Heroes’ Matt Parkman is a true geek and has created a FANTASTIC iPhone app.

Written on 23rd April 2009                                                                                                              4 COMMENTS
Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.

Celebs and tech are currently all the rage, and Heroes’ Matt Parkman is taking things to another level with a genuinely superb iPhone app called Yowza!

I hesitated before posting this because unfortunately it’s still not available outside the US, however being so impressed by the idea and implementation (what I’ve seen of it anyway) that I had to share it with you.

I’ll let CH host Cali Lewis and Grunberg explain the ins and outs of the app in the video below, but to sum up what Yowza actually does…Yowza partners with stores to bring vouchers directly to you via your iPhone, so whatever shop you might be in, you check Yowza to see if there are any available discounts available before you make your purchase. Clever eh? Well I thought so.

Now watch the vid:

If you’re in the US of course, download the app here.

Update: There is a soon to launch UK iPhone app called VouChaCha which has yet to be launched officially. Will get a review up about it once we’ve got our hands on it.

Hattip to CrunchGear.

app, heroes, iphone, iphone app, matt parkman

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Is your team diverse enough to face the year 2025?

Written on 29th May 2008                                                                                                              1 COMMENT
Simone Brummelhuis, writing about women on the web

Last week I attended two events in Amsterdam specifically aimed at women. What I took from those events as a message is interesting for men and women. At Diversity, a network event for professional women, female Internet hero Nancy McKinstry held a very clear and interesting lecture about her Wolters Kluwer, which generates 50% of its turnover of 3.4 billion from online products.

She concluded that because of macro trends affecting the information industry, all Internet and media companies need to deal with diversity. In 2025 Internet users will be diversified, mainly consisting of female information users and aging information users. And they use the information in a different way, other than all the white, geeky, male, young Silicon Valley whizkids may think! So try to get inside the brains of these women and senior citizens, try to understand the information gathering and buying habits of these groups.

A solution to the issue is to support this notion of diversity and to let those target groups jump on the band wagon of the Internet companies by letting them become part of the team. A company like Apple understands this trend; it may be the reason why it has appointed Andrea Young of Avon, the beauty power house to its board.

Another company which may have seen the start of a light in this issue is Microsoft. After my comments about the Dev Days and their lack of female speakers, I was invited to a small Women in Technology booth that was set up this year for the first time to try to meet the 2% women that visit this event. Female Internet hero Astrid Hackenberg, founder and CEO of Class-A and Jacqueline van der Holst of Avanade were invited to welcome other, younger developers, let’s assume the female CTO’s of the future. Here too, the notion of data being used differently by a diversified group led to solution of a diversified team.

But are enough internet companies taking this diversity trend into account in setting up their team?

CTO, female, heroes, trend, women

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