I want to share a technique with you that I have been using to streamline my customer development process. It’s experimental, but so far it’s saving me a lot of time and producing good results.
At the core, my technique involves using MTurk to collect targeted leads for some business ideas that have been brewing in my head. By using MTurk I was able to gather contact information from a huge list of websites in a very little amount of time. Sure, I could’ve written a scraper to find emails on most of these sites, but after weighing the cost/benefit ratio, I figured it just wasn’t worth my time.
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I found a webcam in your neighborhood. As I type, I see your dog easing out a steady stream of its steady-stream onto your neighbor’s freshly lacquered patio. Don’t believe me? see the results for yourself:
(Unsecure) Webcams Around the World
How?
It first started with this link, And then this, And finally this.
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Access it here: LiteShare
Slideshare is a good service for uploading and distributing your powerpoint and keynote presentations, but sometimes embedding their Flash presentation player is overkill.
What if you have a bunch of Slideshare presentations you want to post? Their CPU-intensive flash player would ruin your users’ experience and slow down your entire site.
For this reason, I’ve created a small utility to embed SlideShare presentations as an image thumbnail and a link in place of their usual Flash player.
Use it when you don’t want to bog down your users with the extra baggage of too many flash players on a single page.
