décembre 2009
"How Augmented Reality Will Work" - HowStuffWorks
Introduction to How Augmented Reality Works Photo courtesy Lynn Barry, Pranav Mistry, MIT Media Lab The SixthSense augmented reality system lets you project a phone pad onto your hand and phone a friend — without removing the phone from your pocket. Video games have been entertaining us for nearly 30 years, ever since Pong was introduced to arcades in the early 1970s. Computer graphics...
13 Tutorials to Help You Grow Your Blog Readership...
Finding Readers for a blog is one of the biggest challenges that bloggers face – as a result we cover the topic quite a bit here on ProBlogger. As part of this week’s Best of ProBlogger 2009 series today I’d like to share a list of 13 tips and tutorials related to the topic of finding readers for a blog that I hope will help you in your planning for next year. The Myth of Great Content...
Augmented reality set to boom in 2010 -...
Juniper Research is predicting that the AR sector will explode in the next five years to generate incomes of $732 million (£653 million) by 2014, while Martin Garner of analyst firm CCS Insight expects that mobile firms will release a range of “experimental” AR services next year as they learn how to make money from the technology. The most obvious way to generate revenue from...
Augmented Reality Toys - Fubiz™
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Magic Mouse helps Apple double share of market in...
Apple’s new Magic Mouse helped Apple see a twofold increase in its share of domestic mice sales last month, AppleInsider has learned, garnering the Mac maker a double-digit slice of the market for the first time ever. via appleinsider.com Third mouse manufacter in US market just in few months. And you think that innovation is not the best way to the success. Posted via web from...
Augmented Reality iPhone Sudoku Grab
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s i x t h s e n s e - a wearable gestural...
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22 Terrific Tips On How To Get More Twitter...
The Tips Share useful links related to your field of interest, with only about 5-10% going back to your site. Bit.ly has a bookmarklet that you can drag into your browser toolbar that allows you to share a link on Twitter from any page with only two clicks. When you find something useful, share it right away. Tweet a lot, but only quality tweets. You should tweet at least 4-5...
How to Crack the Self - Harvard Business Review
Toward that end, here are three questions leaders can ask themselves, or a trusted associate or two, about their own managerial performance. 1. What more do I need? This question might seem easy because a leader will always say she needs more time. True enough, but lack of time is often an excuse for failing to address simmering issues or to carry projects through to fruition. Ask yourself...
10 Awesome Uses of Augmented Reality Marketing -...
1. BMW Z4 This BMW interpretation ties in with a TV ad that sees artist Robin Rhode using the Z4 as a giant paintbrush (think big-scale finger-painting with the car’s tyres). Downloading the software, printing out the 3D symbol and holding it up to your webcam will allow you to see your own miniature Z4 on your screen, which you can then drive around using keyboard commands, creating...
Kindle Ebooks Outsell Real Books on Christmas -...
Did digital books finally defeat pen and paper this Christmas, though? Let’s think about this logically: - While not releasing any numbers, Amazon announced that more Kindle books were sold than real books through Amazon on Christmas day. - It would make sense that there would be elevated Kindle purchases on Christmas; people getting new Kindles as gifts would certainly want to make them...
How McDonald's Makes Billions - Trizle
The fast food winning approach from the biggies: Attract customers with loss leaders ($.99 meals) Upsell on profitable items. Keep selling more items until they say No. via trizle.com Posted via web from tech4buziness | Comment »
Want to Win at Business? Be a Human Being - Fast...
Google’s secret sauce, as far as I can see, is that the best company is the company that acts like a human being. The seeds of a good idea find the greatest climate for growing into an action plan or a product when the person, or people, who conceive(s) the idea shares it with another person or a team. It’s important to create an environment where one person can talk to many, or...
Five Rules You Should Know about Being a Creative...
1. Treat your product like the new Constitution: Where democracy and freedom of expression thrives, business innovation takes root, and it can be just as powerful as art. Make your product not only useful to people, but let it be used as a tool for liberation — of habits, of protocol, of standards that have been worn out. 2. Think differently, because you don’t necessarily come...
