June 2012
17 posts
Introducing: Findings Labs
At Findings we believe great expressions deserve to be beautiful.
Due to this, we’ve created a project at labs.findings.com to see how users react to the ability to apply different backgrounds and fonts to clips. We aim to allow users to visually absorb the tone of the writing before they even read its content. These templates try to encapsulate a range of emotions, to give a...
9 Things You Didn't Know About Love and Sex
Use Findings to discover the highlights from thousands of sources such as The New York Times, Wired and The Atlantic. No account necessary to explore.
1. The word funky is derived from the Ki-Kongo lu-fuki, meaning “positive sweat” of the sort you get from dancing or having sex, but not working. (via Sex at Dawn)
2. We play tonsil hockey to collect genetic information about our partner. The...
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How We Will Read: Baratunde Thurston
This post is part of “How We Will Read,” an interview series exploring the future of books from the perspectives of publishers, writers, and intellectuals. Read our kickoff post with Steven Johnson.
For this installment of the How We Will Read series we chatted with comedian and author Baratunde Thurston (@baratunde on Twitter). A man once called “someone I need to know” by Barack Obama,...
8 New Ways To Think About Creativity
On Mondays it’s always hard to get motivated. Here are some tips to break up the monotony.
Use Findings to discover the highlights from thousands of sources such as The New York Times, Wired and The Atlantic. No account necessary to explore.
1. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us found by user ironicbuddha
CARROTS AND STICKS: The Seven Deadly Flaws 1. They can...
13 Craziest Mindbenders from Wired
Use Findings to discover the highlights from thousands of sources such as The New York Times, Wired and The Atlantic. No account necessary to explore.
1. The Science of Email found by user hc
People reply to their close friends, on average, within seven hours of getting the email, the data show. Professional contacts take a bit more time: We don’t hit send for nearly 11 hours. But the...
10 Great New York Times Clips
Use Findings to discover the highlights from thousands of sources such as The New York Times, Wired and The Atlantic. No account necessary to explore.
1. Clothes and Self-Perception found by user Narrator
We think not just with our brains but with our bodies, Dr. Galinsky said, and our thought processes are based on physical experiences that set off associated abstract concepts. Now it appears...
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6 Book Mashups We'd Like to See
Dark Design: instructional user interface design for Wiccan and time-traveler social networks
The Art of Loneliness: reasonable examination of how Friday night on the couch with ice-cream and a remote can be poetic
Ulysses Is Overrated: we’ve tried seven times to get through the damn thing and it isn’t happening
Prozac Tollbooth: Milo was definitely on something stronger than...
What Findings Found Today
Essays in Love on Findings.
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What Findings Found Today
This popular clip from the even more popular book on Findings, David Brooks’ The Social Animal, neatly summarizes how distraction slows down flow.
Sharing is the new default
We believe the true value of Findings is the discovery and sharing of passages and ideas from your favorite readings. To that end, we have changed the default sharing preference for all future imported Amazon Kindle highlight to “public”. We will not alter the privacy settings of your existing clips, and you can still choose to keep your future imported highlights private by visiting...
Share ideas the moment you capture them
Thanks to user feedback, we recently posted an update to the Findings Button that gives you the ability to share a quote from the web to Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr!
This tool makes it easy to post your Findings to any of these services simultaneously. If you haven’t already, you’ll need to connect Findings these social services from your Settings page.
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What Findings Found Today
The secret to happiness is love.
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What Findings Found Today
Technology Review writer Cory Doctorow compares the public’s irresponsibility when it comes to protecting themselves from privacy invasions to the cumulative consequences of smoking. Free services in exchange for personal information may be “the worst deal ever”.
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What Findings Found Today
Our very own Findings Lead Developer JeffreyWeston lets us in on “How Tiny Insects Survive the Rain” - something we didn’t even realize we didn’t know.
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What Findings Found Today
The ever clever Ray Bradbury sums up his self-image for the Paris Review.
Findings Button Updated...
We recently updated the Findings Button to give it a fresher look. We also made a bunch of changes under the hood. In particular, you should no longer see a security warning in Chrome when you use the Findings Button to highlight and annotate web pages. Clip away!
We’ll be adding some new features to the web clipping tool very soon, so stay tuned…
