Dropbox Kicks Off Its Bigger, More Difficult “Dropquest” Scavenger Hunt Today

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Last year, nearly half a million completed Dropbox ‘s very first “Dropquest.” This time, designer Jon Ying and engineer Rajeev Nayak say they “honestly don’t know” how many people will participate, but with the company’s rapid growth , it’s a safe bet that the number will be bigger.

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No Shortcuts, No Mercy: The Bloodsport Of Recruitment

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One year ago I wrote an article called “ Why The New Guy Can’t Code ,” about how the industry-standard process for hiring software engineers is broken, shortsighted, and counterproductive.

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Parenting and the Dark Side of Sports

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How does a parent reconcile the greatness of sports with its underbelly?

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Timeline: How République Squeaked Out a Kickstarter Success

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Image courtesy Camouflaj At 7:58 a.m. Pacific Friday morning, a game called République (pronounced “Republic”) finally reached its $500,000 funding goal on Kickstarter with only six hours to go after one of the most tumultuous month-long campaigns in Kickstarter history. At the beginning, République looked like a sure thing.

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Gamification: Insights And Emerging Trends

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Editor’s note : Tim Chang is a managing director at Mayfield Fund .

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Game|Life Podcast: Baby, We’re Just Bad News

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Original image: Irrational Games It’s a bad news bonanza on this week’s Game|Life! Yes, we here at the Game|Life podcast advise you to listen to this episode while sitting down drinking a nice relaxing cup of chamomile tea and having a good cry. Let it all out. BioShock Infinite has been delayed.

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Spotify offers up playlist radio stations and more with latest upgrade

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For an upgrade with a fairly underwhelming number like 0.8.3 attached, the latest version of the Spotify desktop client brings the goods. First up is much requested the ability to create radio stations based on playlists or albums, with the click of a button (that would be the Start Playlist Radio or Start Album Radio button, for the record), generating a queue of similar music. A new boost to search brings up music in the main view when you hover over it in search results, while embeddable HTML codes have been added to right click functionality

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New Book Investigates the Wide, Wonderful World of LARP

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A Celt relaxes between battles at Knight Realms, one of the LARPs featured in the new book Leaving Mundania: Inside the Transformative World of Live Action Role-Playing Games by Lizzie Stark (Photo credit: Kyle Ober; photo courtesy of James C. Kimball) So you want to be Harry Potter, or Aragorn, or Frodo, or Kirk or Picard, or a barbarian. Or some mash-up — say, a steampunked brigand Robin Hood character who pilots a dirigible while stealing from the rich and giving the poor

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Twitter Buys Personalized Email Marketer RestEngine To Deliver Best Tweet Digests

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Twitter has just finalized a deal to  hire the team and buy the technology of RestEngine , a personalized email marketing service, which could help Twitter deliver email digests of great tweets you’ve missed.

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Facebook Adds “Good Enough” File Sharing To All Groups. Dropbox Should Worry About Growth

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Today Facebook begins rolling out file sharing to all Groups, and while it’s got many restrictions, it could be good enough to limit the long-term growth potential of cloud storage / file sharing services like  Dropbox , iCloud, and Google Drive. Music and any copyright files aren’t allowed and file size is capped at 25mb, as Mashable first reported . But this is just the first version, and you can be sure Facebook will keep hacking away at it

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