Plot Your Twitter Followers On A Map - MMMeeja Blog Yahoo Pipes are a pretty cool way to create mashups fast and this post will teach you how to plot your Twitter followers or friends on a map and embed it into your blog in less than five minutes! Yes, five minutes, set your stopwatch running... now! There are two pipes to choose from, one for your Twitter followers and one for your Twitter friends. Click the link and enter your Twitter username. Can you see a map? Great! And here are the finished results: Feed viewers, to see the map, you’ll need to click through to the article. Pretty damn cool! Stop the clock!
Startup Tips From Serial Entrepreneur Loic Le Meur For those who follow emerging technology, serial entrepreneur Loic Le Meur is a household name. In 1999, he sold his first technology company, RapidSite, to France Telecom. Following a successful exit, he jumped back in with Tekora in 2000. In 2003, he purchased Ublog, a French blog hosting company and merged it with Six Apart in 2004. He started Le Web, a conference that he says "brings Silicon Valley to Europe." Focused on the intersection of the web, business and society, Le Web attracts 3,000 people from 60 counties every December in Paris. "Sometimes you try to be successful at one thing, and [you] focus on that, and then success happens somewhere else," Loic says. Loic's most recent venture is Seesmic, which he started in 2007 after moving to San Francisco.
Create Your YtDub! The Shakespearean Guide to Entrepreneurship Photo by JustABoy Everyone knows Shakespeare is the greatest writer in the English language. But did you know he was also a highly successful entrepreneur? Like Dick Whittington, the young Shakespeare left his rural home town to seek his fortune in London. In common with many entrepreneurs, he didn’t have the benefit of a family fortune or a university education – just his talent, ambition and an enormous capacity for hard work. In the course of his career in the great city, Shakespeare became a shareholder in an acting troupe called the Lord Chamberlain’s Men, who beat off fierce competition to become the most famous and successful theatre company in the land. This story doesn’t quite fit the Romantic image of the starving artist or the poet wandering lonely as a cloud – but Shakespeare lived 200 years before Romanticism, so perhaps we can forgive him. In fact, if you ask me, entrepreneurship was not only compatible with Shakespeare’s art, it made him a better writer. A bit more familiar?
KnowEm UserName Check - Thwart Social Media Identity Theft, chec This Is Your Brain On Boarding: How To Turn Visitors Into Users Editor’s Note: Nir Eyal is a Lecturer in Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is the founder of two startups and blogs about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business at NirAndFar.com. Follow him on Twitter @nireyal. Before you can change the world, before your company can IPO, before getting millions of loyal users to wonder how they ever lived without your service, people need to on-board. However, done correctly, the on-boarding process can be the first step in creating strong user habits. Pulling the Trigger The first step is bringing users in. To be most effective, the articulation of what the product is for should connect to when the product should be used. Instagram does a particularly good job of inception during their on-boarding. When new users follow the link to the Instagram homepage, they learn more about what the service is for by seeing how their friends have used it. Of course, not all triggers are created equal. Prompting The Action
HootSuite-ultimate-Twitter-profile-management-toolbox In early April, Adam Wilson posted a status update on the social networking Web site Twitter -- just by thinking about it. Just 23 characters long, his message, "using EEG to send tweet," demonstrates a natural, manageable way in which "locked-in" patients can couple brain-computer interface technologies with modern communication tools. A University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineering doctoral student, Wilson is among a growing group of researchers worldwide who aim to perfect a communication system for users whose bodies do not work, but whose brains function normally. Among those are people who have amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), brain-stem stroke or high spinal cord injury. Some brain-computer interface systems employ an electrode-studded cap wired to a computer. The interface consists, essentially, of a keyboard displayed on a computer screen. Wilson, who used the interface to post the Twitter update, likens it to texting on a cell phone. Schalk agrees.
Stowe Boyd I am downplaying ‘futures’ in favor of design thinking these days, but the old-school futurists still have a great deal to offer, like Bob Johansen: Four Practical Ways for Leaders to Make the Future by Deepa Mehta via Institute For The FutureBob Johansen recently published the second edition of Leaders Make the Future. In the book, Bob presents an expansive ten-year forecast about the key future forces that will impact our world in the decade ahead, pointing to the shift towards the global well-being economy, the growing impact of digital natives, and the emergence of cloud-served supercomputing. In all the write-ups about this book — all of them written in a dreary marketing speak — none of them lists the ten skills. Sounds like being a Taoist sage, actually. That gives me an idea: I will have to reread the Tao Te Ching from the perspective of an operating manual for the post-normal world.
