The Daily Drip: Stop Panhandling your Ideas -
When most people see panhandlers on the side of the road, we condescendingly think “Why don’t they get a job? You’re not going to get anywhere begging for money. Get to work!” Yet, this is what so many people do with their ideas - they put their fate in the hands of passerby’s hoping someone…
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Ribs, sausage, half chicken delight. (Taken with Instagram at Snow’s BBQ)
Awesome.
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This struck a chord with me this morning. I fill my hours coding a site for the arts.
The Artsicle Blog: What Your Startup Can Learn from Disney -
Founding a business means I’m always looking for good ideas - even while on vacation at the Magical Kingdom. Last week I saw how much we can all learn from Disney when it comes to customer service and exceeding expectations to delight users at every turn. Here are a few of my favorite lessons…
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Glad to announce that my company, Artsicle, has moved into Dogpatch Labs NYC today! We are really ecstatic about our new working environment and sharing office space with a lot of other fantastic companies such as Frid.ge, AdStruc and NeverWare.
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And we’re live!
Artsicle’s private beta officially went live this morning. We are excited about our initial site and hope you will be too. Stay tuned for more artists going live soon, as well as some additional features to allow more interaction between artists and collectors.
If you don’t have an invite yet, click here to request one!
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I apologize that I haven’t been posting as much here. All of my time and effort has gone towards my new startup Artsicle. Check out TechCocktail’s piece on us linked above. I will be occasionally posting on Artsicle’s Blog though I doubt it will be covering nuclear power or barefoot running very often :)
From Techcrunch:
One of the big problems with video on the Web is that other than the title, description and some meta tags, it is mostly invisible to Google and other search engines. One way to make video more SEO-friendly is to add transcriptions, but that can get expensive. An angel-funded startup called SpeakerText
is (re)launching today with a very clever way to automate the transcription process and attach the full transcript as part of the video player in a drop down window. You can see an example of how this works below. And if you publish a lot of videos and want to try it out yourself, we have 100 beta invites
