- Twitter, Facebook and other online distractions are costing our economy dearly. Here, go spend some time reading a story about it.
- Speaking of distractions, uncensored versions of Playboy will finally arrive on the iPad tomorrow — as a web app, thereby avoiding Apple’s App Store restrictions.
- The Northwest version of the 140 Characters conference, better known as #140confNW, happens Thursday in Vancouver, Wash, with a live video stream if you want to follow along.
- Sorry to ruffle your feathers, Windows Phone users, but turns out you’ll have to wait until late June for Angry Birds. If you think everyone else will have played the game by then, well, you’re right.
- Amazon and other employers in South Lake Union are paying to test a third streetcar train in the neighborhood, to accommodate rising demand.
- Seth MacFarlane of “Family Guy” fame is bringing back the Flintstones.
- How to follow up with every single last person you meet at a conference, in seven not-so-easy steps.
The DealSpringer dude is pumping up and running Green Lake, preparing for Lead Tech in Bellevue this Thursday. Maybe, after all of these training sessions, he can patrol the streets with Seattle superhero Phoenix Jones.
- Is that Super Mario in the foam? Seattle’s Fremont Coffee Company pioneers the concept of geek latte art.
- Fierce Wireless names its Fierce 15, and AppStoreHQ and Zaarly make the cut.
- Best sign at last weekend’s Sounders-Timbers match? ‘Real men pump their own gas.’ Almost makes us feel better about that 1-1 tie.
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