The First Movie Shot and Distributed by iPhone
#iPhone #goldilocks
Goldilocks produced by Majek Pictures is the first film produced and distributed entirely on the iOS (iPhone, iPad) platform. The film was shot with a budget of $2,500 for 10 episodes.
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Empty Nest? Check Again!
#student #debt #millenials #real estate
Don’t sell the house yet! In a real life take of Matthew McConaughey’s Failure to Launch, the Pew Research Foundation discovered 40% of 18 to 24-year-olds currently live with their parents, not because of economic pressures, but because the most of them never moved out in the first place.
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Why Should You Be Careful With Email?
#encryption #security #hacking
“Tell-all” magazines have been using hacking as a way to get the scoop on stars, from nude pictures to financial data and personal information. How do they do it? hacking email.
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Are You Leaving Customers In the Cold?
#loyalty #customer #service
Did you know customer retention can return 17 times what you put into it? According to Bain Consulting, reducing customer attrition by a mere 5% can improve a business’s bottom line profits by 25-85%, that’s a ratio of up to 17 to 1.
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The Coolest App for Making iPhone Apps!
#iPhone #app #startup
If you can draw you can make an app — well not quite. But you can sketch out the user experience and test it using this new app from startup Field Test.
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What Do They Know About Me? #privacy #security
This graph is a good illustration of why well regarded developers have concerns about how companies on the edge can amass great amounts of information that you may not want them to know. Put more simply, if the people who know are all “good guys” you may not care — but in real life you don’t always know who are the “bad guys”. And you don’t know who is good today, but may become bad tomorrow.
Examples of holders of consumer information in personally identifiable or aggregated form:
- Financial services, such as for banking or investment accounts
- Credit granting, such as for credit or debit cards; mortgage, automobile or specialty loans; automobile rentals; or telephone services
- Insurance granting, such as for health, automobile or life
- Retail coupons and special offers
- Catalog and magazine solicitations
- Web and mobile services, including content, e-mail, search, and social networking
- Product and service delivery, such as streaming video, package delivery, or a cable signal
- Attorneys, such as for case investigations
- Journalism, such as for fact checking
- Marketing, whether electronically, through direct mail, or by telephone
- Data brokers for aggregation and resale to companies and/or consumers
- Background investigations by employers or landlords
- Locating missing or lost persons,
- beneficiaries, or witnesses
- Law enforcement
- Research (e.g., health, financial, and
- online search data) by academic
- institutions, government agencies, and
- commercial companies
- Fraud detection and prevention
- Government benefits and services,
- such as licensing
Source: http://www.ftc.gov/os/2012/03/120326privacyreport.pdf
Can Happiness Replace Money?
#happiness #money #satisfaction
Happiness is often measured in terms of subjective well being (SWB). And research has shown that SWB can be used to explain why people pay more for certain things than others.
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What Makes People Happier?
#happy #depression
When psychologists measure happiness, they refer to subjective well being (SWB). Research has shown that SWB correlates with observable physiological changes (see the previous blog post). And other research has evaluated underlying factors that correlate with SWB.
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How To Measure Happiness
#happiness #depression
Happiness is often measured in terms of subjective well being (SWB). There are two primary ways for measures for SWB.
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