mGive, a non-profit organization working with Red Cross to collect donations via text message, has announced that they have collected over $4 million for Haitian relief. Jenifer Snyder, mGive’s executive director, said that donations are coming in at the rate of $200,000 an hour, though they have capacity to take on more. By way of comparison, Red Cross collected only $400,000 in mobile donations after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 Read more ...

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Text Message Donations to Haiti Pass $4 Million [Haiti]

Jan 14th

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mGive, a non-profit organization working with Red Cross to collect donations via text message, has announced that they have collected over $4 million for Haitian relief. Jenifer Snyder, mGive’s executive director, said that donations are coming in at the rate of $200,000 an hour, though they have capacity to take on more.

By way of comparison, Red Cross collected only $400,000 in mobile donations after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

To donate in increments of $10, text the word “Haiti” to the number 90999, or visit the Red Cross site for more information. [ Read more ...

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Meat Band-Aids and Mass Production of Living Tissue [This Cyborg Life]

Nov 13th

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I’m touching a wet slab of protein, what feels like a paper-thin slice of bologna. It’s supple, slimy, but unlike meat, if you were to slice it down the center today, tomorrow the wound would heal. It’s factory-grown living tissue.

The company behind the living, petri-dish-grown substance known as Apligraf hates my new name for it: meat band-aid. “It’s living,” Read more ...

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Graphs and Charts Prove iPhone to Be the Most Successful Gadget Ever (Sort of) [Graphs]

Oct 22nd

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These charts, from the Web 2.0 Summit, show the iPhone’s growth in both data usage and sheer sales compared to other blockbuster gadget releases—and (not without caveats, natch), it blows most of them out of the water.

Before I show these charts, created by Morgan Stanley analyst Read more ...

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