Watch Air Traffic – LIVE! This looks to me – for some reason – like it's probably been around a while but I've only just come across it on the back of the ash cloud. It's almost totally useless but wildly brilliant at the same time. (tags: flightradar visualisation)
Archive | April, 2010
It’s been an interesting year
So it’s a year almost to the day that I went freelance. I only realised when I attended a local country fair, comprising ferret races, dogs herding geese, and cut-price sales of smocks (I only lied about one of those), which I went to the day after deciding I had to go freelance last year […]
Who are: @frosty_snow, @geoff_bronson, @gavin_henderson, @peter_bently?
This morning I took a quick look at what people were saying on the UK Election Social Media Dashboard. I noticed a few spikes on Twitter for George Osborne. This was strange. Osborne hasn’t figured particularly highly so far, and when he has, it’s been associated with spikes for his contemporaries Darling and Cable. So […]
Social spume
- Hiring Interns: Do's and Don'tsHiring interns for your company means more than just finding a pair of hands to get you coffee or feet to run your clothes to the dry cleaner. Interns can be the future of your company, so it makes sense to hire the smartest and most capable workers Last year, nearly 60% of interns were converted into full-time hires by companies. After all, interns learned […]Josh Tolan
- On adding a zeroWhat happens if, instead of one sales call a day, you make ten? Or if instead of 3 freelancers working on scaling your work, you have thirty? What happens if you add a zero in places where it feels impossible to handle... what then? Scale isn't always the answer, but if it is, then scale. Build the systems necessary to dramatically change your impact. H […]Seth Godin
- FOMO the Movie: The Terrifying Social TruthFor all the amazing ways social media has changed our lives, it's come with some downsides, as well. Chief among those is FOMO — that is, of course, Fear of Missing Out, a documented disease among social media addicts Surely you're familiar with the feeling. A simple night relaxing at home is no longer good enoughTwitter brings fun updates from fri […]Sam Laird
- Elon Musk Wants to Build an Electric Pickup TruckHow did you spend you Friday night? Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk spent his answering questions about paying back the government and musing about the next kind of electric vehicle he might like to make. After posting a number of tweets about his thoughts on proper taxation and how he did (PayPal and Zip2) and didn't make his fortune, Musk appeared to […]Lance Ulanoff
- Askem Gets You the Answers You Need, FastThe Launchpad is a series that introduces Mashable readers to compelling startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: AskemThe Pitch: Askem aims to simplify your decision-making process Why It's Taking Off: Askem lets you share your questions online and create up to five different text res […]Veena Bissram
- Video Captures Scary Washington Bridge CollapseMore proof that the cameras are everywhere. The frightening collapse of a bridge in Washington State on the busy Interstate 5 was actually caught by a surveillance camera. A huge portion of the bridge fell into the Skagit River on Thursday night after an over-sized freight truck struck part of the structure. The grainy video, obtained by AP, actually shows a […]Lance Ulanoff
- Young & Rubicam's 90th Anniversary & CEO David Sable's advice for Startups [Video]Young & Rubicam celebrated its 90th year in business by inviting people around the world to join them in a social conversation that filled a Clear Channel Spectacolor Billboard at NY’s Times Square this Thursday. The billboard was populated with their profile pictures across a mosaic based on their tweets under the hashtag #AdvertisingIs. The mosaic was […]basilpuglisi
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