Jure Cuhalev

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29 Dec, 2009

A confession of newage virtual schizophrenic

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: everyday life|ideas|Rant|Tech

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

Buying USA sweets in Europe

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

#uksnow Map 2.0

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

Our [insert project here] is many things to many people

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

Exploiting Dunbar’s number for your business model

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 [...]