Hector Hulian

The Swivl is like having your own personal cameraman! Just...

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:47:23 -0400

The Swivl is like having your own personal cameraman!

Just stick your iPhone, Android or camera in the stand, and it’ll follow your every move via a sensor that you wear!

Shoot videos of yourself or your friends without worrying about who’s going to hold the camera.

The iPhone Swivl is Like Your Own Personal Cameraman

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear..."

Sat, 07 Jul 2012 22:16:13 -0400

““You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.””

- Eleanor Roosevelt

A New Beginning - Is Fear Holding You Back?

Sun, 10 Jun 2012 11:44:00 -0400

A New Beginning - Is Fear Holding You Back?

futurescope: Nike Makes Sustainable Materials Data Available To...

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 22:22:54 -0400

futurescope:

Nike Makes Sustainable Materials Data Available To All

via Co.Exist:

The shoe company has a lot of data about different materials, where to get them, and what they do to the planet. And now they’re making that info available to try to improve the world’s supply chains. […] Nike announced this week the Nike Open Challenge for Sustainable Materials, which asks anyone who might be interested to use its dataset of sustainable materials (developed over the past eight years) to “let anyone select materials beautifully, simply, and accurately, based on sustainability,” according to Random Hacks of Kindness, Nike’s partner in the challenge. Ultimately, RHOK imagines a tool that could let manufacturers compare non-organic cotton from a great supplier to organic cotton from a decent supplier on the fly. […] Even if you don’t have the chops to develop a tool for the Open Challenge, Nike still may have some useful information for you: the company’s recently launched Material Choice and Impact site. We can see, for example, that Nike’s nylon women’s shorts have a high waste and water impact, but don’t have much of a chemistry or energy impact.

[read more @Co.Exist & @RHOK] [NIKE: Challenge & API & Material Choice and Impact]

Netflix Co-founder Joins Getable’s Board To Help It Bring The Rental Industry Online

Wed, 23 May 2012 00:19:20 -0400

Netflix Co-founder Joins Getable’s Board To Help It Bring The Rental Industry Online

thenextweb: Tweetminster, the platform for following social...

Sun, 06 May 2012 23:40:56 -0400

thenextweb:

Tweetminster, the platform for following social media coverage along political lines, launched Electionista, a web app for monitoring elections over Twitter across 110 different countries in 58 languages. That means the six taking place this weekend are also in there and you can use the app to filter through activity from and about each place. (via This App Helps to Monitor Tweets for 6 Elections on One Day and More)

"In 1997, Apple was weeks from going bankrupt. A competitor, Michael Dell, suggested that the best..."

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:42:08 -0400

““In 1997, Apple was weeks from going bankrupt. A competitor, Michael Dell, suggested that the best thing the company could do would be to liquidate and distribute its remaining cash to shareholders. 15 years later, Apple is now the most valuable company in the world.””

- SAI

"At future Hack Days, there was always a feeling of danger and although no one ever really said it,..."

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 20:31:00 -0400

“At future Hack Days, there was always a feeling of danger and although no one ever really said it, there was an ongoing secret competition to see who would get the call from HR this time.”

- great post from Chad

The 20 Percent Doctrine « Chad Dickerson’s blog

(via fred-wilson)

Google's Non-Split Stock Split

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:01:30 -0400

parislemon:

The key aspect of Google’s earnings yesterday was the don’t-call-it-a-stock-split stock split. I say “don’t-call-it-a-stock-split” because it technically wasn’t one, but it was effectively one. There will now be double the number of Google shares outstanding. It’s just that the shares won’t all be equal. Half of them will be of a different type of class, which is important when it comes to company governance. Those shares will carry no voting power.

I’m not going to pretend to understand all of the intricacies here. But I think Felix Salmon has the most interesting take on the news. He flat-out calls the maneuver evil.

He notes that for much of the 20th century, dual-class voting shares were illegal. And even when they came back in 1986, the idea was to have protections in place. The majority of independent shareholders (so, non-management and non-directors) were supposed to approve such a move.

