30 4 / 2012
NY Looks to Encourage Young Women for a Future in Tech
Despite the fact that women hold over half of all professional occupations in the United States, they comprise only 25% of the all tech and computing jobs; and the male-dominated stereotype of the industry may lead the public to estimate an even lower percentage, according to the “Sit With Me” campaign, which encourages women to share their experience and aims to raise awareness for females in the tech field.
With this in mind, senior associate commissioner of the city’s Department of Information Technology & Telecommunications (DoITT), Geraldine Sweeney, recently spoke to a group of high school girls at Microsoft’s DigiGirlz Dayconference in NY…
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27 4 / 2012
At The Next Web Conference, Between will be adding support for five more languages, in addition to its current four. By the end of May, Between will be supporting a total of 13 languages. App translation is completely important to appeal to more markets, as we learned by Path’s latest initiative to crowdsource its translation efforts for twenty languages. The fact that Between is ahead of the curve here is impressive. (via Between Out-Pairs Pair for Journaling Relationship)
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26 4 / 2012
"We use each of our devices at a different time. When it comes to sharing on social networks, computers are peaking in the morning, smartphones in the afternoon, iPads in the evening, and game consoles on Thursdays."
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26 4 / 2012
"Sometimes innovation happens ‘cause you’re pissed off."
(via thenextweb)
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24 4 / 2012
The Naive Optimist: We work a 4-day week and just raised $4.75m
I think there’s something messed up about the startup culture in the USA. The belief is that you have to work 6-7 days a week and spend all your mental cycles on your company. Nothing but pledging your soul to your startup yields success, right?
Not in my experience.
We work a 4-day week at …
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23 4 / 2012
"If there’s something you want to build, but the tech isn’t there yet, just find the closest possible way to make it happen."
(via jonathanmoore)
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23 4 / 2012
Dropbox Unveils Incredibly Simple Two-Click File Sharing
To share a file, simply right-click on the item or folder in your desktop Dropbox, and click ‘Get Link.’ That’s it. The link can then be shared by any means—emailed, texted, tweeted, whatever—to give others access to your files, even if they don’t use Dropbox.
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20 4 / 2012
"this newer generation of VCs has a much more progressive agenda"
Paul Kedrosky
Eyeing Patent Reform, Influential VCs Test Their Power | peHUBpeHUB
(via fred-wilson)
(via fred-wilson)
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12 4 / 2012
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Mark Zuckerberg personally goes to visit with the entrepreneurs and actively sells Facebook — something very few CEOs at his level do.
We’ve heard example after example of how effective it is having Zuckerberg go up against, say, a random VP from Google. The smaller the company, the more he makes time for it, we hear, because it’s that much more effective.
Behind even the smallest and least successful companies is an entrepreneur, who killed himself trying to build that company. To that entrepreneur, his tiny company is as important as Facebook is to Zuckerberg. And if he has to admit things didn’t go his way, and he needs a soft landing, he’d rather sell it to a company who cares. And nothing says a company doesn’t care like sending a random VP to write a piddly check.
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