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Open platforms don't work for commercial success. Closed is where the smart developer money is.

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Enterprise is warming to the idea of the iPad as a standard-issue business sidearm.

We’ve walked you through building your own computer before. In this post—which we’ll update periodically as prices and components change—we’ll walk you through the hardware we’ll need for three different system builds: a budget workstation, a powerful all-purpose PC, and an enthusiast’s system for gamers and professionals.

As many city dwellers know, each neighborhood in their city has a culture and feel all its own. And as any designer knows, it is important to infuse the specific culture and artistry of each client, company, or organization into… Continue Reading »

Print instagram photos onto lush matte square photo paper. Your 25 best square pics have a crisp white border and paper thick enough to prop or pin anywhere.

One year ago tomorrow, CEO Reed Hastings took the first of a series of missteps that angered customers and nearly derailed his company. Current and former employees disclose what went wrong.

In the world of social media, it can feel bizarre that potent evidence of grieving from one friend is followed so quickly by pictures of oven-fresh cookies from another. – Paul Ford, Facebook and...

If you’re part of the PR Machine and you have to deal with the emerging media take heed! Don’t make these mistakes!

Twitter set off alarm bells across the web in recent weeks when it ended its partnership with LinkedIn and reiterated its warning that it would be cracking down on the terms of its API. The...

"It's not too late for this generation to end on a positive note."

"In some ways, the next generation is already here."

You may not believe me, but this postmortem by SCOTUSblog's Tom Goldstein of how the media covered the Supreme Court's decision regarding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is super fascinating. It's impeccab

This article first appeared in Palo Alto Patch. My neighbor, Steve Jobs, has been in the news lately. The talk of the town is the recent announcement he will be stepping aside to let other seeds gr…

Beneficial bacteria, or probiotics, help us digest food, make vitamins, and even help protect us from harmful pathogens. But it's not clear which probiotics are helpful.

Self-reliance is a vital key to living a healthy, productive life. To be self-reliant one must master a basic set of skills, more or less making them a jack of all trades. Contrary to what you may have learned in school, a jack of all trades is far more equipped to deal with life than a specialized master of only one. While not totally comprehensive, here is a list of 50 things everyone should know how to do. Edit: Do you like this post image? Beautful, isnt’ it? You can get a copy here! 1. Build a Fire – Fire produces

Close encounters with technological abominations.

Microsoft announced the Surface with most of the attention aimed at their clever keyboard cover and the tablet’s built-in kickstand. However, the heart and soul of the Microsoft Surface will …

This weekend, while riding the train south down the bay from San Francisco, I sat in front of a group of young women who talked incessantly about Tumblr. They shared stories about the things they saw, the people they talked with, rumors and what cool new blogs they had heard [...]