If your aim is to build a company that leverages technology to disrupt and dismantle some archaic experience but you don’t have those skills, then there are 3 things to keep in mind
Tag: startup
10 mistakes nobody needs to make again
Love this slide deck talking about lessons learned by a tech startup entrepreneur.
Link roundup
I find this stuff so you don’t have to:
- Google+: author attribution & embedded posts
- Clay Christensen @RSAInnovate: Why the spreadsheet is killing job creation
- What public consultation can look like | Postbureaucrat – good stuff from @lesteph
- Outline has a big first customer and a bigger goal: Making open government user-friendly | PandoDaily
- Google’s strategy to take over computing continues: Chrome apps “For your desktop”
- Paul Graham on Building Companies for Fast Growth – good stuff!
- Reflections on UX Camp London (#uxcl13) | @sharonodea
- Checklist for an ideal digital policy engagement campaign | Stephen Hale
- Berg’s CEO on the experience of connected devices & avoiding the creep factor
- Inside the SparkTruck, a mobile makerspace for kids
- Anecdote: 7 practical business storytelling tips
Link roundup
I find this stuff so you don’t have to:
- The History of Programming Languages
- Nextdoor Brings Its Neighborhood-Focused Social Network To The iPhone With Debut Of Native iOS App | TechCrunch
- Fedora Project Announces Pidora Remix for Raspberry Pi
- Doctors 3D-Print An Emergency Airway Tube To Save A Child’s Life
- Time to stop kidding ourselves about Government policy on Tech City
- Lessons from the ‘One Norbiton Neighbourhood Community Budget’ pilot
- M.I.T. Scholar’s 1949 Essay on Machine Age Is Found
- Build your own supercomputer out of Raspberry Pi boards
- The Google Cloud Platform Q&A – tecosystems
- What kit do you take for a live-blogging expedition? | Jon Worth
- Hadoop: What It Is And How It Works – ReadWrite
- Jaron Lanier: Information doesn’t want to be free, and ads are screwed
- Startup Engineering Cookbook
- Designing blogs for readers – Matt Gemmell
What I’ve been reading
I find this stuff so that you don’t have to.
- Towards Effective Corporate Communications: Let Your Engineers do the Talking – For engineers, replace with any front line public sector worker!
- John Naughton on The Waste Land app – Great example of cloud culture, or how digital technologies can enhance cultural experiences.
- Councils need a new style of leadership | Local government network | Guardian Professional – "Local authorities face a challenging future and require leaders that can manage change creatively and inspire staff."
- Wait, what does your startup do? – Nicely cynical generator of ludicrous tech startup pitches. Useful for writing tender documents or funding bids.
- Open Data at Lincoln: What have we got? « Expedient Means – Really interesting overview of open data at Lincoln University.
- When Washington DC took a step back from open data & transparency – Interesting story of a backward step for open government in DC.
You can find all my bookmarks on Pinboard.
Dotspots
DotSpots looks interesting:
DotSpots is an annotation platform that allows users to add text or video comments to any piece of text on the web. Dotspots searches through millions of online news articles, indexing paragraphs of text and using an algorithm to determine when certain passages appear multiple times across different sites.
Here’s a video that explains more:
Dave Briggs 