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The view from inside...is coming.

2011-11-23T14:57:11Z

I favorited a YouTube video: 11.28.11 #viewfrominside Music credit: deadmau5 "Ghosts N Stuff"

Celebrity Chef Ted Allen Cooks His Favorite Pretentious Foodie Bullshit Meal

2011-11-11T17:10:47Z

I favorited a YouTube video: Jim and Tracy welcome Celebrity Chef Ted Allen on Today Now! to show them how to make the most obnoxious, contrived meals for your dickhead foodie friends.

Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action

2011-11-07T14:58:47Z

I favorited a YouTube video: http://www.ted.com Simon Sinek presents a simple but powerful model for how leaders inspire action, starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?" His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers -- and as a counterp...

The Walken Dead

2011-10-20T13:58:04Z

I favorited a YouTube video: New from POYKPAC: The Walken Dead... For every zombie who's ever wanted their brains served with a side of cowbell Subscribe now to get new POYKPAC videos every single Friday! http://poykpac.com CREW Writer/Director - Ryan Hunter Directo...

New Yorker Animation: Done in the Sun & Steroid Summer

2011-08-31T19:35:52Z

I favorited a YouTube video: Free iPhone app: http://www.ringtales.com/iPhoneNY by Christopher Weyant and Danny Shanahan. In Done in the Sun, "It's over. Go home." In Steroid Summer, "What I did on my summer vacation."

#HowToBeBlack by @baratunde

2011-08-14T23:15:00Z

#HowToBeBlack by @baratunde, a photo by stevegarfield on Flickr.

Watching Baratunde write his book online.

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Your Chance to Enter the 2011 SPIKE Awards

2011-08-11T17:15:33Z

I favorited a YouTube video: From the shores of Coronado, California Jenn Sunga invites you to enter the 2011 SPIKE Awards - the only awards program recognizing the best use of social strategies, processes and supporting technologies to improve innovation, product development...

2011 SPIKE Awards

2011-07-27T22:51:59Z

I favorited a YouTube video: Amy Kenly invites you to enter the 2011 SPIKE Awards - the only awards program recognizing the best use of social strategies, processes and supporting technologies to improve innovation, product development and product management.

TEDxDetroit - David Blair - While I was Away

2011-07-25T14:30:37Z

I favorited a YouTube video: Detroit - While I Was Away Blair has toured the U.S., South Africa and Germany sharing the stage with Stevie Wonder, Michael Moore, Wilco & more. He is a National Poetry Slam champ and recipient of the Bent Mentor Award for Queer Writers.

The Grand Rapids LipDub (NEW WORLD RECORD)

2011-07-13T12:35:34Z

I favorited a YouTube video: The debut project by STATUS CREATIVE http://statuscreative.com/ The international sensation that Roger Ebert calls "The Greatest Music Video Ever Made." Support this non-profit organization by buying cool merchandise! Link: http://www.cafepr...

SocialMediaClub: Interview Chuck Tanowitz

2011-06-27T19:04:26Z

I favorited a YouTube video: "Hyper-Local, Hyper-Social, Hyper-Competitive: The New Journalism" Colin Browning, Program Developer for IDG Strategic Marketing Services, interviews Chuck Tanowitz Principle at Fresh Ground Communications, Inc - a PR firm in Boston. Chuck ...

IBM Centennial Film: 100 X 100 - A century of achievements that have changed the world

2011-06-24T16:11:50Z

I favorited a YouTube video: The film features one hundred people, who each present the IBM achievement recorded in the year they were born. The film chronology flows from the oldest person to the youngest, offering a whirlwind history of the company and culminating with its ...

The Power of Facebook Groups, Punks & Sock Monkeys

2011-06-23T22:11:43Z

Onyx Ashanti: This is beatjazz

2011-06-21T21:49:32Z

I favorited a YouTube video: http://www.ted.com Musician and inventor Onyx Ashanti demonstrates "beatjazz" -- his music created with two handheld controllers, an iPhone and a mouthpiece, and played with the entire body. At TED's Full Spectrum Auditions, after locking in his b...

First Gabrielle Giffords Pics Since Shooting Released on Facebook

2011-06-12T16:41:05Z

You’d never know by looking at these photos that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had suffered a gunshot wound to the head five months ago. Two pictures of her were released on Facebook by her staff on Sunday, showing her with shorter, darker hair and flashing a big smile in both photos, which were taken on May 17.

