Google's Super Satellite Captures First Image (Brian X. Chen/Wired Science) (1)
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Brian X. Chen / Wired Science: Google's Super Satellite Captures First Image — This bird's-eye view of Kutztown University in Pennsylvania was the first image ever seen by the GeoEye-1, the world's highest-resolution commercial satellite sponsored by Google, when it opened its camera door earlier this week.
On Multi Tenancy (1)
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Apparently, Sandy Kemsley was not too happy about the way OMG's BPM Think Tank is evolving, and neither was Bruce Silver. Nevertheless, her remarks about Intalio's participation in the BPM On Demand Panel are a bit off base. Sandy's point seems to be that deploying Intalio|Server on Amazon EC2 does not qualify it as an on-demand offering, for it's supposedly not multi-tenant. While I usually respect Sandy's technical judgement and am eagerly awaiting her review ...
(The) Startup Depression (51)
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Jason Calacanis’ latest post to his email mailing list takes a look at the dark times many involved in the startup world have to struggle through at one point or another. Startup news is often dominated by success stories - multimillion dollar acquisitions and overnight successes are more glamorous than the countless entrepreneurs trudging in the trenches as they try to build userbases and raise funding. Calacanis’s post offers some valuable insight into the realities ...
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rexy said:
Wow, this is such a rich knowledge base for any entrepreneur in any part of the world. i would urge you to read it if you run your own company.
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Raphael said:
Toller Artikel über die Führung von Startups. Das umzusetzen erfordert aber viel mentale Kapazität.
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Lockhart said:
Good article re: keeping your business focused when things go to hell.
SocialText 3.0 blends Facebook, Twitter, and the Enterprise (51)
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SocialText 3.0 is (or will be in the near term) an enterprise mashup of Facebook, FriendFeed, enterprise microblogging, and the wiki. If you were to take any one of these constituencies - social networking, conversation aggregation, Tw*tter, or vanilla wikis and the leveraged sites the technology has produced - you might not think of SocialText as a major player or competitor with the exception of the enterprise wiki space. But add these together and get ...
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Darius said:
Congratulations to my friend Ross and the whole SocialText team!
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JonB said:
I mean Lyndon
Developers! Developers! Developers! (1)
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Any platform vendor knows that success (or failure) is a direct consequence of how well (or poorly) the platform is adopted by developers, which is the reason why Steve Ballmer keeps making appeals to them. Depending on who you talk to, BPM (or the BPMS) is either a business application, or a development platform. If it is to be the former, it really does not work, for no BPMS I know of can be used ...
Visualizing Chris Anderson's "Free" Model (18)
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Chris Anderson, author of the Long Tail, put out a call for help to visualize his "3 Kinds of Free" model. The above visual is what I've come up with. If you know Chris, can you give him a heads up? Of course, if the Long Tail is valid, he should be able to find this himself. :-) From his post: 1. Here's the first, which dates back more than a century. It's the razors-and-blades ...
Are People with alot of “Friends” on Facebook Narcissists? (1)
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So yesterday was such an interesting day. It was so interesting because I was quoted in a national news story on facebook about whether people with large friends lists on facebook are narcissists. Here is the article written by the unprofessional ABC reporter I was contacted by the reporter on Thursday morning and practically fell out of my chair as I opened up the e-mail. She mentioned that she was doing a story on facebook, ...
What Is The Deal With This Stupid Lighter iPhone App? (53)
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Everyone keeps talking about Smule’s virtual lighter iPhone application called Sonic Lighter (iTunes link). I wasn’t impressed: there are no less than ten different virtual lighter apps in iTunes, which is what I’d call a saturated market. And it gets better, because Sonic Lighter costs $.99. The official Zippo iphone app is free. The basic functionality of all of these is similar - you have a virtual lighter, you light it and when you move ...
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kleinman said:
This is a very good example of using location-based technology to drive viral adoption. When you see people in your vicinity using something, you are more incline in doing same. Even for something as useless and crazy as a lighter app.
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Jonathan Washburn said:
Must read post for AR team.
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puthali said:
lol...just one example of the massive community building opportunities via iPhone/iTouch...
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MV said:
why?
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llopis said:
Those stupid novelty apps don't cease to amaze me!
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Jason Cartwright said:
Astounding pointlessness
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Kingsley said:
brilliant. you can make almost anything more valuable by adding some social
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Sergey Kapustin said:
Похоже на то как горят зажигалки на концертах рок-групп, только в данном случае масштаб "немного" побольше.
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Haidong said:
very nice try
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Graham said:
Clever!
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Devlin D said:
Brilliant viral concept, even if the app is pointless. Viral goes a long way I guess.
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Chris said:
this is ridiculous, but i guess people will buy anything for a buck :P
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Hyunhak said:
이 말도 안되는 라이터 어플이 다운로드되는 이유는?'location awareness 과 social networking/human team building instincts to create a bit of a phenomenon.'를 적당히 이용했기 때문.phone-to-phone ignition(발화)가 키포인트
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jaehyun said:
이거 아이디어 좋은거 같다. 역시 별거 아닌거에 돈 벌수 있는 기회가 있다.
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Satyajeet said:
Nice! It's a great example of how superior design and implementation can even in what appears to be an saturated market with no real need (it's a ligher app!), result in revenue.
