Like Teach For America, VFA will bring promising college graduates to work in underserved communities for at least two years. Startups that focus on up-and-coming industries (i.e. education innovation, energy, biotechnology) will be offered a VFA fellow for a salary of $32,000 to $38,000 annually. At the end of the two years, the companies can opt to hire fellows under new terms.
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Ex-Apple Designer Creates Teaching UI That “Kills Math” Using Data Viz | Co. Design
There was nothing difficult about the concept of multiplication — the problem was that numbers, at the time, had a bad user interface.”
Facebook Sees Big Traffic Drops in US and Canada as It Nears 700 Million Users Worldwide
by the time Facebook reaches around 50% of the total population in a given country (plus or minus, depending on internet access rates in that country), growth generally slows to a halt, as we’ve noted before.
The Top 10 Places People Lose Their Smartphones | Fast Company
How many times have you been asked this question in the last year? Losing your phone, whether between your couch cushions or (like most Apple employees) at a bar, is a common headache. But finding your phone is another story, one that usually requires a bit of serendipity or the kindheartedness of a good Samaritan.
Duke’s Cathy Davidson Has A Bold Plan for Change | Fast Company
Fifteen years into the commercialization of the Internet, with people coming of age who don’t remember anything different, Davidson argues that we’re at the perfect moment to begin reimagining our institutions and developing practices to deal with the onslaught of information, the reality of constant connectedness, and the challenges of global collaboration.
Online analytics: Find out what your buyers are thinking | money.cnn.com
It’s business owner’s worst nightmare: Customers walk in the door and walk right back out.
For Twiddy & Company, a 95-person firm that connects vacation renters with beach houses in North Carolina’s Outer Banks, that meant customers clicking on their Web site and promptly abandoning it.
Ecommerce Should Get Serious About Video | mashable.com
Today, ebusinesses that utilize video assets are at an advantage, since Google is structuring its search engine results to reward sites that include video.
Fukushima: It’s much worse than you think | Al Jazeera English
“With Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, and now with Fukushima, you can pinpoint the exact day and time they started,” he said, “But they never end.”
LulzSec, Sony, And The Rise Of A New Breed of Hacker | Huffington Post
In a press statement released last week, the group wrote, “We recently broke into SonyPictures.com and compromised over 1,000,000 users’ personal information, including passwords, email addresses, home addresses, dates of birth, and all Sony opt-in data associated with their accounts.” LulzSec also claimed to have gotten hold of “3.5 million ‘music coupons,'” which the group then invited the public to “plunder.”
Their motivation, it seemed, was something other than monetary gain. But what? An introduction on their website offers a clue: “We have now taken it upon ourselves to spread fun, fun, fun… ”
‘Anonymous’ Allegedly Demands Resignation Of Fed Chair Bernanke
In the video, uploaded on Saturday, the anonymous group, self-described as loosely connected and Internet based, allegedly claims that the Federal Reserve is guilty of “crimes against humanity” and calls for the resignation of Ben Bernanke. In addition, the group would seem to demand the break up of the Federal Reserve and other major banking institutions
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