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Facebook’s organ donation program will save a lot of lives
Facebook can save lives. When the social network announced a new feature last May that allowed users to announce their organ donor status to their followers, it was easy to shrug it off as charitable posturing: Social media is good for either sharing updates about your cat or feckless social activism campaigns that make a lot of noise but go nowhere.
The cynicism, it turned out, was unwarranted. Just look at the numbers revealed in a recent John Hopkins study:13,012 people registered the first day.
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Standing: The Newest Form of Protest in Turkey
On Monday night, Turkish artist Erdem Gunduz arrived in Istanbul’s Taksim Square, the site of weeks of ongoing protests and violent clashes with police, and tried something a little different: he put his hands in his pockets, gazed at a picture of Ataturk, and stood perfectly still. He stood there quietly for five hours, and as the night wore on others joined him:
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New Impressive Squarespace Site
The all new Squarespace site is stunning. Simply stunning. Navigate between the different spaces (case studies) with the arrows on the right and make sure to watch the short videos featuring the respective desk (surface) owners.
Squarespace, consider me impressed.
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Obvious Co.-backed habit forming app Lift comes from iPhone to Web and mobile devices with beautiful responsive design
Today the habit forming app Lift is launching a new Web app that works across desktops and devices like Android and Windows phones. The app is designed to compliment the current version for iOS that launched in late 2012.
The Web edition of the app appears heavily inspired by mobile devices like the iPad, and it scales across multiple platforms with a responsive design. There’s near feature parity between the iOS app and the Web app, though a new statistics section has been added to the web to give you deeper and longer access to personal statistics and visualization.
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What the Kids Are Doing: A Search Engine for 4 Million Vines
Vine is hard to explain. It’s an app that lets you make and share six-second videos, which sounds absurd. But it’s kind of fun, and especially since being acquired by Twitter, it has grown in popularity, hitting 13 million users earlier this month, especially among the kids, a technical term meaning “anyone younger than me.”
So what are people doing on Vine? John Muellerleile wanted to find out, and he crawled Twitter looking for links to Vines, and then pulled four million of them into a database he calls vinecrawler.
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