Money isn’t important, but you have to have enough, so you don’t have to think about it. Thinking about money is a drag.
The number one competitor is ourselves. It’s our ability to change. The number two competitor is everyone else. It’s not Macy’s, it’s not Kohl’s, because if you look at it, every one of our customers shops Amazon, Target, Macy’s, Kohl’s, specialty stores, The Gap—they all shop around! Everyone shops everywhere. So if you look at your competitor as a competitor, you’ll make a mistake. Your competitor is yourself and they way you unlock potential is to unlock a new way to compete. And ideally in a way that’s never been done before, so it’s seen as new.
Today, Foursquare will introduce a new version of its iPhone app that streamlines the app’s user interface and refines its purpose.
The Best Life Advice From Maya Angelou
To celebrate the day of her birth and her wonderful achievements (and as a public service to everyone), we’ve collected some of her best life advice here. Take heed, mortals, and one day you might end up just a little bit more like Maya Angelou.
The Hidden Biases in Big Data
“Data are assumed to accurately reflect the social world, but there are significant gaps, with little or no signal coming from particular communities.”
Source: rickross10
Hilary Clinton is Writing a Book About Being Secretary of State, Awesome
If Simon & Schuster is trying to redeem itself after THIS piece of garbage, this is a good start.
The Los Angeles Times and City Hall: Then and now
Above are two photos of our headquarters and City Hall, one taken way back on Feb. 4, 1969, and the second from March 28 of this year. To the right of the Times in the top photo is the Security First National Bank branch - where the LAPD headquarters now resides.
Photos: Whitney Fitzgerald, Scott Harrison / Los Angeles Times
The Facebook Phone is finally here. And, as expected, it’s not really a phone at all.
Home, as the new product is called, is a free, downloadable skin that gives existing Android phone a total Facebook makeover, transforming both lock and home screens into immersive, edge-to-edge slideshows of photos and status updates.
Need some more Facebook in your life?
Lay those long-standing rumors of Facebook producing its own physical phone to rest - the world’s largest social network is aiming to take over your pre-existing Android device (letting down those of us who were hoping for a ridiculous F-shaped cell phone).
“Facebook Home” will be an Android-focused app, available for download on select devices starting on April 12.
Take a deeper look at Facebook’s new mobile initiative via Tech Now.
Photos: Marcio Jose Sanchez / Associated Press, Facebook
RIP Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert, the legendary film critic whose “thumbs-up, thumbs-down” evaluations have become synonymous with cinema reviews, passed away today at age 70 after a lengthy battle with cancer.Just recently, he had announced that he would take a leave of absence from his work at the Chicago Sun-Times.
Photo: Robert K. O’Daniell / Associated Press
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