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The value of meaningful connections

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by on July 29, 2014 at 3:46 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, LifeHacks

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Paul Jarvis experiments with words and design. His latest book is called The Good Creative: 18 ways to make better art. The internet isn’t a meritocracy, where we can just do good work, put it on a website and hope others will find it and buy it. Nothing will do this for you — not social media, not Kickstarter, not Medium, not Amazon, and not your blog. Unless you hire yourself to be the publicist/head marketing person for your work, it’s going to lavish in obscurity (which is next door to the land of broken dolls in a really bad part…

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Asana’s productivity platform gets a native mobile app, redesigned and optimized for iPhone and iPad

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by on July 29, 2014 at 3:31 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

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Productivity platform Asana is unveiling a brand new native iOS app today, rebuilt and redesigned from the ground up. And yes, it’s optimized for iPads too. To recap, Asana is the slick collaborative task and project management startup from Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and ex-Facebooker Justin Rosenstein. While it has had a presence in the App Store for almost three years now, and has previously undergone top-to-bottom revamps, a shift away from HTML 5 into pure native marks a big advance for the company. How it looks When you first launch the app, you’ll be presented with the ‘Today’ view, outlining what…

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Product Hunt’s first custom leaderboard lets you help rank the teams at today’s 500 Startups demo day

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by on July 29, 2014 at 3:27 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider

Product Hunt, a kind of ‘Hacker News for products’, has taken the startup world by storm over the past few months. While at its heart it’s focused on a daily contest in which users vote up and discuss their favorite new products, today it’s being used in a more timely fashion to highlight the startups presenting at 500 Startups‘ demo day in Mountain View. There’s nothing special in terms of features here, just a chance for the teams to compete not just for the attention of press and investors at the demo day itself, but also for upvotes from the…

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Flickr’s Marketplace program helps photographers license their work and find original assignments

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by on July 29, 2014 at 2:57 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Earning a decent wage as a freelance photographer can be tough. To help talented camera aficionados put food on the table, Yahoo today unveiled a new ‘Marketplace‘ service that will connect Flickr users with photo editors, designers and agencies. Spotted by TechCrunch, the new Flickr Marketplace is run by a “curatorial” team that aims to connect users with global media outlets, industry press and anyone else that might want to license their work. Details are scarce at the moment, but in a blog post Yahoo said its team would be constantly scouring Flickr for suitable images and then reaching out to photographers via Flickr…

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Medium finds a revenue stream with Re:form, a new collection of stories sponsored by BMW

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by on July 29, 2014 at 2:19 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches

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Medium launched its first sponsored “collection,” a term used to describe one of its curated sections or publications, with BMW on its renowned blogging platform today. Re:form, an encapsulated part of Medium for design-focused journalism, sports a bold “presented by BMW” logo on the front page. The minimalist branding is replicated in each article, just below the main featured image, as well as at the bottom above suggested links. Otherwise, no traditional advertising is visible. That could change in the future though. As AdAge reports: Medium staff also plans to work with BMW and its agencies to produce four to five…

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