I love me some subscription commerce. Whether it be getting new underwear sent to me in the mail , or having someone pick out shirts for me , I love the idea of paying a flat fee and having shit just show up at my doorstep once a month.

Editor’s Note:   Derek Andersen  is the founder of  Startup Grind , a 12-city event series helping educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. He’s also ex-Electronic Arts and the founder of  Vaporware Labs . A lot has been written about the real estate turf war between San Francisco and Silicon Valley.

If you’re headed away this summer, leave the Knut behind to keep and eye on things. This small, Wi-Fi-capable widget can transmit various measurements to your iPhone anywhere in the world.

Apple is making potentially significant changes to the search algorithm in the App Store, at least according to some app developers.

The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, John Borthwick, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor — found plenty to write home about in Microsoft’s Surface tablets and Windows 8 rewrite of the Windows platform. Coming hard on the WWDC Apple announcements, it’s clear Redmond is stepping up its game. With Skype and the still-not-closed Yammer acquisitions, Steve Sinofsky is trying to buy his way in to social

Today’s Google Doodle is a working Turing machine that contains six puzzles.

Editor’s note:   James Altucher  is an investor, programmer, author, and entrepreneur. He is Managing Director of Formula Capital and has written ten books. His latest books are   I Was Blind But Now I See   and  40 Alternatives to College .  You can follow him on Twitter  @jaltucher .

Suppose you dropped your phone — a real fall, like from the second story — and it broke. You’re picking up the pieces, cursing and trying to think of the last time you backed up your contacts, when you notice something

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I like Joe Fernandez a lot, more than I like most people. He’s a true entrepreneur and badass, asking specifically to be onstage with me at LeWeb  London because he knew that I had serious misgivings about his product, Klout .