Project Plans to Bring Public Transit Maps Back to the iPhone

Apple's iOS 6 plans to drop Google Maps when released this fall. Unfortunately, its replacement will not host built-in support for public transit. New York startup OpenPlans wants to create an iOS app to bring back the popular service.

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"Gathr is the Love Child of Netflix and Kickstarter" | Future of Film

Editor's note: Two weeks ago, we published our first in a series of pieces on crowd-sourcing platforms that are helping filmmakers get their work into theaters without a traditional wide release. Today, Scott Glosserman shares some background on his motivation for developing the new platform Gathr .

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The Kickstarter Chronicles

The Kickstarter Chronicles A photographer's Antarctica trip gets the iBook treatment and PBS finds another way to appeal to viewers like you By Sara Morrison Each week, dozens of journalistic endeavors turn to Kickstarter for funding. Pitching media projects to this online community brings another meaning to the concept "public interest journalism"; success depends on how intrigued people are by the pitch.

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Functional Programming is Dead, Long Live Expression-Oriented Programming " Inviting Epiphany

It's funny how over time the meaning of a technical word will converge to something halfway between what the experts intended and some fuzzy notion consisting of the most easily graspable components of that idea. In this inevitable process an idea is stripped of all of its flavor and is reduced to a set of bullet points graspable in an hour long presentation.

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