Interface experiments for a new live report on hypernarrative.co Over the last few years I’ve worked on different live reports for different kind of festivals. I like what you can make with (almost) realtime information based on the API’s of other services. For the Urban Explorers festival in May this year I started working on a new interface. The amount of aggregated information can be overwhelming for people, so I’m looking at how can you keep it understandable for new visitors. Or in the case of Urban Explorers for people who never visited or will never visit the festival. UE is a music and art festival that takes place in different venues in the city of Dordrecht. Blip API The idea is to start working with the Blip API. I haven’t exactly figured out what it should look like, but just started to make some interfaces to see what works and what doesn’t. Last week the Next Web conference was organized in the Netherlands. The Next Hack from Wilbert Baan on Vimeo. Interface Experiment 1 from Wilbert Baan on Vimeo.
How to Recognize Disruptive Opportunities inShare112 On this edition of Revolution, I’m joined by venture capitalist Mark Suster (@msuster). Together, we explore the state of innovation and the differences between emerging and disruptive technology and its impact on business and culture. Whether you’re a business strategist, an entrepreneur, or an investor, innovation is part of your livelihood. As a result, recognizing opportunities to invest, change or innovate is now a fundamental part of business. Moving at the pace of real-time isn’t fast enough any more. Suster is a 2x entrepreneur who has “gone to the Dark Side” of venture capital. McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Internet-Age Writing Syllabu ENG 371WR: Writing for Nonreaders in the Postprint Era M-W-F: 11:00 a.m.—12:15 p.m. Instructor: Robert Lanham Course Description As print takes its place alongside smoke signals, cuneiform, and hollering, there has emerged a new literary age, one in which writers no longer need to feel encumbered by the paper cuts, reading, and excessive use of words traditionally associated with the writing trade. Instant messaging. Prerequisites Students must have completed at least two of the following. ENG: 232WR—Advanced Tweeting: The Elements of DrollLIT: 223—Early-21st-Century Literature: 140 Characters or LessENG: 102—Staring Blankly at Handheld Devices While Others Are TalkingENG: 30—Advanced Blog and Book SkimmingENG: 231WR—Facebook Wall Alliteration and AssonanceLIT: 202—The Literary Merits of LolcatsLIT: 209—Internet-Age Surrealistic Narcissism and Self-Absorption Required Reading Materials The Writing Is on the Wall: Why Print/Reading Will Go the Way of the Pictograph Week 1: Reading is stoopid
It Takes Guts To Start A Company--So How Do You Get 'Em? It takes guts to act, accept a risk, and to try something new. If the world were full of passionate and purposeful people with brilliant minds, but no guts to act, there would be no progress. The guts trait can be subdivided in several different ways. One is the divide between risk takers and risk tolerators. Risk tolerators do not necessarily seek risk, yet willingly pursue their goals by understanding and accepting and managing the risks inherent in a given decision. What makes for a gutsy person? The willingness to take risks is born of a combination of elements. External factors aside, some individuals are quite simply more risk-hungry than others. In the course of screening businesses in our day jobs as venture capitalists and advisers, we are principally screening people and their propensities for being strong business-builders. Risk tolerance is not an immutable quality. Business-building is a journey. Practice leads to risk reduction. Typically, the answer was yes.
Nothing found for Archief Ecp-av-workshops-mengvoer-voor-videof Paulus Veltman sluiten Auteur: Paulus Veltman Naam : Paulus Veltman E-mail: paulus.veltman@gmail.com Website: Biografie: Meer van deze auteur (127) Geschreven op: 20 April, 2009 - 17:42 Rubriek: ECP AV Workshops Donderdag en vrijdag naar The Next Web 2009 geweest? Dan heb je toch wat gemist. Je had immers ook naar de ECP AV Workshops gekund. Ik koos voor het laatste en maakte een hoogwaardig – en gratis – programma rondom video mee. Kennis delen De AV Workshops zijn een initiatief van mediabedrijf ECP (European Communication Projects). Variatie In het Amsterdamse Wetenschappelijk Centrum Watergraafsmeer werd het publiek getrakteerd op ruim een dozijn presentaties. Techniek Ook de meer technische presentaties stonden in het teken van de snelle veranderingen die op dit moment plaatsvinden. Ik was zelf erg onder de indruk van het relaxte verhaal dat cameraman Robert Berger (foto hierboven) vertelde over zijn ervaringen met de RED ONE 4k camera. Gerelateerde berichten op Zoomz: