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I've been following Dharmesh Shah's OnStartups blog for years and I remember when he announced HubSpot , the company he was starting.
3 ideas you should steal from HubSpot - O'Reilly Radar
iOS5 split keyboard in use - tehkr
iOS5 has a new keyboard that can be split for easier thumb-typing. It’s a breeze to use, but presents some new app design considerations. Take a look at this screencap from one of my new favorite apps, Business Model Toolbox :
The Blood Test Gets a Makeover | Magazine
Photo: Mitchell Feinberg The blood test is, when you think about it, a remarkable thing.
The role of the Internet as a platform for collective action grows - O'Reilly Radar
A survey released this week by the Pew Research Center's Internet and Life Project shed light on the social side of the Internet .
Gerry McGovern helps large organizations change how they manage their websites from a model based on technology or content to one based on customer tasks. His latest book is called The Stranger’s Long Neck: How to Deliver What Your Customers Really Want Online . This book explains about how to implement a “top-task” management model for websites.
Why Websites Suck : The World :: American Express OPEN Forum
Inside the multi-million dollar video streaming giant, Hulu , CEO Jason Kilar has gone to extraordinary lengths to subvert his own power: he has no office, has a makeshift desk partly built from empty boxes, and personally takes each new hire out to lunch to learn what he or she thinks the company can do better. "You will not attract and retain the world's best builders in a command-and-control environment," Kilar tells Fast Company . Last weekend, Hulu and fellow Internet prodigy, Groupon, were honored at the WorldBlu Live conference for their unusually strong commitment to worker empowerment.
Beyond Hawaiian-Shirt Friday: Groupon, Hulu Inspire Employee Innovation With Radical Trust | Fast Company
Video Calls Are Common In Star Trek - So Why Don't We Use Them In The Real World?
Why Don’t We Video Chat More Often? | Singularity Hub
Former Twitter CEO Evan Williams noted in a blog post this weekend that online identity is one of the thorniest issues any web-based service has to deal with — in part because the word “identity” means a number of different things.
Online Identity Isn’t a Transaction — It’s a Feeling: Tech News and Analysis «
I recently had the pleasure of reading The Great Stagnation , Tyler Cowen’s excellent “Kindle Single” about the future of innovation and economic growth. Cowen makes the case that, contrary to the right-of-center conventional wisdom , the American economy is in the midst of a decades-long period of mediocre economic growth. Previous generations of Americans enjoyed an abundance of “low-hanging fruit”—cheap land, technological breakthroughs like electricity and the internal combustion engine, rising levels of education, an end to racial and gender discrimination—that allowed rapidly increasing living standards with relatively little effort.
The Great Ephemeralization | Bottom-up
We Don’t Need No Frickin Architects « Systems Thinking, Lean and Kanban
“We Don’t Need No Frickin Architects”
All Hail The Cord Cutters: Tech News «
It was almost four years ago when we decided it was time to launch our online video blog, NewTeeVee .Canvas continues innovative use of game mechanics - with a shop - tehkr
Canvas released a shop of sorts to its users yesterday - but not one designed to make money (at least not yet).Being digital alone won't cut it anymore. Digital shops that don't diversify their offerings face the same creeping irrelevance as traditional agencies that give lip service to digital, according to marketing executives polled in a new survey from RSW/US .