January 2012
24 posts
#XPRIZE - now that is cool! Murals vs. White Board...
IMG_0059.mov Watch on Posterous IMG_0060.mov Watch on Posterous Posted via email from desdemona’s posterous | Comment »
EXCLUSIVE: Scout Willis Is A Die-Hard Badass For...
By Susie G December 7, 2011 12:00 pm —> ...
Writing a business plan - How to write a business...
Writing a Business Plan We would enjoy learning about your business and considering it for venture capital funding. It’s easy to reach us. Email or call. Have a mutual acquaintance connect us. Before you send your business plan ideas please read the Elements of Sustainable Companies and Writing A Business Plan. Submit a Business Plan Email us: start [at] sequoiacap.com ...
Culture Eats Strategy For Lunch | Fast Company
BY FC Expert Blogger Shawn ParrTue Jan 24, 2012 This blog is written by a member of our expert blogging community and expresses that expert’s views alone. Get on a Southwest flight to anywhere, buy shoes from Zappos.com, pants from Nordstrom, groceries from Whole Foods, anything from Costco, a Starbucks espresso, or a Double-Double from In N’ Out, and you’ll get a taste...
Vote By Mail - Elections & Voter Information -...
via sos.ca.gov Did you know you can VOTE from the comfort of your own plane or hotel room by signing up as a permanent absentee voter? It’s true! Sign up today! Don’t let traffic and work get in your way! Posted via email from desdemona’s posterous | Comment »
Essential Mac Apps for Students
Mac Apps for Homework NeoOffice -NeoOffice is a full suite of office applications, including spreadsheets, word processing and even a mobile app. Like OpenOffice, it’s a free, full-feature alternative to Microsoft Office, but this application is specially designed for the Mac OS. Schoolhouse 2 - This homework manager will help students organize assignments, exams...
Hostess, Grandma and Me
By Desdemona Bandini When I first heard that Hostess, (the makers of Twinkies, Ho Hos, Cupcakes and many other lunch desert delights for me that I was not allowed to have in middle school) was filing for bankruptsy my thoughts drifted away immediately to memories of Grandma. I had a “weird” Mom who was incredibly health food conscience at a time when it seemed like no one...
Kodak, Twinkies and Greece Call in Bankruptcy...
By Isabella Steger Everett Collection If you think you’re seeing Lazard’s name an awful lot these days, you’re not imagining it. That’s because distressed companies and governments everywhere are calling in the restructuring experts for help. Eastman Kodak Co., which filed for bankruptcy Thursday, has hired Lazard as an adviser along with FTI Consulting and Sullivan & Cromwell. In...
Social Media + Interactive Digital Wall
In the Florida Gubernatorial Election of 2010, only 8 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds voted. “Eight percent means that this generation has no voice with our political leadership,” said Ann Henderson, director of the Bob Graham Center for Public Service at the University of Florida. “That’s a problem to me.” This generation of millenials doesn’t participate...
Ahead of May IPO, Facebook's Ad Business...
ust as it appears Facebook could go public as early as May, according to a story from AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher today, a new report indicates its advertising business remains on an upswing. According to the report out today from Facebook marketing firm TBG Digital, Facebook saw rising ad rates as well as better performance on those ads in the fourth quarter of 2011. Some of the highlights: *...
Recursive Google Image Search Is Mindflippingly...
Jesus Diaz - As you may know, you can search for photos by dropping a picture on Google Images. It shows you images that are equal or similar to yours. This is what happens when you feed one search with the result of the previous search. 2,951 times. Dutch smartperson Sebastian Schmieg thought about doing exactly that, starting with a transparent 400 × 225-pixel PNG...
Kids Playing With Public Interactive Video Game at...
Kids_playing_with_public_interactive_game_at_century_city_mall.MOV Watch on Posterous The ads of the future will take over public spaces. Posted via email from desdemona’s posterous | Comment »
Sign Into Your Google Account on Public Computers...
