Clarence Petty, Protector of the Adirondacks, Dies at 104
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/science/earth/06petty.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
“Clarence Petty, who so revered the pristine Adirondack wilderness he first roamed nearly a century ago that he spent virtually all his adult life fighting to preserve it, died Monday at his home in Canton, N.Y., a town tucked between the Adirondack foothills and the St. Lawrence River Valley. He was 104.”
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I hope to do the opposite with Pictory. I want to collect images and stories directly from their sources: the people who create them. And then I want to make the best work that much better by editing, proofing, and compiling submissions into glossy online showcases. Big images. Careful details. Practical design. Credit and context.
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Cheap and Simple Credit Card Processing for Everyone http://springwise.com/financial_services/square/“An entrepreneur may have the best product in the world, but if he or she doesn't accept credit cards, it can be a problem. That's something St. Louis glass artist Jim McKelvey learned the hard way, and it's also why he was inspired to create Square.
Cofounded with Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, Square lets small business owners begin accepting payment cards immediately without the contracts, expensive hardware, monthly fees or hidden costs that are typically required. Using Square's intuitive app and a small plastic device that plugs into a mobile phone's audio input jack, payment cards can be swiped and read anywhere. Customers can have receipts sent to them via email or mobile phone and then access them securely online; they can also use text messaging to authorize every payment in real-time. For those who create a Square account, meanwhile, there's faster transaction processing and the option of photo verification. Now in limited beta, Square will donate a penny from every transaction to the cause of the user's choice. It will be widely available in early 2010. The reader devices will likely be free, while the app will cost about USD 1, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.
Similar in many ways to ProcessAway, which we covered earlier this year, Square promises to open up a whole new world of opportunity for sellsumers and minipreneurs. One to get in on early?”
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Foursquare Makes Geotagging Generous, Points to Charity's AR Futurehttp://www.fastcompany.com/blog/kit-eaton/technomix/foursquare-makes-geotagging-generous-points-charitys-ar-future“Foursquare's already a technology to keep your eye on if you're interested in geotagging, augmented reality, social gaming, and hyper-local ads, but it's just added a new attraction just in time for the Holidays: Charity, for New York players at least.
In a blog post today, Foursquare's team note that they are "super excited" about the new deal. For about a month the company has been looking for a sponsor for its New York City leaderboard--the table by which New York-based Foursquare players work out how well they're doing compared to the other players of the location-based pseudo-AR game. Now they've teamed up with Pepsi, but there's an unexpectedly sweet pay-off from what sounds like just another business ad-sponsorship scheme.”
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Google’s Checkbook Opens Up Again, This Time for Collaboration Start-Up AppJethttp://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20091204/googles-checkbook-opens-up-again-this-time-for-do/“Google, which has bought five companies in five months, just made it an even half-dozen: The company has snapped up AppJet, an online collaboration start-up run by veterans of the search giant. That’s CEO Aaron Iba on the right, in a photo presumably taken after the deal closed.
Google hasn’t even acknowledged the purchase yet–AppJet announced it on its blog–but when it does, I don’t expect to see a purchase price. AppJet, which hatched out of the Y Combinator incubator a couple years ago, has raised a reported $700,000 in angel funding, which means that whatever price Google (GOOG) paid won’t be material enough to require a disclosure.
AppJet says it will be working on Google’s Wave platform/product/whatever it is, which so far seems to be popular in concept but baffling in execution. Just below is an AppJet-produced video explaining its EtherPad word processing program, which allows for real-time collaboration.”
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