CouchBlick Yummly raises $1.85M for semantic recipe searches Pushing forward with the trend for more and more narrow search technologies, Yummly has raised $1.85 million for its semantic search and recommendation platform for doing queries on recipes. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company makes the task of finding recipes simpler and more personal. David Feller, co-founder and chief executive of Yummly, said the company will use the money to expand its services. The seed round of funding came from First Round Capital, Harrison Metal Capital, Intel Capital and angels. With its focus on doing search for one particular thing, Yummly resembles other successful sites such as Pandora Radio (songs) and Netflix (movies).
Home Reviews | Interior Design and Architecture. Get inspired to make your place better TV Crunch Google has 2,076 job openings – Tech Products & Geek News If you have the talent and the enthusiasm there is no better time to apply for a job at Google. Not only has the company just raised its salaries for employees, but Reuters did some calculations and found there are 2,076 open positions. The number of jobs available is not through any mass exodus from Google to Facebook. Google may already have over 23,000 employees, but it is still expanding and needs more staff for its core areas such as advertising, Android, and web services. Read more at Reuters Matthew’s Opinion Google’s job pages are well laid out into sections making it quite difficult to get an overall picture of just how many positions are open. The sheer scale of Google’s business, plus their continued need to grow, suggests they do need that many new people.
Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome Film features: 30 Killer Movie Opening Lines The first line can make or break a movie. And some of the best films also boast superb opening gambits that suck you in, make you think, have you laughing or just tease you. We’ve rounded up some of our favourites – let us know yours in the comments… The Film: Annie Hall (1977) The Line: “There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." "Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly. "The... the other important joke, for me, is one that's usually attributed to Groucho Marx; but, I think it appears originally in Freud's "Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious," and it goes like this - I'm paraphrasing - um, "I would never want to belong to any club that would have someone like me for a member." "That's the key joke of my adult life, in terms of my relationships with women." “Huh? Like This?
The 5 Most Profitable Drugs: They Never Cure You In this week's cover story, writer Keegan Hamilton investigates the controversy surrounding ibogaine, the experimental hallucinogen drug that has helped kick meth and heroin addictions. Ibogaine is illegal, even though its power to cure addicts has been proven. Hamilton's story describes the many reasons the medical establishment and the government are wary of Ibogaine, despite its benefits, but one of them really stood out: Because Ibogaine is an outright cure, drug companies want nothing to do with it. Martin Kuehne, a chemist at the University of Vermont, is quoted in the story, saying, "Pharmaceutical companies don't like cures. When we read that, a light went on. So, with that in mind, we thought we'd test Kuehne's theory, and look at the five most profitable drugs in the United States. Guess what they all have one in common? 4) Advair Diskus (2009 gross revenue: $4.7 billion): For asthma sufferers, a twice-daily inhaler to reduce the swelling in your respiratory system.
filmzentrale - gesammelte filmkritiken