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Subject yourself to Facebook’s controversial emotion experiment with this Chrome plugin

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by on July 3, 2014 at 6:29 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

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For those of you curious what Facebook’s academic psychological experiment was like, you can now recreate it on your own account with the Facebook Mood Manipulator Chrome plugin from artist Lauren McCarthy. According to McCarthy, the plugin uses the same Linguistic Inquiry Word Count that Facebook used in its study, which was conducted with researchers from Cornell University. The Mood Manipulator, which shows up on the top right section of the screen when you visit Facebook, provides toggles for Positive, Emotional, Aggressive and Open content. When I gave the plugin a quick try on my own Facebook account, my friends’ posts tended…

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Try to kill your startup before you start

Jul03
by on July 3, 2014 at 5:39 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur

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George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures, a growth consulting, advisory and executive staffing firm based in Chicago. I recently had the pleasure of sitting on an investor panel with Joe Dwyer, a partner at Founder Equity Fund and good colleague of mine. He made a very interesting comment – he was counseling the startups in the room to “try to kill your startup!” My initial reaction was that it’s is a rather strange advice to make to a room full of aspiring entrepreneurs trying to successfully get their businesses off the ground. But, as Joe went on to explain, he said “if you…

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Indiegogo’s co-founder on ethos, safeguards and how crowdfunding is becoming an incubator for VCs

Jul03
by on July 3, 2014 at 5:31 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Profiles and Interviews

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Crowdfunding might now be making its way into mainstream non-tech vocabulary, but Indiegogo co-founder Danae Ringelmann is no stranger to the scene. The company, now seven years old, is currently on a UK push, touring the country, espousing the virtues of crowdfunding as a source of finance for aspiring startups located away from London’s coffers, Ringelmann explains. “Indiegogo’s whole mission is to debunk that myth, [to explain] that you don’t have to be in London, you don’t have to be in Silicon Valley to get access to capital, all you need to do is reach out to the people you’re trying…

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HummingBoard challenges Raspberry Pi in the tiny computer market

Jul03
by on July 3, 2014 at 5:19 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Insider

The maker community is growing and with that growth more companies are jumping on the opportunity to create the hardware that will be assimilated into the next DIY project. While Raspberry Pi has been one of the pioneers in the space, there’s a new challenger, the tiny HummingBoard. The HummingBoard micro-computer from SolidRun, like the Raspberry Pi, is an ARM-based naked board. But even though it cost $10 more than the Pi, it touts more power. It has a 1GHz ARMv7 processor while the Raspberry Pi only has a 700MHz ARMv6 processor. It’s also scalable to dual core, something the Raspberry…

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Sunrise brings its stellar calendar app to the Mac

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by on July 3, 2014 at 5:04 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Product Launches

Sunrise has already made a name for itself on iOS, Android and the Web, but today it’s catering to Mac users with a new, native calendar app. In fairness, its look and functionality are almost identical to the Sunrise website and Chrome app that launched back in May. If you’re already familiar with either of those incarnations, you’ll have trouble telling them apart. There are a couple of features worth considering, however. The new desktop app supports native Mac notifications for reminders and also a full offline mode. It’s a small leap forward, but if you’re after the definitive version for your…

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