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Soundsgood wants to be your home of curated music, no matter what streaming service you use

Jun13
by on June 13, 2015 at 2:58 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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In a world where music is a cheap commodity available with a click of the Play button on a streaming service, curation is truly valuable. Just ask Apple, which hired top DJs and producers to run its forthcoming Beats 1 radio station. With that in mind, there’s a danger that the best curators will become siloed into individual services. Your favorite DJ might share Spotify playlists, but what if you use Deezer or Rdio? Tough luck. Soundsgood wants to solve this problem by making playlists platform agnostic. The Paris-based startup has signed up some of France’s coolest tastemakers to create playlists that…

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Soundsgood wants to be your home of curated music, no matter what streaming service you use

Jun13
by on June 13, 2015 at 2:58 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

soundsgood
In a world where music is a cheap commodity available with a click of the Play button on a streaming service, curation is truly valuable. Just ask Apple, which hired top DJs and producers to run its forthcoming Beats 1 radio station. With that in mind, there’s a danger that the best curators will become siloed into individual services. Your favorite DJ might share Spotify playlists, but what if you use Deezer or Rdio? Tough luck. Soundsgood wants to solve this problem by making playlists platform agnostic. The Paris-based startup has signed up some of France’s coolest tastemakers to create playlists that…

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The 4 Types of Productivity

Jun13
by on June 13, 2015 at 1:51 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, LifeHacks, productivity

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Within weeks of starting my first job out of college, I was sent to the in-house time management training program. I dutifully attended the class and used the planner they provided as instructed. But as the weeks went by, I noticed that my productivity hadn’t improved. As I looked around at my colleagues, I noticed that many of them were also struggling with the system. The reason is simple: There is no one-size-fits-all approach to productivity. Instead, we need personalized approaches. This means employing work strategies that align with our own cognitive styles, and allocating efforts in a way that…

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12 more adorable startup pets at the awwfice

Jun13
by on June 13, 2015 at 1:26 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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On a journey to discover Europe’s hottest startup jobs, we’ve come across a whole new pack of adorable office pets to melt your hearts. Aside from helping human colleagues fulfill their potential, and introducing a healthy two-walks–a–day policy, these pups are hard at work lifting spirits at Europe’s startups. In fact, with all the startup mascots we’ve met, we’ve decided to do a round two in our series showing off adorable office pets. Without further ado, let’s get acquainted with some more of Europe’s smallest, cutest and furriest startup stars. View them all on one page. Want to work with one of these friendly office pets? Check out…

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Inbox 10,000: With long DMs coming, Twitter needs better spam filters

Jun13
by on June 13, 2015 at 12:26 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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This article first appeared in the TNW Weekly newsletter. Sign up for free and receive it in your inbox every Friday. The news that Twitter is to allow direct messages of up to 10,000 characters from next month (up from the current limit of 140) is positive in many ways, but for people who allow anyone to contact them via DM, it’s a potential nightmare. On the plus side, it’s great to see Twitter finally embracing private messaging. It’s such an obvious fit for the service’s most loyal users that it’s baffling it’s taken so long. If you have your DMs…

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