Apple Steve Jobs The Crazy Ones - NEVER BEFORE AIRED 1997 - YouTube

Apple Steve Jobs The Crazy Ones - NEVER BEFORE AIRED 1997 - YouTube


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rwsuXHA7RA

As we move closer to the SuperBowl it's nice to remember great commercials...
What do you think of this one? (The voiceover here is Steve himself... The commercial that aired had Richard Dreyfuss doing the voice.)
Do you recognize the people? Who are they?

See you on Thursday....  in F503 from 11am to 12pm. Yuyu will have the pleasure of sharing something with us. (Thomas has an interview and has to postpone his talk.)

Of course there's also the classic 1984 commercial too. That first aired during the Superbowl in 1984!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1lmZOi9PvU

See you on Thursday!
james

David Bizer -- TalentGeek -- January 2013 - YouTube

David Bizer -- TalentGeek -- January 2013 - YouTube: David Bizer -- TalentGeek -- January 2013


Here is the recording of David Bizer's talk for those of you that had to miss it!
What do you think?  Is what he says worthwhile for you?
see you all at the end of the month!
James

Hey guys, want to have a glance at Chinese internet status quo? Here is a TED talk very interesting that I would like to recommend to you.

http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_anti_behind_the_great_firewall_of_china.html

Michael Anti: Behind the Great Firewall of China

FILMED JUN 2012 • POSTED JUL 2012 • TEDGlobal 2012

Today's Google Doodle! Useful after the big snow in Paris, lol

Google Doodle Celebrates Frank Zamboni’s Birthday

• By JulesEmail Author
• January 15, 2013 | 
• 8:55 pm | 
• Categories: Family Room, The Web

Image: Google

Tomorrow, is Frank Zamboni’s 112th birthday. In honor of this, Google has created a very fun interactive Google Doodle. This doodle puts you behind the wheel of a “Zamboni.”

For those of who live in North America and do not want to wait for the latest Google Doodle to go live, you don’t need to wait! Thanks to the “magic” of timezones, you can head on over to http://google.co.ukor http://google.com.au, and immediately enjoy this fun.

This Google Doodle plays likes a video game. Skaters mess up the ice, and it is your job to resurface the ice, using the machine for which Frank Zamboni is known: The Zamboni Ice Resurfacer, more commonly referred to as a “Zamboni.” To navigate, you can either use your up, down, left, right, arrow keys, or you can use your mouse.

Each time you successfully resurface the ice, a new, more difficult, level begins.

Be careful! You may run out of gas. Or, you may drive over a banana peel. Or, if you are unfortunate like me, you may end up killing your driver as you accelerate at speeds unsafe for the ice, and slam your Zamboni into the sides of the arena!

Frank Zamboni was born January 16, 1901 and died of lung cancer in 1988. He invented his ice resurfacing machine in 1949. Since the invention of the Zamboni, more than 10, 000 machines have been sold, with the 10, 000th machine sold to the Montreal Canadiens. Aside from your familiarity with the Zamboni during hockey games and ice skating, in the hit television sitcom Cheers, Eddie LeBec died as the result of an unfortunate Zamboni accident.

http://www.wired.com/geekmom/2013/01/google-doodle-zamboni/

Facebook Announces Its Third Pillar “Graph Search” That Gives You Answers, Not Links Like Google

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/15/facebook-announces-its-third-pillar-graph-search/

Yuyu's note: Facebook's press event is in process, what do you think the next step for this leading social network will take? Will FB kick off Google's seaching business??

Today at Facebook’s press event, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, announced its latest product, called Graph Search. Two of the members of the Graph Search team, Lars Rasmussen and Tom Stocky were very high up at Google, which is extremely important to note. Facebook is calling it a “Dream Team.”

Zuckerberg made it very clear that this is not web search, but completely different:

What’s more interesting than any of these things (that Facebook currently does) is giving people power and tools to take any cut of the graph that they want.