Giffords spokeswoman Pia Carusone says the Congresswoman has come a long way since she survived a gunshot to the left side of her forehead in an assassination attempt in which six people were killed and 13 wounded on January 8. While Giffords’ recovery has been called “miraculous,” Carusone told the Arizona Republic that Giffords is still dealing with speech difficulties:

“She is borrowing upon other ways of communicating. Her words are back more and more now, but she’s still using facial expressions as a way to express. Pointing. Gesturing. Add it all together, and she’s able to express the basics of what she wants or needs. But, when it comes to a bigger and more complex thought that requires words, that’s where she’s had the trouble.”

Her doctors are pleased with her progress, and are said to be optimistic about her chances of making “a tremendously good recovery.” According to Carusone, Giffords’ doctors say she’s about halfway through the most important time for recovery from an injury such as this, where most progress is made in the first 12 to 14 months.

Join us in wishing the Congresswoman all the best.

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Paul Romer: The world's first charter city?

2011-06-10T20:51:47Z

I favorited a YouTube video: http://www.ted.com Back in 2009, Paul Romer unveiled the idea for a "charter city" -- a new kind of city with rules that favor democracy and trade. This year, at TED2011, he tells the story of how such a city might just happen in Honduras ... with...

Communities - The New Strategic Imperative

2011-06-06T16:12:29Z

By now most of us have a rough understanding of Moore's Law and the exponentially increase in the processing power of technology:

While this increase in technical productivity has been celebrated liberally over the years and has generated huge amonts of value and wealth, it has changed the cost structure of businesses in ways that put increasing amonts of stress on people. Unfortunately human cranial capacity does not evolve quite so fast - changing over millions of years, not hundreds:

What does that have to do with social media? Well, networked communication channels have existed for quite a while but there usage was limited - IRC chats were typically frequented by the more technically inclined, for example. But as organizations have applied technology and their operational speed has increased, humans - not technology & tools - became the biggest limitation to innovation and productivity. With that change, individuals have become more and more stressed because their processing capacity has not evolved. My hypothesis is that social media took off when it did in large part due to the strain being put on individuals to keep up with the pace of technological change. Social media has created an immense improvement in the speed of which individuals can share information and make decisions. This is great as it reduces some of the stress on the individuals in the system.

The problem? Technical processing power will continue to increase and once everyone is social tool-enabled they will end up in the same spot where they were before - as the biggest limitation to operational speed. What then? Humans cannot go faster and faster without breaking the quality of their decision-making and judgement. So while social communications channels will persist, their value to the organizational system will plateau. For those most connected now, they are the canaries in the coal mines - completely overwhelmed by the amount of information coming at them from a myriad of communication channels.

This leads me to the conclusion that a strategy of faster will no longer be effective and, in fact, it will eventually lead you to crash and burn. What humans need and what will give an organizational competitive differentiation is the time and space to build quality products and services that are rewarded with higher margins. The way to acheive that time and space for people to do their best work is through highly trusting relationships with customers - and it is the only way. Customers must trust that by giving your company time to build a quality product or effectively support them, they will be better served.

That has some pretty broad implications. It means that to win, organizations will have to:

Focus on building relationships first, rather than focus on the products and services first
Educate and expose customers on internal processes so they understand and have realistic expectations of delivery
Build in boundaries that allow individuals to slow down and focus
Build trusted relationships with employees such that they not only don't feel pressure to go faster but are incented to make sure they are thorough and inclusive in their work

Communities are one of the few ways to scale some aspects of relationship development and building. Those companies who are ready for this next phase of operational effectiveness are busy investing in relationships today and not worrying quite as much about the short term ROI. Those organizations too focused on the short term, transactional ROI of social media may find that they missed the boat as social media effectiveness flattens because their customers and prospects are off building deep, rich relationships elsewhere and, at the end of the day, those customers and prospects only have room for a limited number of those relationships.

It's time to fundamentally rethink how value is assessed, created and distributed and how we think about our competitive landscape.

Want to hear more about this from me? I'll be presenting these and other thoughts at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference on Tuesday, June 21st in Boston.

What do you think? Are you personally feeling stressed? Do you think your organization wants to keep its foot on the gas to the exclusion of quality? Which companies have always done this relationship piece well and have they prospered?

Web Ink Now: Social networks are never private

2011-06-06T23:45:31Z

NASA Wants To Send Astronauts To Mars Within 20 Years in New Deep Space Vehicle

2011-05-25T12:48:07Z

NASA is working on a new deep space vehicle that will take astronauts farther into space than ever before — first to an asteroid and eventually to Mars.

The spaceship is called the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) and is based on the design of Orion spacecraft, created for the Constellation program.

