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Tribes
I finally finished Tribes by Seth Godin. In general I like Godin's stuff, but this one took me some time to finish. Maybe because the way the "chapters" are structured - not too sure. But like in his other books, he really has a point. So what did I learn? If you are going to hold onto the status quo, you are going to lose... Excellent point.
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Vores barndom
Vores-barndom.dk is a contribution to a marketing-contest that I made with my good pal Michael. diafuture.dk is a contest for students trying to prove their creativity. So this is our campaign with focus on video and the good story. Watch 'em, rate 'em, share 'em.
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Flavors.me/starfarm
So you want a quick'n'dirty social media portfolio? Flavors.me is a fast and easy way to create a simple portfolio that gathers your content and status updates from the most popular social media services such as LinkedIn, Flickr and of course twitter and Facebook. It literally takes less than five minutes to set it up... And then you have yet another profile out there.
http://flavors.me/starfarmThis talk is definitely going to be helpful in my upcoming project, and beyond. The irony though, is that I was watching the video instead of working on my project. But Seth Godin hits it spot on. How many haven’t experienced working on a project and then start feeling the anxiety coming up from behind you, when you are about 20-30% from launching your project? I know I have… but because of that anxiety, the feeling of actually finishing the project and actually launching/shipping the product is sooo fantastic. And that the key to remember: Winning over the Lizard Brain feels good. Overcoming fear feels good. And if we remember that particular feeling then beating the Lizard Brain gets easier and easier.
Thanks again Seth Godin.
Ship it… that’s your job!
The video is a talk that Seth Godin gave at the 99% conference in 2009. Very inspirational as always. Check out some of the other videos as well.
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The TigerText is here. The textmessage that will self-destruct after a given period of time. The purpose of the system is to obtain complete privacy over certain text-messages. This is how it works… You decide a certain text needs to delete it-self after, say 15 minutes, and then send it. If the receiver have the TigerText-app installed (of course it’s for iPhone) then the text will be deleted from both phones AND the server. Pretty neat if you are doing hanky-panky being the back of your spouse.
But is this deal only for the unfaithful? Well, what about the business-ideas that pop up? This app could function very well as a system for sending limited-time offers to loyal customers or maybe as a password reminder? Let’s take the first one. Say you have a webshop and you want your loyal customers to react quickly to a limited-time offer. You send a text containing a “promo-code” which will self-destruct (I like self-destruct better then delete – It’s more Mission Impossible-like) after 24 hours. The message will only be visible for this amount of time and after that everybody avoids the frustration of trying to enter a “promo-code” that isn’t active anymore.
The password-reminder scenario is very much alike. Lot’s of websites have a “new password generator” that is only active for 24 hours, which again presents the users with frustration if they are too late. Here they have it right on their display: As long as the message is visible, the “new password” is active.
Final note: The people behind the service claim that the name has nothing to do with the Tiger Woods scandal. “It’s just because a real tiger is so good at deleting it’s trails…” I don’t know about you, but i’m not buying it. Of course it’s a reference to Tiger Woods, no doubt about it.
TigerText is also coming for Blackberry and Android.
Update: A kind reader, Mikel, just mentioned that the app is not available in Denmark yet. Too bad for cheating men and women with iPhones…
Made to Stick
How do you make your ideas stick? This is the question Chip and Dan Heath tries to answer in "Made to Stick". And the answer is: SUCCESs - Your ideas have to be: Simple, Unexpected, Concrete, Credible, Emotional and told as a Story. There is no doubt that Chip and Dan Heath is very fond of Malcolm Gladwell, and if you are too, then you'll like this book.
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What is Strategy?
Michael Porter is almost characterized as Mr. Strategy since he defined Porter's five forces. This article about strategy is slightly different and in my opinion a more general approach on how to get the strategy right. Top keywords from the article: different, fit and focused.
Get it hereBlaise Aguera y Arcas deliveres a great presentation that blew the crowd away at TED2010. Microsoft really pulled back one from google with this one… Amazing to see how it goes in the battle between Street View and Bing Maps.
I just did a quick test from my University and it works quite well, to say the least.
LEGO Universe
LEGO Universe is going to rock the online gaming environment. LEGO's expansion from just doing bricks are now moving into the online RPG business, and I'm proud to have played a small part in this. I did some backend-design for the Universe, which proved pretty successful. The case: "Moderators are busy, so the backend has to offer as much info as possible in a simple and efficient way."
LEGO Universe
