I found this site on a quora question (I think). It is really quite cool – I love the idea of travel, but it’s not easy for me to get out and see any of these places. Check it out here: Maptia.com
Maptia: A World of Stories
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Category Archives: Business
The Entrepeneur Iceberg
UI vs UX
How Startups Work (in code)
Pricing Strategy Stuff
Here’s an interesting article on how to price your stuff:
Web design, marketing, conversion experts, feedback
This is a blog post to read a few times, and learn from. I don’t think you can read it just once:
Google Cardboard – seen it?
Last night I went to the LaunchUp event (website admittedly stinks, but sign up on the top-right to get invites to the monthly events, starting again in January) and saw Josh Coates speak… he was pretty awesome. He got cut off for time, but if I ever hear of a chance to hear him speak again, I’m going.
Anyway, after all of the presentations, I learned about some new companies as I milled around. One guy (I can’t remember who) showed me what his company was doing with Google Cardboard. Haven’t heard of it? I hadn’t either.
He pulled a cardboard box out of his backpack and put his phone in it… and you now had your own virtual reality machine. It was super cool. I can’t remember what I was looking at – something with space, or a planet or something like that, but to use your smart phone as a screen, and a homemade cardboard contraption as the viewer… it really was geeky cool.
Here’s a short video on kind of how it works… on the Cardboard page you can learn how to make your own … (and develop apps for it):
Another Awesome About Us Page
A couple of years ago I blogged about a “brilliant About Us page“… I recently found another one that is just awesome. This is from Canvas, which provides software (learning management system, or LMS) for schools. Josh Coates is the guy who sold his startup to EMC for $76M, and he’s running canvas now. Check out the Canvas (aka, instructure) Our Team page.
It looks fun and playful, right?
If you mouse over each person’s image, it changes from the playful image (Steve’s playfulness is his clothes, which you’ll have to go to the page to see) to a serious corporate image. But it defaults to the playful one. Isn’t that cool?
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Great job Canvas peeps!
YouTube Celebrity: Kurt Hugo Schneider (musician)
Kurt Hugo Schneider is AMAZING. Check out his YouTube channel here.
How is it in such a crazy, noisy, crowded space (music on YouTube) he can get hundreds of millions of views?
On the originals list, each of the uploads has over 1M views:
Check out his popular uploads… the lowest has over 30M!!
If you are interested at all in making money from YouTube, or getting credibility, or customers, etc., you need to become a student of Kurt Hugo Schneider and his work. Amazing, and well done!
Adding a Blog page to your blog
I recently set up my newest project, VideoGameClass.com, where I’ll be teaching people how to make video games using GameSalad. The class is going to be super-cool.
While setting up the blog I do a few things:
- Delete the Hello World Post and anything else WordPress puts in,
- Create new Pages, which also become the main menu across the top,
- Set the Home Page as the first page people get to, as opposed do the default of going to the latest blog Post,
- and, setting up the link “Blog,” where the Posts land.
I didn’t know how to do the last part, but my developer just emailed me telling me how:
- Set up a Page called “Blog,” and leave it blank
- Go to Settings, Reading
- Under Front Page Displays, there is a option to change the front page to a Page. Change this to Home (which is a Page you have set up)
- The next dropdown asks what the blog Posts page is – that is the Page Blog that you set up.
Now, on the main menu, you have an option titled Blog, and this is where the Posts go.
Easy, eh?