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🇬🇧 Immerse yourself in the captivating world of computing through the Sinclair ZX Spectrum—a groundbreaking microcomputer that captured the imagination of an entire generation!
🌟 In 1980, the visionary British entrepreneur and scientist, Sir Clive Sinclair, entered the home computer market with the ZX80 priced at £99.95, marking the era's most affordable personal computer in the United Kingdom. A year later, the ZX81 hit the high street, introducing home computing to a generation, with over 1.5 million units sold.
💻 Released in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd., the Sinclair ZX Spectrum swiftly became one of the most iconic home computers of its time. It dominated the UK's computer sales market, fiercely competing against Commodore and Amstrad. This compact and budget-friendly machine brought computing into countless households.
🕹️ Powered by the Zilog Z80A CPU running at 3.5 MHz and equipped with either 16 KB or 48 KB of RAM, the ZX Spectrum sported a sleek, compact design resembling a keyboard with rubber keys, making it innovative and approachable. Its graphics and sound capabilities were ahead of their time, enabling vibrant games and applications.
⌨️ One of the ZX Spectrum's standout features was its vast library of games. From classics like "Manic Miner" and "Jet Set Willy" to innovative titles developed by enthusiasts, the Spectrum's game collection remains a cherished part of gaming history. The computer's BASIC programming language also inspired users to create their own software.
🖥 Despite modest hardware specifications, the ZX Spectrum nurtured a lively community of developers and enthusiasts, serving as a gateway into the world of programming and digital creativity.
🚀 Over its lifespan, the ZX Spectrum evolved with new models, including the ZX Spectrum+, ZX Spectrum 128, and ZX Spectrum +2, each offering enhanced performance and features while retaining the beloved design.
📺 The ZX Spectrum's impact extended beyond its hardware, playing a pivotal role in the British computing scene, inspiring future generations of programmers and entrepreneurs. Its legacy resonates in modern computing and gaming through emulators and remakes that keep its spirit alive.
📊 At the peak of its success and largely inspired by the Japanese Fifth Generation Computer program, the company established the "MetaLab" research centre at Milton Hall near Cambridge to pursue advanced projects like artificial intelligence, wafer-scale integration, and formal verification.
💔 Financial difficulties in 1985, brought on by the failures of the Sinclair QL computer and the TV80 pocket television, led Sinclair to sell the rights to its computer products and brand name to Amstrad in 1986. Sinclair Research Ltd continued as a one-man company, marketing Clive Sinclair's inventions until his passing in September 2021.
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National Library Lovers Month: Nonfiction
The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree
Famed across the known world, jealously guarded by private collectors, built up over centuries, destroyed in a single day, ornamented with gold leaf and frescoes, or filled with bean bags and children's drawings--the history of the library is rich, varied, and stuffed full of incident. In The Library, historians Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduwen introduce us to the antiquarians and philanthropists who shaped the world's great collections, trace the rise and fall of literary tastes, and reveal the high crimes and misdemeanors committed in pursuit of rare manuscripts. In doing so, they reveal that while collections themselves are fragile, often falling into ruin within a few decades, the idea of the library has been remarkably resilient as each generation makes - and remakes - the institution anew. Beautifully written and deeply researched, The Library is essential reading for booklovers, collectors, and anyone who has ever gotten blissfully lost in the stacks.
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer
In the 1980s, a young adventurer and collector for a government library, Abdel Kader Haidara, journeyed across the Sahara Desert and along the Niger River, tracking down and salvaging tens of thousands of ancient Islamic and secular manuscripts that had fallen into obscurity. The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu tells the incredible story of how Haidara, a mild-mannered archivist and historian from the legendary city of Timbuktu, later became one of the world’s greatest and most brazen smugglers.
In 2012, thousands of Al Qaeda militants from northwest Africa seized control of most of Mali, including Timbuktu. They imposed Sharia law, chopped off the hands of accused thieves, stoned to death unmarried couples, and threatened to destroy the great manuscripts. As the militants tightened their control over Timbuktu, Haidara organized a dangerous operation to sneak all 350,000 volumes out of the city to the safety of southern Mali.
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual fire alarm. As one fireman recounted, “Once that first stack got going, it was ‘Goodbye, Charlie.’” The fire was disastrous: it reached 2000 degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library - and if so, who?
Weaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of the fire, award-winning New Yorker reporter and New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean delivers a mesmerizing and uniquely compelling book that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before.
Library: An Unquiet History by Matthew Battles
Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge. Now they are in crisis. Former rare books librarian and Harvard metaLAB visionary Matthew Battles takes us from Boston to Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries and on to the Information Age, to explore how libraries are built and how they are destroyed: from the scroll burnings in ancient China to the burning of libraries in Europe and Bosnia to the latest revolutionary upheavals of the digital age. A new afterword elucidates how knowledge is preserved amid the creative destruction of twenty-first-century technology.
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I am interested to apply for standford msx sloan fellow in nearest time. Eventually i only got foundation year of chemistry stem faculty and 2 years computer science major. While i wait for the opening class, i join west africa fellow from acumen academy.
Since i also need to wait for reference letter, i create standford msx syllabus.
The Startup Garage Design will explain about design, testing and launch new venture. It conclude business model, product and market. You will create mvp for stakeholders; entrepreneurs, ventue capital and investor.
The Startup Garage Design Characteristic:
A) Based on business model, social ventures divide by
1. Hybrid non-profit fee-for-services organization
World central kitchen, look how they give hot meals to ukranian war victim. Eventually, their business root to create food which helps people to get best nutrition when natural disaster happens; selling ready to eat meal and food delivery. They cooperate with food truck, food chain registered in the city and food delivery communities. For mission purposes, wck asking donate to citizen or receive funds from government or caring people.
2) For profit companies with missions.
USCRI help refugee to get back to their life after surviving from natural disaster and war. Their product is helping refugee get affordable housing, services for health re-wiring mental health, human traffickers victim funds and loan.
3) Social venture capital companies
Social impact ventures market black-ish and people of color.
Mission to accelerate founders, entrepreneurs and busimezs owners. Their product are accelerator and crowdfunding.
How social ventures selling their proposition to stakeholders?
Social ventures have capital investment model offers relaxed repayment ROI and more focus to the mission. Schedule return the investment is flexible.
Type of Social Venture Capital Investor
a) social venture accelerators; providing seed funding to startups with potential to scale.
Tiny holding company usually buying established business with existing cash flow. Metalab have $7M/year profit by charge company with SF/SV agency rates though only pay with australian wages.
Requirement for startup who interested to sell to tiny:
3-5 years of operating history
Profit min $500k/year in annual profit as high as $15MM
High quality team
Dribbble top 1k site on the internet and community for designers.
b) Social incubator and funds, providing startups and entrepreneurs with facilities and funding.
Ycombinator, Techstars, Seedcamp and Tiny Foundation
B) Based on product, Farestart helping people transform their lives through food, life skills and job training. Disrupting poverty. Food security and Hunger Relief.
C) Based on market, social enterprise for citizen only by selling energy, finance and food product; Social coops/association/foundation selling social services, edu and fair trade. Citizen + non profit organization by selling temporary job agregator.
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Metalab goes from quietly building the internet to investing in it
StartupIndia - http://dlvr.it/T5GwHw
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Sales Copywriting & Product Messaging Information
Become great at product messaging and sales page copywriting
Are you frustrated (or even embarrassed) by your website’s clunky, confusing sales copy?
You’re not alone.
As a marketer, you know that having a strong value proposition & relevant messaging is critical for maximizing conversions.
But knowing this doesn’t make writing them any easier.
Pinpointing what’s uniquely valuable about your product? That’s hard enough. Figuring out how to convey this value in words that convert … That can seem damn-near impossible.
But crafting high-converting value propositions and perfecting your sales page copy doesn’t have to be a painful, frustrating ordeal
You don’t need to start writing by staring haplessly at a blank page.
What you do need is a step-by-step framework for turning those dry product specs into stellar, sticky sales copy. You need a repeatable, research-driven framework you & your team can come back to again and again.
… Which is precisely why we created this course.
After taking this course, you’ll:
Know how to systematically “tear down” & rebuild the copy of virtually any sales page
Nail your messaging through rigorous voice-of-customer research
Ditch the clichés and infuse your copy with authenticity & passion
Weave your messages together into a story that sells
Choose messages that trigger your customers’ real-life motivations
Craft value propositions that capture visitors’ attention & pull them in
See how elite copywriters go from asking questions … to analyzing research … to creating messaging flows … to crafting the final copy.
