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Martin SFP Bryant
FounderMartin SFP Bryant is the founder of UK startup newsletter PreSeed Now and technology and media consultancy Big Revolution. He was previously Martin SFP Bryant is the founder of UK startup newsletter PreSeed Now and technology and media consultancy Big Revolution. He was previously Editor-in-Chief at TNW.
If you weren’t keeping your eyes on the tech world over the weekend, here are the stories and features you missed on The Next Web and beyond.
The news
- Revealed: Everything that Google will unveil at its Android event on October 29.
- Mention of iBooks 3.0 discovered in recent iTunes listing, supporting books focus for iPad mini event.
- Facebook exec Joanna Shields leaves to build the next Silicon Valley in London.
- Zuckerberg to Startup School: MySpace was great earlier on, but felt threatened by Facebook.
- The Humble eBook Bundle tops $1 million in sales with three days to go.
- Best Buy prices Nokia Lumia 920 at $149.99 and HTC 8X at $99, as AT&T opens preorders.
Good reads
Make sure you catch these features, published over the weekend. Perfect to read over your lunch or on that dull train ride home.
- Why tech-based small businesses and startups should make design a priority.
- Developer depression: Isolation is the biggest problem.
- Evernote Moleskine notebook review: When digital and analog elegantly collide.
- 20 of technology’s most underrated founders.
- Survival of the fittest: Failure in the startup world.
- Yahoo faces the Mayer dilemma as quarterly earnings are released: focus on media or go social.
Useful guides
- Get out of your head & get things done: How to create a basic productivity system.
- 8 entrepreneurs’ opinions on tech education options available today.
- So you want to be a programmer, huh? Here are 27 ways to learn online.
A bit of fun
- Watch: Giants pitcher Matt Cain destroys objects in mid-air with his fastball
- Uncanny tech industry lookalikes
- LG trolls elevator passengers to show how ‘lifelike’ its new IPS monitors are [Video]
- How to age better (off topic but a must watch)
And from elsewhere…
To finish off, here are some pieces that you really shouldn’t miss from elsewhere around the Web:
- Dark Google: One Year Since Search Terms Went “Not Provided” [Marketing Land]
- Twitter Gives Saudi Arabia a Revolution of Its Own [New York Times]
- Why Microsoft’s Tablet Can’t Fail [BuzzFeed]
- Housecleaning, Then Dinner? Silicon Valley Perks Come Home [New York Times]
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