Staring Down Stockdale

The power of Twitter & how news spreads

The team over @SocialFlow have put together an incredible post on the spread of news of Osama Bin Laden’s death through Twitter:

http://blog.socialflow.com/post/5246404319/breaking-bin-laden-visualizing-the-power-of-a-single

I particularly love these two sentences:

Twitter has become the dominant mechanism to get timely updates about events that are taking place regardless of geography, topic or even language. 

And with that, the perfect situation unfolded, where timing, the right social-professional networked audience, along with a critically relevant piece of information led to an explosion of public affirmation of his trustworthiness.

Hat tip to @Pkedrosky for highlighting this…

Ridiculous - how much more than “par” did the first Ford cost?

When you do the math, the Bloom box’s electricity costs substantially more per kilowatt hour than the grid.

Green jobs are vague, but necessary

For the purpose of creating jobs, then, a “clean-energy economy” will not offer a panacea. This does not necessarily mean that America should not become green to alleviate climate change, to kick its addiction to foreign oil or to use energy sources more efficiently. But those who take great pains to tout the “job-creation potential” of the green space might just end up inducing labor pains all around.

Advice for early stage firms…

FOR entrepreneurs hoping to land start-up capital from angel investors, here’s what two recent studies found: Don’t get carried away when you pitch your product because the investors may lose interest faster than you can say “almost unlimited market.”