Sucess is loving what you do
Today was the first day of the conference. And what a day it was. The quadrangle was packed with people and the line up of speakers did their absolute best not to let anybody down. One that gave an inspiring talk was Sahar Hashemi. Of course she had a good story to tell, but nonetheless a well delivered speech. Sahar founded Coffee Republic in London in 1995. A bold endeavor that brought coffee to a tea loving country. Besides telling the story about the rise of Coffee Republic she made an interesting remark on on ideas. She commented that unless you put your idea on paper it will not
Two links from Bengt-Åke Lundvall
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Are more users always better?
Social media is today a well known phenomena and through sites like Facebook and MySpace people all over the world can interact openly. If we take Facebook as an example its many users should, according to theory, attract even more users, since a large network increases the odds of interacting with friends and new acquaintances. And apparently it has. But lurking around is the trend that people move to smaller and more specialized social networks with the ability to focus on and support a unique activity that appeals to a specific set of users. Many of these such as Flickr (photo storage and sharing, last.fm (tracking music); twitter (short blogging) are already well known and with the introduction of services like OpenID it will be
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