Zuckerberg explained the difference between web search and graph search. “Web search is designed to take any open ended query and give you links that might have answers.

Graph search is designed to take a precise query and give you an answer, not give you links that might provide the answer” For example, you could ask Graph Search “Who are my friends that live in San Francisco?”

Linking things together, based on things that you’re interested is a “very hard technical problem” according to Zuckerberg. The main difference from web search is that Graph Search helps you find answers to direct queries. Zuckerberg joked that a difference is “filters”, which grabbed a few chuckles.

We were shown a video that points out an autocomplete feature for search, and Zuckerberg says that Graph Search is in “very early beta.” People, photos, places and interests are the focus for the first iteration of the product.

Facebook Graph Search is completely personalized. Tom Stocky of the search team explains he gets unique results for a search of “friends who Like Star Wars and Harry Potter”. Then, “If anyone else does this search they get a completely different set of results, even if someone had the same set of friends as me, the results would be different [because we have different relationships with our friends].”

Stocky says you can also use Graph Search for Dating. He wanted to set up a girl with a potential date so he searched “Who are single men?” Stocky says “I get the set of single men that are friends of people I’m friends with.” Then he can refine that to just San Francisco, and add the filter “and are from India] since his friend is Indian.

You can use Graph Search for Recruiting. Stocky says if he was looking for people to join the team at Facebook, NASA Ames employees who are friends with people at Facebook. If I anted to reach out and recruit them, I could see who their friends are at Facebook. To refine them I can look for people who wrote they are “founders”.

Photos is another big part of Graph Search. Results are sorted by engagement so you see the ones with the most likes and comments at the top. For example, Lars Rasmussen of Facebook showed off a search for “photos of my friends taken at National Parks”. He got a gorgeous page of photos from Yosemite, Machu Pichu, and other parks.

Some more things you can do include searching for photos you Like, or a query for “Photos of Berlin, Germany in 1989″ that brings up Berlin Wall tear-down shots.

This is developing, so the stock market isn’t quite sure how to react to this news yet.

Coursera Blog • Daphne's TED talk: what we're learning from online education

Coursera Blog • Daphne's TED talk: what we're learning from online education


Interesting listening.... and watching!! Happy New Year! You might want to follow one of these courses! Will Coursera make a difference in the world in 2013?

see you soon
james

Class tomorrow and a guest on Thursday at 2pm... David Bizer!

Hello all and Happy New Year to the members of "The Best Blog"!

We'll have two classes this week...

Both groups will be together this Thursday at 2pm since we're having a guest come... David Bizer !

Tomorrow in Group 1 Thibault will have the floor for part of the class but we'll have to postpone Yuyu and Thomas's talks that were planned for Thursday because we'll be having a guest!

Both groups will be together on Thursday at the same time (2pm to 4pm)  to discuss social media and recruiting with David Bizer.  He's  presently TalentGeek at Hackfwd, but was previously one of the lead Google recruiters for 8 years, etc. etc....  (He was the first Google recruiter in Europe and hired the first 300 European Googlers!)

See you tomorrow.  Group 1 at 2pm,  Group 2 at 4 pm.

here's a blurb about David from the HackFwd site....

PS.... your welcome to invite some of the other MNT students to come as a guest too on Thursday.


HackFwd // People
David Bizer
David is a pioneer in global internet recruiting with a unique bi-continental background discovering talent from Silicon Valley to the technology hubs of Europe. Over the past 15 years, David has recruited and led recruitment efforts resulting in the hiring of more than 4000 top-caliber candidates across more than 25 countries.

Zipcar: Two Moms, a Business Idea and $68 in the Bank | Entrepreneur.com

Zipcar: Two Moms, a Business Idea and $68 in the Bank | Entrepreneur.com


Happy New Year! I hope you've had a great vacation...

I thought you might enjoy this article about the story of Zipcar... They're apparently on the verge of being bought by Avis!

Hope to see you soon!  (very soon...)

james