Piersj lifestream

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July 8
Solar Powered Prius Could Be First Hybrid With Solar

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Japan’s business news source, Nikkei (subscription only), has reported that Toyota is planning a Prius with solar panels manufactured by Kyocera Corp. Toyota has not confirmed the reports….
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Moving from an IT to a Product Organization Quite a few companies that exist today began life as something other than a product or Internet software company. Perhaps your company began as a large brick-and-mortar retailer, or an airline, or a…
July 7
3g iphone is the way for Friday (yey!), but not a great first impression of O2 so I’m keeping my other Orange account just in case
July 4
a good set of slides explaining social media Marta Z. Kagan, who describes herself as a “marketing/communications professional (and confessed start-up junkie)
with a knack for using the Web and non-traditional marketing methods to
build new…
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A map of the social entrepreneur landscape from 2gether08

I didn’t make it to the 2gether08 ‘unconference’ this week but I’ve been following some of the content coming out of what looked like a very interesting event.

I really enjoyed this short video…
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I quite want to see Kung Fu Panda
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Google verdict

Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube, a US court has ruled.

So reports the BBC. This is a bad thing for the privacy of every YouTube…
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Swurl: Your Lifestream, Made Beautiful swurllogo.jpgRSS is magic and the things we do online are often beautiful - so why are all the interfaces for displaying the feeds of our activities so ugly? Enter Swurl, a visually stunning system for…
July 2
2gether08: going outside to reach back inside the .org It’s my third day in my new job as a Social Media Consultant at Headshift and already I find myself giving a presentation at a conference, 2gether08. The panel I’m on, Inside Out - How Social…
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Tipit Lets You Transfer Money Over Twitter. Sort of.

Tipit, a startup that lets users tip website owners for their content, has launched integration with Twitter. Users can now ‘Tweet’ their tips to websites and Twitter users, even those…
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Google Readying Analysis of World's "One Trillion" Images (Kelsey Blodget/Beet.TV)

Kelsey Blodget / Beet.TV:
Google Readying Analysis of World’s “One Trillion” Images  — As it seeks to monetize the exploding universe of uploaded images to the Web, which…
July 1
10 of the Biggest Platform Development Mistakes

Just like with golf, technology is as much about ensuring that your bad hits are recoverable as it is ensuring that you make great ones. We’re all going to have failures in our careers but avoiding…
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zoomii visual amazon store zoomii.jpg
a visual bookshelf browser of over 21,000 books from Amazon’s catalog. books are visualized as stacks in shelves, with covers ordered alphabetically by author & organized by genre. following…
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Create your own tag cloud

I just found a tool for creating your own tag cloud called wordle. You can submit any text, or a URL that you choose and it will create a nice java tag cloud for you. A good way of visualising…
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10 of the Biggest Platform Development Mistakes

Just like with golf, technology is as much about ensuring that your bad hits are recoverable as it is ensuring that you make great ones. We’re all going to have failures in our careers but avoiding…