June 2013
Why You're Sleeping With Your Smartphone →
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Why do we keep responding to the beep and buzz of our phones? Because we’re addicted to success explains Harvard Business School prof Leslie Perlow.
“The last thing we want is to plop in banner ads.”
—Instagram’s CEO Kevin Systrom ponders how the photo-sharing app can make money
NYCEDC: NYC BigApps 2013 Award Ceremony – June 20, 2013: Free Tickets! →
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We’re counting down the seconds until the NYC BigApps 2013 Award Ceremony on the evening of Thursday, June 20th, where we’ll announce the winners of Mayor Bloomberg’s annual challenge to developers and designers to create apps that solve key city challenges.
This year’s competition…
Tumblr's media director quits
Mark Coatney, Tumblr’s media director and “media evangelist,” left the building with a Mad Men reference.
“I love my devices and services, and I love being connected to the global hive mind. I am neither a Luddite nor a hermit, but I am more aware of the price we pay: lack of depth, reduced accuracy, lower quality, impatience, selfishness, and mental exhaustion, to name but a few. In choosing to digitally enhance, hyperconnect, and constantly share our lives, we risk not living them…”
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Baratunde Thurston
From his piece #Unplug: Baratunde Thurston left the internet for 25 days, and you should too.
Here’s more about #unplugging.
“There were movies, there were food trucks, there were friends, there was mulled wine. There was brief consideration of a mulled-wine food truck. Above all, there was an expansion of sensations and ideas.”
—What Baratunde Thurston discovered when he unplugged for 25 days.
“I personally started unplugging one day a week, I’ve done it now for almost 3 years with my family, and it’s changed my life.”
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Tiffany Shlain, digital filmmaker and founder of the Webby Awards.
When is the best time to unplug? Here, some options.
