Jan Wächter, datavisualization.ch We’ve compiled a small list of conferences definitely worth visiting in 2013. Events like this are a great way to see, learn, connect and be inspired. If you’re lucky enough to get a ticket, be sure to let us know so we could meet up and have a… RT @datavis: As if…
RT @Techmeme: Restaurants Turn Camera Shy (Helene Stapinski / New York Times) http://flip.it/0A1K6 http://flip.it/3O9zY http://flip.it/jJpeX Related articles Should Restaurants Ban Food Photography? (neatorama.com) IHOP Franchisee Selects DTT for Enterprise-Wide Roll Out (prweb.com) Restaurant Charging $200/Person Has The Gall To Tell Diners They Can’t Take Photos (businessinsider.com) Weekend reads: Restaurant food photos get controversial (mnn.com)…
Airbnb And The Unstoppable Rise Of The Share Economy Tomio Geron, forbes.com On paper, Frederic Larson is just one data point in five years of U.S. government statistics showing underemployment in dozens of industries and stagnant income growth across the board. The 63-year-old photographer with two child… RT @Techmeme: Airbnb And The Unstoppable Rise Of…
Russia had a three-day traffic jam By Sarah Miller, grist.org There was a three-day-long traffic jam in Russia over the weekend. That’s not three hours. That is three days. There was a snowstorm on the M-10, a well-traveled road between St. Petersburg and Moscow. Now, one might think a country… RT @grist: Russia had a…
Bonobos prefer to share food with strangers Karl Bates-Duke, futurity.org DUKE (US) — For bonobos, building a social network and making new friends are as valuable as food, say researchers. If you opened a pack of gum while standing in line somewhere, would you give a piece to the coworker standing on one side of……
Re:Re:Fw:Re: Workers Spend 650 Hours a Year on Email Megan Garber, theatlantic.com Unless you happen to get some sort of obsessive compulsive satisfaction from keeping your inbox in shipshape — and hey, if you do, more power to ya — dealing with email has got to be one of the most deadening aspects of any…
How REI Put A Bow On Social Marketing And Wowed Customers By Ekaterina Walter, fastcompany.com As marketers, we talk a lot about real-time response and true social agility. But very few brands were able to master the art. So is agile marketing a myth? A lot of brands struggle with agility in marketing: thinking on…
4 Secrets For Doing Gonzo User Research By Brian Millar, fastcodesign.com Fast, cheap, and out-of-control insights can help you to outsmart the competition. Here’s how to gather them. A few years ago, I got to partner up with one of the world’s best ad creatives, Steve Henry. We spent the morning working on a brie……
Anonymous Forum Users Can Be Identified By Linguistics By CARMEL MELOUNEY, fastcompany.com Researchers discover ways to identify the authors of anonymous online comments through linguistic analysis. If you want to ensure your anonymous comments online really do stay anonymous, it’s probably wise to start using leetspeak. … http://flip.it/IVsls Related articles Linguistics Identifies Anonymous Users (disinfo.com)…
10 Job Interview Tips From A CEO Headhunter By Russell S. Reynolds, Jr., with Carol E. Curtis, fastcompany.com Whether you’re being interviewed to be an intern or a CEO, you’re going to run into a few notoriously tricky questions—here’s a road map of what you’ll be asked, and how to craft impressive answers to even…