32 accomplishments that will give you the influence of a college degree
Futurist Thomas Frey: “Does being smarter make you happier?”
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Twitter Is Launching Its Own Photosharing Service
A new view is coming to Twitter
Twitter has been completely emphatic about where developers should stake a claim, with Twitter Platform Lead Ryan Sarver warning the ecosystem to stay away from building “client apps that mimic or reproduce the mainstream Twitter consumer client experience.”
Well if Sarver stays true to his word the Twitpics and Yfrogs of the world can just give it up now. According to multiple sources, Twitter is on the verge on announcing its own built in Twitpic competitor…
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Addressing the Problem of Addresses
Futurist Thomas Frey: When Hurricane Katrina hit the city of New Orleans the US Post Office was faced with a major dilemma. For countless centuries, the modus operandi for the post office was to deliver mail to a location, and the individuals who lived at that location would stop by and pick up their mail. But following the hurricane, the floods had destroyed all of the “locations”.
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Three Key Strategies to Gamify Your Website Beyond Badges
There’s a right and wrong way to implement gamification beyond just slapping badges and points on your site.
Gamification, or the use of game mechanics in non-gaming contexts, has quickly made its way into the lexicon of the marketing and tech world. Companies in every industry imaginable are trying to tap into this powerful new strategy for influencing and motivating their customers, employees and fans.
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Cities Offer Revenue Guarantees to Persuade Airlines to Expand
Harrisburg International Airport is going to negotiate revenue guarantees with airlines in the future by hiring a company to help them.
According to a recent article on PennLive.com, when you type ‘airline’ and ‘revenue guarantee’ in a major search engine and you’ll find articles about airports nationwide that have used and are using revenue guarantees to expand or preserve air service.”
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Interbest Uses Hairy Male Stripper to Sell Billboard Space
“The sooner you advertise here, the better”
Interbest, the advertising agency Y&R Not Just Film Amsterdam, used a male stripper to build awareness of their billboard visibility. The billboard campaign can make anyone driving by want to start a business and pay for billboard space. Interbest’s billboard campaign has the following tagline: “The sooner you advertise here, the better” and they have created a lot of buzz since the man on the billboard is wearing less and less clothes each day. (Pics)
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500,000 Apps Have Been Approved on Apple’s App Store
Infographic about Apple’s App Store
On Tuesday Apple hit an unofficial landmark. Apple has now approved 500,000 apps for its App Store, according to an infographic from app-search app Chomp, publisher Chillingo and review site 148Apps.
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China’s Private Jet Market Takes Off
China has become the fastest-growing market for Airbus’ private jet business.
China’s soaring economy is creating a class of wealthy entrepreneurs who have plenty of money to spend on one of the ultimate symbols of success: the executive jet.
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Google & Partners To Make 5-Billion Dollar Wind-To-Wire Investment Along US Mid-Atlantic Coast
MORE POWER!!!
Google and two unfamiliar sounding business partners have received a key first-approval for construction of a $5bn power transmission project, linking the landward power grid to several wind farms to be built off the US Mid-Atlantic coast. (The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has ruled the project can earn a 12.59% return on equity (ROE) – a bit less than the 13.58% requested.)
The partners are Google, Good Energies and Marubeni. The project will connect 6,000MW of offshore wind capacity to grid segments from New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland – on down to Virginia. Other permitting approvals are still required but the money and FERC approvals look solid…
Facebook Wants Your Children
Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg told attendees at a recent summit on innovation in education that, “My philosophy is that for education you need to start at a really, really young age.” A really, really good way to do that, Zuckerberg said, is to let kids ages 13 and under join Facebook.
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IBM Now Worth a $1 Billion More Than Microsoft
IBM overtakes Microsoft
IBM overtakes Microsoft to become the second most valuable technology company in the U.S., ending a 15-year reign for the software giant.
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