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grend said:
THAT'S the way you do it. Fascinating.
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j_b_f said:
There are some weird iPhone apps out there.
Use Google Moderator To Crowdsource Group Questions (42)
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Google Moderator launched this evening, a simple tool that helps groups determine which questions should be asked at all hands meetings, conferences, Q&A sessions, etc. The idea is that there are always lots of good questions to ask in a limited period of time, but it’s hard to know which questions the attendees are most interested in hearing discussed. Moderator lets users add questions and vote on the questions of others, so the cream rises ...
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lishevita said:
Oh, hey! Maybe Crictor can use this for getting questions from viewers in advance of some interview shoots! That could be cool.
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Chip R said:
I like this a lot. I hate having to think about rebuilding every small web 2.0 tool out there. We have to come up with a way to aggregate this stuff into the LMS.
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Bob Lee said:
I'm going to try this in one of my talks.
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jaehyun said:
질문만 올리는것 같기도 하고..? 안드로이드폰 엡중에서 원하는것은? 에 테트리스! 가 투표가 많은 것을 보면 위지아랑 비슷해 보이기도 하고.. ;; 집단지성인것 같은데 뭐하는것인지 정확히 잘 모르겠네~
A framework for measuring social media (10)
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Do you think it's tough to measure social media? It might be simpler than you think. I've blogged before about how game mechanics describe social media participation. Games have scores. Scores track progress, which results in success or failure. Although social media channels seem to be mostly qualitative in nature, user activities can be easily quantified. Although users interact with channels in different ways, four common factors quantify social media success: Attention, Participation, Authority, and ...
Getting a Form's Structure Right: Designing Usable Online Email Applications (7)
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I started writing this article with an emphasis on the financial domain. I then realized that I would like to broaden the focus because my findings are also applicable to a general domain like email account registrations, for example. In this article, I would like to take a simple example of how users register for an email account online. For a first timer, is the transition from a real world of letter writing to the ...
The big, fat “Enterprise Hole” (5)
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Before we talk about the hole Let’s take a quick look at how technology has provided value so far. Boiled down and oversimplified, there are three stages. Pink: You’ve saved time. Now all your paper and information is digital. Blue: You’ve made your digital stuff accessible by other people. Think wiki or a file folder. Green: Now that people have extra time and made everything centralized, you can step back and think about better ways ...
Cognition Announces "World's Largest Semantic Map" (24)
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Cognition Technologies, a Semantic Web company that specialises in Natural Language Processing (NLP) search, is today announcing the release of what it claims is "the largest commercially available Semantic Map of the English language." We interviewed Cognition CEO Scott Janus to find out what this means. We also discovered that Cognition, which currently licenses its technology to other organizations, is planning to build a general consumer search engine - which will compete with Google and ...
Report: Nearly 70% of Businesses Allow Social Media Usage (53)
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A new report about Enterprise adoption of Web 2.0 technologies, by Awareness, Inc., shows that employers are increasingly allowing staff to use social media applications in working hours. Awareness puts the figure at 69 percent of businesses in 2008, up from 37 percent last year. It's the latest in a string of reports this year - from Awareness, Forrester and others - which provides data about the growth of web 2.0 in the enterprise. It'll ...
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Socrates said:
Web 2.0 is on the way of flattening the world.
LinkedIn To Launch Its Own Ad Network (45)
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At a time when most social networks are still trying to figure out how to make money from advertising, one social network is bucking the trend. LinkedIn, the social network for business professionals, has so much demand from advertisers that it will be launching its own ad network on Monday. In conjunction with ad network Collective Media (which targets high-end media sites), LinkedIn will let other select sites target its users when they visit those ...
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sulleh said:
interesting stuff.
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Vicky said:
Most social networks have a hard time selling ads at more than $1 CPMs (cost per thousand impressions), but LinkedIn’s rate card shows display ads starting at $30 CPMs and going up to $76.50. Text ads range from $12 to $20 CPMs. Even with the regular discounting from the rate card that many advertisers might recieve, LinkedIn is still doing much better than most social networks. That is because it has a more desirable audience that advertisers want to reach.
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Angelos said:
The demographics presented in this article help explain why I sometimes struggle to extract value from LinkedIn.
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Satyajeet said:
"Is this the future of all destination sites—tio become ad networks and sell their audiences everywhere to the highest bidder?"Interesting...if you build an audience that's valuable to advertisers, are you compelled to try and put a significant amount of effort to try to monetize it?
The Subtle Art of Facilitation (1)
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BPM project durations are usually measured in weeks-to-months - not months-to-years. With this velocity, you can’t afford to get stuck in the rut of traditional “define & design” techniques based on multiple rounds of 1-on-1 analysis meetings. In fact, I’d go so far as to label this as rework which increases a project’s cycle time! I’m an enthusiastic supporter of the workshop format, where not only speed, but also quality, visibility and buy-in are greatly ...
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Copyright © 2008 Sandy Kemsley. Visit the original article at http://www.column... back at Gartner, and one of his first public presentations since his return was here at the opening keynote, talking about the economics of business process and how global competition leverages local benefits. He wrote this material before the past two weeks of financial market Armageddon, but it’s general enough that it works across a wide variety of economic climates: the rise of the ...Shared by pflix (13)Contribute comment