Dear friends, family, colleagues, and supporters,
I'm thrilled to announce my first non-fiction book, working title "Captivology: The Science of Capturing People's Attention", due in early 2015 from HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins.
I hope you will sign up for updates on Captivology through my book's website. You can follow @Captivology on Twitter or like Captivology on Facebook. You can also follow @BenParr for regular updates. And finally, here's a link for sharing this announcement.
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It was in reference to my story on the new Gmail Preview Pane feature.
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2) But even if you
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First, let me summarize Scoble’s post. Really
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