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Extracted 19MAR2012 from http://tinyurl.com/85al3x3 Gartner says a number of factors are converging to make for a perfect personal cloud storm by 2014: Megatrend No. 1: Consumerization — You Ain’t Seen Nothing YetGartner has discussed the consumer...
Read MoreExtracted 19MAR2012 from http://www.economist.com/node/21549904 Smart devices are sometimes empowering... But for most people the servant has become the master. Not long ago only doctors were on call all the time. Now everybody is... Otherwise-san...
Read MoreExtracted 19MAR2012 from http://tinyurl.com/769pklq Paul Graham’s Trough of Sorrow... the diagram which has become very well known among alumni and fans of Y Combinator, the Silicon Valley-based startup incubator. It describes, using feelings an...
Read MoreExtracted 19MAR2012 from http://tinyurl.com/769pklq I'm working with a few startups right now that are in various phases of Paul Graham's startup curve: Many people think startups are up and to the right all the time. But more services exhibit thi...
Read MoreExtracted 19MAR2012 from https://www.troopswap.com/pages/about TroopSwap is the first e-commerce platform dedicated exclusively to the military community. The firm partners with local and national-wide merchants to provide great deals for service ...
Read MoreExtracted 19MAR2012 from http://angel.co/ninja-blocks/fundraising Ninja Blocks connect your things to the web. Want to bridge the things in your life with the web? Maybe you want to get an alert when your friends are playing on Xbox Live, or send ...
Read MoreExtracted 19MAR2012 from http://mashable.com/2012/03/11/pinterest-first-investor/ “I was Pinterest’s first investor.” That’s a sentence I bet you wish you could say. Here at SXSW, I find myself sitting opposite angel investor Brian Cohen who happi...
Read MoreExtracted 19MAR2012 from http://mashable.com/2012/03/18/pinterest-brand-attention/ If your brand isn’t on Pinterest, you could be missing out on a growing stream of potential customers. While shaping your brand’s image on Pinterest, remember to ta...
Read MoreExtracted 15MAR2012 from http://www.craftsmanscrewd.com/ This summer, Craftsman is going to take one tool-clueless person, and through a series of intense, even high-risk tool and survival challenges, put them through the ringer. The goal: Turn th...
Read MoreExtracted 15MAR2012 from http://mashable.com/2012/02/22/storify-launches-an-ipad-app-for-social-media-... Social media storytelling tool Storify finally untethered itself from the desktop on Wednesday with the launch of a free iPad app. Like the w...
Read MoreExtracted 15MAR2012 from http://tinyurl.com/7teb6mp South by Southwest Interactive officially drew to a close Tuesday with the 15th Annual Interactive Awards. The awards honored not only well-known sites and services from the past year such as Pin...
Read MoreExtracted 14MAR2012 from http://tinyurl.com/89l6ntz WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate, eager to notch an election-year victory by boosting small business growth, is moving toward prompt passage of a measure that overwhelmingly passe...
Read MoreExtracted 13MAR2012 from http://sxsw.com/node/10853 Katie Salen, Executive Director of the Institute of Play, helps administer two schools based on gaming and education, but she likes to keep up-to-date with professional game designers as well... ...
Read MoreExtracted 13MAR2012 from http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7ZGCPap7GkY Meaning personal goals, customizable goals, prosocial goals meaningful community, community generated goals meaningful story with ubiquitous (visual) remin...
Read MoreExtracted 12MAR2012 from http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-03-08/facebooks-payment-whales Looking to diversify its revenue beyond ads, Facebook has focused on trying to use its social network to create a payments network. While payments ma...
Read MoreExtracted 11MAR2012 from http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-57394960-52/jane-mcgonigal-shows-how-games-... At the South by Southwest festival here this week, the world-famous game designer [Jane McGonigal] formally launched her latest project, Supe...
Read MoreExtracted 08MAR2012 from http://venturebeat.com/2011/11/18/interview-will-wright-speaks-his-hivemind/ Will Wright’s games from SimCity to The Sims have sold more than 100 million units. That’s why people are paying attention to his new startup and...
Read MoreExtracted 08MAR2012 from http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/116212-GDC-2012-Sid-Meier-Sees-Inte... Sid Meier is an institution at GDC, having been a part of the game developer community for nearly two decades. How big of an institution is t...
Read MoreExtracted 08MAR2012 from http://www.destructoid.com/gdc-sid-meier-s-gamer-archetypes-223424.phtml During his GDC talk "Interesting Decisions," Firaxis Games' Sid Meier spoke about how boiling games down into a series of decisions can be a useful a...
Read MoreExtracted 08MAR2012 from http://questional.com/blog/156-the-future-unlocked-gamification-part-i/ There are many ways to motivate people. An employer motivates an employee to work by dangling the reward of a paycheck. A mugger motivates that same e...
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