Sign Into Your Google Account on Public Computers Without Typing Anything If you ever want to log into your Google account when you’re at a public computer, where you’re unsure whether or not there’s a keylogger installed, there’s now a simple solution. And it’s from Google! First, point the (insecure) computer’s browser at...
Popular sites participating in SOPA Blackout -...
Popular sites participating in SOPA Blackout Wikipedia might be joining Reddit to form a SOPA blackout in protest of SOPA. Jimmy Wales discussing on Wikipedia: I’m all in favor of it, and I think it would be great if we could act quickly to coordinate with Reddit. I’d like to talk to our government affairs advisor to see if they agree on this as useful timing, but assuming that’s a greenlight,...
Popular sites participating in SOPA Blackout -...
Popular sites participating in SOPA Blackout Wikipedia might be joining Reddit to form a SOPA blackout in protest of SOPA. Jimmy Wales discussing on Wikipedia: I’m all in favor of it, and I think it would be great if we could act quickly to coordinate with Reddit. I’d like to talk to our government affairs advisor to see if they agree on this as useful timing, but assuming that’s a greenlight,...
DealBook: Hostess, Maker of Twinkies, Files for... →
Hostess Brands, the baking company known for sweet treats like Twinkies and Ding Dongs, filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday, just three years after emerging from an earlier restructuring process.
Get Out From Under Student Loan Debt
Dear Friends and Supporters:Now that the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finally has a new director in Richard Cordray, it’s ready to start doing the job it was created to do: protect consumers - and that includes those with private student loan debt! They’re seeking public comments on your experiences with private student loans so as to begin to start regulating this...
Kenny Rogers - The Gambler - YouTube
via youtube.com The Truth Will Prevail Right? Posted via email from desdemona’s posterous | Comment »
Kenny Rogers - The Gambler - YouTube -- The Turth...
via youtube.com Posted via email from desdemona’s posterous | Comment »
IKEA Hosts Sleepover For 100 Lucky Facebook Fans...
By Alice Chan on January 3, 2012 inShare54 IKEA hosted a sleepover at its Essex store in the U.K., giving a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for customers and fans to spend the night inside its signature furniture warehouse. The whole idea for this PR event was inspired by a Facebook group called ”I wanna have a...
Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities...
A Conversation with Richard Saul Wurman Affiliated Event Tuesday, January 10, 2012 : 9:00am University Park Campus Gin D. Wong Auditorium, Harris Hall 101 Admission is free. 0 0 1 106 609 USC 5 1 714 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE ...
Don't be famous, be useful!: Entrepreneur Mode On! →
cgiorgi:
In case my title was not clear enough: yes, I am now an entrepreneur, working on my own project (I won’t call it a start-up before it actually starts).
Before giving you more details about this new project, a few comments about what happened to me to be that crazy. Really, you want to create…
The Trouble with Digital Conservatism
thenewinquiry:
(via)
Conserving the self in a culture of productive narcissism
by Rob Horning
The cluster of ideas, meanings, and implications associated with Web 2.0 has been amalgamating for the better part of a decade, steadily consolidating to the point where few would deny its cultural significance. The development of more sophisticated search engines and the promulgation of social...
The Obvious Corporation - From the Twitter Gang
The Obvious Corporation San Francisco, California The Obvious Corporation makes systems that help people work together to improve the world. The proliferation of technology can seem superfluous, but with the right approach, technology can benefit individuals, organizations, and society. We are relaunching the company that originally incubated...
December 2011
24 posts
Forget PIN Numbers, Apple Wants to Let You Unlock...
Compared to how things used to be done with desktop computers, accessing your smartphone seems as instantaneous as it gets. You just pick up the device, tap a button, slide a finger to the right, enter (or Swype) your passcode and you’re in. The whole process takes about two seconds and requires virtually no physical energy on your part. Piece of cake. As quick and painless...
