“Having 20bn connected devices means that the majority of those connected devices will be machine to machine,” Sculley explains. “It means we’re just at the beginning era of very powerful sensors that can be built into clothing, that can be used for tracking almost anything that one can conceive and doing that in real time and using cloud computing to manipulate data which is going to be many many orders of magnitude larger and more complex that anything we’ve ever considered before.” Continue reading
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Google Fiber to offer fast net access in Austin, Texas
Google has confirmed that it will be extending its super-fast fibre broadband service to Austin, Texas.
Currently the search giant has limited its roll-out to Kansas City, where residents can get up to one gigabit per second speeds for $70 (£44) per month.
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Crowd sourced product development. Could ‘hacking’ change how products are designed?
“Hacking” has become a little-known, but fast-developing trend in the design world, involving online design communities interacting to reinvent and create new objects.
One example is sugru
http://sugru.com/
sugru is the exciting new self-setting rubber that can be formed by hand. It moulds like play-dough, bonds to almost anything and turns into a strong, flexible silicone rubber overnight. Continue reading
Career Ladder
For Undergrads
Career Ladder is an iPhone App that can help you make better career choices and learn more about yourself and how you relate to colleagues and friends. It can help you think about your future career and give you valuable information about your work interests, motivation and personality.
Originally developed with Cass Business School (then City University) Career Ladder is a proven tool, developed and used by psychologists over 10 years, that has helped thousands of people of all ages and nationalities, from school leavers to senior managers.
It contains 3 separate tests – Work Interests, Motivation and Personality and produces 15 pages of results with a full PDF report which you can print out. You can use Career Ladder as often as you like (for your personal use) and store your results to compare them over time or share them with your friends or careers advisor. To see more go to http://www.careerladderapp.com.
For Postgrads
Career Ladder is an iPhone App that can help you make better career choices and learn more about yourself and how you relate to colleagues and friends. It can help you think about your future career and give you valuable information about your work interests, motivation and personality.
Originally developed with Cass Business School (then City University) for MBA and Masters students, Career Ladder is a proven tool, developed and used by psychologists over 10 years, that has helped thousands of people of all ages and nationalities, from school leavers to senior managers.
It contains 3 separate tests – Work Interests, Motivation and Personality and produces 15 pages of results with a full PDF report which you can print out. You can use Career Ladder as often as you like (for your personal use) and store your results to compare them over time or share them with your friends or careers advisor. To see more go to http://www.careerladderapp.com
Innovation – London
Essential reading. April’s Wired !
Internet economy will be more than 12% of UK’s GDP by 2016
For innovators London is the Place to be, right now
Buy the Paper Magazine or download via app
http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine
Growing numbers of graduates (totaljobs.com say 51%) are looking to set-up their own business after university.
Quoting an article By Daniel Hunter “While recent research from the BIS has shown small businesses are missing out on a potential wealth of future talent through a lack of engagement with graduates, the survey from totaljobs.com uncovers a willing market of untapped graduates able to compete for the 196,000 jobs on offer in today’s SME employment market.
Intrapreneurship
Intrapreneurship, What is it?
Forbes
Move Over Entrepreneurs, Here Come The Intrapreneurs
article is by David Armano, executive VP, Global Innovation & Integration at Edelman.
“intrapreneurs come in handy. Smart organizations will seek out individuals who like to invent, innovate and want to be on the front lines of change. These individuals can work independently but even more important can work seamlessly as part of an integrated team structure and also effectively embrace and embody the culture of the intrapreneur’s host organization. Intrapreneurs are most successful when management/leadership empowers and supports them and in turn the intrapreneurs represent the best interests of their organizations while earning the respect of corporate peers.”
Perfecting Your Pitch
Perfecting Your Pitch.
Pitching your idea and yourself is a skill that can be learned.
Understand what others are looking for!
“Average entrepreneur pitch: 38 slides. Average investor attention span/cranial capacity: 10 slides. Do the math.”
Much of this interesting articles advice can be applied to pitching for Team members and multiple forms of funding and prizes.
Social Capital
Build your Social Capital score for your future.
http://webmarketingcoach.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/build-your-social-capital-with-whuffie.html
Making your own Website with a blog?
Using WordPress gets you started very promptly, it’s very low cost or free, gives access to administrators via web or apps and can be used by a team to co-ordinate start-up’s. Full instructions from the creators. An excellent product.
New to WordPress.com and don’t know where to start? Looking for just the right theme, or wondering how to use all the features in your dashboard? Interested in creating a website, not a blog? Or perhaps you’re ready to do more on your site, from adding image galleries to using built-in tools to connect with the community — and the world.
On our new WordPress.com tutorial site, learn.wordpress.com, you can get the help you need to create the site you want and get it up and running right away.
Learn — our WordPress.com tutorial site — gets a facelift!
We’ve completely revamped and reimagined learn.wordpress.com with lots of new content to help you get the most out of your WordPress.com site, including detailed guides to tasks like:
- Configuring basic settings.
- Navigating your way around your dashboard and Reader.
- Selecting a theme that fits you and your blog and adding…
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