Building an Online Community at Opower

Opower is beginning to invest more resources into building its Facebook-powered online community at social.opower.com. This deck outlines three community-building features I recommended to Opower as part of an MBA-internship interview.

Tags: online community, opower, social media, strategy
Category Blog |

Google Mars

Google began offering overlays to plan your adventures on other planets as recent as 2009. If you missed out, download Google Earth for a 3D trip around the Red Planet. Plan your next picnic in the Valles Marineres; or challenge yourself with intentions to scale Olympus Mons. Whichever route you decide upon, you will feel confident knowing you have up-to-the-hour almost realtime martian satellite data.
Download it here: http://earth.google.com/mars/

Happy trekking.

Tags: Google, Mars
Category News |

Biocomputing and Bioencryption

Binary code is so January 11th, 2011. Current advances in biotech are pushing us deeper into the age of bio-based computing and data encryption. Leonard Adelman, a professor of computer science and molecular biology at the University of Southern California, created the first DNA computational system in 1994. His experiments allowed him to solve heavy combinatorics problems, albeit at a slower pace than current capabilities. Since then, a team of undergraduates at the Chinese University of Hong Kong made tremendous progress by developing a practical model to store data in living bacteria. This type of biological data system will allow you to store 4500 gigabytes of data in a biodrive no heavier than a nickel (5 grams).

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Tags: biotech, computers, DNA, future
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