10 Marketing Predictions for 2010 | Whatever it...
The current holiday lull is the perfect opportunity to present my marketing predictions for next year, so here goes: Increased competition in a tight market, coupled with the signs of an economic recovery, will prompt companies to invest more in market; but companies will want better metrics for how dollars are being spent to contribute to the bottom line. As the number of smart phones...
Merry Christmas and slow down during Xmas holidays
I wish a merry christmas for all of you, joy and peace for everyone. During this Xmas holidays, I will slow down my review and I hope to see you back in 2010. Posted via email from tech4buziness | Comment »
How to Turn Around a Demoralized, Underperforming...
5 Step Process For Turning Around a Demoralized, Underperforming Group Understand how it got that way. Take the time to meet one-on-one with key executives, stakeholders, and of course, your staff. Ask the tough, leading questions and make sure you get honest, non-sugarcoated answers by assuring confidentiality. Pick your team. Not only the “keepers,” but who needs to go once you’ve...
The Heart of Innovation: 50 Ways to Foster a...
As your organization gears up for 2010, here are 50 ways to ensure that it’s culture is conducive to innovation. Commit to a few of these today and begin to work your magic. 1. Remember that innovation requires no fixed rules or templates — only guiding principles. Creating a more innovative culture is an organic and creative act. 2. Wherever you can, whenever you can, always...
Ten for 10 in 2010 / Technology - My Venture Pad
As we approach the end of the year, I thought it might be fun to share Ten for 10 in 2010 – a list of people, blogs, apps, platforms and more that I think you might enjoy checking out in 2010. These are just personal takes and, as with any list, this is subjective so please feel free to leave your own thoughts in the comments after the post. Yesterday I looked at blogs. This time around it’s...
Top 10 2010 Social Media Predictions - My Venture...
Following yesterdays post on 5 Predictions for the Next 5 Years, here are my Top 10 2010 Social Media Predictions. Unlike yesterday’s post, where I was looking at the bigger trends that would shape our space, this is a little more like playing fantasy football. I’m really just guessing. Facebook goes public at the end of the year. Twitter reaches profitability but does not go public. ...
4 Online Sales Tips To Boost (Holiday) Revenue -...
Successfully selling a product, whether one sells online or in a retail store, has similar traits. 4 lessons to follow : Lesson One - BE FOUND BY SEARCH ENGINES Lesson Two: GIVE CUSTOMERS A GOOD SHOPPING EXPERIENCE Lesson Three: OFFER DISCOUNTS - Customers love to save money and get a good deal (just like you do). Lesson Four Segment Your Customers: CRM Rules - OFFER SPECIAL DEALS TO SPECIAL...
4 Reasons to Cut Hours, Not Wages : Money ::...
Here are the 4 reasons he decided to cut hours, rather than wages. 1. Employee pay became more closely aligned with business success. An increase in sales typically meant corresponding increases in labor hours and paychecks. Employees had an incentive to perform well in order to build and reinforce positive customer relationships, generate good feedback, and encourage repeat orders. 2....
5 Ways to Grow Your Local Business with Social...
Below are five things any local business can do to get more business using social media tools 1) Start a Local Group Online Most social network platforms offer some form of group creation. Any member has the ability to start a group around a niche or pretty much any topic – including a local topic. Sites such as Flickr, Facebook, LinkedIn and Slideshare all allow members to create and manage...
10 Small Business Lessons From Zappos - American...
Whether or not you think that the Zappos model may work for your business, there are definitely some lessons you can take away from their 10 guiding principles. Here they are along with some thoughts on how you might be able to apply them to your small business: 1. Deliver WOW Through Service. This is all about doing more than the expected. Solving a customer’s need is the...
5 Tips for Human Resources Leadership | UpstartHR
5 Ways to be an HR leader Take care of your people-Do you think your employees will look to you as a leader if they don’t think that you really care and want the best for them? (Hint: no!) Look for ways to innovate-Find new ways to compensate your people. Switch up your recruiting strategy. Gather some metrics and do some forecasting. When people see you coming up with fresh, exciting ideas,...
