Jamie Oliver, the well known chef, was given the TED Prize earlier this year. On top of receiving $100,000 for their cause, TED Prize recipients get “One Wish to Change the World.” This means that they get to make their wish of the diverse and talented folks who are at the TED conference. Jamie’s wish is to teach children about food and to fight obesity, the biggest preventable killer in America.
Do yourself a favour and watch this video, it could save your or a loved one’s life:
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Far be it from me to be a proponent of “viral marketing” a lot of which amounts to nothing more than spam, but I think the idea for Twitterface is a lot more usefl than just blanketing people with garbage Tweets. Bear with the first half of the presentation if you know what Twitter is (or skip to slide 113), I had to make sure my audience knew what I was talking about.
Basically the idea behind Twitterface is to use Twitter as an interface for your web app. So whenever a user of your service or app interacts with you through Twitter, they’re automatically advertising for you to all of their followers. Check out the presentation for more details.
So without further ado:
Update: The SlideShare editorial team just sent me an email saying that Twitterface was chosen to be listed on their homepage!★
Yesterday I gave a presentation at Coder’s Saturday called Worry Free Web Development. Here are the slides.
