Daytum Founders Hired by Facebook
Facebook continues to expand its crack team of creative types with the hiring of Nicholas Felton and Ryan Case. The duo displayed their knack for beautiful data visualization with recent project Daytum, an eye-catching app that transforms mundane daily goings-on into fancy charts.
Felton and Case relocated to San Francisco to join a newly assembled team in Facebook’s creative division that includes recent hires like former Google Labs employee Ji Lee and Mark Darcy, formerly of Time Warner Media Group.
Full story at FastCoDesign
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« Wow – App downloads will hit 44 billion in 2016 »
The success of downloadable smartphone apps will continue at least through the next five years. A new study from ABI Research estimates that app industry will achieve 44 billion cumulative downloads by 2016.
If the forecast is correct, it means that native apps will still rule over HTML5 and other new web programming technologies for websites in the browser. At least in the near future.
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Apple Takes On Instapaper
The news comes only a few days after Arment said that he will retire the free version of Instapaper on the iPhone and iPad, …
Instapaper developer Marco Arment doesn’t seem too worried though, saying on Twitter,
“For many reasons, I believe Instapaper would still have a market even if Apple implemented Reading List synced to iOS devices.” He also said that it appears the feature is more closely imitating ReadItLater at the moment, which isn’t as feature-rich as Instapaper.
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Festival of Ideas for the New City, May 4-8
The Festival of Ideas for the New City, May 4-8, 2011, is a major new collaborative initiative in New York involving scores of Downtown organizations, from universities to arts institutions and community groups, working together to affect change.
Video by m ss ng p eces
Music by Hess is More (Mikkel Hess, I always wanted to work with him, great guy, great talent, hopefully one day…)
A Crowdsourced ‘Timeline for the World’
Thanks Angela Maiers for your comment on my recent post around crowdsourcing tools. You recommended vineme.com as a very useful tool. For almost one year Josh Fleming, Tony Muse and Chris Taulborg have been hard at work building Des Moines’ newest startup, VineMe. VineMe is billed as a “social platform that allows the world to crowdsource content by time, tags, places and people.” (public launch March 31, 2011). Here is what Josh Fleming says about this new crowdsourcing venture:
“We want to curate life through visual content. I always enjoy discovering content in new ways. It’s why people flocked to the internet. It’s why Google quickly became a verb. It’s why apps are so popular. The combination of discovery and ease of use is what is driving technology today. We think VineMe offers both.”
What Do Customers Want or Need ? Great Talk by Steve Portigal at Lift11
Most interesting to me the part Participatory Design that starts at 08:22
Steve Portigal is Principal of Portigal Consulting in Pacifica, CA
Entrepreneurship – Do You Have What It Takes?
Well put Chris Dixon (Co-founder of hunch.com, and other venture)
There Are Two Kinds Of People In The World
You’ve either started a company or you haven’t. ”Started” doesn’t mean joining as an early employee, or investing or advising or helping out. It means starting with no money, no help, no one who believes in you (except perhaps your closest friends and family), and building an organization from a borrowed cubicle with credit card debt and nowhere to sleep except the office. It almost invariably means being dismissed by arrogant investors who show up a half hour late, totally unprepared and then instead of saying “no” give you non-committal rejections like “we invest at later stage companies.” It means looking prospective employees in the eyes and convincing them to leave safe jobs, quit everything and throw their lot in with you. It means having pundits in the press and blogs who’ve never built anything criticize you and armchair quarterback your every mistake. It means lying awake at night worrying about running out of cash and having a constant knot in your stomach during the day fearing you’ll disappoint the few people who believed in you and validate your smug doubters.
I don’t care if you succeed or fail, if you are Bill Gates or an unknown entrepreneur who gave everything to make it work but didn’t manage to pull through. The important distinction is whether you risked everything, put your life on the line, made commitments to investors, employees, customers and friends, and tried – against all the forces in the world that try to keep new ideas down – to make something new.
20 Blogs Every Entrepreneur Should Read
Starting your own company is one of the hardest things you can do in business — so it’s invaluable to get advice from other people who have done it, too. Fortunately, the blogosphere is packed with entrepreneurs, investors, and business gurus dying to share their knowledge. Unfortunately, it can be a real pain trying to figure out which ones are worth your time.
Here’s the complete list:
- Both Sides of the Table
- Penelope Trunk’s Brazen Careerist
- Steve Blank
- Church of the Consumer
- Wise Bread
- AllBusiness.com
- How To Change The World
- Entrepreneur Daily Dose
- A VC
- Small Biz Survival
- Blog Maverick
- Small Business Brief
- Kevin Kelly’s Lifestream
- Copyblogger
- The Scott Adams Blog
- Small Business Trends
- Duct Tape Marketing
- The Entrepreneurial Mind
- Venture Hacks
- Seth Godin’s Blog
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