The goal of that program, which was cancelled by President Obama in 2010, was to send astronauts to the International Space Station, the moon, Mars and other destinations. Following the cancellation of the Constellation program, president Obama set a new goal for NASA: to send astronauts to an asteroid by 2025, followed by a mission to Mars by the 2030s. To be able to achieve that, NASA aims to modify the Orion design, which is considerably cheaper than working on an entirely new spaceship.

“We are committed to human exploration beyond low-Earth orbit and look forward to developing the next generation of systems to take us there,” said NASA administrator Charles Bolden.

The MPCV will be built by Lockheed Martin; the company was also working on the development of the Orion capsule.

The vehicle will have 316 cubic feet of habitable space, designed to carry four astronauts for 21-day missions. According to NASA officials, the new spaceship is designed to be 10 times safer during launch, re-entry and landing than the space shuttle.

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EXCLUSIVE FIRST LOOK: Color has “real time” social camera competition: CoolIris LiveShare preview

2011-05-25T15:01:32Z

One thing that caught my eye (beyond its $41 million in funding) about Color was its “social camera” capabilities. What do I mean by that?

Well, if you use Color, aim it at me in a room, it’ll add my name to your phone. How did it do that? Through the use of all the sensors to figure out we were in the same room, and you were taking a picture of me.

That’s pretty cool, when it works, but I think Color was pitched wrong.

What do I mean by that?

If it were me, I would have solved the problem of syncing photos between iphones and ipads. Just cure that pain and let people discover the other “social stuff” later that Color does.

Well, Cooliris, today, brings LiveShare which does that and more.

It is one of the coolest apps I’ve seen this year, you must watch the demo.

It’s NOT just a social camera, either.

Why did it get me so excited?

Because, say we’re at a wedding. I can have everyone there load up CoolIris Liveshare, and we can all share LIVE onto a single computer, or iPad. This is something I’ve never seen done before. I can’t wait to use this at a conference with a videowall. Photos can “pour” into the app live, from hundreds, or even, thousands of people shooting photos. Now, that isn’t that typical of a use case, but think of a birthday party, with 15 friends and family shooting photos. All showing up on a big screen instantly. All being shared with each other instantly.

This is a big deal and why, today, Color has new competition.

By the way, the system demoed here is not out yet, it will ship between now and August.

Here’s more, from Rackspace’s Building 43, reprinted with permission:

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LiveShare: instant photo sharing from Cooliris

Photo sharing on the web has been around for years. Sites like Flickr, Facebook, Picasa and Snapfish provide a wealth of options for uploading images and making them available to friends and family. None of these sites, however, allows instant, real-time sharing across multiple devices. Cooliris is making that possible with its new app called LiveShare.

“Back in 2006, we started Cooliris with the goal to transform the way people experience media on the web,” explains Austin Shoemaker, Co-Founder and CTO of Cooliris. “And that’s brought us to a point where we’re really excited to show you what we’ve been working on—a new product called LiveShare that’s all about visual communication and enabling people to interact around media in a way that’s more natural and really thinking about the context of the message that you’re sending.”

The LiveShare application allows you to create an event and share photo streams related to that event. Anyone you invite to join the event can view the photos instantly as well as contribute their own photos. The app is currently available for the iPhone and iPad as well as any web browser that supports HTML5, but the company has plans to expand to other devices in the future.

“It’s a cross device, user-centric experience,” says Shoemaker. “When you jump into LiveShare, you can do that from your phone, from your tablet or from your web browser, and it’s the same experience with the same information and media. However you come in, you’ve got your personal world right there. If you’re on your phone, you’re more likely to capture photos and videos, so you could just take pictures and take videos, and those are instantly synced to the cloud. So you go back home, and those photos and videos are available for you to browse, present, and share to groups or social networks. We think this is going to be a great way to really connect all the different parts of your life.”

LiveShare achieves instant syncing by first syncing a low resolution version of the photo, but it follows that initial sync with the full resolution image. “One of the decisions we made,” says Shoemaker, “was we want people to be able to use this as their primary camera, so when you’re taking pictures, you’re not compromising on quality.”

You can also share text messages, videos and links from your browser. Links can be viewed right in the app using a minibrowser, or you can jump out to your full browser. And as location is a big part of the context of any event, the app allows you to geotag all of your messages.

Images and video are just the beginning for LiveShare. “In the first version, we’re only going to support image and video attachments,” explains Shoemaker. “In the future, we’re going to allow any kind of documents. The idea is if you’re sharing say a Photoshop file of a mockup, you should be able to drag and drop that on your group and they should be able to open it on the other side.”

More info:

LiveShare web site: http://www.liveshare.com/
Cooliris web site: http://www.cooliris.com/
Cooliris on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Cooliris
Cooliris profile on CrunchBase: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/cooliris