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Simplicity is often equated with minimalism. Yet true simplicity is so much more than just the absence of clutter or the removal of decoration. It’s about offering up the right things, in the right place, right when you need them. It’s about bringing order to complexity.

iOS 7 introduces great new features like Control Center, AirDrop for iOS, and smarter multitasking. It also makes the things you do every day even easier, faster, and more enjoyable. And while many of the apps look different, the way you do things feels perfectly familiar. So from day one, you know how to use the world’s most advanced mobile OS. In its most advanced form.

The death of skeumorphism (seen in apps such as Find My Friends, which suffers faux leather stitching for no obvious reason, and Find My iPhone, which displays a bizarrely flickering compass needle while it “looks” for your device, and so on) will be widely celebrated.

Dots, a deceptively simple game that prompts users to connect the dots, rolled out an update Thursday that optimizes the game for iPad and adds a multi-player option on both iPad and iPhone so users can compete against one another using the same board of dots.

Since Dots was released on April 30, it has been downloaded more than three million times and users have played 250 million games, according to a blog post the company put out Thursday morning. As the company points out, that’s the equivalent of about 500 years of gameplay. That’s pretty impressive considering it has only been one month.

SEE ALSO: Why ‘Dots’ Is The Most Scarily Addictive Social Game Yet

In many ways, Dots is perfectly designed to be addictive. The game’s interface is colorful and unique, but simple enough for anyone to figure out in a few seconds. Each round users play lasts for just 60 seconds, which creates an adrenaline rush and, of course, the desire to start again as soon as the round ends. Perhaps most importantly, Dots creates a customized leader board based on your Twitter and Facebook connections, and encourages users to share out their high scores, which makes the game that much more sharable

Nearly 70 million websites run WordPress and it’s hard to understate the impact that the software has had on the world of digital publishing. Hundreds of high-profile websites, including blogs from CNN, The New York Times and Reuters, all use WordPress.

As CNET reports, New Yorkers who break those rules are likely to face legal proceedings only if a complaint is filed against them. Airbnb, based in California, was part of the recent proceedings only as an involved observer.

The ruling issued Monday afternoon is a defeat for Airbnb “host” Nigel Warren, who in February was accused of violating the city’s residency code for renting out his East Village apartment for less than a week, as WNYC has reported. Warren now reportedly faces $2,400 in fines.

Questions over Airbnb’s legality have risen along with the web service’s impact on New York’s tourism industry. According to Crain’s, some 30,000 New York City residents are Airbnb hosts, accounting for hundreds of thousands of visits each year.

“That kind of demand is expected to generate around $1 billion in local economic activity in 2013,” Crain’s New York Business reports, “outstripping the impact of the city’s booming cruise-ship industry five times over, according to figures cited by tech-industry leaders with knowledge of the site.”

Complicating matters further, the economic impact of those visits largely skips the hotels in central Manhattan. A more detailed view of how Airbnb works comes from Chris Dannen of Fast Company, who describes how he made nearly $20,000 in nine months of using the site to rent out space in his apartment in Brooklyn, a popular destination for Airbnb visitors.

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Writing on his personal blog Sunday evening, Mullenweg said that WordPress usually imports 400 to 600 blog posts per hour from Tumblr. After news of the deal surfaced, the number of imported posts jumped to more than 72,000 blog posts in an hour.

Mullenweg updated his own blog post on Monday morning. “Some people are reading too much into the import numbers — I don’t think there will be an exodus from Tumblr,” he said, adding: “For most folks habits overcome internet-outrage. Even if a million people left, that’s just about a week’s worth of signups.”

A number of Tumblr users are apparently concerned about what the future holds for their beloved service and are importing posts to WordPress at a rapid clip. However, Tumblr reports that it adds 75 million blog posts per day.

Yahoo confirmed the $1.1 billion Tumblr acquisition this morning. It’s an all-cash deal that should close in the second half of the year.

Via CNET.

The deal is reportedly an all-cash acquisition, according to WSJ, and Tumblr will maintain control of its operations.

Tumblr and Yahoo have not released any official statements.

There were rumors circulating Friday about the Tumblr acquisition, which stated Yahoo’s board, under the direction of still-new CEO Marissa Mayer, would discuss the potential over the weekend

Via Mashable

From outer space down to the streets, the new Google Maps gathers all the imagery of a location into one spot, making it easy to explore your world from every angle.
You can now compare multiple modes of transportation right on the map to find the best way there and the best way home.

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