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The Audacious Plan to End Hunger With 3D-Printed Food. Uber is slavery…Uber will add to traffic congestion…Uber destroys the savings of cab drivers… Hold the litany. Is this the incumbency speaking? And my name isn’t Marie Antoinette. I might get in trouble for this, but I’d like to add a drop of customer experience into the boiling broth of opinions about Uber. No warranties expressed or implied, my perspective is a limited one. After five decades of riding in taxis, both in my native Paris and my adopted Bay Area, I’ve had my share of interesting and sympathetic cabbies, most of whom are more than willing to share their life stories. Unfortunately, pleasant rides with charming drivers are rare exceptions in a succession of dirty Silicon Valley cabs with cracked windshields, duct taped seats, and noisy wheel bearings threatening to seize at any minute.

Simply finding a cab can be an unpleasant, complicated experience. The memories must be deeply imprinted. Try doing that with a Paris cab. Actually, this isn’t so puzzling.

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The web, the internet. Technology news. 5 Web Technologies and Trends to Watch in 2011. In 2010 we saw the rise of HTML5, the maturation of CSS3, the release of Rails 3.0, and the widespread adoption of the @font-face selector (part of CSS3) — among other things. In short: it was a busy year for advancing web development technologies. What will 2011 hold? Below is a list, compiled by Mashable editors of some of the web technologies and trends we think should be on your radar for the coming year. These aren't all straight up web dev technologies, per se, but they're all things that will have an impact on website and app development in 2011. 1. jQuery Mobile jQuery has become practically synonymous with JavaScript, in large part because of its extensibility, ease of use and strong project leadership.

With the goal of being a touch-optimized web framework for tablets and smartphones, jQuery Mobile is one of the most visible projects aiming to take cross-platform, cross-device web development for mobile browsers to the next level. . - Christina Warren, Mobile Reporter 2. 3. 4. 5. Coke Targets Teens With Black Friday SCVNGR Promotion - experimentalist. Email Scams Come To Facebook. It was only a matter of time: scammers have started targeting Facebook's new messaging system. I got my Facebook email account last Thursday. Early this morning, I received a notice that I'd won 950,000 South African Rand (about $135,000) in a contest held by the South African branch of Shell Petroleum. (Screenshot below.) All I have to do is send along a bunch of personal information like my name, phone number, date of birth, and occupation.

This is the kind of obvious spam that never makes it into Gmail. To be fair, this message did show up in my "Other" box, rather than the main inbox used for communications from known friends. Coke Targets Teens With Black Friday SCVNGR Promotion. Coca-Cola is kicking off a nationwide location-based rewards initiative targeted at young teens with SCVNGR as its platform of choice. The soda maker has seeded Simon Malls across the U.S. with challenges that players can complete to earn special Coke rewards.

The campaign is called Coke Secret Formula and is set to go live at 10 malls beginning November 26 — otherwise known to holiday shoppers as Black Friday. The idea is to encourage application users to look for hidden shopping experiences in the form of Coke challenges and unlock rewards in the process. SCVNGR players who complete the Coke mall challenges can accumulate enough points to redeem instant rewards including American Express gift cards and Coke-branded merchandise. In total, Coke will be giving away $100,000 in gift card rewards. Coke will be aggressively promoting the initiative with online, print and mall signage to include giant elevator wrappers like the one pictured above.

Email Scams Come To Facebook.