Scratchpaper Recommended Links [Ed. 0013 / Mixed]

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Monster collection this time of the the best stuff I’ve seen lately across some of the ScratchPaper focus areas. This time we have items in Angel Investing, Apple, Communication, Crowd Sourcing, CyberSecurity, Entrepreneurship, Gadgets, Google, Green, Internet/Big Data/Internet of Things, Literary Humor & Miscellaneous, Media/Publishing, Mobile, Photography, Portfolio Companies, and Social Networking, including items on The Dark Side of Silicon Valley, The Anxiety of Unanswered Email, How to Make Money Stabilizing the Grid with Your Electric Car, and Why We Still Have Business Cards.  Enjoy.

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Angel Investing

  • Silicon Valley’s Start-Up Machine  (NYTimes)
  • Who Needs Investors! Why Many Start-Ups Should Bootstrap Instead (GigaOM)
  • Infographic: How Funding Works (Funders and Founders)
  • The Why and How of Updating Your Angel Investors (OnStartups)
  • Is Silicon Valley an echo chamber — or does it just lose perspective? (GigaOM)
  • The Single Biggest Factor VCs Look For In StartUp Founders (Forbes)

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Apple

  • Apple to lead end of passwords? (MacWorld)

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Communication

  • The Anxiety of the Unanswered Email (NYTimes)
  • The Why and How of Updating Your Angel Investors (OnStartups)

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Crowd Sourcing

  • YC startup bets crowdsourcing can diagnose diseases better than doctors  (VentureBeat)
  • Crowdsourcing—Now at a Store Near You (Wired)
  • Crowdsourcing Entertainment – How Amazon is Taking On Netflix (SeekingAlpha)
  • Crowdfunding may be more bust than windfall (SanAntonio)
  • Crowdsourcing or witch hunt? Reddit and 4chan users attempt to solve Boston Bombing Case (CBS News)
  • Reddit and Crowdsourcing: Valuable or Problematic? (TIME)

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CyberSecurity

  • Russian Malware Mines Bitcoins Through Botnet (PCWorld)
  • When a defense contractor gets hacked repeatedly, you know cybersecurity is a problem (GigaOM)
  • Apple to lead end of passwords? (MacWorld)

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Entrepreneurship

  • What is the Dark Side of Silicon Valley? (Quora)
  • Entrepreneurship Is Falling—and That’s Great News (The Atlantic)
  • The School of Hard Knocks: Can We Teach Entrepreneurship? (Huffington Post)
  • Is Silicon Valley an echo chamber — or does it just lose perspective? (GigaOM)
  • 5 Incredible Entrepreneurs and What We Can Learn From Them (Forbes)
  • The Why and How of Updating Your Angel Investors (OnStartups)
  • Who Needs Investors! Why Many Start-Ups Should Bootstrap Instead (GigaOM)
  • The Single Biggest Factor VCs Look For In StartUp Founders (Forbes)
  • The Zen of Entrepreneurship (TechCrunch)

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Gadgets

  • Gigabit Wi-Fi: Difference Engine: Unplugging the cables (Economist)
  • Lace up your sneakers, Pebble watch owners, you’ve got RunKeeper! (GigaOM)

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Google

  • Google keeps fighting for the heart of the iPhone with new Gmail update (GigaOM)
  • Google Escalates the Competition in Map Services (NYTimes)
  • Google Glass Is Watching—Now What? (WSJ)

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Green

  • 4 charts that show the slow but steady progress of electric cars  (GigaOM)
  • What if We Never Run Out Of Oil? (Grist)
  • Will solar power kill utility companies? They think so. (Christian Science Monitor)
  • Flood-drought-flood: Is this the new normal? (Grist)
  • Silicon Valley is now paying even less attention to climate change and that sucks (GigaOM)
  • Electric vehicles could stabilize grid, make money as batteries (Grist)
  • Ways solar panels can save the planet and save you money (Fox News (!))
  • Now you can track the inexorable progress of climate change on Twitter (Grist)
  • Bike sharing goes global (Grist)
  • CO2 in atmosphere poised to blow past 400 ppm mark (Grist)
  • Is 70 Percent Renewable Power Possible? Portugal Just Did It For 3 Months (ThinkProgress)
  • More than 100,000 electric vehicles now on the roads in U.S. (Grist)

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Internet / Big Data / Internet of Things

  • First they Gave Us Targeted Ads, Now Data Scientists Think They Can Change the World (GigaOM)
  • You Are Your Data (PandoDaily)
  • The Internet Of Things: By 2020, You’ll Own 50 Internet-Connected Devices (Huffington Post)
  • A Messenger for the Internet of Things (NYTImes)
  • How The Internet Of Things Will Revolutionize Search (ReadWriteWeb)
  • The ‘Internet of Things’ Poses a New Security Challenge for CIOs (WSJ)
  • Infographic: The Internet of Things (Information Week)
  • How The Internet Of Things Will Transform Everything – According To IT Experts (ReadWriteWeb)
  • Logmein’s Xovely – An Amazon Web Services for the Internet of Things (Xconomy)
  • Bluetooth is serious about the internet of things (GigaOM)
  • Behind the Internet of Things is Android and Its Everywhere (BusinessWeek)
  • Broadcom Introduces Low Power WiFi and Bluetooth Chips (Engadget)

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Literary, Humor & Miscellaneous

  • Guilt Complex: Why Leaving a Book Half-Read Is So Hard (WSJ)

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Media/Publishing

  • Ebook Growth Slows in 2012 to ‘Only’ 41%; What Does It Mean for the Publishing (Forbes)
  • Publishing Companies Are Technology Companies. Now It’s Time For Them To Act Like It (Huffington Post)
  • E-Book Sales Were a Boon to Publishers in 2012 (NYTimes)
  • E-book sales almost doubled and online book sales rose 21.3% in 2012 (NY Daily News)

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Mobile

  • Cellphone Thefts Grow, but the Industry Looks the Other Way (NYTimes)
  • The $12 Gongkai Phone (Bunnie Studios)
  • Indoor positionering: Finding the way inside (Economist)
  • Chat apps have overtaken SMS by message volume, but how big a disaster is that for carriers? (GigaOM)
  • Mobile Chargers Prepare for Their Day in the Sun (NYTimes)
  • Mobile hardware to lead end of passwords? (MacWorld)
  • Google Escalates the Competition in Map Services (NYTimes)
  • Google Glass Is Watching—Now What? (WSJ)
  • Europe Plays Catch-Up in 4G Race (WSJ)
  • Tablet Adoption Is on a Blistering Pace, With Parents Leading the Way (BusinessWeek)

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Photography

  • Chicago Sun TImes Lays Off Photography Staff (Guardian)
  • Blistering New Graphene Image Sensor (GizMag)
  • Kodak’s Problem Child – How the blue-chip company was bankrupted by one of its own innovations (Medium.com)

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Social Networking

  • How Business Cards Survive in the Age Of LinkedIn (BusinessWeek)
  • Social networking on desktops may have peaked in 2012, Experian finds (CNet)
  • The social network wars are over. The winner: email! (ComputerWorld)
  • LinkedIn Master Class with BuzzMedia’s Tyler Goldman (BusinessWeek)
  • The Distasteful Side of Social Media Puts Advertisers on Their Guard (NYTimes)

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