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Social Avatar Beats Death « NextNature.net
Jun 29th
Social Avatar Beats Death
Avatars are commonly known as virtual characters in the digital realm representing a user. But what if avatars could house personal history, profile and ideas? Could that enable us to make decisions after we have died?
LifeNaut, has a free service called “Mind File” that lets you digitally backup the organic brain:
“A Mindfile is a web-based storage space for organizing and preserving critical information (digital reflections) about one’s unique and essential characteristics for the future, and to share with friends and relatives in the present.”
The subscribing process comes down to putting stuff in a database, including an expressionless photo, which LifeNaut automatically turns into a lifelike, blinking and talking avatar that functions as a visual interface, ready to interact with you and others – including your descendants!
Backup your brain and live forever.
What it’s like to own an Apple product – The Oatmeal
Jun 24th
This is only too sad and true. These are just devices people. They are not “magical”, they are simply electronic tools to aid us. They are like prosthetics, true, but ones we could do without. If you ask me, its this single minded, put your reason on a shelf attitude which is killing us, in more ways than one.
SCVNGR – foursquare competitor
Jun 21st
Must be some kind of new gold rush. No one evens knows if foursquare will ever be really useful and profitable and there are already a ton of competitors. Why?
Agora: A New Film in Defense of Reason – Ayn Rand Admirers at The Atlasphere
Jun 14th
A serious, intelligent film that stands up for science and freedom of thought and against the forces of mysticism and ignorance? And it's now in theaters? Believe it!
via Agora: A New Film in Defense of Reason – Ayn Rand Admirers at The Atlasphere.
Is Entrepreneurship Just About the Exit?
Jun 12th
My kind of idea of a startup – not always about the exit…
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“What if the idea of exit was removed from the equation… what if the investor and entrepreneur agreed to a different model—the model of sharing dividends”? She says the mathematics is simple: if a $500,000 investment helped in building a $10 million-a-year company with 20% profit year after year—which is entirely possible—angel investors would collect several million dollars in dividends. And entrepreneurs would build companies that they can nurture over a longer period, and “enjoy”.
Balkantronika – Sonora Milagrosa – Rekata (Balkantronika Remix) – SoundCloud
Jun 11th
I don’t know theres is something in this track that speaks to me…. 
Balkantronika – Sonora Milagrosa – Rekata (Balkantronika Remix) – SoundCloud.
Endless Warranty
Jun 10th
We needed to return an electronic thermometer to Williams-Sonoma because it had stopped working about a year after we got it. Actually, it more kind of went crazy, switching between two temperatures and being completely inaccurate. The salesperson said that normally they only give out 90 day warranties for electronics, but I wondered why? I mean why would an electronic device fail at all ever unless there was a flaw in the manufacture of the device in the first place. So I say: why can’t every electronic device have an endless warranty, since no matter when it fails, it’s nearly always a failure in manufacture of the electronics?
The 4 Ps of Innovation – Scott Anthony – Harvard Business Review
Jun 10th
Innovators should also be able to quickly recite the 4 Ps that capture their idea's potential: population, penetration, price, and purchase frequency.
via The 4 Ps of Innovation – Scott Anthony – Harvard Business Review.
Kosmix Unleashes Its Realtime Tweetbeat On The World Cup
Jun 10th
Too bad when I went there all I got was a 404 error. FAIL
Maybe go here instead for your #worldcup info:
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