You can be the next Justin.tv

Online for only a few weeks, Justin.tv has already become the darling of the tech media. Justin streams his life to the web 24/7, and has already garnered massive media attention. Now, anybody with a helmet cam and a healthy sense of exhibitionism can use Ustream.tv to replicate Justin’s bold endeavor. Or, if you’d rather not think about who is watching you in the bathroom, you can use the technology to stream portions of your day, company events or other moments that you’d like to share immediately with your community.

How to get the attention of a venture capitalist

Who better to tell you how to capture the attention and imagination of a venture capitalist than a famous venture capitalist? The always insightful Guy Kawasaki shares some concrete and very helpful advice to get your company VC dollars.

Hot or Not moves from subscription to advertising for revenue

The popular rating and dating website, Hot or Not recently announced that they were moving away from their original revenue model of user subscriptions and instead shifting towards ad-based revenue. Although the website did quite well with community subscriptions, it will be interesting to see if this new model results in community growth.

The joy/cash curve

Need to set a price for your product or service? Well then, make sure you check out Seth Godin’s Joy/Cash Curve so that you can tailor your customer experience to maximize the joy that the transaction can provide.

Radar.net is a little like Twitter, but with photos

Just about everybody is in love with Twitter these days. It’s smart, simple, fun, woefully addictive - very nearly the “perfect” web service. But I still find myself lamenting that I can’t add photos when updating from my phone. Enter Radar.net, billing itself as a host for “photo conversations.” Currently in beta it requires you to give people a code before they can see your photos, hopefully they will add an option to make your stream public as Twitter does. Tech conferences recently have been Twittered pretty thoroughly, I look forward to actually seeing events on Radar soon.

Start your own mobile network

Sure you can start your own social network with Ning, but as you can see from Twitter (and now Radar), mobile interactivity is sweeping into dominance. Now you can use Sonopia to offer interaction on the go to your community.

Put more power in your PowerPoint

Cambrian House’s original investment pitch was based entirely on a single PowerPoint presentation, so we know the power of the medium. But new research demonstrates that text-heavy slides may actually make it more difficult fo ryour audience to understand and retain your information. Check out this article for tips on how to make your presentation work for you rather than against you.

Page views are a dead metric

AJAX and other Web 2.0 technologies are making old metrics like the venerated page view a thing of the past. But what do we measure instead? Compete.com, a statistics tracker similar to Alexa.com, recently introduced their Attention Statistics as a new way to track how many people are really paying attention to your website and other online destinations.

Crowdsourced photo sorting

iStockPhoto introduced crowdsourcing to the stock photography world. Now LikeBetter.com is using crowdsourcing to sort and rank photos. So far it seems to simply feed 2 images at a time in a head-to-head selection, but the technology and concept has some interesting potential applications.

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