Dan Pink: Drive - The surprising truth about what motivates us
This lively RSA Animate, adapted from Dan Pink's talk at the RSA, illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace. Courtesy www.theRSA.org.
Productivity. Cloud. And the iPad - NetBooks - Tablets era
Twitter Annotations - Twannotations
Annotations - a note of explanation or comment added to a text.
According to Raffi, Twannotations will bring a context perspective and will add to increased search and streaming ability. The way he's described the Twannotations looks like is that every tweet annotation will have a “type,” and each type can have several attributes - types can be repeated but attributes cannot, and these will be publicly visible unless you set your account to private. Interesting fact, Twitter is not going to validate Twannotations, but there will be an annotations explorer where one can see the treending annotations, stats, and developers 'wiki' zone.
Here's the presentation:
High-growth entrepreneurship
We all know the value of entrepreneurship, and the benefits it reaps for all of us - be it economical, life-learning, technology advancement, research-wise and academically. Entrepreneurship is not only about job growth, creation of new jobs, or technical innovation, but it also fosters a culture that is forward looking, helps in transforming local & national economies and prepares the local region for tough competitive economic and technology environment.
Entrepreneurial firms drive the future of innovation and prosperity in nearly every community, and, thus, are the focus for any economic development efforts. But with advent of recent economic downturn there should be more efforts to promote local economic development. And when it comes to transformation I don't think there's any single cookie-cutter approach or a silver bullet that can help us instantly transform our economy. Rather, the development of a culture that fosters entrepreneurship as a long-term strategy can only supplement growth and help fuel the transformation of local economies.
Jerry Yang, Co-Founder of Yahoo! recently presented his thoughts on high-growth entrepreneurship at the Presidential Summit of Entrepreneurship.
Some of Jerry's thoughts:
...the power of the Internet, innovation and ideas, and entrepreneurship is borderless. People around the world, especially young people, are increasingly enthusiastic about chasing new opportunities and starting their own businesses.
...While entrepreneurship may be an individual’s pursuit, a “high growth entrepreneurship” environment where technology entrepreneurs can thrive doesn’t happen by accident.
...You need to have the right foundation to enable entrepreneurship to flourish. A foundation that includes: a commitment to research and development; investment in education (including fundamental science at the University level); access to capital funding; and a culture that encourages an entrepreneur ecosystem – from immigration and technology access to online communities and mentors who encourage our youth.
You can watch the full video here.
Apple Seeds (courtesy Hugh/Gapingvoid)
This is an interesting piece by Hugh MacLeod, and touches the core - the basic fundamentals of how long you have to wait to wait for something in anticipation for the much awaited outcome that is not going to realize very soon. And then in the end its a may be. And yes rightly said Hugh. But how many of us realize that patience is a virtue, and in a tweeting world today I wouldn't count many.
In Hugh's words:
This cartoon is about the nature of PR. Unlike most marketing, the game isn’t about writing a check, pulling a lever and waiting for the sales to come in. It’s a wee bit more subtle and long-term than that.
And educating the client about the long-term view is probably the hardest part of the job…
