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…
Staring Down Stockdale - Redux -
Trying to get back into this ‘blogging’ thing all the kids are talking about… It’s been awhile…
Deb Roy: The birth of a word | Video on TED.com -
MIT professor explores the development of language using amazing video and audio collection. Additionally, looks at the connections of communication and content using social networks and capture of television programs. Particularly impressive set of visualizations. Curious to see how quickly advertising seizes on how these communication processes happen and utilizes them to sell product innovatively.
“The only thing different about the Google mafia compared with other, similar periods in history, is that more money was made at Google by more people (and more money will be lost).” — The Top Angel Investors: Behind the Rankings - BusinessWeek
“Much-Touted Bloom Fuel Cell Still Too Spendy” — Much-Touted Bloom Fuel Cell Still Too Spendy | Wired Science | Wired.com
When you do the math, the Bloom box’s electricity costs substantially more per kilowatt hour than the grid.
“In other “clean-energy” sectors such as solar and wind energy, jobs are predicted to emerge in the same broad categories of installation, manufacturing, R&D and IT services, but the near-term expected levels of investment in and adoption of these renewable sources of energy mean that net job creation should top out in the tens of thousands, as opposed to the desired hundreds of thousands or more.” — Sunil Sharan - The green jobs myth - washingtonpost.com
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.
“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.” — In the Hunt - In Pitching to Angel Investors, Preparation Outweighs Zeal - NYTimes.com
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.”