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Are You A Billionaire Looking To Make A Deal? Call this Guy

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“You gotta meet Demetri while you’re in town.” The text message had come from an entrepreneur and investor I knew. One of those guys with enviable and inexplicable links to business heroes and at...

VW Super Bowl 2014 Ad Teaser Contains these Spoofs

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Volkswagen may have created a new parlor game with the release of a teaser for its Super Bowl XLVIII ad: Identify all the automotive and other brands, in the Big Game and other venues, whose...

The Reason Personality Tests Go Viral Will Blow Your Mind

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Please tell me the web personality quiz is NOT making a comeback. Maybe the popularity of these quizzes never even declined. After rolling my eyes many many times this week, I eventually caved in. I...

Proposing A Compelling OSCON Talk

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By Simon St. Laurent The OSCON call for proposals closes on January 30th. I’ve seen some great explanations of how to write a conference proposal generally, and my co-chair Matthew McCullough has an...
    






‘The Banner Saga’ Review: Beautiful, But Not Quite Brilliant (PC)

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The moment I laid eyes on indie developer Stoic’s The Banner Saga, I wanted to love everything about it. The art-style is simply jaw-dropping, calling to mind classic Disney—Sword in the Stone comes...
    






Rockstar Promises Swift Justice For GTA Online Cheaters

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Some of the players in Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto Online, the multiplayer component of GTA 5, have pulled off an impressive heist. Unfortunately, it’s not the kind of heist that developer Rockstar...
    






Angry Birds Go! Stretches Physical-Virtual Divide To Confusion Point

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In-app purchasing may be making headlines, but is only part of the issue. Families need cost transparency — particularly in the complex ecosystem of toy-video-game crossovers. Angry Birds Go! doesn’...
    






$10: One Perspective On What Bitcoin Will Be Worth In 2014

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The Wild West has become a popular metaphor for the unregulated Bitcoin market. Like in old cowboy films, the world of Bitcoin has not only miners and modern a gold rush, but the requisite intrigue...