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Is Forbes acquiring Clipmarks?

Wed, 08 Aug 2007 00:20:21 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: VentureBeat just ran a story stating that Forbes has acquired Clipmarks. I wanted to quickly fill everyone in on what's going on.

First, this article is a bit premature. We have not been acquired by Forbes. However, for the past few months we have been meeting with people at all levels of Forbes and the excitement and support they have shown for what we're creating has been very meaningful to us. As many of you have probably seen already, a number of their writers are already clipping and our technology has been integrated on forbes.com.

For quite a while, we have been in talks with various parties about helping to financially support clipmarks. However, we hadn't yet found the right "partner" to help us complete this journey. A partner who fully understands our vision for making news and information more portable and interactive than ever before. Therefore, we just kept looking.

Continued...

Clip Source: venturebeat.com

Clipmarks, one of the many startups that helps users collect and organize information from around the web, is being bought by Forbes Magazine, an inside source tells us.

Tags: clipmarks, forbes, web, business

39 ways to live, and not merely exist

Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:53:53 GMT

clipped by: morgainelefaye

Clip Source: www.dumblittleman.com

Too often we go through life on autopilot, going through the motions and having each day pass like the one before it.

That's fine, and comfortable, until you have gone through another year without having done anything, without having really lived life.

That's fine, until you have reached old age and look back on life with regrets.

That's fine, until you see your kids go off to college and realize that you missed their childhoods.

It's not fine. If you want to truly live life, to really experience it, to enjoy it to the fullest, instead of barely scraping by and only living a life of existence, then you need to find ways to break free from the mold and drink from life.

Love

Get outside

Savor food

Create a morning ritual

Take chances

Follow excitement

Find your passion

Get out of your cubicle

Turn off the TV

Pull away from Internet

Travel

Rediscover what's important

Eliminate everything else

Exercise

Be positive

Open your heart

Kiss in the rain

Face your fears

When you suffer, suffer

Slow down

Tags: personal development, self improvement, mlf

Being Poor

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:36:43 GMT

clipped by: morgainelefaye
clipper's remarks: Don't miss all the additions in the comments either.

Clip Source: www.scalzi.com

Being poor is knowing exactly how much everything costs.

Being poor is hoping the toothache goes away.

Being poor is knowing your kid goes to friends' houses but never has friends over to yours.

Being poor is a heater in only one room of the house.

Being poor is hoping your kids don't have a growth spurt.

Being poor is thinking $8 an hour is a really good deal.

Being poor is relying on people who don't give a damn about you.

Being poor is finding the letter your mom wrote to your dad, begging him for the child support.

Being poor is not taking the job because you can't find someone you trust to watch your kids.

Being poor is hoping you'll be invited for dinner.

Being poor is needing that 35-cent raise.

Being poor is crying when you drop the mac and cheese on the floor.

Being poor is knowing you work as hard as anyone, anywhere.

Being poor is picking the 10 cent ramen instead of the 12 cent ramen because that's two extra packages for every dollar.

Being poor is knowing you're being judged.

Tags: collection, society, food for thought, poverty, mlf

Kurt Vonnegut

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:53:48 GMT

clipped by: morgainelefaye
clipper's remarks: Eight rules for writing fiction.

Clip Source: www.americanstate.org

Eight rules for writing fiction:

1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.

3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

4. Every sentence must do one of two things -- reveal character or advance the action.

5. Start as close to the end as possible.

6. Be a sadist. Now matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that the reader may see what they are made of.

7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

Tags: writing, literature, kurt vonnegut, mlf

The 8 Principles of Having Fun

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 13:11:53 GMT

clipped by: rhymonde
clipper's remarks: The flash movie at 8Principles is really beautifully done,check it out if you have some free time.

Clip Source: www.lifehack.org

1. Stop hiding who you really are.

2. Start being intensely selfish.

3. Stop following the rules.

4. Start scaring yourself.

5. Stop taking it all so damn seriously.

6. Start getting rid of the crap.

7. Stop being busy.

8. Start something.

The Eight Principles Movie - [8Principles]

Are you having fun yet? - [SlowLeadership]

Tags: fun, life, self-help

Welcome to the Clipiversity

Tue, 01 May 2007 22:57:16 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: We were talking recently about how much we learn each day from reading clips on the site. I won't speak for anyone else, but i definitely have learned more from the clips that you all have posted than i did in high school, college and law school combined. Sad, but true.

So, Skiff set out to create a fun podcast that highlights some of the interesting clips we find each day. It also gives us an opportunity to weigh in on them. Now you can sit back and listen to highlights from clipmarks on the clipiversity podcast...and don't worry, there will be no pop quizzes...get it, pop

Clip Source: clipiversity.com

Clipiversity for Monday, April 30th, 2007

Clip Source: clipiversity.com

Tags: clipmarks, clipiversity, podcast, learning

Republican Call Girls

Sat, 14 Apr 2007 14:57:41 GMT

clipped by: morgainelefaye

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

[Video]

Tags: humour, politics, usa, youtube, mlf

Eyecandy : Sunsets and Sunrises

Sun, 11 Mar 2007 22:03:00 GMT

clipped by: morgainelefaye

Clip Source: www.absolutelynothing.co.uk

Tags: photography, images, mlf

Map of the Brain

Sat, 24 Feb 2007 17:53:06 GMT

clipped by: Wilhelmina
clipper's remarks: This is a cover from TIME magazine, I really loved it.

