Last week, Chris Dixon posted this comment from Caterina Fake (of Flickr fame) that really got me thinking:
“Flickr is a wonderful place to be a photograph“.
Makes a lot of sense. If you were a photograph, where else would you want to be? On Flickr, lots of people would look at you, you’d be [...]
From TechCrunch yesterday: Get Ready For The Firehose. Search Is About To Get Realtime, Real Fast
Oh great. Here we go. My post yesterday about realtime couldn’t have been more timely.
Now that Google and Bing are getting the firehose, it could have a big impact on search results. For the search engines, the firehose is much [...]
Clive Thompson wrote this piece on “How the Real-Time Web Is Leaving Google Behind“. There’s a post in Business Insider and from MSNBC with a special guest experience by Steve Berlin Johnson, called “Twitter And The Real-Time Web Are Ambushing Google”.
I’m going to take a stand and call utter BS on the article and [...]
Great TED talk by John Gerzema. I won’t make another comment about skating to where the puck is headed, but you get the point.
“Did you know that 68% of Americans now carry a library card: The highest percentage ever in our nation’s history. What you see in this consumer trend is also the accumulation [...]
A few weeks ago I wrote about rating systems for product reviews from an article I read in ACM. Then I saw this article in VentureBeat about what Yelp is doing. The author mentions: “when you’re looking for a fast solution on where to eat, a list full of four-star restaurants makes [...]
Via the BettrAt blog:
Hmmm. As it turns out, we (BettrAt) actually want you to be awesome at what you do.
I just stumbled upon this by Kathy Sierra from O’Reilly radar. I always knew that Kathy was into helping users get better, but I guess I hadn’t kept in touch when she stopped blogging. [...]
I’m not usually a vegetarian jihadist… But I think i’ll give myself the license this time.
Check out this NYTimes article: This woman was a vegetarian. She was a children’s dance instructor (and as such, I’m assuming she used her legs, a lot). Then she ate a burger at her parents house because she [...]
Late last week, the University of Michigan had their BOP conference, limited to a core and exclusive group of BOP notables (Patrick Whitney, Dean of the IIT Institute of Design, and BettrAt’s “Thinker-In-Residence,” was in attendance).
I had a chance to catch up with a friend tonight I hadn’t talked to in several years and we [...]
If I don’t know you, I seriously doubt I care what you think about a product. Stop trying to make me buy it.
If I do know you, and you’re trying to sell me something because there’s a monetary award attached to it, you’re either in some network marketing MLM scheme… and I’m probably not your [...]
03 Oct
Yesterday, I (this is Ash writing) gave a presentation to all of the senior faculty at the IIT Stuart Business School about BettrAt and the future of informal learning.
I think the presentation went pretty well (apart from me making a silly mistake with the domain and thinking that the site was down in a state [...]
I have microlent to:
| Location: | Peru, José Leonardo Ortíz - Chiclayo |
| Activity: | Taxi |
| Location: | Nicaragua, Managua |
| Activity: | Farm Supplies |
| Location: | Philippines, Plaridel, Misamis Occidental |
| Activity: | Food Production/Sales |
| Location: | Cambodia, Kandal Steung District |
| Activity: | Motorcycle Transport |
