Topic: App, Mobile game, Gaming | Read more
- Satnam Singh Bhamara: Not quite India's Yao Ming
Sports magazines primary deal in making legends. Currently, one of their project is an Indian freak (and one means that in a good way) -Satnam Singh Bhamara a 7-foot-2-inch Punjabi farmer's son. The kid's mother is 6 fee…
Topic: India, Sports | Read more
- Does beeping out expletives weaken a film's effect: The case of The Bully
The MPAA slapped an R rating on Bully, a documentary film about adolescent bullying, basically reasoning that kids will be watching the film with their parents, and feel awkward. Now, the producers can choose to show the…
Topic: Films | Read more
- Stories about Goldman Sachs everyone must read
By now, all have read bout Greg Smith, who wote an op-ed in the New York Times about why he was qutting his job as a director with Goldman Sachs, which he calls a 'morally bankrupt' Wall Street bank. You will have read S…
Topic: Business, Goldman sachs, Scandal | Read more
- The formula that predicts celebrity marriages’ endings
Celebrity marriages are a media staple. You might not find stories of farmer suicides but you will sure find stories about the failing marriage of a D-list celebrity and will know what clothes the couple wore to the divo…
Topic: Celebrity, Formula, Study | Read more
- How cookbook ghostwriters work
Ghostwriting is common among business leaders, sports figures and celebrities... and cooks. One such ghostwriter, with years of experience writes about the craft in the New York Times. The parts that I liked:
One …
Topic: Books and Literature, Food, Howto, Writing | Read more
