QR codes are here to stay as an accepted form of marketing, cleverly integrating the offline with the online. Althoughmost teenagers have a tough time understanding QR codes, they’ve reached the mainstream in such a way, it’s hard to imagine a bus shelter that doesn’t have at least oneQR codein the corner. But QR codes are capable of so much more than just being printed on something. Below is a selection of my favourite uses of QR codes, some as part of a strategic marketing plan, some just plain crazy!...

An entrepreneur’s last attempt at regaining productivity: Ditching social media in 2021 I’ve got to reclaim my time. The opportunity cost of social media On a sunny day in the late 2000s, Mom snapped my photo and uploaded it to her computer. There I was, a freshman, grinning and backlit in front of her blinds. Not candid or stylish — just a grainy placeholder photo to help me complete my Myspace profile....

Time is relative. It can be cheap, free, expensive, long and short. For an Entrepeneur time is one of the most valuable assets there is. You can’t buy more. It is fixed and you only have a certain amount of it. Every minute you are not spending on your company you are losing money. That is what it feels like, to most entrepreneurs I know. For managers, employees (people who work at companies) time is, well, different....

The proliferation ofchild sexual abuse materialon the internet is harrowing and sobering. Technology companies sendtens of millions of reports per yearof these images to the nonprofitNational Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The way companies that provide cloud storage for your images usually detect child abuse material leaves you vulnerable to privacy violations by the companies – and hackers who break into their computers. On Aug. 5, 2021, Appleannounced a new way to detect this materialthat promises to better protect your privacy....

This video was bought to you bySitePenandViadeo. Twimbow, the browser based Twitter clientwe covered last yearis launching version 1.0 at the end of the month and we were lucky enough to get some previews. What makes Twimbow special is it enables you to color code your Tweets, making it easier to quickly sort and digest the mountain of information coming through the Twitter firehose. Calling all Scaleup founders! Join the Soonicorn Summit on November 28 in Amsterdam....