Elizabeth Gilbert TED Talks video in which she talks about life after your greatest successes are believed to be behind you, the art of showing up everyday and how you should put down your ego and realize that your genius is on loan from the universe. It’s well worth the 20 minutes.
Sorry, I’ve been quite for the past few weeks. Ideas and inspiration come in spurts sometimes and I’ve just not really had much to say. So rather than cloud the site with clutter, I’ve been recharging and nose deep in a few books. I’d recommend you check these two out.
Facebook has decided to post its payment terms to the Facbeook Governance page and is open for user feedback for the next 3 days.
While the initial payment system on Facebook will only be a beta test, the company is expected to finalize testing and roll out an official payment API in the coming months.
Could this finally signal the payment system that Facebook promised us back 2007? I can already see developers salivating.
San Jose Mercury News to Charge For Online Content — congratulations to the SJMN for trying something, my regrets that it’s this. This business model didn’t fail in 1998 because there weren’t enough people on the Internet, it failed for the same reason it will fail now: you have a generic product and a cheaper substitute will win.
Startup Weekend returns to Memphis May 29th – 31st. In case you’re new to the scene, Startup Weekend is a community building event that brings together the best local developers, marketers, designers and enthusiasts to do what they do best – start projects and start companies. Your brain synapses will literally be firing on all cylinders for 54 hours straight.
Jeremiah Owyang speaks with Blake Cahill on what he sees the future of the social web is going to bring us. He theorizes that there will be 5 era’s of the social web. He believes that people will start to own the market instead of companies and that communities will continue to take [...]
Louis Gray wrote a wonderful piece on what he believes are the keys to satisfying consumer expectations in today’s real-time world. Gray believes consumers and technology are becoming more acute, hence they are demanding greater advancements in communication and openness with the companies they do business with. In his post, he details 10 key tenants [...]
Since the announcement of iPhone OS 3.0 in March and on the heels of the June WWDC, there have many rumors swirling about the possibility of a new model of iPhone as well as improved functionality built on the new operating system.
Buried deep in the iPhone OS 3.0 keynote was something which I believe to [...]
In case you missed it, new media mavens C.C. Chapman and Adrian Ho converged on Memphis for a one-day workshop. TriplePoint PR has probably one of the best write ups on the event.
The mixer that followed gave attendees the chance to speak with both C.C. and Adrian one-on-one. Both guys were very generous with their [...]
A new advertising trend I’ve seen recently isn’t groundbreaking by any means, but I think it signals a new shift in the way major companies and advertisers are thinking about social media in their campaigns. I’m starting to see both online and offline ads pushing users to their facebook page rather than their .com homepage. [...]
Here is a simple Greasemonkey extension for Google Analytics that adds social media metrics right in with your web reports. The developer promises more services to come, but as of now it measures Digg, Sphinn, Mixx, Reddit, Stumbleupon, Del.icio.us and Yahoo inLinks. Check it out.
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Merlin Mann of 43 Folders and John Gruber from Daring Fireball got together for a talk at SXSW last month to chat about turbocharging your blog and essentially, capitalizing on your passions. It’s a very entertaining 60 minutes and I’d encourage everyone who is struggling to find their voice or wants to take their blog [...]
File this under things I wish I had thought of.
All Laundry Detergent teamed up with The Celebrity Apprentice to help create and distribute a viral video that donated 50 cents to two charities every time their video was shared. All is essentially using their budget as incentive to encourage people to share and distribute clips [...]
Launch Memphis and the Southern Growth Studio are teaming up with Adrian Ho, Founding Partner, Zeus Jones and C.C. Chapman, Co-founder and Managing Partner, The Advanced Guard for a workshop on April 23rd.
The event, which will be held from 1:30 – 4:30 at the Emerge Memphis building will bring two of the most well-respected leaders from [...]
Video is an amazing medium that’s being integrated into every part of our digital lives. It’s power is enormous. The one main downfall with video though is that its hard to optimize it’s content so that search engines index it correctly. Have no fear, here are a few tips that I’ve found that can help [...]