3ruce’s Blog

• Pictures on Walls – FAQ
  We like to think of P.O.W. as something more like a record label than a print house. We scout around for interesting talent and then try to nuture and support it.
  (tags: art pictures humour_novelty funny)

• Pause the Download Of Video at the Start – TechSmith User-to-User Forums
  pause flash videos before they play…

  I am wanting to make my .swf video pause at the start until the Play button is pushed… and also I do not want the video to download/stream until the visitor has clicked the Play button.

  (tags: Flash video pause)
• EventpageAQUAL
  A nice spiral dynamics graph looking at business and various memes/levels
  (tags: community theory leadership business spiral_dynamics visualization)

• Petition to: replace the national anthem with ‘Gold’ by Spandau Ballet.
  We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to replace the national anthem with ‘Gold’ by Spandau Ballet
  (tags: petition uk spandauballet gold number10 england music government activism)
• jaxtr – what is jaxtr?
  Your friends will love it because they can now call you for free on your mobile without needing to download anything or use a headset. They just enter their phone number, their phone rings and jaxtr connects the call.
  (tags: jaxtr cool_companies innovation telecoms free)
• Amazon and Business Model Innovation – Innoblog
  Disruption and business model innovation from Amazon…

  The answer, we believe, is that Jeff Bezos understands that the key to sustained success is business model innovation. Amazon has deftly moved into new categories and new markets with flexibility

  (tags: amazon disruptive innovation business_models change)
• Clayton M. Christensen: Spotting ‘High-End’ Disruptions – Innoblog
  High end innovation and disruption at a premium point in the market

  The jobs-to-be-done framework offers a suprising answer to this question. What jobs are Whole Foods customers trying to get done? Presumably, most want to buy fresh, organic or natural

  (tags: disruptive change innovation jobs_to_be_done)
• Spotting a disruption – Innoblog
  More classic disruption from tv advertising

  In January we wrote about an online product that we felt had the makings of a disruptive product. The product is Spot Runner ? an online site and engine that enables businesses to customize stock video ads an

  (tags: disruptive media advertising innovation change)
• B2B Lead Generation Blog: On giving away ideas
  Put your ideas online for free, esp. when they can be commodizised…

  People use the web for research; they are looking for fresh ideas, insight and actionable information. Intellectual property is difficult to protect and is quickly commoditized by th

  (tags: thought_leadership ideas distribution marketing blogging)
• ScienceDaily: Book Review — Bayesian Data Analysis, Second Edition
  Incorporating new and updated information, this second edition of THE bestselling text in Bayesian data analysis continues to emphasize practice over theory, describing how to conceptualize, perform, and critiques statistical analysis from a Bayesian pers
  (tags: bayesian_analysis statistics academics books research)
• Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Ozzie walks the line
  Knowledge@Wharton has published an excellent (once you get past the interminable introduction) interview with Ray Ozzie, Microsoft’s official software visionary. Ozzie doesn’t say anything unexpected, but he provides a through and often subtle explanation
  (tags: microsoft saas Services Software RayOzzie Future)

• How to roast chicken from Delia Online
  Roast chicken
  (tags: cooking Food chicken receipe)

• R N I A
  Networkers are forced to deal with a great many disparate electronic and manual systems that inhibit them from concentrating on human-to-human interactions. Fortunately, a tech convergence movement is gathering steam, and with it the promise of a networki
  (tags: social-networking sna relationships collaboration networking)

From Katuska

• BBC NEWS | Magazine | What can the Danes teach us about happiness?
  Danes are the happiest people in Europe, a survey suggests. But what is the secret of their contentedness?
  (tags: denmark happiness research people perceptions)

• Visible Path – Application
  Something a bt likd linkedin
  (tags: linkedin social-network socialnetworking contacts web2.0 networking social visualization connections)

• Spiritual Cinema Circle – Home
  You may be missing some of the most visionary and inspiring films because many are never theatrically released. We search the globe to find the best of these hard-to-find films and bring them directly to you.
  (tags: cinema movies films motivation spirituality dvds)
• KFRP Koobi Fora Research Project Lake Turkana Basin
  The KFRP Team is once again searching for clues to our origins in Turkana. Since 1968 we have made annual expeditions to this fantastic part of Kenya in an effort to better understand how we came to be. With this online Journal you can now explore with us
  (tags: fossils research academics kenya excavation paleontology)