A really interesting look into the value of Facebook advertising and the estimated value of likes for your brand. It appears that the people who are paid to “like” brands are causing a real problem with engagement of actual fans. Draw you own conclusions here but it is a real eye opener if you are considering using Facebook advertising.

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I found this beautifully made site which details the current legal status of Bitcoin in each country. I would not count on the accuracy of the service for making any investment decisions but its a decent starting point. Check it out here

February 15, 2014 Business, Computing, Design, Economics, Technology

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I discovered this data brokerage service from GNIP which offers complete access to data sets from Twitter, Tumblr, Foresquare, WordPress and more, it also offers a partial service for companies like Facebook, Flickr, Instagram. I am not sure of the pricing model however it looks promising for large scale data mining. Check it out here

Daniel Goleman, the author of Emotional Intelligence, gives a talk at Google about his latest work in finding the hidden drivers of excellence. Interestingly he notes that his research into this changed his view on some of his original thinking on emotional intelligence. His latest book can be found here

January 5, 2014 Business, Education, Life, Video

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I really like this presentation from Reed Hastings who is the CEO of Netflix. The presentation is all about the company culture that he tries to build and its dramatically different from many companies I have seen in operation. Read it here

January 5, 2014 Business, Economics, Technology

A really cool collage of films from 2012 created by “Gen Rocks”. It reminds me of one I posted earlier however the audio in this one was fantastically compiled. I would be recruiting these guys to create advertising for LOVEFiLM, Amazon Instant Video, NETFLIX, Now TV….

December 19, 2012 Advertising, Business, Cinematography, Video

Great talk from John Del Vecchio and Tom Jacobs of the Motley Fool detailing some insights into the financial markets. Some take aways are:

  • Cash/Equity/Bond positions and historically what has happened when they fluctuate
  • Capital distribution
  • Picking companies which go down 30% is far easier then picking the ones that go up 30% – much lower rate of success then to failure.

 

December 19, 2012 Business, Economics, Life, Talk, Video

Paul Levy gives a great talk at Google based on examples from his book Goal Play. Anybody in a leadership role should watch this and I particularly like his example of normalisation of deviance.

November 25, 2012 Business, Education, Life, Talk, Video

A very interesting presentation from Leah Buechley from MIT on paper based electronics using conductive ink. I believe this could be used in future packaging for smart notifications when products are running low.

The videos from the Startup School 2012 talks are now live. They include interviews with Mark Zuckerberg, Hiroshi Mititani (Rakuten) and I really liked Patrick Collison’s talk on Stripe.

 

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