Lampant is the virtual suggestion box for the modern workplace. It's not unlike an innovation platform, where the organization leverages the ideas submitted by employees.
People submit, vote and discuss ideas; management is accountable to respond. Activity in the platform (like getting ideas implemented or helping others) gets you awards.
Two big "goals":
- increase employee engagement and tenure
- find great new initiatives to improve any and all aspects of the organization.
Looking to get some feedback from the community, especially around:
- clarity of the value proposition
- easy to work with
- target audience (big(er) companies I'm guessing) makes sense?
Awesome stuff. I've asked myself countless times what is behind the "made in X" claim. Lovely to see all the details and be able to buy with full knowledge.
Having the ability to see where and how clothes are made is awesome, but having the ability to buy directly in your website would be amazing. It would makes things way simpler for buyers IMO. Not sure how feasible that would be of course, but one can dream right? :)
Having expose of some of the suppliers in the homepage would also be great. Knowing them in a bit more depth (maybe interviews, case studies, etc) would be nice.
I received a message in facebook promoting some album. I was hoping to be redirected to the app (as usual) but this time, the web version opened. I tried it in Chrome but no luck until I open the same link through facebook.
In the university where I attend, Universidade do Minho (Portugal), functional programming it's the first programming class freshmen are given, computer science and informatics engineering students alike. It is a very effective way to teach programming, structures and a lot of math theory behind it. It also helps students who didn't come from "professional schools" where they teach C or Java to be in the same level as those who did. The language they teach here is Haskell. We have 3 classes during our course where we work with Haskell. It may seem a very academic language, geared to research, but the real world usage has grown very much in the recent years. Not only Haskell but earlang and lisp as well. So I think it's a great way to introduce the concepts to first year students and "first comers" to 'our' (dark :p) side.
For me it doesn't really matter "when" it's coming out but rather that it will kick some serious ass. The previous updates do iOS where all great and introduced a lot of great new features but the all look and feel stayed the same. I'm not criticizing, just an observation. It is great to keep everyone in the same boat and to provide some universal user experience. But it's time to something new and i'm hoping that this news are really true. iOS is 'almost' perfect but innovation can't stop just because they got it right the first time. I'm looking forward to see what the guys in cupertino came up with!
This kind of app may seem like nothing important until you actually use it. I was very skeptical about it but a few months ago I started used f.lux and it really is useful. I use my computer during the night as much I do during the day and it I noticed my eyes and my sleep was being affected. My eyes got tired very fast at night and I wasn't able to fall asleep easily. With f.lux that really changed. I urge every nocturnal computer user to give it a try!
Internet streaming/renting is great for the US market. But where I live (Portugal) there's no TV Shows tab in iTunes or Amazon Instant or even Netflix. We are tied to DVDs or Blu Rays. They are much more expansive for sure and that's why people don't buy as much, see as much or consume as much media (movies or Tv Shows). Anyway, when they do, it's in DVD or Blu Ray (or piracy...).
We need physical discs here... but we wish we didn't...
Absolutely not, I'd be perfectly happy to pay a reasonable fee (for music I now have a Spotify subscription and I love it!) or be forced to watch adds or whatnot. I keep waiting for hulu.com and similar sites to eventually (hopefully) open up to Europe, but I'm not holding my breath :\
But until that time I just pirate stuff of the internet. (They haven't even aired anything past season 5 of Scrubs yet here, at this rate I will have to wait until my death if I want watch Game of Thrones...)
Even worse is when you try to _buy_ something but can't because it's not available for your country or because they only take domestic (US) credit cards. No, it doesn't seem unethical to me, not one bit.
I am similar. I'm in Ireland and use Linux. They don't cater to me, so I'll just pirate it. It's a much better service. I'm a capitalist and consumer, I've made my vote.
Not at all. Most series I watch don't show here (or with crappy translations), and even if they do sometimes only a few years later. So I just torrent it.