PLUS: Get a complete kit of conversion-copywriting worksheets, templates & checklists along with the course, so you can immediately transfer & apply everything you’ve learned into your own business.
Learn how to fix your value propositions, product messaging & sales page copy … in just 9 sessions
Got a sales page or website that needs a serious messaging makeover?
Bring it to class and apply what you learn immediately as conversion copywriting maven Momoko Price reveals the exact process she uses to optimize messaging & page copy for enterprises, agencies & startups like Intuit, MetaLab, and Respondly (recently acquired by Buffer).
Who is this course for?
This course is for you if:
You’re in charge of marketing, drive traffic to key landing pages (including your homepage), and feel like you just can’t get the needle moving
You’re tired of taking an ineffective “spaghetti” approach to your messaging (a.k.a. throwing random ideas around & seeing what sticks)
You suspect (or know) that your sales page copy … well, sucks (hallmarks of sucky sales page copy: persistently low conversion rate, +60% bounce rate, visitors fail to scroll, few CTA clicks)
Your team desperately needs a clear, structured, documented process for sales-page copywriting it can go back to again & again
What You’ll Learn In This Course?
Know how to systematically “tear down” & rebuild the copy of virtually any sales page
Nail your messaging through rigorous voice-of-customer research
Ditch the clichés and infuse your copy with authenticity & passion
Weave your messages together into a story that sells
Choose messages that trigger your customers’ real-life motivations
Craft value propositions that capture visitors’ attention & pull them in
About Author
Momoko Price is an experienced conversion copywriter who kept sketching user flows & wireframes as part of her “writing” work.
She brings a powerful one-two punch to every client project.
While she mostly helps startups find their key messaging, she’s worked with giants the likes of Intuit, Scotiabank, AT&T, and Base CRM.
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Napoli punta sull'industria culturale e creativa, nell'albergo dei poveri nasce la Casa delle Tecnologie Emergenti
Napoli punta sull'industria culturale e creativa, nell'albergo dei poveri nasce la Casa delle Tecnologie Emergenti.
A Napoli prendono il via le attività della Casa delle Tecnologie Emergenti “Infiniti Mondi”, il nuovo Polo dedicato alla ricerca e alla sperimentazione delle più innovative tecnologie in ambito creativo e culturale. Il progetto biennale è stato presentato questa mattina, a Palazzo San Giacomo dal sindaco Gaetano Manfredi insieme ai partner istituzionali e privati. Finanziato dal Ministero delle Imprese e del Made in Italy nell’ambito del bando Casa delle Tecnologie Emergenti per il supporto alle tecnologie 5G, dispone di un budget di circa 15 milioni di euro.
“Infiniti Mondi - Napoli innovation city” ha l’ambizione di coniugare le competenze scientifiche delle università e dei centri di ricerca e innovazione con le esigenze delle imprese, supportando progetti di ricerca e sperimentazione nel campo delle tecnologie emergenti, sostenendo la nascita e lo sviluppo di nuove iniziative imprenditoriali e favorendo il trasferimento tecnologico verso piccole e medie aziende del settore dell’Industria Culturale e Creativa locale. Il nome ‘Infiniti Mondi’ prende ispirazione dalla figura di Giordano Bruno, innovatore della filosofia rinascimentale e visionario della modernità. Il pensiero del filosofo si riflette già nella brand identity della Casa delle tecnologie e nel logo realizzato dagli studenti dell’Accademia delle Belle Arti.
L’hub sarà un luogo di integrazione tra arte, scienza e tecnologia, motore propulsivo di innovazione tecnologica, professionale, culturale e sociale, aperto alla città, di crescita per le imprese e il territorio. Cinque i laboratori avanzati, dotati delle più evolute strumentazioni tecnologiche e di connettività, in cui si declinano le attività del progetto: Metaverso, Web 3.0, Gaming, Storytelling digitale, Quantum Computing e 5G, attivi presso il Real Albergo dei Poveri e l’ex scuola “Giotto-Monti” a San Giovanni a Teduccio. La Casa delle Tecnologie Emergenti ‘Infiniti Mondi’ avrà una ricaduta positiva non solo sul mondo imprenditoriale, ma anche sul tessuto sociale cittadino, grazie anche ai diversi momenti di incontro con la città. Un primo esempio è il Metalab, spazio dedicato alla collaborazione tra artisti, scienziati e tecnologi in cui sperimentare nuove forme di comunicazione culturale e produzione di conoscenza, che vedrà ospiti esperti nazionali e internazionali presso la Foqus - Fondazione ai Quartieri Spagnoli il prossimo 20 ottobre.
