Archive for the 'Bits and pieces' Category

Over at TED is a talk from 2005 by Clay Shirky about Institutions vs. collaboration. It is a very interesting talk about how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks. Clay talks about institutions compared to collaboration, like Microsoft versus Linux. He shows the graphs behind the 80-20 rule, few contribute a [...]

Cnn runs a story about Sale of 1 house will help 30 villages. A family in Atlanta, Georgia, has decided to sell their house, donating half the proceeds and moving into a house half the size.
Hunger Project Vice President John Coonrod, estimating the money could affect more than 20,000 people in Ghana, said that:
This will [...]

I recently came across Free Starbucks Wi-Fi & The Ultimate Customer Voice Survey. Starbucks has created My Starbucks Idea as a way to get ideas and feedback from their customers.
Help shape the future of Starbucks—with your ideas
You know better than anyone else what you want from Starbucks. So tell us. What’s your Starbucks Idea? Revolutionary [...]

Put Things Off has a post about Moleskine Notebooks: The Ultimate Guide (and how to rank your addiction). The post is a great introduction to the various types of Moleskine notebooks. Nick Cernis introduces the Moleskale, a way to rank your addiction to Moleskine notebooks. At present I only achieve a 2, I own one.
At [...]

Today is the Chinese New Year. The information below comes from a Chinese friend.
2008 is the Year of the Rat, which is also known by its former name of Wu Zhi. It is the Year 4706.
The rat is the first of the 12 member pantheon that makes up the cycle of the Chinese Zodiac. [...]

XING started showing ads on personal profile pages. That resulted in a heated and intense debate in the German section of the Xing forum. Little trickled over into the English section which is strange. Xing claims to be international, yet the company management ignores the discussion in English. Instead Lars Hinrichs posted at the OpenBC [...]

I wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Here is a Christmas song.

DoshDosh has a post titled Learn From an Adsense Millionaire: Notes on Markus Frind and PlentyofFish.com. It is amazing how much a great idea and hard work can bring in.
His annual income from PlentyofFish.com alone is currently $5 to $10 million a year. What is fascinating is that Markus Frind is a one-man show. He [...]

OPEN Business Club AG (the company behind XING) acquires Neurona, the Spanish market leader for online business networking. Neurona has more than 830,000 membes and is the largest contact online business network in Spain and Latin America.
At the OpenBC blog it says Our dedication for the Spanish Market rises: Neurona joins XING.
Following our first acquisition [...]

According to openBLOG OPEN Business Club AG, the company behind XING, will co-operate with the US company Zoom Information Inc.
ZoomInfo is a business information search engine that indexes the Business Web to quickly find information about industries, companies and people. The partnership will provide XING’s 2 million-plus members with immediate access to profiles on nearly [...]

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