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Elon Musk is going to build an internet for space

Jan17
by on January 17, 2015 at 6:28 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Last night at a SpaceX event in Seattle, Elon Musk revealed that he plans to spend $10 billion building out the internet in space. Bloomberg reports that Musk imagines it would change the way the internet on Earth fundamentally operates; instead of data packets bouncing around routers and networks on the surface, they could go to space and bounce between satellites until they reach their destination. Musk hasn’t named the project yet, but said that it will be based in SpaceX’s new Seattle office. He also sees it as the basis for reaching internet to Mars, saying that “It will be important…

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How to optimize blog images to maximize impact on social media and search

Jan17
by on January 17, 2015 at 6:00 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, How-To's, Insider, Social Media

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This post originally appeared on the Buffer blog. You’ve likely heard the advice to add visual content to your blogposts whenever possible. Visual content is more than 40 times more likely to get shared on social media. So I added images to blogposts. And I learned there’s quite a bit more to it than that. Adding images to blogposts is a great start. You’re likely to see increases in social sharing and time on page. Images just make everything more readable and shareable. Adding images also brings with it another checklist of things to look for as you’re optimizing and…

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DIY at-home image transfers onto fabric and wood

Jan17
by on January 17, 2015 at 5:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, How-To's

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Paulina Thai is a senior graphic design student at the University of Cincinnati, with a special interest in food photography, fashion, hand lettering and brand identity. This post was originally published on the Shutterstock blog and has been reprinted with permission.   Your environment has a huge effect on your mood and performance, and adding personality to a room can be easy (and inexpensive) with DIY crafts. Below, we’ll show you a solvent image-transfer project that can be applied to many materials, such as wood and fabric. The solvent image-transfer process involves “borrowing” subject matter from printed material, chemically dissolving it…

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Legend of Zelda enemies are now artists, and you can buy their drawings with Bitcoin

Jan17
by on January 17, 2015 at 4:03 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev

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Can digital ‘lifeforms’ be recognized as artists? That’s the question raised by Nonhumans.net, a project set up to recognize enemies from Nintendo classic The Legend of Zelda as a creative force. “One day I was rewiring The Legend of Zelda, hooking it up to other computer programs, when I discovered a secret: It turns out that  monsters are surprisingly capable visual artists,” the ‘Extimate Operating Officer’ of the project (who does not share her or his real name) tells me. “I learned this when I patched their x/y coordinates into to a paint program, such that their motion controlled the digital…

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Why Mark Cuban is wrong about startups and PR

Jan17
by on January 17, 2015 at 3:30 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Entrepreneur

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Conrad Egusa is the CEO of Publicize. He is happy to connect on LinkedIn here. Last month, Business Insider came out with a big headline: “Mark Cuban explains why startups should never hire a PR firm.” In the article, the dotcom billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner contends that third-party PR services are prohibitively expensive for entrepreneurs, and that “the money you can save” figuring out how to “do it yourself” could mean “the difference between living or dying as a company.” The essence of Cuban’s argument is that the traditional big-budget PR consultancy model is an anachronism in the context…

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