Reports: Princess Eugenie Is Moving to New York!

Some excellent news on this hot, sleepy Tuesday: Princess Eugenie is reportedly moving to New York! (Or so says both the Daily Mail and the Post, so do with that what you will.) We thought the first quasi-royal to set up shop over here would be Pippa, if anyone, but a legit princess is more than welcome. To review: Eugenie, 23, is the daughter of Prince Andrew and first cousin of Princes Will and Harry; she is probably best known for that wonderfully absurd hat she wore to the royal wedding. She and her sister Beatrice, who are almost always pictured together, once ran a red light in a Union Jack–emblazoned Mini Cooper during a royal engagement in Germany.

Eugenie's reason for moving is that she's apparently getting a job here. You see, although Eugenie is sixth in line for the throne, she's not quite special enough to qualify as one of the "working royals" who gets paid to represent Britain, so she's set her sights on "real" employment. According to the Daily Mail's source, "She is determined to be a working woman with a full-time job." 

Said job will reportedly be at Paddle8, an online auction house that specializes in "benefit auctions in collaborations with non-profits," according to its website. The start-up was co-founded by Aditya Julka and British hottie Alexander Gilkes, who is chummy with the royals. Not that plenty of companies wouldn't fall all over themselves to give Eugenie a desk and bask in the ensuing press coverage. We can already picture the Town & Country cover!

So, where will she live? Will she break up with her upper-crusty boyfriend, the fantastically named Jack Brooksbank, who works in the "gastropub trade"? And, most important, what will she wear to work?

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Creatures of the Wind Designers Moving to New York

While the rest of the nominees and winners of last night’s CFDA Awards return to work today (with Champagne headaches, we can only presume), Shane Gabier and Chris Peters — the heretofore Chicago-based co-founders of Creatures of the Wind — will be picking up the keys for their new apartment on the Lower East Side. “We are kind of moving here, to New York, half-time,” Gabier told the Cut at the cocktail hour before last night’s awards. “So we just got an apartment and we’re looking for a studio. We’ll be back and forth. But we’ve been sleeping at hotels and at Chris’s parents house and on friends' couches for four years, so now it’s time.” Gabier said they had been making lists of kitchen accessories and furniture to buy, but the duo has their decor priorities straight. “We have one really amazing Karl Springer goatskin coffee table that’s, like, seven feet long that we found in New Jersey for four hundred dollars,” said Gabier. “So everything is built around the coffee table.” Because, like most other new New Yorkers, they probably don’t have room for a proper table.

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Google's 'last step' in Buzz shutdown: moving all data to Google Drive

Buzz user,

In October 2011 we announced Google Buzz was shutting down. On or after July 17th, 2013, Google will take the last step in the shutdown and will save a copy of your Buzz posts to your Google Drive, a service for storing files online. Google will store two (2) types of files to your Google Drive, and the newly-created files will not count against your storage limits.

The first type of file will be private, only accessible to you, containing a snapshot of the Google Buzz public and private posts you authored.
The second type of file will contain a copy of only your Google Buzz public posts. By default it will be viewable by anyone with the link, and may appear in search results and on your Google Profile (if you've linked to your Buzz posts). Note, any existing links to your Google Buzz content will redirect users to this file.
Any comments you made on other users' posts will only be saved to those users' files and not to yours. Once the change described in this email is final, only that user will be able to change the sharing settings of those files. This means that if you have commented on another author's private post, that author could choose to make that post and its comments public. If you would like to avoid that possibility, delete all your Buzz content now.
The new Google Drive files will only contain comments from users that previously enabled Google Buzz, and the files will not contain comments that were deleted prior to moving the data to your Google Drive.

Once the files are created, they will be treated the same as any other Drive file. They are yours to do with as you please. This includes downloading them, updating who can access them, or deleting them.

Before these files are created, you can view the Google Buzz posts you have authored here. If you do not want any of your Buzz posts or comments saved to Google Drive files, you can immediately delete your Google Buzz account and data.

Thank you for using Google Buzz.

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Baseball Game Stunt Leads to Moving Father-Daughter Reunion

By Sam Laird2013-05-17 14:51:22 -0400

Military family reunion videos are always a hit with Internet-goers happy to add some good feels to what may be an otherwise boring days. This one, however, puts a new — and especially heart-warming — twist on the genre.

It features 9-year-old Alayna Adams from Dunedin, Fla., who was invited to throw out the first pitch at Thursday night's Major League Baseball game between the Tampa Bay Rays and Boston Red Sox. Before she did the honors, Alayna's dad, Lt. Col. Will Adams, gave her a message of encouragement that was relayed via the stadium video board from his current post in Afghanistan.

At least, that's what Alayna thought. After she threw her pitch, the catcher took off his mask — there was her dad, back from Afghanistan and standing before her. Said Alayna soon afterward: "I thought that I was dreaming."

The video has become a hit on social media, and you can watch it here, below. For more on the moving reunion, check out the Tampa Bay Times.

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The Designer Who Created Facebook Timeline Is Moving On

Pete Pachal2013-04-15 16:34:04 UTC

Nicholas Felton, the designer who was instrumental in creating Facebook Timeline, is leaving the company.

Felton shared the news, appropriately, on his Facebook Timeline. He didn't mention what his next project would be, only that he was returning to New York City. He also said he was confident in future Facebook products he contributed to. Here's Felton's full message:

On April 19, 2011 I walked into the Palo Alto Facebook office and began contributing to the timeline project. Two years, many late nights and a few launch celebrations later I will be moving on.

The opportunity to help mold a service of such importance to so many people has been a high point in my professional career. I'm extremely proud of the projects I worked on, grateful to the teams that built them and confident in the products to come.

Facebook didn't respond immediately to a request for comment.

Felton, who specializes in design visualization, got the attention of Facebook by creating a series of compelling infographics based on his own life, putting them together in a graphical "annual report" from 2005 to 2009.

"As soon as we got wind of this at Facebook, we had one reaction: 'We have to try and hire this guy,'" Facebook vice president of product Chris Cox said on stage at Facebook's f8 developer conference in 2011.

Now it appears Felton's work is done at Facebook. Perhaps his vision of personal data visualization is finished, or maybe his work wasn't as well-received as Facebook would have liked (Facebook recently revamped Timeline with a more straightforward look than the original version). In any case, his work in data and design will likely continue in some other form.

Are you a fan of Felton's work, and do you think his departure will hurt or help Facebook? Let us know in the comments.

BONUS: Facebook Redesigns Timeline

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