These definitely deserve a place on my personal list of coolest business cards ever:
Created by Murmure.
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These definitely deserve a place on my personal list of coolest business cards ever:
Created by Murmure.
At Web 2.0 Expo SF Hilary Mason, lead scientist at URL shortener bit.ly, did an excellent presentation on the Realtime Web Ecosystem:
“I attempted to highlight some of the interesting facets of the bit.ly data set…”
I was surprised about the amount of data available to bit.ly and how it can be used. The examples all seem light and funny, but I’m convinced the people at bit.ly can derive a lot of insights from their data sets (just like the people at Twitter…). Maybe this should (or will) become the golden business model to monetize their services.
Here are Hilary’s slides:
And here is the video:
Great commercial featuring a potato and the new Opera 10.53 browser, the fastest browser on earth…
Potato Slow. Opera Fast.
Nick Kallen’s slideshow explaining the problems Twitter faced in serving large amounts of real-time data and how they were tackled:
Statistical analysis of the first 525 published TED Talks has revealed the ideal words, phrases and topics to use in a phenomenal TED Talk. Now you can easily create one of your own.
Thousands of companies use Google AdWords to find candidates for their job vacancies, and it seems to work. But how about setting up a Google AdWords campaign to get the job of your dreams? Sounds impossible? Well, it isn’t…
Alec Brownstein wanted to work in a top advertising agency but couldn’t find a way to get an interview with the guys he wanted to work for. So he decided to turn to Google AdWords, set up a campaign using only the names of some of the top creative talents he wanted to work for and count on the fact they would Google themselves from time to time (aka “ego search“).
When top advertising creative directors Googled themselves, they got a message from me asking for a job.
Nobody else was advertising on their names, so he managed to get a CPC (cost-per-click) of $ 0.10. By the time his campaign had consumed the massive amount of $ 6, he got his job interviews and at this moment he is working at Y&R New York.
Innovative use of Google AdWords? Or just a lucky shot that will be copied in the months to come? I personally think it’s genius and that Alec has deserved his new job.
The two laws of simplicity:
The first law of simplicity: Complexity is never eliminated, merely reduced and displaced.
The second law of simplicity: Simplicity is an experience. It happens in the user’s head.