The Lucai

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Chromecast launching in 11 new countries today Jonathan Feist, androidauthority.com

Now, that’s news worth watch­ing. Google has opened up sales of the Chrome­cast to eleven new coun­tries. We knew that the Chrome­cast would go on sale in the UK start­ing tomor­row, March 19, and saw it pop up on Cur­rys’ web­site ear­li­er today…

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Lauren Smith, litmus.com

2013 was a big year for the email marketing world. Mobile opens finally hit and surpassed the 50% mark, while Android moved from the #6 spot to #3 spot and now represents 12% of total opens. In April, following months of anticipation,…

[ralucas23]

#london #autumn #sky (at Waterloo Bridge)

[cabinporn]

As kids, books like The Visual Dictionary and David Macaulay’s The Way Things Work were our most-prized possessions.  We’d spend hours pouring over insect classifications or a cutaway diagram of a combustion engine.

The Visual Handbook for Building and Remodeling ($23) is like that, but for grown ups: 600 pages of detailed color illustrations covering everything from timber frame joints to span & load calculation tables to sun path charts for optimizing passive solar heating in your cabin.

[ralucas23]

If only I was practical...

[futuramb]

Clayton Christensen and Michael B Horn: Online Education as an Agent of Transformation - NYTimes.com

Like steam, online education is a disruptive innovation — one that introduces more convenient and affordable products or services that over time transform sectors. Yet many bricks-and-mortar colleges are making the same mistake as the once-dominant tall ships: they offer online courses but are not changing the existing model. They are not saving students time and money, the essential steps to disruption. And though their approach makes sense in the short term, it leaves them vulnerable as students gravitate toward less expensive colleges.

[thinkvr]

6 rules for creating content that resonates with busy C-Suite execs

Drive credibility with hard fact. Data based on peer-based insights and stories adds to  credibility.

Provide timely information on issues that matter. There needs to be a “so what” that is up to the minute on topics relevant to the executive’s business, role, and current challenges.

Summarize, summarize, summarize. Deliver your ideas with targeted summaries and succinct points, where the bottom-line ideas and actions are easy to extract and consume.

Channel matters. Content has to be easy to access everywhere— during a flight when they are on the iPad, after dinner with a printed paper, or while waiting for a meeting when they have two minutes to watch a video.

Push beyond common wisdom and top-of-mind trends. Present a provocative vision for future possibilities. Executives seek intriguing, surprising, or useful ideas that highlight future opportunities in areas that tie to their greatest business challenges.

Be strategic, not technical. Executives care about how they can solve business problems and enhance revenue and profit. They are not interested in reading about technologies and products — those are only a means to the end and are readily delegated to others to review and purchase.

(via Designing Your Content Plan to Speak to the C-Suite - Business 2 Community)

[fred-wilson]

Data is the pollution problem of the information age. All computer processes produce it. It stays around. How we deal with it—how we reuse and recycle it, who has access to it, how we dispose of it, and what laws regulate it—is central to how the information age functions. And I believe that just as we look back at the early decades of the industrial age and wonder how society could ignore pollution in their rush to build an industrial world, our grandchildren will look back at us during these early decades of the information age and judge us on how we dealt with the rebalancing of power resulting from all this new data.

The Battle for Power on the Internet - Bruce Schneier - The Atlantic (via fred-wilson)

[digitalbusinesstransformation]

Top Ten Digital Transformation Benefits and Barriers 

Great article examining recent MIT research which identified what businesses can gain from digital transformation, and the barriers to successful implementation.

Read the full story.

[cabinporn]

Cyclocross racer and writer Dan Chabanov photographed teammate Dan Timmerman’s off-grid homestead (complete with yurt guest house) in the Finger Lakes of New York.

[ralucas23]

When am I going to grow out of wanting a den in the woods...

[wmougayar]

The No. 1 challenge in building a great company is understanding yourself. Most companies reflect the strengths and weaknesses of their founders. Those that are more mindful of their own strengths and weaknesses tend to build more balanced businesses.

Albert Wenger, in Financial Post interview, ahead of Oct 23rd fireside chat in Toronto.

http://business.financialpost.com/2013/10/21/how-the-internet-changed-the-venture-capital-landscape-albert-wenger/

(via wmougayar)

[digitalbusinesstransformation]

Digital disruption has had an incredible impact on business already, but we haven’t seen anything yet.

Technology has been working its way into business for years but this is different - the technology that is fuelling digital transformation in business is now becoming its very fabric.

Read full article here.

Image credit: Steve Snodgrass

[digitalbusinesstransformation]

Why Business as Usual is No Longer an Option for Business: The Case for a Plan B - on Livestream.com

Richard Branson talks about the importance of connectivity to spread your message.

#socialmedia #digital

[ralucas23]

#victorian decay #urban #landcape (at Llandudno Pier)

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View from Studio North's meeting room #urban #igermcr #manchester #landscape #buildings (at Studio North)

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Beautiful #sunrise this morning #igersmcr #eng #landscape #buildings (at Bowdon)

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Picking up the #Christmas #tree #car #morrisminor (at lymm)

[crooksh4nks]

( by captainhsu )