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MY World. Basic general questions answered The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have made a huge impact on the lives of billions, but there is still much more to be done to address extreme poverty, diseases and environmental crises.The global development agenda for the period after 2015 will build on the progress made on the MDGs while confronting persistent inequalities and new challenges facing people and planet.The new development agenda must result from a truly open and inclusive process that engages people from all parts of the world and all sections of society.The UN and the Secretary General’s High Level Panel on post-2015 want to hear directly from people across the world about what is important to them, so that their views can be taken into account in this global conversation. Basic methodology questions answered MY World is a way of listening to what people think a new global agreement on development should look like. My Asics app runs the numbers to make you faster. The fitness app market is crowded.

The most popular ones do a great job of logging your performance and connecting you with friends, but what if you want to shave 20 minutes off your half marathon time? One standout is My Asics, from the running shoe maker of the same name. Its adaptive training programs boil seven years of research down to a formula that anyone can use to improve their conditioning. With its latest update for iOS and Android, My Asics is bringing (nearly) the full power of its web app to mobile, letting you sign up for and manage your training plan entirely from your phone. "This whole quantified self movement only tells you where you are, not where you’re going," says project lead Alex Mrvaljevich.

My Asics constantly adapts to your performance Speaking of beating the target, My Asics constantly adapts to your performance, pushing you harder if you improve faster than it expected. "Once your glycogen is gone, that’s as far as you go. " Meet Grove, Sequoia Capital’s New Startup Events And How-To Content Hub. VCs are starting to get into content. First Round debuted its own version of Harvard Business Review. Andreessen Horowitz recently brought on Wired editor Michael Copeland to lead its content strategy. And Sequoia, who earlier this year hired Ben Worthen away from the Wall Street Journal, is debuting Grove, its new portal for how-to content, videos and events.

Sequoia has been one of the few firms of late that has attempted to avoid putting the focus on the firm’s partners in favor of focusing on the Sand Hill Road giant’s portfolio. But one of the key pieces of feedback that portfolio founders had begun to share with the firm over the past year was that they wished there were a centralized place where they could find advice and how-to’s on important topics like hiring, fundraising and other business advice. The firm decided to take a more entrepreneur-centric approach that would give founders a platform to find practical business advice. Top 10 Houses on Dwell This Week. The secret company behind Twitter's TV takeover.

Twitter enters millions of homes on a nightly basis with the help of a secret weapon: Mass Relevance, the most important company at the intersection of social media and television that you've never heard of. Founded in December 2010, the Austin-based startup is responsible for nearly every tweet that makes it to your television screen. And though Mass Relevance's CEO and co-founder Sam Decker would never take credit for turning the 7-year-old social network into the world's digital water cooler, his company puts Twitter in front of the masses in a way that has boosted its public profile and changed its perception as a place for more than pointless babble.

When Jack Dorsey, one of Twitter's co-founders, hosted the White House's Twitter Town Hall in July 2011, Mass Relevance helped pluck the best Twitter-posed questions with the #AskObama hashtag for him to ask President Barack Obama. "The vast majority of social content you see on TV is powered by our platform," Decker told CNET. Pearltrees videos. Top 10 Houses on Dwell This Week. Stephen Hawking's big ideas ... made simple - video animation | Science.