Twitter Is Already Profitable! - Mashable
According to Bloomberg, the microblogging service will make a small profit this year off of $25 million in revenue, thanks to the search deals it completed with Google () and Microsoft, which were reportedly worth $15 and $10 million, respectively. Those deals pay Twitter () for access to tweets that are in turn included in real-time search results on each property. via mashable.com ...
Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups - Steve Blank
The key contributors to an out-of-control burn rate is 1) hiring a sales force too early, 2) turning on the demand creation activities too early, 3) developing something other than the minimum feature set for first customer ship. Sales people cost money, and when they’re not bringing in revenue, their wandering in the woods is time consuming, cash-draining and demoralizing. Marketing demand...
2010 Predictions - ReadWriteWeb
Richard MacManus, Founder & CEO, @rww 1. There will be a breakthrough consumer application for Internet of Things - involving the iPhone, RFID tags and a major consumer product such as books or groceries. In general, Internet of Things will ramp up in 2010, with thousands more everyday objects becoming connected to the Internet. 2. Google will acquire PostRank and promptly consign it to...
Best Collaboration Tool: Email - Lifehacker
Email and Google Wave were neck and neck both with 30%; ultimately email beat out Wave by a mere 16 votes—0.003% of the vote. One of the interesting aspects of that near-tie is that one of Google Wave’s goals is to replace email as a more effective collaborative tool but, as we mentioned in the Hive Five, email has been around for over 40 years and people are extremely comfortable using...
Most Popular Free iPhone Apps (and Posts) of 2009...
GV Mobile Makes Google Voice the Default for Your iPhone In April, an industrious iPhone developer released GV Mobile to the iTunes App Store. It was followed by other Google Voice apps, and then Apple went brain dead and removed every Google Voice application from the App Store (along with rejecting Google’s official Voice app). Annoying, to be sure, but users still willing to jailbreak...
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How to Become an Expert on Any Topic - eHow.com
Instructions Step 1 Find a topic area that you have knowledge on and that you can build an online business around. There are many different ways that you can go about making money on a topic that you become an expert on. You can blog about the topic and sell affiliate products and ad space to make money. When you are an expert on a topic, you can...
Making Happier Employees a Priority - Biznik
Creating a happier environment is imperative to increasing your company profits, reducing employee turnover, and increasing productivity. Changing your work environment must become a priority for CEOs and managers alike. There are ten important elements to creating a happier work environment. 1. Good Manager/Employee Communication 2. Encourage Additional Skills Training 3. Incorporating...
Are You a Manager or Leader ? - DrivenLeaders.com
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100 Ways to Be a Better Leader - Learn This
Actually, I decided to run this after seeing a list of 100 ways to show boldness by Armen @ TimelessInformation.com which he got the idea from Luciano at Litemind. I’d love to see some of my readers make a list on new subjects and keep these lists and links going… Bunny, Arswino, Dragos, Lance, Jonathan, Stephen, Positively, anyone up for the challenge? Leading People 1. Volunteer to help...
Are You Making the Right Decisions for Your...
The best business decision-makers tend to follow a set of guidelines that are designed to make every decision count. Here are three steps to get you started making the right decisions: Identify your options. Decision-making is a choice and it’s impossible to make a choice if you haven’t explored all of your options. Make a conscious effort to resist the urge to make a decision until you...
4 Tips to Becoming a Superstar Self-Promoter -...
Here are 4 tips that can help anyone become a master self-promoter! When speaking in public here are the two words you should live by. Be prepared. Off the cuff, on the fly, winging it or going with the flow are not strategies you should use! Position yourself as an expert with the written word versus the verbal communication. Whether it is by creating a blog, posting on social networking...
A restaurateur reboots her business model - Oct....
Nandini Mukherjee, president of Aamchi Pao Aamchi Pao Amachi Pao’s new menu features wraps and smoothies. 5 deadly spots Every restaurateur knows about Cursed Locations, the addresses where no venture survives. Here’s a look at 4 trying to break the streak — and one that failed. View photos (Fortune Small Business) — When I moved to New York City...
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