I'm very excited to be releasing a new Nutritter feature allowing people to track their nutrition just by tweeting their meals. I wrote a bunch more about this feature and where Nutritter is going next over on the Nutritter blog. Take a gander and let me know what you think! If you're too lazy to click-through, here's the video:
Social Media
April 28, 2009
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March 05, 2009
What are you eating?
I'm very excited to be getting a new service off the ground at SXSWi '09 next week. We'll be introducing the Nutritter alpha to about 50 people. Nutritter asks the question "What are you eating?" By answering, Nutritter members are seamlessly tracking their nutrition, connecting with friends and family, and much more.
The grand vision for Nutritter is to help more people take control of their nutrition including parents struggling with childhood obesity by making it easy to share information with each other and with qualified health professionals.We can't wait to get your feedback.
For more information on how to get an invite to the Nutritter alpha, check out the latest post on the Nutritter Blog or keep up with our progress by following @nutritter on Twitter.
July 22, 2008
The Two Things
In the past 3 years I've done some of my best learning. A lot of it has reaffirmed some of my earlier thoughts on the validity of chaos theory, string theory, and assorted other explanations for both social and scientific phenomenon. So much of the same has rung true in my dive into online conversations. If you're not already reading people like Chris Brogan, David Meerman Scott, Seth Godin, and many others commenting on how this space in maturing, start taking a look.
What I want to talk about is something that has fallen out of these past 3 years. As I take a leap into entrepreneurship I've been thinking about something I learned from Marty Anderson at Babson College. That is, if you can accomplish two things, you may be ready to successfully run or start a business. What two things?
1. See the network
2. Control or influence it without owning it
I'll be talking more about these two things in the coming months, but I had the need to publicly remind myself just how much these two things force me to think about all the most important things when sizing up opportunities.
See the Network
This is not seeing that my friends are friends with other people who I may be interested in meeting, although that is part of it. This is finding the connection between two seemingly unrelated things and boiling it down to an action I can take to benefit from that connection. One of my favorite examples is still the opportunity for Columbian drug cartels if they were only looking at how the fact that there is a northern
and southern hemisphere helps them tremendously in an unrelated business.
Control without Ownership
This one is pretty straightforward, but it's in the execution of this principal that separates a good idea from a successfully bootstrapped venture. You have much more leverage than you think.
More to come but let me know what you think. Can successful business strategy be summarized entirely by these two things?
July 19, 2008
A Rising Tide
Podcamp Boston 3 has, so far, been a confirmation of social media's rising tide. Sitting here at the Utterz table giving demos and making people giddy with our little stuffed cow giveaways has been an eye-opener. Typically, I'd expect some of the usual personalities asking about when we'll be providing the new plugin for the whigetamaker for the whozigamwhat. Because, you know, that would be worth, what? Three more users? But no, so far today, I'd say 90 percent of people have opened with something along the lines of: "so I'm new to this whole social media thing, just trying to figure it out and someone told me 'you guys' were one of the companies to check out." Brilliant.
So what does this all mean? Probably not much of anything for people waiting with bated-breath for the explosion of social media into their everyday lives dealing with customer service, purchase orders or internal enterprise communications.
Why? You tell me, but I suspect it has something to do with our spot on the adoption curve. Not great news for you, my social media obsessed friend, but hey, at least you're probably not a company trying to make a living at it!
February 07, 2008
Social media club boston
It's a good crew!
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February 04, 2008
The New Utterz
Welcome to the new Utterz! You have all been so incredible giving us feedback and feature requests. This really is YOUR new utterz. So thank YOU! You'll discover lots of new treats as you go, but here's a complete list of everything that's new!
- You can now reply to an utter...with an utter! That's right, reply with webcam, computer mic, picture, text from your computer, and as always, from your phone by pressing 8 while listening to an utter.
- A new threaded conversation. Highlight threads, collapse and expand them!
- 24 new dial-in numbers in 17 new countries. Complete list is coming later today.
- New utter layout. Now you can tag, reply, share, and track an utter with one click!
- Tracking! Have you ever seen or replied to an utter you were interested in, then had to keep checking if anyone else was commenting? Now you can track an utter and be notified every time someone adds to the conversation.
- Post directly to an utterz channel. Find a topic and chime in!
- Create widgets to play only the TAGS you want to hear. Like technology? Put an utterz widget on your site to play only the utterz tagged "technology."
- Call Utterz from any phone, not just your mobile. Just setup a 4 digit pin in your profile and call from wherever you'd like.
- The audio of videos posted, now plays while you're listening to utterz on the phone, so you never miss a conversation.
- View your timelines as utterz OR utterz and replies. You decide!
- Choose your player when you embed a single utter.
- And of course, a whole new look and feel to the site!
Plus, don't forget:
- You can post your utterz individually to any of your connections and widgets by pressing 4 after the #, even if you have automatic posting set up.
- The new utter creation form with webcam and computer mic
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January 25, 2008
Just a spin around the office
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January 10, 2008
Meetup rockin along
Would you miss me in Boston?
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January 03, 2008
Garfield Brogan Heuer interviewin'
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