But Google didn’t see to that. Instead, they appointed a small committee of independent directors (so, just those that don’t actually work at Google) to make the call on the proposal. And because that committee approved it, it will now go before all the shareholders for a vote in June. And, notably, that vote will include Google’s management.

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"I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times,..."

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 11:29:24 -0400

““I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed””

- - Michael Jordan

parislemon: NUTS!

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:23:13 -0400

parislemon: NUTS!:

Business Insider on January 6, 2011 after OMGPOP’s $10 million Series B:

IS HE NUTS? This Guy Thinks He Can Beat A $5.5 Billion Company With A $10 Million Funding Round

Business Insider today after OMGPOP was purchased for about $200 million by aforementioned $5.5 billion (now public) company,…

Kony 2012

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 02:26:08 -0400

Kony 2012

Definitely the best Startup video I have seen!

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 22:44:37 -0500

Definitely the best Startup video I have seen!

Entrepreneur seeks an investment on Shark Tank with a bad...

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:24:17 -0500

Entrepreneur seeks an investment on Shark Tank with a bad attitude.

Entrepreneur seeks an investment on Shark Tank and becomes rude because he doesn’t like criticism and the offers. This is exactly the wrong attitude to take with investors. If you don’t agree or like an investor offer, just walk away in friendly terms and learn from the experience, NEVER take this attitude.

You never know if you will run into them in the future. Be smart!

INSANE BABY YOGA!!!

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 11:28:12 -0500

INSANE BABY YOGA!!!

thenextweb: Apple’s iCloud hits 100 million users, Android...

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:05:18 -0500

thenextweb:

Apple’s iCloud hits 100 million users, Android accounted for 50% of smartphone sales in Q4 of 2011, and Google+ for iOS gets a much-requested feature. It’s all in today’s Daily Dose.

This was my Favorite Superbowl Ad this year!

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:45:13 -0500

This was my Favorite Superbowl Ad this year!

Hitwise has pulled some really powerful stats about Facebook’s...

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:44:44 -0500

Hitwise has pulled some really powerful stats about Facebook’s first month of 2012, and it’s really impressive stuff. Ready for this? Facebook.com captures one in every eleven Internet visits in the US 1 in every 5 page views occurs on Facebook.com The average visit time on Facebook.com is 20 minutes “Facebook” is the most searched term in the US and Facebook-related terms account for 14% of the top search clicks. Facebook.com users are highly loyal to the website; 96% of visitors to Facebook.com were returning visitors in January 2012 (via One in Every Five Pages Viewed Last Month was on Facebook) PHOTO

Northwestern, IBM collaborate on business analytics courses - AnalyticBridge

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:54:20 -0500

Northwestern, IBM collaborate on business analytics courses - AnalyticBridge:

Northwestern University and IBM are collaborating on new business and technology curricula to help students gain the latest skills in business analytics. The new courses of study, Masters of Science degree programs with analytics concentrations in the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science and the School of Continuing Studies, will better prepare students and current professionals who are seeking new analytics skills for today’s competitive job market.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that there will be a 24 percent increase in demand for professionals with management analysis skills over the next eight years. The need for this specialized talent is being fueled by an increased use of business analytics by companies to better understand the explosion of data generated online, via social networks and mobile devices, or through real time sensors. With so much data residing within, and shared across, these digital sources, organizations are seeking new ways to understand, measure, act and even predict outcomes based on customer and social sentiment.

The demand for new higher education programs such as those at Northwestern illustrates the evolution of analytics. Once considered an area of focus for technology majors, that has moved beyond computers science and is now a required competency across businesses from finance and IT to human resources and marketing.

Former President of Facebook, Sean Parker, did an interview...

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:53:37 -0500

Former President of Facebook, Sean Parker, did an interview with CNBC today in which he discussed Facebook’s “inevitable” IPO and applauded Mark Zuckerberg for keeping the company private for as long as he has. While Parker didn’t provide any insight as to when the public offering would be made or at what valuation, he did admit that the public push for Facebook shares can’t be ignored: (via Sean Parker Talks Facebook IPO [video])