Yes now Africans parents will tell their children it's time to go play football :-)
A team of four engineering students at the Harvard University have come up with an ingenious idea that could change the lives of rural African people. The students have designed a unique soccer ball that generates electricity when being kicked around.
Dubbed the SOccket, the ball captures the energy from impact that is usually lost to the environment. The generated electricity is then stored in the ball, which after dark can be used to light an LED lamp or charge a cell phone.
mercredi 20 juillet 2011
samedi 16 juillet 2011
Wall of obstacles to success
As an entrepreneur you will probably face a lot of obstacles, I think the wall below is a good representation of those obstacles, if you want to break this wall you have to be patient and believe in your idea.
mercredi 13 juillet 2011
Matt Cutts: Try something new for 30 days
Matt Cutts is an engineer at Google, where he fights linkspam and helps webmasters understand how search works.
Description: Is there something you've always meant to do, wanted to do, but just ... haven't? Matt Cutts suggests: Try it for 30 days. This short, lighthearted talk offers a neat way to think about setting and achieving goals.
Description: Is there something you've always meant to do, wanted to do, but just ... haven't? Matt Cutts suggests: Try it for 30 days. This short, lighthearted talk offers a neat way to think about setting and achieving goals.
Success story 4 : Tariq Krim the founder of Netvibes
Description: Tariq Krim is one of the iconic Web entrepreneurs. Born in Paris in October 25, 1972. He is the founder of Netvibes and currently the founder and CEO of Jolicloud. As google, skype or Myspace, Netvibes is considered one of the most successfull web entreprises.
samedi 9 juillet 2011
Success story 3 : VDM a French Web Site Celebrates Life's Daily Indignities
"My boss came into the office and asked me, 'What are you working on?' I replied, 'My departure.' He'd forgotten I had just been laid off."
That counts as a "Vie de merde," or "A crappy life," according to some 70,000 readers of a French Web site of that name. The site has become a phenomenon in France by presenting a stream of tales of everyday humiliation.
Last year, "Vie de merde" was the ninth-most-searched-for service on Google's French search engine. It receives a thousand or so new stories a day, from which the three young men who run it pick a dozen or so to post. They make their living from ads on the site.
The founder, 20-year-old Maxime Valette, grew up watching subtitled broadcasts of "Seinfeld." A couple of years ago, he started posting his own stories online about the frustrations of modern life. His tech gadgets always had problems. The mailman didn't bother to ring the doorbell when he came to deliver a parcel, but instead just left a note. "At first they weren't funny," he says. "They were sad."
Mr. Valette then opened the site to outside contributions, and the stories got funnier.
Didier Guedj, 49, one of the core collaborators on the site, says one criterion for a successful story is that it must in some way be pathétique -- touching. "It's more like: 'One person's misfortunes reassure another,'" says Mr. Guedj.
http://www.viedemerde.fr/
"The Wall Street Journal"
That counts as a "Vie de merde," or "A crappy life," according to some 70,000 readers of a French Web site of that name. The site has become a phenomenon in France by presenting a stream of tales of everyday humiliation.
Last year, "Vie de merde" was the ninth-most-searched-for service on Google's French search engine. It receives a thousand or so new stories a day, from which the three young men who run it pick a dozen or so to post. They make their living from ads on the site.
The founder, 20-year-old Maxime Valette, grew up watching subtitled broadcasts of "Seinfeld." A couple of years ago, he started posting his own stories online about the frustrations of modern life. His tech gadgets always had problems. The mailman didn't bother to ring the doorbell when he came to deliver a parcel, but instead just left a note. "At first they weren't funny," he says. "They were sad."
Mr. Valette then opened the site to outside contributions, and the stories got funnier.
Didier Guedj, 49, one of the core collaborators on the site, says one criterion for a successful story is that it must in some way be pathétique -- touching. "It's more like: 'One person's misfortunes reassure another,'" says Mr. Guedj.
http://www.viedemerde.fr/
"The Wall Street Journal"
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