zheng recommended Paper: the next great iPad app, from the brains behind Courier from theverge.com:

The app has no menus, folders, or buttons, save for an export arrow, a plus sign for new pages, and a trash can button.

zheng recommended Omgpop创始人福曼：公司的成功出乎我预料 from donews.com:

　　波特说，他一些点子来源于看他儿子及其朋友在布鲁克林的一个公园玩投接球游戏。他说男孩们如果能来回投接球100次不掉在地上，他就给他们买冰淇淋吃。 　　“突然我想到，那正是这个游戏的精髓，”他说，“这个游戏就像投接球一样，因为我们一起合作，努力实现某个目标。” Draw Something没有时间限制，不会有输赢。

zheng recommended 无现金，无卡片，无收据：Square 如何在支付行业做出创新？ - 爱范儿 · Beats of Bits - 发现创新价值的科技媒体 from ifanr.com:

这边是 Dorsey 新的设计灵感来源。 “我对创造一套新的支付支付系统去直接替换原有其实并没有什么兴趣，如何改进客户的支付体验，让付费过程变得更简单，更愉快，才是我们真正关心的。” COO Keith Rabois 在接受 Fast Company 采访时说得那样。“这正是我们的目标，用这个软件去创造一种魔力的体验。”

zheng recommended 在线教科书租赁巨头Chegg推出移动版阅读器 from 36kr.com:

今天Chegg推出了一个新服务 – 移动版阅读器，它让用户在移动Web端阅读和标记他们的教科书内容。这个阅读器采用HTML5技术构建，它几乎提供了所有你上学时希望能有的功能。 根据Chegg网站的介绍，通过Chegg的移动阅读器，你可以在联网的设备上购买或租赁教科书。它可以让你高亮或保存文本、在文字边上做注释、在汇总视图中查看所有注释、标记某一章节，然后在期末考试时查看所有这些注释。

zheng recommended 从本地电子商务中走出来，6个很好的O2O模式解析 from 36kr.com:

当有商家或者个人看到你的需求，并想把自己手上的Mac 卖给你时，他们就可以匿名的发布自己可以接受的出售价格。想要买这台电脑的人会从所有的这些供应商中，选择一个最优的，通过Zaarly 进行交流；要是没什么问题，就可以通过线下现金交易或者Zaarly 中继承的信用卡交易平台完成交易了。

zheng recommended Gift Cards Be Gone: Karma Launches from forbes.com:

When someone first uses Karma, a few clever things happen. The gift-giver doesn’t have to pay immediately. They only have to pay just as the gift is about to be shipped. Think of the social pressure here. You dodged having to tediously enter your credit card number on your phone two hours ago, but now if you don’t do it, your gift-expecting friend gets a message that the gift won’t ship.

zheng recommended Anonymous has just released its own operating system: Anonymous-OS from thenextweb.com:

As The Hacker News notes, the OS is not developed by any particular or genuine source, and could be backdoored by law enforcement companies or hackers. Seriously, you can download this via the link below, but do so at your own risk!

zheng recommended Google wins libel case over Blogger comments from guardian.co.uk:

A former Tory local council candidate has failed in his libel action against Google over comments posted about him on a blog.

zheng recommended 50 things I learned at 500 from dowdydesign.com:

Long hair means you look a bit like startup Jesus. This makes the money flow.

zheng recommended The Credit Card Is The New App Platform from forbes.com:

We’re big believers at Greylock in the future of “online to offline” commerce, and we’re seeing a ton of innovation in this space. One of our portfolio companies, CardSpring, announced a major partnership with First Data earlier this week.

zheng recommended 500px Rolls Out New Browsing And Sharing Features – Plus A Market from techcrunch.com:

Flow is an all-in-one, endlessly-scrolling stream of photos and activity from your friends, mixed with curated and popular content. Presumably this will be the new default for discovery, as opposed to drilling down automatically to “Editor’s Choice” or the like.

zheng recommended Flickr Shifting Towards More Stylish, App-Like Design Next Week from techland.time.com:

Despite the threat from new challengers, Flickr still holds a lofty position when it comes to photo-sharing sites. Its 3.5-million daily uploads come in second only to Facebook. Betabeat also pointed out that Flickr had dropped the price of its two-year subscription — which gets you perks like unlimited uploads, stats and HD video playback — by $5 in January.

zheng recommended Joachim Vlieghe from joachimvlieghe.tumblr.com:

Are social reading sites changing the way we think about reading?

zheng recommended Features and specs from ubuntu.com:

Ubuntu for Android provides a full desktop experience, including office software, web browsing, email and media applications, on Android phones docked to a screen and keyboard. Thanks to tight integration with the Android service layer, the transition between the two environments is seamless, making it easy to access the phone's services from the desktop when docked.

zheng recommended Could Google Delete Copyrighted MP3s From Gmail? ‘Only In Extreme Cases’ It Says from techcrunch.com:

The original note raising the issue was published last week. The user, one Honey Escreveu, said that a folder she kept in her Gmail account, which contained MP3 files for copyrighted music, suddenly got deleted. It’s not clear whether those were legally-owned files or not. The only two MP3s that remained in her Gmail, apparently, were for “unsigned indy artists” who are not on YouTube.