How to Get a Complete Workout with Nothing But Your Body. AUDL Ultimate Frisbee league: Is America ready to watch pro athletes toss around flying discs? Photograph by Andrew Davis/USA Ultimate. Get ready, America. At 3 p.m. this Saturday, pro sports in this country will change forever when the Rhode Island Rampage take on the Connecticut Constitution. Yes, we are just a few days away from the dawn of professional Ultimate Frisbee. When the formation of the American Ultimate Disc League was first announced, I thought it was a joke. It’s not totally crazy for Ultimate to go pro. I am among the horde of men and women who played competitive Ultimate in college. Despite 40 years of history, and more participants in America than fast-pitch softball and ice hockey combined, it’s impossible to find a news story that treats Ultimate as anything but a curiosity.
There is some evidence that Ultimate’s image is changing. Smith could be the AUDL’s salvation. Traditionally, Ultimate has been governed by a concept known as “Spirit of the Game.” These views are far from universal. Moore seems remarkably confident in the league’s success. Facebook Instagram deal: Mark Zuckerberg’s plan to rule mobile sharing. Photograph by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images.
When word came that Instagram had been acquired by Facebook for $1 billion, the tweets came fast, and they were furious: “Delete ur instagram!! The Feds own it now!!” “I had a higher opinion of you Instagram.” “Soon as I delete my Facebook they decide to buy instagram #FML.” To an outsider, the outrage was puzzling. A small company that lets you share photos with friends and strangers was purchased by a larger company that lets you share photos with friends and strangers.
For Facebook, targeting Instagram makes sense. For many startups, in fact, getting acquired by a company like Google or Facebook is the ultimate marker of success. There’s one thing about this deal that doesn’t quite make sense at first blush, though: the price tag. But Instagram’s market position isn’t unshakeable: It had only recently conquered a paid app called Hipstamatic as the leader in fuzzy-looking iPhone pics. Facebook was once a community, too. Instagram Founders Were Helped by Bay Area Connections. Les Guignols de l'Info du 16/04/12 - Qui sera le Premier Ministre de François Hollande ? The Most Epic Ad ever Made: A DRAMATIC SURPRISE ON A QUIET SQUARE. Andover, The Magazine-Winter 2012. Brainstorm. YC-Backed Siasto Draws Nearer To The Holy Grail Of Project Management Software. In the quest for the Holy Grail of project management software — a product that just feels natural and easy to use — Siasto has made it further than most.
If this were The Last Crusade, it’d be somewhere inside the temple, crossing the bridge of faith to reach the chalice. Siasto might seem a little too familiar at first, as it uses the same concepts as you’ve seen in competing products like Basecamp. You create projects, you add tasks to them, you upload documents, you invite other users, and so on. What’s special is the how the Y Combinator-backed company has organized the interface, and how it’s busy tying in with Google. Here’s a quick walk-through of what it’s doing. First, you sign in using your Google identity — the right third-party ID service such for work-related software, considering the popularity of Docs, spreadsheets, and Google Apps for Business. Second, Siasto manages to mostly get rid of navigation bars in favor of sticking the main information in tiles on the homepage.