Growing Fast? 8 Ways To Keep Your Startup Team Motivated
Look for a strong cultural fit when hiring for your start-up – and not just their resume and experience. If you don’t get along with a person – wouldn’t enjoy having Friday beers with them – then don’t bring them onto your team. The negative impact on morale from making a wrong hire can be tremendous, so be…
Uinfluence.me – Leverage Your Influence
Having power and not using it is the same as not having any kind of power at all. And the same applies to being in a position where you could leverage your influences to gain an advantageous position for yourself and not doing it. It just doesn’t make sense, specially when we are talking about your professional career. And it makes even less sense when there are services as usable as Uinfluence available. Basically, Uinfluence is a...
Audiggle.com – Making Audio Recognition Simple
Audiggle is a new software application that brings something that was previously privative to iPhone owners into the hands of desktop users: the recognition of songs as they are playing. That is, if you play a song or if a song can be heard (even in the background) when the app is running, then it will tell you the title of the song, and the name of the performer. Audiggle can do much more than that, actually – it can provide...
IWorkedOn.com – A Database Of Projects & Workers
Do you ever feel that your contribution to any project has gone unheeded? That is something as commonplace as it is unfortunate, and we all have learned to live with that by this point if only because there was no easy way to make ourselves be heard, much less be noticed. That is why a site like I Worked On is intrinsically attractive – it will let anybody gain the recognition he deserves. Nothing more, and nothing less. The site...
Labs.Google.com/Gaudi – Find Video Audio
Searching through what’s said on videos might sound a little too much like science fiction, but the folks from Google once again prove everything is possible. With this new service, you’ll be able to search for specific audio clips from various channels of YouTube videos. For example, say you want to find a specific part of a Martin Luther King Jr. speech. Just type out some of the words and you’ll be directed to that part of the...