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Third-party Twitter developers are toast [VIDEO]
Twitter has signalled that third-party Twitter services will soon get some new competition. From Twitter. In this video below, Loren Feldman from 138media delivers the unvarnished version as he sees it (as always).
Hotel, prison encourage guests to generate own energy via pedal power
You’ve heard of singing for your supper, but in this environmentally conscious age, institutions are now inviting patrons to pedal for privileges.
TED Talk: Happiness is but a memory
As illustrated in this talk from the Ted Conference held in California earlier this year, Nobel Prize-winning behavioural economist Daniel Kahneman has an intimate understanding of the complexity of experience and the tyranny that memory wields over the perpetual present. It’s thought-provoking subject matter with profound implications for the way we perceive and pursue happiness, both in ourselves and with those around us.
Power business networking, Japanese style
If you’ve ever attended a networking event and been introduced to someone who spends the next few minutes looking over your shoulder at who else he/she could be talking to, know that it could be worse. You could have Professor Himonya’s undivided attention.
1980s video game characters destroy New York with SFX [VIDEO]
Patrick Jean from the French SFX studio OneMoreProd created this video of Manhattan being destroyed by the world’s favourite 1980s 8-Bit video game sprites. Awesome effects. But do you recognise them all?
The most intelligent uses of Twitter accounts from around the world, in one place
Clever Accounts (@CleverAccounts) tweets about interesting and intelligent uses of Twitter from around the web. The feed is taken from Clever Accounts’ Posterous blog, which carries the apt tagline: Twitterers that make you say, “Now I get it!”
Amazing business card ninja [VIDEO]
This guy should star in Kill Bill 3. But he would be more effective working for Joel. We’re guessing the out-takes run considerably longer than this clip.
Website of the Week: What would you do for a Fiverr?
After learning of Fiverr’s existence, I figured it was going to be jokey. And, indeed, there are some humorous “gigs” (see examples). However, Fiverr is a serious commercial site — it’s brimming with legitimate postings by service providers who are deadly serious about completing the jobs they offer (the site facilitates the transaction). It’s quite remarkable how much work some people will do for US$5.
Video snippets of startup pollenization at work
Our friends at Pollenizer, which has emerged as the fertile hub of Sydney’s happening web startup scene, have launched a great new initiative to showcase the hive of activity that is Pollenizer HQ in Surrey Hills. On Fridays (starting two weeks ago), Mick Liubinskas thrusts his Flip camera in the face of colleagues and connected entrepreneurs, inviting them to share a little about the projects they’re working on.
David Bussau: The economics of enough
David Bussau is all too familiar with the concepts of under-privilege, survival and dignity. He spent much of his childhood in a New Zealand boys’ home, an experience that taught him the value of lateral thinking and risk-taking as a means of survival. But unlike many people born into a position of disadvantage, Bussau has been able to turn the tables, achieving the lofty status of self-made multi-millionaire by the age of 35 and changing the lives of countless individuals, families and communities in the process.
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Steve Ballmer vs Alan Greenspan. Product marketing 1985-style [VIDEO]
I’ve always been a little afraid of Steve Ballmer. This video doesn’t help. In 1985, on November 20, Microsoft released Windows 1.0. Steve Ballmer, ever the affable chap, stepped in front of the camera to sell this amazing new product.
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