| How to Convince People to Join Your Startup | | When you’re first getting your startup off the ground, finding and reeling in awesome team members can be one of your biggest challenges. Once you’ve found the right employees, how do you convince them to drop what they’re doing and join your company? There are a few key factors that matter most to early stage startup employees, and these are often the reasons that employees join startups in the first place.
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| Game of Thrones' George R.R. Martin: Yes, I Need to Write Faster | | It's great to be George R.R. Martin. The author of the 'Song of Ice and Fire' Series — the basis for HBO's Game of Thrones — could be found at the show's West Coast premieres this week holding court, reveling in the popularity of his books and the international success of the show, which returns to U.S. screens in 10 days. But as Martin told Mashable on the red carpet, he understands the widespread pressure to increase his writing speed.
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| Loveflutter Finds Your Match Using Google's Knowledge Graph | | Thursday, March 21, 2013 11:18 PM | Veena Bissram |
| Name: LoveflutterOne-Liner Pitch: Loveflutter is a new dating site that helps you find people who share the same interests. Why It's Taking Off: Powered by Google’s Knowledge Graph, Loveflutter matches people based on their interests, and uses Foursquare to suggest ideas for your first date. First dates can be fun and exciting, but let’s be honest – they can also be pretty awkward if you don’t have anything in common.
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| Back This $20,000 Arrested Development Kickstarter. Come On! | | Thursday, March 21, 2013 10:46 PM | Chris Taylor |
| "Now here's the story of a wealthy family who lost everything ..." If those mere words put a giant grin of anticipation on your face, you're probably going to want to put some money in this particular banana stand. A couple of Arrested Development superfans did what seems impossible to most superfans: they got interviews with the cast, writers and creators of everyone's favorite canceled Fox sitcom.
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| Invisible Friend Photo Prank Freaks Out Strangers | | Thursday, March 21, 2013 9:59 PM | Neha Prakash |
| We've all done it — asked random passersby to snap a couple pics of you and your friends in front of famous monuments (or just goofing off in front of a WalMart). But Magic of Rahat just added a touch of creepiness to the entire process. He and a friend camped out on Hollywood Boulevard and asked strangers for a picture. The catch? There's only one guy smiling with his arm around ...
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| Robot Helps Teach Kids With Autism | | Thursday, March 21, 2013 9:29 PM | Camille Bautista |
| Researchers have helped create apps and online platforms to assist children with autism. But one team at Vanderbilt University is introducing something which may have a leg up on capturing kids' attention: humanoid robots. Mechanical engineers and autism experts constructed an adaptive system using NAO, a fully-programmable robot.
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| Learn the History of Ringtones With This Wacky Song | | Thursday, March 21, 2013 8:55 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Ringtones are undeniably the most irritating concoction the tech world dreamed up since T9 texting. Those little jingles are solely responsible for the world's heightened noise pollution and the reason some of us are forced to listen to "Who Let the Dogs Out?" on repeat till the phone's owner picks up their call (vibrate mode, people, really).
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| Disney Star Wars Land? The Force Is Strong With This Plan | | Thursday, March 21, 2013 6:35 PM | Chris Taylor |
| In the annals of no-brainers, the concept of an entire Disney theme park devoted to Star Wars ranks pretty highly. So much so that plans were underway even before the Mouse House pounced on Lucasfilm in October 2012. Now it seems those plans are accelerating — and multiplying. We already knew Disneyland Paris was set to get a Star Wars Land by 2015; the company's Imagineers let that one slip back in April 2012.
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| Sorry About Your Busted Basketball Bracket | | Thursday, March 21, 2013 5:26 PM | Christine Erickson |
| Most of our March Madness basketball brackets will be completely busted after the first round, unless you're Nate Silver. These GIFs sum up every situation.
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| Yoko Ono Shares Photo of John Lennon's Bloody Glasses in Gun Tweets | | Thursday, March 21, 2013 4:18 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Musician John Lennon's bloodstained glasses — the ones the 40-year-old was wearing when he was fatally shot in the back four times in New York City in 1980 — reemerged this week in four anti-gun messages on Twitter from widow Yoko Ono's account. Ono shared the tweets Wednesday with her nearly 3.7 million followers, marking the 44th anniversary since she and Lennon wed on March 20, 1969.
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| Here Are 10 Ryan Gosling GIFs to Keep You Warm While He's Away | | Thursday, March 21, 2013 4:11 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Did your computer let out a little exasperated whimper in the past 24 hours? That was just the Internet reacting to news that Ryan Gosling plans to take a break from acting. Basically, Tumblr was all: Image courtesy of Tumblr, perfectgosling Twitter was pretty heartbroken too: Ryan Gosling is taking a break from acting and my whole world is shattering.
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| Google Glass and the Future of Head-Mounted Displays | | Thursday, March 21, 2013 2:30 PM | Pete Pachal |
| Google Glass is arguably the most exciting innovation in mobile technology since the iPhone — and not just because Google hyped it with a spectacular skydiving stunt. Certainly, the field of wearable technology has been around for decades (remember calculator watches?), but with the backing of a multibillion-dollar company and state-of-the-art wireless tech, Google looks to really take it to the next level.
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| Apple Patent Could Make iPhone Cases Obsolete | | Thursday, March 21, 2013 1:33 PM | AppAdvice |
| A new Apple invention could make iPhone cases a thing of the past. The “Protective Mechanism for an Electronic Device” identifies when a phone is falling and adjusts its center of mass to control its landing. The patent for the invention was recently published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Although the iPhone is specifically mentioned in the patent language, this technology could extend to any device.
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| Facebook Shares Best Tips for Non-Profits | | Thursday, March 21, 2013 12:45 PM | Zoe Fox |
| Facebook's strategic partnerships manager Libby Leffler works to ensure non-profits and causes on Facebook understand how to use the platform to best reach their communities and make the strongest impact. She says the biggest struggle non-profits have with Facebook is not understanding how to best use the platform's tools to engage with their communities.
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| Bill Gates: Food Is Ripe for Innovation | | Thursday, March 21, 2013 11:02 AM | Bill Gates |
| The global population is on track to reach 9 billion by 2050. What are all those people going to eat? Bill Gates says science is the solution.
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| Report: 70% of Consumers Trust Brand Recommendations From Friends | | Thursday, March 21, 2013 9:05 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| Seventy percent of consumers trust brand recommendations from friends, but only 10% trust advertising, according to a new report from Forrester Research. The study, based on responses from 58,000 respondents, also found that 46% of consumers trust consumer reviews and 9% trust text messages from brands.
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