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Flashy exotic birds can actually glow in the dark

Ars Technica

Found in the forests of Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and Eastern Australia, birds of paradise are famous for flashy feathers and unusually shaped ornaments, which set the standard for haute couture among birds. Many use these feathers for flamboyant mating displays in which they shape-shift into otherworldly forms.

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Retail investors or guinea pigs?

TechCrunch

Welcome to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s inspired by the daily TechCrunch+ column where it gets its name. Want it in your inbox every Saturday? Sign up here. There is a paradox when it comes to retail investors: Many startup-related deals are out of their reach (in part for their own sake).

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A Social Media Measurement Nonprofit Guinea Pig: Thanks Tim! Please add your thoughts!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Tim Davies from the UK volunteered to be the guinea pig and test the thinking process (a logic model of sorts) for his newly launched web project that incorporates social media strategies. Any other guinea pigs out there that want to try this model? Translates your results in a value, if you can and compute the ROI.

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Social Networking Strategies: The Limits of Cutting and Pasting

Amy Sample Ward

Organizations that joined Facebook early on endured the “price of early adoption”—they were the guinea pigs for a platform that was still figuring out just what to do with this form of user. If they’re not, it’s OK to wait—especially if time and energy are scarce. The Price of Early Adoption.

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Molotov starts its international expansion with seven African countries

TechCrunch

First, the service will be available in seven African countries, starting with Ivory Coast where it’s already live, Senegal in January, Cameroon in February, Burkina Faso in March, Tunisia in April, Guinea and Democratic Republic of Congo after that.

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Cameroon’s Ejara raises $2M to offer crypto and investment services in Francophone Africa

TechCrunch

Ejara has more than 8,000 users from Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Mali, Guinea and Senegal, as well as French-speaking Africans in the diaspora (Europe, Asia and the U.S.), Yet, the company plans to also diversify into providing other assets, including fractional shares, stocks and commodities. .

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Testing Your Donation Form Part 3: Wrangling Guinea Pigs

Connection Cafe

Note: This is the third in a series of posts about usability testing your website from guest author Brandon Granger, Senior Interaction Designer for Blackbaud. Brandon has crafted user experiences and conducted user research in the nonprofit space for 12+ years.

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