Amy M. Litt is amateur and enthusiastic photographer, minor marketing genius, an advocate of a whole bunch of stuff, and critic of things she hasn't even seen.
I’m going to check out the ITP (NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program) show tonight to see my brother’s piece. The work from the crazy genius artist builders is always mind boggling. I’ll be shooting to post some photos tomorrow. WP is screwing up my embedded video today, but you can be old school and click on the link to see a preview of my brother’s contribution to the show:
I want to put my flag in the ground now: data portability apps, the applications that allow your profile information and activity to be shared between sites, will become a fundamental part of social networking in 6 months to a year. Right now, Facebook is awash in third party apps that will share some information between two accounts, but dependability and actual usefulness varies a lot. The best apps are coming from partnerships where both halves support a lot of activity. Equal in my heart are the Flickr and the Vimeo Facebook Connect apps, which automatically update my Facebook page with my uploads and *some* activity from the other sites. I see them working out a lot of the kinks (like they delay of several hours to update between the two) fairly rapidly, and a strong following developing from socnet users who are currently becoming overwhelmed by multiple online identities and trying to share information among all their associated networks.
Very simply, Count Me In for Women’s Economic Independence is about all of us – women, men, entrepreneurs, employees – creating our own solution for the economy. When I started working at Count Me In, I really didn’t care about women’s entrepreneurship and I’m certain most of America never would have. But, as we’re watching these giants of industry fall, laying off hundreds of thousands of people and then borrowing billions of dollars, the circumstances of history are making it very clear that the success of small businesses is imperative to creating desperately needed new jobs and establishing sustainable wealth on the local and national level.
It’s not just a women’s cause, or a poverty initiative, or a lobbying effort for small businesses. It’s actually none of those things. Count Me In, and our work to help women grow successful, sustainable million-dollar businesses, is about employers being able to provide more health care to more employees, about generating the tax revenue to help States pay for necessary services, and about creating a new generation, and next generations, of women who will believe in and accomplish their dreams.
Please, please repost this video and encourage people to visit www.countmein.org and www.makemineamillion.org to become part of our 2009 initiative, the Make Mine a Million $ Business RACE. You can also check out our amazing partnership with Reader’s Digest at http://www.rd.com/make-mine-a-million-dollar-business
Fluffy puppies, internet phenomenon? Well, yeah! If CuteOverload.com can be covered by CNN, Martha Stewart, and the Dunder Mifflin newsletter, and if I Can Haz Cheezburger can be as stupid as it is adorable, then it make perfect sense that one web-saavy breeder figured out s/he could get the attention of the whole internetz by streaming a playpen full of puppies with the Shiba Inu Puppy Cam.
My first thought was, why didn’t this happen sooner? Puppies, video, pretty straightforward. There are a couple reasons, I think. First what would a dog breeder be doing with live streeming capabilities on their dinky website, and the kind of crazy bandwith to handle 4 million hits A WEEK? It was a random stroke of genius to use UStream, which seems to have hosted some ugly combination of techie programing and celebrity video before it found its niche in the puppy market. You’ve got univerally appealing, constantly updating content that can withstand humongous traffic. Bingo.
Fluffy puppies, internet phenomenon? Well, yeah! If CuteOverload.com can be covered by CNN, Martha Stewart, and the Dunder Mifflin newsletter, and if I Can Haz Cheezburger can be as stupid as it is adorable, then it make perfect sense that one web-saavy breeder figured out s/he could get the attention of the whole internetz by streaming a playpen full of puppies with the Shiba Inu Puppy Cam.