Aditya Banerjee's Public Library

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I've seen only no 9 (no draft window) thanks to my grandfather's Fiat. I doubt most of the others were even seen in India.

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Very interesting outlook - the book publishers seem to have painted themselves into a corner here. It's not very different from what happened between Apple & the music industry.

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That's a lot of text editors for a platform not conducive to content creation

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93-year-old lens hacked onto a Canon 5D Mark II with amazing results http://t.co/WvljfnTS

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Suddenly, the storage on your old iPad or iPad 2 is going to feel a lot smaller (@martinsfp /... http://t.co/DMTkwgIJ http://t.co/yhMbydDk

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Interesting idea, but will it fly?
"Transparency Life Sciences is the world’s first drug development company based on open innovation. Our goal is to develop medicines for significant unmet medical needs by acquiring promising drug compounds, designing studies via crowdsourced methods, and conducting those clinical studies with unmatched productivity."

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My first PC was a 286 with 1 MB RAM, a 40 MB HD, 5 1/4" floppy drive, CGA monitor, no mouse, no sound, no CD-ROM.
Also used a dB Spectrum before that - it used a cassette recorder for storage, had 64K memory, and used a TV as display.

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Handy website that provides you with links to the app settings pages of different online services like facebook, Google etc. Good to visit these pages from time to time & revoke access of any suspicious or unwanted apps.

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Well summed up:
"Relying solely on yelling about what’s right isn’t a pragmatic approach for the media industry to take. And it’s not working. It’s unrealistic and naïve to expect everyone to do the “right” thing when the alternative is so much easier, faster, cheaper, and better for so many of them."

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Turns out that it is indeed very cost effective, given the size of the empire. Also, don't miss out on the comments picked out by the author.

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Particularly for knowledge centric organizations:
"For every Steve Jobs, there are a thousand leaders who learned to hire smart people and let them build great things in a nurturing environment of empowerment and it was AWESOME. That doesn’t mean lowering your standards. It doesn’t mean letting people do bad work. It means hiring smart people who get things done—and then getting the hell out of the way."

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Prince of Persia in real life... easily the best thing I've seen all week. Video: http://t.co/EKsPzMfw

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Quite a lot of interesting graphics, and as Calvin said "As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway." - explains trolls pretty well.

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Interesting piece on usability & situations in which each is applicable:
"Apps may remain better for tasks that are intensely feature-rich applications, such as photo editing — whereas mobile sites will be better for design problems like e-commerce/m-commerce, corporate websites, news, medical info, social networking, etc. that are rich in content but don't require intense data manipulation."

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Will Deaths By Social Network Spur Calls To Ban Facebook? http://t.co/itSuSL64

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Microsoft was running Windows on ARM two years ago http://t.co/EvzAVxAh

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Eric Cantor, Science, And The Central Planning Fallacy http://t.co/6i0Qhnak

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