If I actually like something I tend to buy it as a physical disc from amazon.com and let it catch dust in a corner. Even though the quality is (still) clearly superior from a blueray on my screens, the hassle-free experience of torrented mkv's is just much better for casual (re-)viewing.
Well, I'm also from Portugal and I can say that...
Actually, most relevant TV shows are available here, on cable, with proper subtitles (dubbing is very rare in Portugal, unlike other european countries). Some shows are just one episode behind their US counterparts, but most are a few months/a season behind.
Cable TV is widespread, and on more rural areas where the "cable" doesn't go, the providers have a satellite alternative. So, every one that wants to watch these shows, can.
So, it's not really ethic to pirate TV shows. But only in the sense that if most people pirate, the cable networks won't have much (financial) incentive to keep the shows close to their original airing.
You're right. I completely agree with your last sentence. Although it's really hard for people to buy movies/tv shows for a lot of reasons: when we get a proper DVD with subtitles it's weeks if not months behind the DVDs from the US; if we want to import (because it's cheaper) you have to pay a lot of additional euros for transportation; if you wait to see in the television for 3 or 4 months, you always get into spoilers from friends, the web or even television;
I guess it's hard problem and everyone has a point. Let's wait and see if the situation gets better because they get to win a lot providing a better service to fans/consumers.
Interesting question. My initial reaction was "no". But I realised I don't do it. I guess I just don't watch much TV anymore. Anything worth watching is worth buying the whole series for.
Where I live, most shows air a few years late. I don't feel bad about torrenting them when I want the latest episodes. However I do go out and buy the earlier seasons on disc (though I'm suspicious about how authentic those discs are - they're certainly expensive but the printing on the CDs seem to indicate otherwise)
Well actually I do. If they don't want me as a customer, so be it, but that's their choice to make. I'll usually import the DVD box from somewhere around the world (mostly the UK, Singapore or Hong Kong) as soon as I can find it.
These DVD's end up being converted in Handbrake, and end up as a digital copy anyway. It's also a bag of hurt... but let's hope Apple brings movies to iTunes here soon.
I didn't say I do it. I'm just saying that people resort to it in my country as a way to avoid paying very high prices for media. I usually wait for the shows in television, although I have to wait a few weeks to see the latest episodes. Movies, I go the cinema or buy the DVDs because I really like to have DVDs of movies I love.
I feel it has the same moral implications like torrenting while being much more difficult to set up.
It's sad and frustrating - a while ago I spent a couple of hours searching for a legal way to buy music from a Finnish band I really liked, and each and every service was geographically restricted (I'm from Croatia). A couple of clicks on your torrent index of choice, and there was the album in its full glory. The Industry(tm) should really learn a thing or two from the "evil pirates".
I'm not so sure. Renting a VPN seems an awful lot like renting a small space on their network. Sure, it's not residency. What if I rented you a tiny part of my house? Part of the rent includes network access. But you travel, lots, like you're never there. How would you feel about "place shifting" your access to these services?
Okay, okay... I'm reaching. But I guess I'm saying, I don't see it as immoral to use a VPN in order to establish network presence in the US or Canada or wherever.
That's like an escape. I don't want to need to circumvent the system. I would like to be able to purchase and use the same services in my own right. I would be glad to pay for a service like this, if it provided what it's provided in the US for example.
Same principles, evolved way of thinking due to experience. But I think it wont change to much, because they got it right, now it's just a matter os polishing
Lampant is the virtual suggestion box for the modern workplace. It's not unlike an innovation platform, where the organization leverages the ideas submitted by employees.
People submit, vote and discuss ideas; management is accountable to respond. Activity in the platform (like getting ideas implemented or helping others) gets you awards.
Two big "goals": - increase employee engagement and tenure - find great new initiatives to improve any and all aspects of the organization.
Looking to get some feedback from the community, especially around: - clarity of the value proposition - easy to work with - target audience (big(er) companies I'm guessing) makes sense?
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thanks everyone <3