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Five Most Socially Savvy NBA Teams

The five most socially savvy teams.READ»

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Best of Artisan Chocolate

What tastes better with chocolate? According to these confectioners, just about everything.READ»

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Italian Furniture Designer Patricia Urquiola's Work Goes Beyond Just Furniture

With a blend of artistry and commercial savvy, Patricia Urquiola enthralls tony Italian furniture makers—as well as BMW, H&M, and high-end hotel chains such as Mandarin Oriental. It’s a beautiful business.READ»

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Join Me & Joi Ito at the Mozilla Drumbeat Festival, November 3-5!

 I'm excited to announce that i'm going to be participating in the first Mozilla Drumbeat Festival on the Future of Learning, Freedom and the Web, in Barcelona, Spain this November 3-5.Mozilla, the creators of the open-source ...READ»

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Unpacking the Global Human Egg Trade

Modern fertility technology has made parenthood a possibility for thousands more people, but it has also created a lucrative -- and ethically questionable -- global trade in human genetic material.READ»

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Chinese TV Host Yang Lan Stays True to Self to Build Empire

TV host Yang Lan is one of China's biggest celebs. Will the propriety and pragmatism that got her there keep her from becoming the mogul she wants to be? A story of fame, ambition, and reality in modern China.READ»

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Yahoo Builds the Nostradamus of Search Engines

The search giant's Time Explorer experiment keeps track of past predictions on a future timeline. Is this how we'll all search someday? READ»

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Recipient of First Ever Full Face Transplant Appears in Public for the First Time

A 31-year-old Spaniard who was given the world's first full face transplant four months ago, has this morning appeared at a press conference alongside the doctors who performed the procedure, at Barcelona's Vall d'Hebron University ...READ»

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Sexy Spanish Surrealism at New Tribeca Grand Lounge

The Winka Dubbeldam-designed bar doubles as a showroom for Spanish furnishings.READ»

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Crib Sheet: The Bilderberg Group, a Real-Life Illuminati for Conspiracy Theorists

Just outside of Barcelona there is a pretty little seaside resort called Sitges. Beloved by the gay community and horror movie aficionados, it is this year's venue for the Bilderberg Club's annual general meeting. "The what?" asked ...READ»

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The Best Olympics Have the Ugliest Mascots - London 2012 Is Going to Be Awesome

Fear not, earthlings. The uglier the mascot, the more successful the games. Trust us on this one.READ»

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Chef Gras Shows the Tools of His Trade: The Kitchen Lab

Chef Laurent Gras's Chicago restaurant, L20, turns two this month. He invited us into his kitchen for a look at the unorthodox tools he uses to create his elegant seafood-based cuisine.READ»

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Innovation is Calling

We called it right on LTEREAD»

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Microsoft Confirms Its Windows Phone 7 Won't Run Existing WinMo Apps

When Steve Ballmer unveiled Windows Phone 7 in Barcelona last month, there was a fair amount of speculation that Microsoft's radical (for them) new OS would render unto the company's existing devices a whole heap of incompatibility. ...READ»

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Fear Not These Murals: Brian Rea's Art Is What Keeps Him Up at Night

The illustrator faced his fears by painting them onto two long walls at the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona.READ»

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Mobile World Conference: WAC Proposes AT&T, Verizon, Sprint Global App Store

Big things are coming from the Mobile World Conference being held in Barcelona this week. One of the major announcements came on Monday, when 24 of the world’s leading telecommunications networks – including...READ»

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Trends at MWC – Cloud and OPEX

Another day here in Barcelona, and it’s interesting to see which trends are at the forefront at Mobile World Congress. App stores, mobile OS, cloud computing and power consumption are the significant trends this year, and while ...READ»

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Microsoft trashes iPhone - From TechCru...

Microsoft showed off its upcoming Windows Phone OS at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain today, and showed the video teaser above onstage. Without ever mentioning the iPhone, it completely trashes it and all the other ...READ»

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VoIP Goes Mobile at Mobile World Congress 2010

BroadSoft is attending this week’s 2010 Mobile World Congress, where of course lots of new services are being announced.  Microsoft’s unveiling of Windows Mobile 7 grabbed a lot of attention, as well as an array of new smart ...READ»

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Windows Mobile 7 to Be Unveiled to the World, Except Holidaying Americans

It looks like Microsoft is all set to finally reveal Windows Mobile 7, long-awaited cure to the ills of all the earlier WinMo OSes. The action's due to happen at Mobile World Congress on Monday. When no one in the U.S. will care. ...READ»

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Post Adverpocalypse: Agents & Facilitators in a New Era

History is not a continuum. Now’s a time when history is showing its joints and bending. But which way? READ»

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Shobert Vartan - Real Estate Agent

Shobert Vartan Real Estate - Contact Shobert Vartan Recently, we responded to an S.O.S from a successful luxury real estate marketing professional who put out this distress signal: I have been blogging consistently. Why is no ...READ»

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Shobert Vartan - Real Estate Agent

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The Nine Coolest Subway Stations in the World

DesignBoom collects some remarkable subway designs that put our own to shame.READ»

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The Rise and Fall of Design Within Reach

This article, originally published in the December 2009 issue of the magazine, won the 2010 Deadline Club Award for Best Business Feature.READ»