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Newsweek talks to the creators of today’s most addictive shows about what they’re doing to make sure we just can’t stop.
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Tracey Lien: "In most video games, players are entrusted with performing actions: run, jump, shoot, swing, slash, crouch and curb-stomp. The developer sets the scene, establishes the context and the player is released into the world with an arsenal of actions. In Loveshack Entertainment's Framed, things work the other way around."
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Graeme McMillan: "Throughout his existence, Superman has changed to match the times, for better and worse. Here's a quick guide to the many faces of the Man of Steel."
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The following infographic from LocksmithManhattanNYC.net shows the vehicle thefts on a per capita basis. An area with a much smaller population and a moderate number of thefts can—and often does—have a higher theft rate than an area with a much more significant vehicle theft problem and a larger population to absorb it. It also shows the top 25 metro areas with the highest auto theft rates and the top 10 stolen cars.
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Two-headed daguerreotypes, Dadaist photomontages, and how the subversion of optical reality got its start.
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Powerful and inspirational quotes that you might want to live by.
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Although the economy continues to slowly recover, many small businesses are still struggling to survive. Startups are facing the same challenge of staying afloat long enough to begin to turn a profit and without access to accredited investors, which represents roughly 1 percent of the U.S. population, loans from banks may be the only option. In 2009, U.S. banks posted the sharpest decline in private lending since 1942. Unfortunately in this scenario, entrepreneurs are often limited to accredited investors and venture capitalist money, which reject 95 percent of new business plans. Due to this lack of capital and access to accredited investors, building a company from scratch in the U.S. at this time is challenging. These starving companies directly impact the unemployment rate, as small businesses generated 65 percent of new jobs over the past 17 years. The crowdfunding industry may be the best new tool for helping to save the U.S. economy. Crowdfunding gives new power to the people by enabling anyone to make a difference by contributing money to the newest innovations, businesses, and causes. It enables the community to support the new businesses responsible for creating jobs by giving them access to funding that wasn’t available before. Check out the complete infographic below by RockThePost
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How common is FOMO -- or Fear of Missing Out -- among social media users, and what can you do about it? This infographic sheds some light.
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An infographic that shows how Pinterest could give your brand instant boost.
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More than 66% of adults are connected to one or more social media platforms, but who exactly are these people?
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Jennifer Miller: "For years we’ve tuned into Breaking Bad, Homeland, or Dexter and watch really horrendous things happen. Blood splatters as Dexter plunges his knife. Walter White hacks up bodies and cooks meth" ...
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If you’ve found The Complete Social Media Sizing Cheat Sheet helpful, then you’ll find this Facebook Cheat Sheet equally helpful. Designed by My Clevery Agency, the following infographic aims to help anyone to navigate Facebook like a pro without having to touch your mouse or trackpad. Source: http://ijustdid.org/2012/11/facebook-shortcut
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Not long ago we came to you with 25 inventions that changed our way of life. Well, we're back, but this time we're only concerned with those inventions that no one actually intended to invent. So, from dynamite to Penicillin these are the top 25 accidental inventions that changed the world.
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Infographic. The infographic of logo design inspirations, created by Sothink.com, presents the distinguished logo designs based on logo styles and logotypes to inspire logo ideas for logo designer, which makes their logo design more appealing.
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Logos are a single of the most crucial components of a productive brand. So in this article we present a assortment of creative logo design inspiration.
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'Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!'
As a lover of Dr.
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Check out this overview of best practices to stand out from the crowd with your Twitter theme and follow the tutorial to create your own profile from scratch. With Twitter quickly becoming the hottest site to be seen on, everyone wants to stand out from the crowd. There has already been a range of quality designs showcased on various sites, which has shown an emergence of trends such as the ‘sidebar’. Let’s take a look at some of the best practices around Twitter background design and get to work creating our own. We all recognise the default blue Twitter background right? It’s not a bad design, it’s clean and trendy but it doesn’t stand out when the majority of Twitter users also have the same look. Furthermore, if you’re keen to achieve more followers, removing this background would probably help out by showing that you’re an active user, or if you’re tweeting on behalf of your company or service, it helps prove that you’re not a spammer. Generally speaking, there are three main approaches when it comes to creating your Twitter background (other than a boring solid colour!): Read more: http://bit.ly/KoEvz4
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An annual survey which reveals a reliance on cloud services. Key takeaways: -60% of SMB's manage IT themselves
-57% of business owners rely on cloud services to power more than half of their business
-64% of business owners feel they could manage their entire company remotely this year
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Saving hundreds of thousands of trees via copy paper waste reduction sounds like a reason enough to adopt a paperless policy - but think of all the benefits that are more personal. Less filing, sorting, stapling and physically archiving copies of necessary documents that are there "in case." This infographic aims to show how easy the conversion to a paperless system really is, not to mention environmentally friendly!
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