Agencies and marketers rate premium content publishers higher than Facebook for brand-focused advertising, according to [pdf] the Online Publishers Association (OPA), in survey results released November 2012. For example, respondents were more likely to favor premium content publishers in areas such…

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Apple fires up its version of Google’s ‘20% time’, giving some employees 2 weeks for special projects by Matthew Panzarino — in Apple Apple is trying out its own version of Google’s 20% time, reports Jessica Lessin on The Wall Street Journal’s News Hub , as singled out by Jay Yarow at Business…

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. @YCombinator founder @PaulG's unique insights about what constitutes true innovation: http://t.co/zXDHfQLm

Since an article I wrote in June of 2009 called “ How a foosball table can kill your startup ” is still sparking attention and conversation, I think the time is ripe for me to expand on the topic. Yes , I still believe that tchotchke “benefits” do nothing but waste money. Instead, use your resources…

A pervasive myth exists among tech founders: If they build a product that consumers will love, it will magically trickle into Fortune 500 companies. The logic works something like this: Devote the bulk of your funding to designing the product. CIO’s will fork over a piece of their sizable budget if…

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Video You can also watch this video on YouTube . With Android 4.2, launching alongside the Nexus 4 and Nexus 10 on November 13th , Google has updated the feature with new information cards in new categories. And yet, the amount of engineering effort that makes Google Now possible is out of…

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Your browser is not supported. Out of date browsers have security flaws and may not display all features of about.me. Please consider upgrading to a newer browser by downloading one here . Gabriel Weinberg Founder in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania Gabriel Weinberg Founder in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania…

Former Apple exec: Tim Cook a ‘loner’, ‘poor judge of character’ http://t.co/9RYOREVj via @memeburn

The way consumers interact with music continues to evolve and not just from analog to digital but from downloads to streaming. Photographed is a Washington D.C. record store. Greg Sandoval/CNET Music listening patterns continue to evolve and not just from analog to digital but from downloads to…

Daniel Ek: New York tops Silicon Valley precisely because its not Silicon Valley http://t.co/0lWMC6bf

When I started racing cars, I thought it would be great if I could just settle in mid-pack in a respectable gentleman’s cup series. After all, racing to me was all about getting access to long stretches of flow, that sensation of being so completely engrossed in an activity that you lose track of…

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In August 2003 — a few months before we got married — my wife and I went on a backpacking trip through Europe. You may remember that particular summer because it was the biggest European heat wave in a hundred years or something, so there was a lot of media coverage around it. Shops in Paris ran out…

Dmitri Fadeyev makes an argument in favor of continuous scrolling in eBooks (as opposed to traditional pagination) in The Return of the Scroll : The scroll interface suits the variable nature of the digital content that it holds, but more so, it gives the user more fine-grained control over the…

Sitting in his depressing office in Canada, the sign that Ilya Brotzky had been waiting for arrived in his inbox. It came in the form of an email from Melanie Edwards, the founder of MobileMetrix , a company which hires locals to collect survey data on demographics, health and data, which it sells…

Editor’s note: Boris Wertz is the founder of version one ventures , and has invested in more than 35 early-stage consumer Internet and mobile companies, including Chloe & Isabel, Julep, and Indochino. Follow him on his blog and There has been more e-commerce innovation during the past year than…

Dustin Mierau is co-founder and Chief Designer at Path , a journal and social network for Android and iPhone. Before Path, he co-founded Macster, which eventually became Napster for Mac. Mierau took a few minutes to talk to The Verge about the finer points of designing great software, how to stay…

Photo: Art Streiber Conversations with Jack Dorsey frequently veer into obscure subject matter. Job interviews pivot into 30-minute disquisitions on the New York Yankees. Press briefings transform into critiques of Virginia Woolf novels. A comment about Dorsey’s game-changing startup, Square—which…

When Germany’s first jet fighter planes appeared in the skies over Europe in 1943, the U.S. War Department hired Lockheed Aircraft Corporation to build a working jet fighter prototype, giving it just 180 days to do so. For the War Department, there was just one man for the job: 33-year old Clarence…

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Wednesday 22 August 2012 This article was taken from the September 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online . Tatsuya Abe is Japan's crab-meat king. Seven years…