Online and on TV, Dragons‘ Den sees entrepreneurs pitching for investment from some of Britain’s top business brains. However how will the do against a Cassetteboy remix?
At a time when many Western media outlets are contracting, Chinese media outlets are expanding, rapidly. Beijing is pouring billions into the country’s state-run media machine, which is churning out new TV networks, radio stations and newspapers aimed at foreign audiences.
But there are gaps emerging for non-state broadcasters to operate. One such TV station is Blue Ocean Network (BON TV) that is owned and operated by Chinese from within China. It hopes to offer American cable TV viewers a new perspective on the world’s most populous country.
Apple downsizes its mid-range iPod, but upsizes the awesomeness. At about half the size and weight of its predecessor, the iPod Nano 6 ($149-$179) shrinks down 
and gets a new Multi-Touch display, a polished aluminum and glass enclosure with belt clip, and a built-in FM radio (with ability to pause and resume playing FM), a built-in pedometer, and support for Nike + iPod. Your choice 8GB or 16GB sizes in silver, graphite, blue, green, orange or pink.via uncrate.com
Interesting presentation from The Founder Institute about How To Launch a business In 10 Steps With Less Than $2,000.
Adeo Ressi on Product Development 08/19/2010 from Adeo Ressi on Vimeo.
Below is a bullet point summary of Ressi’s ten steps to launch. The video above significantly elaborates on these points.
1. Get your domain and e-mail working: “When you register your name, you should register the misspellings as a .com, you should register the primary and the .net or .org or it will be sold back to you for thousands of dollars later…”
Approximate cost: $160
2. Produce some mock-ups: “You want to show the key functionality that you’re trying to bring to the marketplace…You just need three sort of pivotal experience screens that will demonstrate your core idea or three…mock-ups of the physical product…you’re trying to capture how it will be done.”
Approximate cost: Free (more…)
We all remember a good teacher from school who inspired us to achieve, or great boss who encouraged us to develop our skills. What happens if you’re now in a position where you have to train, manage or coach someone? Well it’s worth knowing the differences between what a mentor and a coach is.
There are key differences between Mentoring and Coaching. First you have to understand the dynamics of what a coach or mentor will offer. Essentially they will be 6 key areas that one needs to look at which are: (more…)
This is a guest post by Rohit Khetan, Rohit has over 6 years experience working in tech leading Digital Media software development companies.
I have been reading various reports on social media lately and the numbers for corporate spend on social media are enormous. eMarketer projects spend on social media advertising to reach $4 bn next year emarketer. What is not so surprising is that 70% of the spend is on MySpace and Facebook. Given that network effects ensure that large networks get larger and more valuable, competition for advertising in social media is an almost zero sum game.
Interesting video by Rachel Botsman at TEDxSydney who talks about how technology is enabling trust between strangers. Goodbye Hyper-Consumption, hello ‘Collaborative Consumption’. In Rachel Botsman TEDxSydney talk, you learn how the internet is removing the middle man and making it possible to have a sustainable business plan selling peer-to-peer.
according to Nielsen African-Americans use the most voice minutes – on average more than 1,300 a month. Hispanics are the next most talkative group, chatting an average of 826 minutes a month.
Even Asians/Pacific Islanders, with 692 average monthly minutes, talk more than Whites, who use roughly 647 voice minutes a month. African-Americans and Hispanics also text the most. Hispanics send and receive around 767 SMS messages a month while African-Americans send and receive around 780 – significantly more than Asians/Pacific Islanders (384 texts a month) and Whites (566 texts a month). The voice and text results are compiled from one year (April 2009-March 2010) of mobile usage data gathered by the The Nielsen Company, which analyzes the cellphone bills of more than 60,000 mobile subscribers each month in the United States.
This post is for those of you who are perhaps not so up to speed with all the major developments that are going on in the mobile and technology space. A few months ago Steve Jobs introduced what he described as something that would be able to give you “The emotion of TV. The interactivity of the web. The power of mobility. Introducing iAd.”
It all sounds fantastic in principle. Apple says that iAd gives brands what they’ve been waiting for. What’s that I hear you ask? Well for a start, how about access to the global audience of iPhone and iPod touch users, enhanced targeting, premium creative and robust measurement.
That’s their words not ours. You have to give Apple credit though in terms of going where the money is. And where’s that? Well it’s search at the moment. However Jobs says that you may use search on your desktop now, however on mobile it’s all about apps. People are not searching on their mobiles, they are using apps like yelp or qype to get data. This he suggests is where the opportunity lies for publishers and developers.
Years ago the radio was the must have communication device of it’s day. Families would gather round to listen to the latest news about what was going. It was an essential comunication medium that would inform or educate users. The question one has to ask now is, is radio, or radio communication dead?
To answer this, one needs to be clear as to how we as engaged consumers now consume our content. Communication years ago was fixed one way directional, whereas now it’s mobile, two-way, muti-way conversational. The way in which we now consume our content has changed as has the modes of communication. Is radio, or radio communication dead? Yes and no. I think radio as we knew it is dead, however it is also very much alive and kicking if we are to believe that podcasts and online radio is the new communication tool. Sites like pandora.com or last.fm & spotify are now part of our everyday diet of top lists, music playlists, song selections. (more…)
Back in April 2010 we showed you the Sunday Times UK Rich list. Well if you were impressed by the regional differences in wealth, your going to be amazed at the global differences in wealth.
Below is a short list of some of the worlds billionaires. For those of you who can’t comprehend that amount here is what a billionaire care buy him or herself and still have change to play with. (more…)
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