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Coinbase introduces personalized payment pages for receiving Bitcoins

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by on May 28, 2014 at 6:48 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

Bitcoin wallet service Coinbase released a new Payment Page feature today that reserves a custom URL for users to receive Bitcoin payments and donations. If you have a Coinbase account already, you can head to the settings section of the site to reserve your username. Your payment page will then show up at coinbase.com/yourname. To mark the launch of the new pages, Coinbase is partnering with Nas, Marc Andreessen and Code.org to match donations (up to $50,000) for their payment pages. Nas is raising money for Watsi.org, while Andreessen is directing donations to social innovation venture fund SV2. Image Credit: George…

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Twitter rolls out its new Web user profiles to all

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by on May 28, 2014 at 6:28 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Social Media

Twitter today announced it is rolling out its new profile pages on the Web to all users. If you’re still stuck on the old version, you should have the new one by the end of the day. We're rolling out the new web profiles for everyone today. Check out what you can do with the new look: https://t.co/lyN2WnT0q1 — Twitter (@twitter) May 28, 2014 The new Web profile display a larger profile photo and customizable header, highlight the photos and videos that you have posted, surface your best tweets by enlarging those that receive the most engagement, and let you…

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Samsung introduces Simband modular health band powered by open source SAMI platform

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by on May 28, 2014 at 6:19 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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At a “Voice of the Body” event today in San Francisco, Samsung president and chief strategy officer Young Sohn announced the company’s vision of an open health-sensor platform. That vision results in the Simband modular wrist band. The demonstration Simband device shown at the event showed vitals in real-time. The wrist band uses light sensors and bio impedance sensors to measure your body. The information tracked is shared with the SAMI cloud network. The entire system is open to developers and modular. By creating an open developer platform that includes modular hardware and adding the SAMI cloud data processing Samsung says that…

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Barriers to entry: How to build a startup that has an unfair advantage

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by on May 28, 2014 at 5:48 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur

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Andrej Kiska is an Associate at Credo Ventures. The team, the product and the size of the market: these three ingredients are typically preached to us as the key to a successful startup. But what if someone much bigger or much better funded comes along, essentially copies the product, devotes a much larger team to the task and spends heavily on sales and marketing to grab the market? Many of the pitches I have listened to over the years underestimate the value and importance of raising high barriers to entry to their target market. Looking at companies like Groupon, it seems…

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Mystery solved: Where’s the animation window in Photoshop Creative Cloud?

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by on May 28, 2014 at 5:32 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, How-To's

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Daryl Lang is the Managing Editor for the Shutterstock Blog. This post was originally published on the Shutterstock blog and has been adapted with permission. Recently, I started to create an animated GIF in Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud and found myself totally lost. I had learned how to work with animations using an older version of Creative Suite, but with my recent upgrade to CC, Photoshop’s excellent animation tools seemed to have vanished. I searched and struggled and cussed at my monitor before finally asking a colleague for help. This post is meant to spare you that frustration. If you’re an occasional…

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