New Year's Resolution Poem
I wonder if this applies to chocolate? I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost…I am helpless. It isn’t my fault. It takes forever to find a way out. I walk down the street. There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I pretend that I don’t see it. I fall in again. I can’t believe I am in this same place. But, it isn’t my fault. It still takes a...
Help me with my thesis? Take this short survey on...
Hello Lovers and Friends! Help me w/ my social media thesis Please take share a quick survey: http://bit.ly/rpZCAD and then….if at all possible Share it with others? :-) Here is a suggested tweet for sharing or posting: pls help a friend RT @_Desdemona_: Help me with my social media thesis. Please take and share my quick survey: http://bit.ly/rpZCAD Thanks! Posted via email ...
How to Leverage Klout Score for Fame, Fortune,...
Klout is a hot-button issue in the social networking world, and it’s a touchy subject for many. The two-year-old company— which provides social media analytics to measure a user’s influence across social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn – is no stranger to criticism. Klout’s model hinges on giving its members a number from one to 100 to determine the power of their...
Pop Culture « Mr. Dictator Potato Head Series:...
Mr. Dictator Head Series: Stephen Ives 19 Dec This post was created, coincidentally, before learning of Kim Jong Il’s death, earlier today. It seems particularly fitting, then, (if maybe a bit distasteful) to post it now. Stephen Ives is an English-born, Australian artist who works in 2D as well as 3D. His work is about contrast and balance and the juxtaposition of the...
Bodhi Tree Bookstore Is Closing: Bad News for...
Bad news for Buddhists and others seeking enlightenment: the Bodhi Tree Bookstore is closing. Owners Phil Thompson and Stan Madson informed their staff last Wednesday that the cozy Melrose Avenue shop, a nationally renowned and much beloved spiritual center, will be shutting its doors in a year’s time. After some eight months of discussion, Thompson and Madson decided to sell the...
Forgive Student Loan Debt to Stimulate the Economy... →
Joan's On Third To Open Soon in The Valley -...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011, by Kat Odell 132 Recently The Valley has seen a flood of new, higher quality restaurants from the Umamis of the world to smaller mom and pop getups like Black Market and Ombra. Take A Bao and Buddha’s Belly also...
HOW TO: Turn Your Facebook Profile Photo Into a...
Some Facebook users — myself formerly among them — are obsessive profile tweakers. We edit our list of interests. We reorganize our photo albums and experiment with awesome profile photo hacks. We weigh carefully whether we want to “Like” this Page or that, because we wonder how that information will be inferred. And we’re always just a little bit, well, bored with our...
TED Blog | 3D Printing a human kidney: Anthony...
Printing a human kidney: Anthony Atala on TED.com Fresh from TED2011 last week: Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney. Using similar technology, Dr. Atala’s young patient Luke Massella received an engineered bladder 10 years ago; we meet him...
How to Manage your Smartphone Data Limits
Managing Data Caps It’s closing time at the all-you-can-eat mobile data buffet. More operators globally are moving away from unlimited data plans and moving towards tiered pricing with hard ceilings on the data available for you to use. These data caps leave consumers to wonder just how many times they can browse their favorite sites, read their email, or watch videos before getting...
Did you find my Flotsam??
If you found my Flotsam you have located the QR code attached to it, scanned it in and you ended up on this YouTube site: http://youtu.be/IQlwJZExgsc The Flotsam you found is part of a transmedia children’s storytelling research project at USC’s Annenberg Innovation Lab. You can check out the link here:...
The 4Moms Origami: Look At This Robotic Stroller!...
Comment 19 inShare133 The 4Moms Origami: Look At This Robotic Stroller! Look At It! John Biggs Monday, November 28th, 2011 19 Comments ...
Goodbye, Heather | TechCrunch
Heather Harde, the business brains behind TechCrunch, will be stepping down at the end of the year as general manager of AOL’s technology properties (including TechCrunch, Engadget, Joystiq, and TUAW). AOL GM Jay Kirsch, who oversees Autos, Finance, and Industry on the business side, will be adding Tech to his responsibilities. Editorially,...
