The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next Series #1) by Jasper Fforde
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Windows 9 is nearly here, but Microsoft needs a touch-first version of Office much more urgently
Sep06
It’s been almost two years since Microsoft made Windows 8 available for the world, but now, two major updates on and we’ve still not seen any hint of the company bringing its Office suite into the future. Younger generations are growing up in a world where they don’t need to use Office products; can Microsoft win them back? Microsoft’s foray into touch screen computing hasn’t been smooth sailing; slow adoption, poor app store quality and lack of ‘killer’ apps has stymied adoption, despite claims to the contrary. The poor state of the app store can be evidenced by the fact that…
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Dries Buytaert created Drupal, an open source content management platform, in his dorm room. He is also the co-founder and CTO at Acquia, a company providing enterprise software for websites and commerce. Society is undergoing tremendous change right now — those of us who enjoy services like Uber and Kickstarter are experiencing it firsthand. The sharing and collaboration practices of the internet are extending to transportation (Uber), hotels (Airbnb), financing (Kickstarter, LendingClub), music services (Spotify) and even software development (Linux, Drupal). While the consumer “sharing economy” gives us a taste of what it’s like to live in a world where we…
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This post originally appeared on the Buffer blog. You know the feeling. You’re sitting there, staring at your hands, at the keyboard, at the screen, at the ceiling. You’re supposed to post something on Twitter, but you have no idea what to post. I’ve been there before. I think we’ve all been there. Everything that comes to mind seems lame. Slogans, links, articles, quotes, pictures—you have no clue. So you sit there wasting your time. We’re all too busy to afford this wasted time. Social media shouldn’t be a time waster. It should be a money maker. I wrote this article so you can save at least…
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