Hi, I’m Jure and one of the things I do is to help people talk and work with their communities so they can improve their products or services. Often they want to outsource at least part of the talking to me, so I’m given a new online identity. The name is still the same, but [...]
21 Dec, 2009
Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: ideas
Internet is just one huge amazing opportunity that we’re not even beginning to utilize.
The story goes like this: while chewing on Big Red gum, I’ve started wondering how can I ensure my future supplies of it. A quick search later reveals a magic resource – AmericanSweets.co.uk a service that does exactly that, ensures that EU [...]
16 Dec, 2009
Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: ideas
It’s snowing around Europe at the moment and Twitter is trending with term #uksnow. Nothing special about it, besides the fact that’s is a beautiful orchestra of crowdsourced tweets that get aggregated to the #uksnow Map 2.0
Why is this important?
While this is a single focus application, that will probably stop getting attention in a few [...]
12 Dec, 2009
Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: ideas
For the last few weeks, I’ve tried to figure out how to tell a story of different communities around me. They’re all doing great things, but the general perception, within them, is that the public is not recognizing their efforts and that getting more recognition will help with other aspects of their work (getting funding, [...]
27 Oct, 2009
Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: ideas
Seth talked yesterday about Dunbar’s number, that Wikipedia defines as:
Dunbar’s number is a theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships. These are relationships in which an individual knows who each person is, and how each person relates to every other person.[1] Proponents assert that numbers larger [...]