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Inspired and interesting text online … things worth reading.
Think Your Office Is Soulless? Check Out This Amazon Fulfillment Center
“When Amazon opened its warehouse in the former coal-mining town of Rugeley, England, residents thought the company might bring brighter economic prospects. As photographer Ben Roberts hopes to show, that’s not exactly what happened.”
Email Is Crushing Twitter, Facebook for Selling Stuff Online
“Email, on the other hand, has a certain unfair advantage in that shoppers getting the emails have already given up their addresses to a site, suggesting they already have some prior relationship with that retailer. Still, despite the avalanche of spam we all get, it’s easy to see how the staying power and greater potential for personalization of a medium without a 140-character limit gives email distinct advantages.”
http://www.wired.com/business/2013/07/email-crushing-twitter-facebook/?
Google Is Developing Android Game Console
“Google is developing a videogame console and wristwatch powered by its Android operating system, according to people familiar with the matter, as the Internet company seeks to spread the software beyond smartphones and tablets.”
“Mobile First” – Why mobile technology applied to the workforce is only just getting started
A million engineers in India struggling to get placed in an extremely challenging market
“Somewhere between a fifth to a third of the million students graduating out of India’s engineering colleges run the risk of being unemployed. Others will take jobs well below their technical qualifications in a market where there are few jobs for India’s overflowing technical talent pool. Beset by a flood of institutes (offering a varying degree of education) and a shrinking market for their skills, India’s engineers are struggling to subsist in an extremely challenging market.”
Experience Slows You Down
“My theory is this: when you know everything about an industry, you don’t know whats good for it. The only thing you know is the rules and confinements that have been set up by the people within that industry to prevent change. That’s human nature. People don’t like change, people like change they like. So you follow the rules, and learn some more and before you know it. You are 50 years old, wears a suit and dictates the rules by yourself. You don’t change the industry you’re in, the industry changes you.”
This Is What It Takes For A Tiny Startup To Close Million-Dollar Deals With Fortune 500 Companies
Square moves from the smartphone to the browser, building its own online market
“Square isn’t merely content with processing credit cards for local businesses. It wants to handle their online transactions as well.
Square is essentially moving in the opposite direction of its main mobile payments rival PayPal, the entrenched provider of online payments for small businesses. While PayPal is horning in Square’s turf with its Here credit card reader, Square hopes to chisel off a piece of PayPal’s peer-to-peer payments with a new service called Square Cash. Now Square is going after the business of PayPal’s parent eBay with Market.”
Mobile trends
Three of the Most Bizarre Trends in Mobile That Can no Longer be Ignored