Here’s something every office probably needs. Ours does at least. It’s a WTF counter. When the office gets just a little too weird, someone hits the button and it gets logged. It’s probably pretty easy to judge the day by the WTF chart. The button is connected to an Arduino that updates the status on a local web server. We can imagine a nice bar graph of WTFs per day, or possibly a pie chart with normal time vs WTF time. Unfortunately, imagining is all we’re going to do. They didn’t include any examples of the visualizations. Can you…
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Facebook
Facebook’s Biggest Competition: Mobile Platforms
When the Facebook platform launched two years ago, thousands of developers flocked to participate in a land grab opportunity. Two years later mobile platforms appear to be most effective at attracting entrepreneurial teams of application developers. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO, has famously emphasized the importance of developers (see video here). Any successful platform needs to attract developers and Facebook has been especially effective at doing so.
Through Facebook developer garages and the fbFund, Facebook has attracted the attention of many developers but since the launch of last year’s iPhone, things have changed. In today’s New York Times, Jenna Wortham writes…
Business
Generate Income From The Internet In A Few Simple Steps
It is possible to generate income from the internet with a few easy to implement steps that that will help you claim your piece of the internet pie with your online venture in a highly aggressive global market. Your efforts will be rewarded when you can generate an income from home working at your own pace having no fixed hours. You will find that the internet offers many businesses and job opportunities that you can get involved with. Those who are just new in this trade can probably learn a thing or two with these few simple steps to thrive…