“Come Comune di Napoli - ha spiegato il Sindaco Manfredi - abbiamo vinto un bando sul tema dell’applicazione delle nuove tecnologie nei settori della creatività e dell’arte. È un’operazione che facciamo con Università e aziende nell’ambito di una rete nazionale perché un progetto gemello è stato presentato dal Comune di Bologna. Abbiamo scelto come sede l’Albergo dei Poveri che diventerà un polo culturale della città”.
“La Casa delle Tecnologie Emergenti è un progetto molto sfidante - ha sottolineato Angelo Giuliana, direttore generale del Centro di Competenza MedITech 4.0 - perché vuole avere un impatto sulla città coniugando tecnologia, industria culturale e creativa. Il partenariato è costituito sia da competenze universitarie che da competenze di mercato. Con i cinque laboratori che saranno attivi ci occuperemo di formazione con l’obiettivo di creare una skilling e reskilling delle forze lavorative sul tema delle tecnologie che oggi sono poco presenti in Italia”.
Per il progetto della CTE il Comune di Napoli è capofila di un partenariato che comprende le Università di Napoli Federico II e L’Orientale, l’Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli - i cui giovani designer hanno realizzato il logo di “Infiniti Mondi” - il Centro d’innovazione digitale Cefriel del Politecnico di Milano, i centri di ricerca e innovazione MedITech 4.0, Cnr - Istituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale e CeRICT Scarl, e imprese innovative come Tim, Spicy e One More Pictures....
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Nueva Casa de Moderat
Parece mentira estar escribiendo en casa de Moderat como si fuera post4ESO.
Hemos puesto música, especialmente "Cachitos de Hierro y Cromo", famoso programa
radio3-ero que estrenaron por Nochevieja y que "nos perdimos".
Mientras tanto yo he estado intentando desentrañar el código de jrnl (la propia aplicación con la que estoy escribiendo esto), buscando una primera aunque tardía contribución a un proyecto de código.
Aunque parezca mentira, nuestra progresiva "sin-vergüenzación" en el tema de instagram y su futura remodelación (que chulo que queda) ha ayudado muchísimo y nos vemos con la energía y ganas de escribir en inglés para contribuir a (1) unidad de proyecto de software.
También el hecho de compartir Playlists de Spotify por instagram. De hecho publicamos todo lo que escuchamos mediante last.fm. Noto como que me resulta fácil escribir mientras que normalmente me cuesta pulsar las teclas con este teclado. Siento que no es el teclado sino las ganas.
Es decir, el tiempo disponible y las condiciones mentales (mucha agua siento).
Eso me recuerda a esta tarde que apareció Percy Jackson en la televisión. Eso me recordó al estereotipo de adolescente harry-potter dreamero (en la triada) y a la orden hermética de la rosa azul pero magnificada en la divulgación de la mitología.
No recuerdo en qué momento empecé a interesarme por la mitología. Pero "La Diosa Nix" está del lado de los lobos con albóndigas (Pip con).
¿Debiera empezar a hablar por algún grupo Metalab, Librelab? ¿Buscar iniciativa para un proyecto real? ¿Volver con Undernotes y buscarle un loguillo?
O quizás, ir más por mi bola, como siempre he ido y seguir investigando.
Publicar jrnl dev. O algo de matemáticas en mi blog personal. ¿De qué matemáticas?
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Branding Case Study
Headspace
(www.metalab.com, n.d.)
After Mark's feedback, I wanted to look deeper into Headspace's branding. Metalab helped create its branding and is a successful interface design agency that has also worked for brands such as Uber and Google. Their focus for Headspace was to elevate its website and create a mindfulness experience for its users. They did this by implementing engaging animations and illustrations that help personalise the brand and make it feel playful and multi-dimensional to reflect the mind. They also thought about how to engage users further by creating the categories "Move, Focus and Wakeup". This was to help meet the users specific Headspace users needs and makes mindfulness more approachable and helpful. I feel I can take inspiration from Headspace to create a more engaging experience for my users and create a stronger and more dynamic brand.
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