Marketing's Biggest Social-Media Blunders of 2011...
Published: December 12, 2011 inShare236 Weinergate When a photo of his nether regions was tweeted from his account to a Seattle woman in May, Anthony Weiner insisted that he had been hacked. But the scrutiny continued, and the powerful New York...
Facebook’s other messages: mail you are probably...
When a man tried to return my lost laptop, Facebook hid his messages from me. How come? By Elizabeth Weingarten|Posted Friday, Dec. 9, 2011, at 11:22 AM ET 189 Where is Facebook storing all those messages? On Nov. 15 at approximately 11:45 p.m., I left my 1-month-old MacBook Air...
Art to Help Victims of Domestic Violence. Good Tax...
Art is such a powerful tool - I hope you’ll join me in supporting the amazing work this organization is doing. As it celebrates its 20th year of service, Windows faces the strongest demand for those services in its history. With its programs already reaching over 60,000 participants at 175 domestic violence agencies throughout Los Angeles and in 25 states, Windows must meet the growing demand by...
A shorter, readable credit card agreement
On Tuesday, President Obama traveled to Osawatomie, Kansas, to lay out his vision for America — where everyone from Wall Street to Main Street plays by the same rules and all Americans have a fair shot at success. http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2011/12/06/what-fair-shot-success-means?utm_so…” target=”_blank” style=”color: #336699;”>Check out his...
Top 20 social media monitoring vendors for...
Data galore: A screen grab from Radian6. A rare comparison of the major monitoring & engagement services: Radian6, Lithium, Attensity360 & 17 more Target audience: Brands, corporations, mid-size to large businesses. See Socialbrite’s series on social media monitoring: • Guide to monitoring social media conversations • 20 free, awesome social media monitoring tools ...
5 free social media marketing tools save time -...
By Tasha Cunningham Special to The Miami Herald Many small businesses are not using social media to their advantage, at least according to a survey conducted last May by London-based Opinium Research. The firm conducted online interviews with 304 U.S. business owners and managers, with more than 200 of them founders of their companies....
Transmedia Storytelling: Heroes Emmy Reel - The...
It covers most of the transmedia elements for “Heroes” Season II. This project won the Emmy for Interactive TV Programming – Fiction. 9/09/2011Diversos, EntretenimentoPetra Carstens This was the sizzle reel submitted to the Interactive Emmy committee by NBC.com. via thealchemists.com Posted via email from...
Toyota Fun Vii - YouTube
via youtube.com Posted via email from desdemona’s posterous | Comment »
Gowalla Removes Virtual Goods Gets Bought By...
A little over two years ago we unveiled a new way to share and discover the world’s most loved places. Little did we know that our product would inspire people in every country around the world to venture out and share their lives on the go. You have visited millions of places, taken millions of photos, and shared millions of stories. Shortly after Gowalla’s second birthday we...
Microsoft As The Firefox Savior? →
parislemon:
Marco Arment brings up the most fascinating aspect related to Ed Bott’s report that Google may not be renewing the search deal that essentially keeps Firefox (and really, Mozilla) alive:
What if Bing steps in to fill Google’s shoes?
That would basically mean Microsoft would be funding the demise of their own product, Internet Explorer.
But because Firefox has a huge user base,...
November 2011
7 posts
Rethinking Education - MIT TechTV – Home
via techtv.mit.edu Posted via email from desdemona’s posterous | Comment »
Google Fail - Again. Google Wave Came and Went, No...
Dear Wavers, More than a year ago, we announced that Google Wave would no longer be developed as a separate product. At the time, we committed to maintaining the site at least through to the end of 2010. Today, we are sharing the specific dates for ending this maintenance period and shutting down Wave. As of January 31, 2012, all waves will be read-only, and the Wave service will be turned off...