Tag: Saved for Later

At this point, there’s no clear, obvious way for consumers to eliminate them.

via POLITICO – TOP Stories http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/obamacare-website-problems-98029.html

I’m writing this post at 10 p.m. on a Monday. But if I emailed a quick question to the post’s main subject––Vynamic CEO Dan Calista––he wouldn’t get back to me until tomorrow.

That’s because Vynamic, a Philadelphia–based health–care consulting company, officially requests that employees not send email between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. on weekdays, and all day Saturday and Sunday. The policy, which the company dubs "zmail," began after employees complained about stress in the annual engagement survey. Constant email contact played a role in that. Calista describes it this way: "You get an email. You’re trying to sleep. You happen to look at it right as you fall asleep, and next thing you know you’re up thinking about it. All it takes is that one." And so the policy began: "Let it wait until the morning."

The roll–out required some thought. Managers had to go first. After a month, they evaluated it, and "everyone became a believer in it," says Calista. So the email blackout zone went into the employee handbook. "We’re not going to fire somebody if they violate it," he says. But it’s pretty effectively self–policed.

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via Fast Company http://www.fastcompany.com/3019655/how-to-be-a-success-at-everything/should-your-company-practice-zmail-the-case-for-inbox-curf?partner=rss

"So, where are we on getting Spader?"

Fred Graver, Twitter’s head of TV, is hunkered down in a cramped conference room in the company’s New York office with a tiny team of two. Outside, sales and marketing staffers gear up for a Summer Friday confab, but Graver isn’t thinking about margaritas. He’s thinking about how to nab James Spader. The actor is returning to television this fall as a creepy criminal mastermind in a highly anticipated show called The Blacklist. Graver wants Spader on Twitter posting behind–the–scenes photos from the set, live–tweeting episodes, conversing with fans––and hell, maybe even tweeting creepy criminal–mastermindy things. That would be just fine.

Graver’s goal is clear: Make sure that all the people who enjoy television take to Twitter to enjoy it even more. When viewers watch TV––their smartphone or tablet at their side––using Twitter to chat with their virtual friends about a program, it creates "the world’s biggest couch," he says. And who better to have gossiping on the sofa with you than the star of the show?

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via Fast Company http://www.fastcompany.com/3018620/twitter-woos-tv-networks-advertisers-ipo?partner=rss

The bomb went off Monday near a health care facility outside Peshawar, a city that has seen a spate of deadly attacks in recent weeks.

via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/08/world/asia/deadly-bombing-near-polio-vaccination-site-in-pakistan.html

A old friend, occasional driver, and alleged drug dealer for Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, was arrested last night on charges of trafficking marijuana, complicating Ford’s efforts to steer clear of anymore drug-related scandal.

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The apparent arrest of Professor Zhu Jianrong, possibly on espionage charges, comes as relations between China and Japan have hit their lowest point in decades.

via NYT > Most Recent Headlines http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/02/world/asia/china-is-said-to-be-holding-professor-over-his-activities-in-japan.html

A fortnight after Facebook announced a set of tools aimed to further its pursuit of news, it has now trained its gaze on the medium of television with the aim of loosening Twitter‘s strong grip on TV events by offering up its data––even from private posts––to the U.S.’s four largest networks.

Each week, says the Wall Street Journal, Facebook will release its data to ABC, NBC, Fox and CBS, which shows how many Likes, Comments or Shares a TV episode has inspired on the social network. These results will not be made public.

The firm stresses that the data, which is at this stage pretty basic merely showing how many "actions"––that’s Likes, Comments and Shares––were generated by one episode, and from how many Facebook users, is collected anonymously and shown as a whole. What Facebook is hoping that sets it apart from Twitter is that, it holds a much richer store of personal information on its users than its rival does.

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via Fast Company http://www.fastcompany.com/3018819/where-are-they-now/facebook-steps-up-its-bid-to-take-twitters-tv-audience?partner=rss

The data analysis grouo that used Facebook and set top TV data to help Barack Obama win the latest election is taking its talents to the private sector. (SL NYTimes)

via MetaFilter http://www.metafilter.com/132430/Data-You-Can-Believe-In

WASHINGTON (AP) — This time, President Barack Obama says, he’s not budging. This is the confrontational Obama, the "Make my day" president, betting Republicans blink to avoid a government shutdown or a first-ever default of the nation’s debts….

via AP Top Headlines At 5:12 a.m. EDT http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_BUDGET_BATTLE_OBAMA?SITE=FLROC&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

The scenarios are messy and each would trigger an immediate crisis or set the stage for a showdown.

via POLITICO – TOP Stories http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/house-republicans-government-shutdown-how-it-ends-97442.html