mashable:

Check it out: Ben Parr, editor-at-large at Mashable, talks about the competition between Google+ and Facebook on Bloomberg.

eyeheartnewyork:

Fourth of July fireworks show in New York City on Flickr.

Over the Hudson River this year (2011). As seen from the Top of the Rock

latimes:

Times staffer Robert Lachman shows you how to take your own fireworks pictures this July 4.

Photo: Huntington Beach on July 4, 2004. Credit: Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times

I saw Page One: Inside the New York Times last night with my good friend and journalist and educator Robin Phillips.

What did I think about it? I pretty much agree with Robin’s review. 

Interestingly, the guy sitting to my left was wearing a Times t-shirt. He said he was a pressman who took a buyout from the newspaper a few years back and moved to Arizona. Sadly, I didn’t get the chance to ask him what he thought of the movie. 

Interesting stuff from Matt Brian:

The smartphone camera has all but replaced the point-and-shoot; it’s portable, it (in some cases) has a decent battery life and it allows you to share your photos with your friends via various social networks.

Lifelapse for iPhone is a new application that wants to take the hassle out of documenting your day in pictures by allowing you to snap images using your iPhone’s camera at thirty-second intervals.

If your phone is in your pocket, taking a photos automatically would be wasteful. With that in mind, Lifelapse will launch with what is called a “LifePouch” a small pouch that is worn around the neck and will safely and securely hold your iPhone as you go about your day and help you capture what is going on around you.

When you start Lifelapse, the app will ask you to start recording – much like a video – but will take a still image every thirty seconds, creating a timelapse project.

theeconomist:

Daily chart: two thousand years in one chart. Measured in years lived, the present century, which is only ten-years old, is already “longer” than the whole of the 17th century. That is a lot of history for a single decade.

soupsoup:

The Web Is Shrinking. Now What?

When you exclude just Facebook from the rest of the Web, consumption in terms of minutes of use shrank by nearly nine percent between March 2010 and March 2011, according to data from comScore. And, even when you include Facebook usage, total non-mobile Internet consumption still dropped three percent over the same period.

We’ve known that social is growing lightning fast — notably, Facebook consumption, which grew by 69 percent — but now it’s clear that Facebook is not growing in addition to the Web. Rather, it’s actually taking consumption away from the publishers who compete on the rest of the Web.

Ye olde Arizona photos.

neighborhoodr-newyork:

We now live in a world where the mayor of New York (or more likely, his intern) checks into a Foursquare meme and cross-posts it to Twitter.

neighborhoodr-newyork:

New York passes Same Sex Marriage bill : 33-29

Sunset on St. Pete beach. (Taken with instagram)

Fun fact: There are nearly 80,000 mayors ousted every day. Foursquare has released a fascinating infographic of growth over time at: https://foursquare.com/10million

motherjones:

China’s latest craze: dyeing pets to look like pandas. Via CNN

thedailyfeed:

Who knew airports could be so beautiful?

motherjones:

Productivity has surged, but income and wages have stagnated for most Americans. If the median household income had kept pace with the economy since 1970, it would now be nearly $92,000, not $50,000.

Plus, 11 other charts that would really piss you off…if you had time to read them.

soupsoup:

Dropbox Reader is yet another reason for Dropbox subscribers to be more responsible about how they interact with the cloud service.

Before the ToS change, the service boasted: “Dropbox employees are unable to view user files.” Now, not only are the files viewable, but with Dropbox Reader, the very fundamental elements of the account are penetrable.

huffingtonpost:

#wompwomp

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