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Now We Decide If Privacy Will Continue to Exist

http://gawker.com/now-we-decide-if-privacy-will-continue-to-exist-511864050

Introducing Wattpad's New Vision Statement

allenlau:

A new reading and writing experience that enables the creation of personal connections and billions of new stories. 

Together with the crowd we will enable the future of storytelling.  

We like its simplicity.  Just 29 words.  Super succinct.  And yet very powerful.

Google’s Products Are Just By-Products Of Its Quest For Tomorrow

Google isn’t about search, apps, or devices. Those are just vehicles, and there’s no destination. That’s because Larry Page’s Google is on an unending pursuit of the future, not just next quarter’s earnings. The scattershot of projects Google revealed today at I/O had just..

From Pages Read to Minutes Spent

The variety of screen dimensions across an ever growing number of reading devices and the ability for readers to adjust font size in this new e-world makes the page infinitely variable in size and measuring page count pointless. Each electronic “container” now dictates the form the book will take, much like pouring same amount of water into a champagne flute and saucepan create very different results. So what do we use instead?

Fashion Brands Absent From Wearable Tech Revolution

When it comes to wearables, consumer adoption will also depend on the stylistic merits of these devices and how users who wear them are perceived by others. In other words, as well as being functional, they will have to have both aesthetic and social value.

Your Body Does Not Want to Be an Interface

Have you heard that Google Glass will let you snap photos by winking? Why that’s still going to feel weird.

Stranger Visions: DNA Collected from Found Objects Used to Create 3D Portraits