Clip Source: www.time.com

Tags: map, brain, time, speech, emotion, vision, balance, feelings, wires

Apophenia

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:10:50 GMT

clipped by: morgainelefaye

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Apophenia is the experience of seeing patterns or connections in random or meaningless data. The term was coined in 1958 by Klaus Conrad, who defined it as the "unmotivated seeing of connections" accompanied by a "specific experience of an abnormal meaningfulness".

In statistics, apophenia would be classed as a Type I error (false positive, false alarm, caused by an excess in sensitivity). Apophenia is often used as an explanation of some paranormal and religious claims. It has been suggested that apophenia is a link between psychosis and creativity.

Conrad originally described this phenomenon in relation to the distortion of reality present in psychosis, but it has become more widely used to describe this tendency in healthy individuals without necessarily implying the presence of neurological or mental illness.

The identification of a face on the surface of Mars is an example of pareidoliac apophenia.

Tags: apophenia, definition, wikipedia, mlf

Student uses Twitter to get out of jail

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:50:14 GMT

clipped by: egoldstein
clipper's remarks: What an incredible example of the power of the social web. It's truly remarking how much power is gained by the people from the web. Knowledge is power...and the internet definitely helps spread knowledge more quickly to more people than ever before.

Clip Source: www.cnn.com

Buck, a graduate student from the University of California-Berkeley, was in Mahalla, Egypt, covering an anti-government protest when he and his translator, Mohammed Maree, were arrested April 10.

On his way to the police station, Buck took out his cell phone and sent a message to his friends and contacts using the micro-blogging site Twitter.

The message only had one word. "Arrested."

Tags: twitter, web, egypt

How to Build Self Confidence

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:09:30 GMT

clipped by: morgainelefaye

Clip Source: www.wikihow.com

You want to be confident and feel confident, but what if you're starting with little or no confidence? How do you get from Point A to Point B? True self-confidence isn't an overnight acquisition. It takes dedication to realize you are a good human being that is worthy of respect and love.

Recognize your insecurities.

Talk about it with friends and loved ones.

Remember that nobody is perfect.

Identify your successes.

Be thankful for what you have.

Be Positive, even if you don't feel positive.

Look in the mirror and smile.

Fake it.

Express yourself, whether it's through art,music, writing, etc.

Stick to your principles.

Exercise and eat healthy.

When you're feeling superbly insecure, write down a list of things that are good about you.

Know the difference between jealousy and envy

Don't be afraid to push yourself a bit

Learning how to survive in the wilderness will build your confidence in other areas of life too.

Don't get wrapped up in your mistakes and dwell on bad points

Tags: food for thought, howto, confidence, mlf

Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:38:14 GMT

clipped by: morgainelefaye
clipper's remarks: Animation of several pieces of 20th Century art morphing into each other.

Clip Source: youtube.com

[Video]

Tags: art, animation, eyecandy, mlf

Two kinds of judgement

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 23:21:24 GMT

clipped by: morgainelefaye

Clip Source: www.paulgraham.com

Our early training and our self-centeredness combine to make us believe that every judgement of us is about us. In fact most aren't. This is a rare case where being less self-centered will make people more confident. Once you realize how little most people judging you care about judging you accurately—once you realize that because of the normal distribution of most applicant pools, it matters least to judge accurately in precisely the cases where judgement has the most effect—you won't take rejection so personally.

And curiously enough, taking rejection less personally may help you to get rejected less often. If you think someone judging you will work hard to judge you correctly, you can afford to be passive. But the more you realize that most judgements are greatly influenced by random, extraneous factors—that most people judging you are more like a fickle novel buyer than a wise and perceptive magistrate—the more you realize you can do things to influence the outcome.

Tags: self improvement, personal development, mlf

English Tongue Twisters

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 23:18:22 GMT

clipped by: morgainelefaye

Clip Source: www.uebersetzung.at

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

A quick witted cricket critic.

Something in a thirty-acre thermal thicket of thorns and thistles thumped and thundered threatening the three-D thoughts of Matthew the thug - although, theatrically, it was only the thirteen-thousand thistles and thorns through the underneath of his thigh that the thirty year old thug thought of that morning.

Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks.

How much wood could Chuck Woods' woodchuck chuck, if Chuck Woods' woodchuck could and would chuck wood? If Chuck Woods' woodchuck could and would chuck wood, how much wood could and would Chuck Woods' woodchuck chuck? Chuck Woods' woodchuck would chuck, he would, as much as he could, and chuck as much wood as any woodchuck would, if a woodchuck could and would chuck wood.

Tags: language, mlf