Google's Periodic Table of APIs & Developer Tools
Cool list of the various APIs and Developer tools provided by Google.
I also like the fact that this is presented as an interactive table (rather than an image), so each element is clickable and takes you to the information page about that particular API.
Continuations: Don't Compete - Change the Game
I know that “don’t compete - change the game” can easily be seen as kind of a trite slogan. But I still find myself in many meetings with startups where the strategy can be summed up by: our plan is to do this better than our competitors. While out-executing others is possible and companies…
— from Bryce T. Roberts’ post about this being a great time to be unfundable.
One of the commenters also provides a related quote from David Morgan:
Right now you are still in the driveway - stepping on the gas will make you go right through the garage.
—from Liz Gannes’ article about Gravity’s plans to personalize any content site.
Liz’s reaction to Gravity’s interest graph for her was similar to my own experience when using Gravity’s Twinterest application. It is definitely possible to infer someone’s interests from their Twitter account by analyzing their posts and who they follow. However the way Gravity is doing it—-seemingly ignoring sentiment and frequency, and without a ‘whitelist’ of interests—-is not leading to good results so far.
If you haven’t seen @JESSEDEE’s Steal This Presentation slides, get over to SlideShare asap!
I’ve been playing with wordclouds a bit lately (see here and here), so thought I’d throw together a quick visualization of my delicious tags.
Seems pretty consistent with my (professional) interests although I’m using delicious a lot less than I used to thanks to Twitter’s iPad application.
May have to create another visualization of my tweets to see how it compares.
@neilkod has been tracking tweets from PubCon, a social media conference currently taking place in Las Vegas and sharing some of his insights and analysis on the PubConTweets site.
One of the cool visualizations Neil has put together (shown in part above) shows the interconnectedness of the top 150 users of the #pubcon hashtag. It seems that @unmarketing is the most connected amongst the top #pubcon tweeters given his high inward-connectedness (number of pubcon-tweeters that that follow him, represented by size of circle) and high outward-connectedness (number of pubcon-tweeters he follows, represented by darkness of circle).
The full post and SVG visualization are on Neil’s blog.
I doubt I’ll ever go back to corporate work. Once you see the light, there is no turning back.
- Magnus Jepson
You don’t need a business plan. You don’t need to have an MBA. All you need is a great idea. Anything is possible and you can accomplish it.
- Ron Conway
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