Posts tagged innovation

Will Instagram Videos Replace Vine? on OPEN Forum The latest on the battle between Instagram and Facebook is now taking video form. The First Newtonian Law of Social Media is this: for every Tweet there is an equal and opposite Status Update. Surely, the moment that Twitter acquired micro-video app Vine, the folks at Facebook began brainstorming on how to one-up them. Yesterday, we found out how Facebook proposes to rain on Twitter’s parade: video is coming to Instagram. The reports are unconfirmed, but Facebook has been planning a big product launch for June 20, though the nature of the product itself has been strictly hush hush. While many have been expecting a news reader (to take advantage of the demise of Google Reader), a source has told TechCrunch, that no, it’s going to be Instagram videos.  There aren’t too many more details—there is no answer to the question on everyone’s mind: does this mean I can use the Valencia filter to make my shiba inu’s backflip seem more wistful?  Read more on OPEN Forum and TechCrunch on the “Vine effect.”

Will Instagram Videos Replace Vine? on OPEN Forum

The latest on the battle between Instagram and Facebook is now taking video form.

The First Newtonian Law of Social Media is this: for every Tweet there is an equal and opposite Status Update. Surely, the moment that Twitter acquired micro-video app Vine, the folks at Facebook began brainstorming on how to one-up them. Yesterday, we found out how Facebook proposes to rain on Twitter’s parade: video is coming to Instagram.

The reports are unconfirmed, but Facebook has been planning a big product launch for June 20, though the nature of the product itself has been strictly hush hush. While many have been expecting a news reader (to take advantage of the demise of Google Reader), a source has told TechCrunch, that no, it’s going to be Instagram videos. 

There aren’t too many more details—there is no answer to the question on everyone’s mind: does this mean I can use the Valencia filter to make my shiba inu’s backflip seem more wistful? 

Read more on OPEN Forum and TechCrunch on the “Vine effect.”

“You can never predict what ideas will go viral. The only thing you can do is keep producing, keep thinking,” Dominique Ansel, Cronut creator, founder and owner of his eponymously named bakery in New York City’s Soho district says. “Don’t hog or save your best ideas. Set them free.”

Read more on the man behind the Cronut craze in OPEN Forum’s exclusive interview with the man, the myth, the pastry legend.

Startups are run by people who do what’s necessary at the time it’s needed. A lot of time that’s unglamorous work. A lot of times that’s not heroic work. Is that heroic? Is that standing on a stage in a black turtleneck, in front of 20,000 people talking about the future of phones? No. But that’s how companies are built. That person who did that for the iPhone launch at Apple, we don’t know who he is. All we know is that Steve Jobs came up with the iPhone. But he didn’t ship it. The person who bought the donuts did.
Jason Goldman, The Silent Partner (via rickwebb)
Click here to embiggen (see full infographic) This infographic rounds up the top 10 business apps for your iPhone and iPad. We have some downloading to do! (via Visual.ly)

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This infographic rounds up the top 10 business apps for your iPhone and iPad. We have some downloading to do!

(via Visual.ly)

CEOs are a different breed. The best ones can juggle responsibilities, inspire their teams, impress investors, take risks and keep their eye on the ball. They are creative and extremely passionate. The 10 CEOs we are watching this year exhibit all these characteristics and then some.

Here are the 10 CEOs worth watching as they take their companies to new heights:

Growth Strategist: Matt Maloney, GrubHub

The Small-Business Shepherd: Pamela Springer, Manta

The anti “Marissa Mayer” CEO: Sara Sutton Fell, FlexJobs

The Digital Dating Disruptor: Lori Cheek, Cheek’d.com  (pictured above)

The “I Love Mayor Bloomberg” CEO: Kara Goldin, Hint

The “Challenging the Gorilla” CEO: Chad Laurans, Simplisafe

The “Young and Still Restless” CEO: Chris Kelly, Convene

The Master: Debbie Rosas, The Nia Technique

The “What-Me-Retire?” CEOs:  Rick and Don Strube, SunColor

The “Go Green” CEO: Dr. Mark Laska, Great Ecology

The “My Product is in a Museum” CEO: Todd Greene, HeadBlade (pictured above)

(Top image courtesy of Lori Cheek, bottom image courtesy of Todd Greene)

Top 10 Ways Apple’s iOS7 Can Boost Your Business on OPEN forum

Beyond the initial buzz at its unveiling, Apple’s new iOS offers plenty of practical business uses the will improve your productivity and security.

1. 1,500 New APIs

2. Better Deployment Tools

3. WiFi Calls

4. Per-app VPN

5. Improved Security

6. iCloud keychain

7. Automatic App Store Updates

8. Location-Aware App Store

9. iOS in Your Car

10. Smarter Siri

Overall, iOS 7 looks like a boon for business. Bring on the fall!

Dr. Jay Parkinson: Part of being an entrepreneur is knowing when to shift tactics.

jayparkinsonmd:

When you’re building something new like Sherpaa, you have no real precedent to see how other companies sold the product/service. You can’t learn from others. So you have to build something, get it out there, see how people react, and experiment with what works best. Once you get a hunch that something is more effective, you build that and run with it.

Sound advice from one entrepreneur to our Tumblr community!

Did you notice the Tumblr redesign that was released on Sunday night? We did, and if you didn’t here’s what happened: Tumblr moved the buttons you use to interact with posts from the top of each post in your dashboard to the bottom. It did so in order to make room for a dollar sign icon that will indicate when a post has been promoted using its new sponsorship tools. Read more on how these platform changes were received by the Tumblr community on OPEN Forum.

Did you notice the Tumblr redesign that was released on Sunday night?

We did, and if you didn’t here’s what happened: Tumblr moved the buttons you use to interact with posts from the top of each post in your dashboard to the bottom. It did so in order to make room for a dollar sign icon that will indicate when a post has been promoted using its new sponsorship tools.

Read more on how these platform changes were received by the Tumblr community on OPEN Forum.

theatlantic:

The 11 Most Fascinating Charts From Mary Meeker’s Epic Slideshow of Internet Trends

See more. [Images: KPCB]

It is important for all businesses, small or large, to keep up on internet trends in today’s digital age.

See what all the fuss is about in The Atlantic’s visual write up on Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends report from the D11 conference.

Companies are really missing out on innovation if they don’t have women on the front line of their programmers, their designers, and their engineers.

Reshma Saujani, Founder of Girls Who Code

(Via Fast Company | Most Creative People 2013)