Tim Ferriss: ‘My book was yanked from Costco shelves because of explicit sex chapters’

[youtube]7hzMWOLx9Qo[/youtube] Tim Ferriss answers your Tweets: @steveburford asks: The best skill Tim has learnt to improve his social life? [youtube]w68OV1BpqWc[/youtube] This video was bought to you bySitePenandViadeo. Calling all Scaleup founders! Join the Soonicorn Summit on November 28 in Amsterdam. Meet with the leaders of Picnic, Miro, Carbon Equity and more during this exclusive event dedicated to Scaleup Founders! What has changed about Tim Ferriss since I met him almost a year ago atThe Next Web conferencein Amsterdam?...

2 min · 388 words · Amanda Powell

Timbuktu: The iPad magazine for children. Really well-read children.

Timbuktu Magazinehas been touted as the first iPad magazine for kids. And since I’m not a kid, I gave my iPad to my 6 year old daughter Grace and had her give it a try while I observed and took notes. First off, there were definitely some barriers to entry for my little girl, such as the reading level. I’d say that it’d be a couple of years before my daughter could pick this up and read much of what’s written — and she reads at a Grade One level....

3 min · 599 words · Christopher Johnson

Time Inc’s Jason Anthony on when games, publishing and religion meet

The Nordic Exceptional Trendshop conference is just around the corner, with a mission to “Rock your Worldview”. One of the many interesting speakers lined up for the event next week in Aarhuus, Denmark, is Jason Anthony – a Senior Editor at publishing giantTime Inc. Jason will be talking about how he combines gaming mechanisms with new media applications to ‘hack’ traditional problem solving. We got in touch with him to find out about his unusual work, bringing the worlds of religion, gaming and publishing together....

10 min · 2015 words · Jason Bishop

Timeflies cuts up Apple samples for a brilliant tribute to Steve Jobs

Two Tufts University graduates that form the rap group calledTimeflieshave just left us very impressed. The music duo consisting of Producer/DJ Rob Resnick and vocalist Cal, both 22 years old got their start in Boston, but are originally from New Jersey and New York, respectively. This week, rather than their usual freestyle, they said they wanted to take the time to put something together that was more serious to show respect for an innovator who has been such a big part of their lives....

2 min · 306 words · Mitchell Jordan

Times Square iPhone hack was actually a clever plug for a new movie

You may remember a videowe posted earlier in the weekwhich showed two men defacing billboards in Times Square, New York with what looked to be an iPhone transmitter and separate repeater. Every time the video repeater was waved in front of a video billboard, the picture would momentarily show the video output of the iPhone. We weren’t sure the video was real, our readers certainly weren’t buying it either. It has emerged that the video, uploaded by YouTube userBITcrash44, is part of a very clever marketing campaign for a new movie named“Limitless”, starring Bradley Cooper (The Hangover) and Robert Di Nero which will be released on March 18....

4 min · 651 words · Jimmy George
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