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MyAlbum lets you create visual stories packed with data-rich embellishments

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by on June 6, 2015 at 7:05 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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Storytelling is an art — and if the growing number of apps dedicated to it is any indication — many people harbor artistic aspirations. That’s the impetus behind MyAlbum, a new Web app that helps people create visual stories with their photos and videos. MyAlbums aren’t just any old photos lined up with explanatory text, but rather platforms from which you can construct a visual presentation with genuine data and original design elements. Add insights to your story like the weather or tourist information. MyAlbum is in public beta, but it’s freely available to try now. A companion iOS app is under development,…

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Mark Zuckerberg’s year of books: Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow

Jun06
by on June 6, 2015 at 5:28 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Mark Zuckerberg, year of books

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Mark Zuckerberg’s 10th pick for his Year of Books is Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. This is the gut-churning story of mass incarcerations, legal systems for the right-color skin, and why America’s fight for Civil Rights is anything but over. If you are young and black and live in Washington, D.C., statistically there’s a three-in-four chance you’ll end up in prison at some point in your life. Since the Reagan administration and the War on Drugs, the American justice system has been practically designed to assure it. Thanks to the Civil Rights act of 1964, discrimination based on “race,…

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The top TNW Deals this week: Get them before they’re gone!

Jun06
by on June 6, 2015 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Offers, TNWDeals

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The highlights of the past week at TNW Deals range from a sweet bundle of Mac-enhancing apps, to an intelligent activity tracker. Here’s a quick run through.. 90% off with The Summer Mac Essentials Bundle This impressive line-up of big-name apps offers improvements across your whole workflow. It includes fresh new email client Unibox, and the ultimate OS X dashboard in iStat Menus 5. Noiseless smoothes out the grain in your photos, and Notebook 4 offers several different note-taking formats. Apps in the background can be paused with App Tamer 2 to save power. You can also protect sensitive documents…

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21 ways to be awesome online

Jun06
by on June 6, 2015 at 12:31 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, awesome, being awesome, Insider, online behavior

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Last year I wrote an article listing 20 ways to be awesome online. There are many more than that, so I’ve decided to share with you another 21 tips to help you with your startup, small business, or freelance career. When it comes to managing a business on your own, you have to do everything in the beginning. As you succeed and expand, you hire more people with specific skill-sets to take over things so that you can be free to strategize and bask in the success of your amazing new business. The problem is that first step, when you’re all…

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Rise of the ambulance drones

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by on June 6, 2015 at 9:07 am
Posted In: Around the Web, drones, Insider

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In December 2013, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos caused quite a stir with the announcement of his company’s plans to offer 30-minute product deliveries via unmanned aerial vehicles (more commonly referred to as “drones”). Drones have been deployed by the U.S. military since the 1970s, for purposes ranging from providing bird’s eye surveillance of troop movements and weapons facilities to launching attacks on terrorist organizations. However, the same technology can also be used to help save lives. Thankfully, a growing number of commercial, non-profit, and government scientists and laboratories are working towards that goal. In October last year the Netherlands’ Delft…

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