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This app lets you discover your favorite artists’ least played songs on Spotify

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by on July 6, 2014 at 8:18 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, spotify

If you like the idea beyond Forgotify, a web app that surfaces music that has never been played on Spotify, but want more control on what you discover, then you may be interested to hear of The Long Tail — an app that pulls the 50 least played Spotify tracks of any artist into a playlist. “With million[s] of tracks available online, it’s always a challenge to find something new,” writes Alexandre Passant, who says that he whipped The Long Tail together in between watching World Cup football games. The nice thing about this app — which is built using the Polymer web platform and Spotify’s new web API — is…

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YouTube is now publicly shaming internet providers that make its videos slow

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by on July 6, 2014 at 7:13 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, youtube

Google began naming and shaming internet service providers when it expanded its ‘Video Quality Report’ beyond Canada in May, and now it is taking things further after links to the report began surfacing alongside videos for some visitors to the site. Quartz reports that — taking its cue from Netflix — the Google-owned company is dropping links to the report into videos that it believes are suffering at the hands of an ISP’s slow network, as the screenshot below shows. The report does not cover a large number of countries at this point, so the joys of shaming aren’t available to all of us worldwide — but with two of the biggest…

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Report: Most data captured by the NSA belongs to ordinary internet users

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by on July 6, 2014 at 6:33 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, prism

The vast majority of information collected by the NSA’s controversial surveillance programs belongs to ordinary internet users. That’s according to a four-month Washington Post investigation analyzing documents leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The Post analyzed a ‘cache’ of information in which nine of the ten ‘account holders’ “were not the intended surveillance targets but were caught in a net the agency had cast for somebody else”. The paper also found that half of the individuals featured in the 160,000 intercepted email and instant message conversations that it reviewed were US citizens or residents — a far higher rate than the agency…

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Getting to ‘no’: Why rejections aren’t always a bad thing

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by on July 6, 2014 at 6:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Entrepreneur

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Marc Albanese is the founder of Smart Vision Labs. This post is part of the Lessons Learned series featuring NYU entrepreneurs’ first-hand accounts of challenges faced in starting a business and the lessons learned along the way. A couple of weeks ago, I was invited to the World Founder Forum hosted by FOUNDER.org in Paris. As part of the event, the incoming Founder class of 2015 (Smart Vision Labs is a member of the class of 2014) peppered our class with questions about our experiences as being entrepreneurs. One question in particular really resonated with me — how do you deal with being told “no”? This conversation reminded…

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3 things you can change to go from startup to grown up

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by on July 6, 2014 at 3:00 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, How-To's, Insider

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Callum Laing is the CEO of Entrevo Asia and the founder of Fitness-Buffet, an employee fitness business in 11 countries. There are few things in life as rewarding as creating a business out of nothing. If you have any love of enterprise, it is hard not to be enamored with the excitement around tech startups. It would be nice to see a few more startups stick around, so here are my three suggestions for how you can significantly improve your chances of success. Not asking much! 1. Change your thinking The tech startup world is obsessed with metrics like downloads, page views, sign-ups, traction…

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