The Curator is an occasional compilation of Web links and brief news items assembled by the Quirk’s editorial staff.
• Research by Stanford’s Jeffrey Pfeffer looks at the subtle differences in the way we view money earned by our labor versus money obtained via other means. While his work was spurred by the advent of increasingly excessive executive compensation packages, it also has implications for employers of rank-and-file workers.
• The coverage of Google’s acquisition of Nest has introduced the world to a phrase we’ll no doubt be hearing a lot more often: the conscious home. Fascinating (and understandable) that the transaction apparently freaked out some Nest owners, causing them to return their thermostats.
• GigaOM reports on Google’s new Music Timeline service, which lets you take a big data-style look at the music-listening habits of users of the Google Play Music service.
• Retail TouchPoints recaps a presentation at the National Retail Federation’s Retail’s BIG Show on how Jamba Juice and Whole Foods, among others, have had success driving loyalty by offering a mobile payment option. Will mobile payment be the answer to problems like Target’s data breach?
• Good overview of the future of wearable tech, from the folks at PSFK. (Scroll down the page a bit; a Slideshare account is required to download the PDF but it’s free to set one up.)
• And finally, a bit of fun. Those Princess Leia crushes can continue unabated.