dan - mled.me - my life is still in beta
Foursquare has worked hard to capture the imaginations of retailers. The game aspect is powerful and mutually beneficial to both user and business/location. But what’s next?
Why not open up the platform for business development folks? Having that wonderful API for developers to play with grabbed the attention of the early adopter tech-savvy community. What I’m suggesting is a focus on building a business development ecosystem to connect marketers and advertisers with businesses and popular locations.
Facebook has the user numbers to quantitatively assert that people ‘like’ one business more than another, perhaps Starbucks over Costa by volume of check-ins / photos tagged at those venues. Wonderful, when is that feature going to arrive and how much is that going to cost? I don’t trust Facebook.
Ultimately I want access to a platform that I can experiment with as much as my dev team.
I hope life is treating you well.
I am wondering how is it going with the project and ith the Sales team in particular. I would still like to join you and I hope I can contribute as much as I think I can.
just in case u dont remember me (been a while) - I am that ambitious naggy Russian who is doing cross-boarder labour leasing.
Some emails I just can’t resist sharing with the world.
I like his style - I finished reading the closing sentence and immediately knew EXACTLY who he was.
An Evangelist will most likely spend his day & most of his nights communicating, informing, teaching, solving, helping, connecting, moderating, arguing, motivating, getting & keeping people excited about what you, your company and its product do. You’re a company’s sonar, you listen to what is being said outside and you channel that feedback into the product.
Even better when it doesn’t stop there: at the same time you’re excited about an entire industry (tech & music - in that order) or a ‘movement’ (open source, API’s, entrepreneurship, independent artists) and you’re an advocate for remarkable things and people working hard every day to make a change.
If you find the company you love and end up being its Evangelist, you probably have found your dream job. You can’t call it a job though, it’s so much more than that.
Read the whole post from David.
This is exactly how I feel about HereToNetwork. Once we got underway with development at the Birmingham Launch48 event, it hit me that this startup was exactly what I’ve been looking for.
The problem we are going to solve is how to ensure that event attendees meet with relevant people to make the most powerful connections. Our solution to this is so exciting and so pleasing to me personally that I absolutely have to be working on it.
We are solving a problem that I unearthed while writing my post graduate dissertation on networking and social capital in the web2.0 industry, but I didn’t properly recognise it or wonder how it could be solved.
At last! An out of office reply with a hint of humour.From: alex@XXXXXX.co.uk
Subject: Out of OfficeThanks for your enquiry,
I will be out of office till tuesday 30th March. In the meantime please contact my colleague Sofia on XXXX XXX XXXX - she’s much prettier and nicer than I.
Alex
This is undoubtedly something I need to replicate at home. I’m at #launch48 and plugged into the most enormous monitor I’ve ever used - LG Flatron Plasma. Jolicloud is perfect for a web app event. I’m working on http://heretonetwork.com and blogging at http://blog.heretonetwork.com - check it out!
