We are looking for some interns to help us out. You in?

The summer’s here, we are soon moving into a bigger office, and we are looking for some company!

So if you are a student and want some experience working shoulder to shoulder with us, deep the trenches of a pretty exciting start-up, then contact us!

At the moment, we are looking for three interns to help us out.

1. Marketing and business development intern

We are looking for someone to help us expand our online buzz as well as implementing a range of business development activities.  Ideally, you are someone that is well versed in the online sphere, including the use of blogs, Twitter, and other relevant social media tools.

On a daily basis, you will be working closely with our site manager to tackle the following tasks:

•    Coordinate our media marketing activities, including managing our presence on Twitter, blog and Facebook
•    Develop and maintain relationships with our users, which include key bloggers and online influencers
•    Manage business development projects with potential clients
•    Support business development activities through research and analysis

2. Website and product intern

We are looking for someone to help us track and maintain our various performance metrics and improve our product development processes.  This is ideal if you are someone who is interested in the agile project development methodology and want a closer look at how the process is implemented for a evolving Internet product.

On a daily basis, you will be working closely with our site manager to tackle the following tasks:

•    Supporting our usability and product quality processes by tracking:
o    Various site analytical data
o    Site optimization data
o    SEO tools
•    Hands-on work with our proprietary algorithmic PeerIndex system:
o    Product work for clients and partners
o    Liaison with clients, including maintenance, trouble shooting, communication and presentation of results to clients

3. Data analyst

We are looking for a data analyst to help us identify key trends, patterns, segments and clusters, product enhancement and revenue opportunities in the online influencer market.

We are looking for someone with the following skills:

•    Computer science or similar strongly numerical degree
•    Fluency with major stats packages like R or SPSS
•    Skills around large scale analytic
•    Plus points if you have played around with large scale regression models (like K-means, SVMs)
•    Double plus points if you are familiar with Amazon Elastic Map/Reduce

Now, logistics.

Ideally, you are based in London, which is where most of us are.  But if the fit is super duper, then we can arrange for you to work remotely and still get as much out of the experience as possible.  The idea is for you to start immediately, especially since there’s a lot of stuff going on with us in June.

We are happy to help you get credits for the length of your internship, and we can dish out a small stipend which might pay for your lunch from time to time.  But really, the idea is to get involved, meet some cool people (other than us) in the start-up community, and work with a super dynamic Internet business going through a pretty exciting growth phase.

Follow us to get updates on the 2010 FIFA World Cup!

In the coming weeks, we will be introducing a number of topics that focuses on current and trending events.  Today, we are happy to announce that our 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa theme is up and running, which you are invited to check out here and here!

And please do tip us if you come across something you’d like to share with the rest of the Viewsflow community!

We are following the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai this week, are you?

All week here on Viewsflow, we are following the 2010 World Expo in China.

Beginners’ guide to Shanghai by CNN: 51 things you don’t know yet about the city, and the best Expo opening parties!

Flickr photostreams of various Pavilions are here, and the official Expo site introduces five themes of the exhibition.

First impressions on the ground from the Shanghaiist: Pure mayhem and madness, see what a lined up crowd looks like, and Little Mermaid big draw for Denmark.

Pavilion overview from ChinaSmack: Computer generated graphics of what various pavilions look like.  Walk through one, and walk through two.

Pictures of when trial runs turn away crowds courtesy of LostLaowai.

Here are some of the news outlets covering the Expo:

NPR World Expo

ABC News

CNN Go Asia

Shanghai Daily

XinhuaNet

SINA.com

CCTV

Shanghaiiist

And don’t forget to follow our Twitter account as we update you with real time links all week on the Expo, and follow our Twitter Expo list too!

How we build our Daily Briefing

Our Daily Briefing is a daily digest of 12 interesting and insightful articles on business or finance.

Each day, the Viewsflow platform scans several thousand content recommendations from smart people on Twitter. These recommendations are then weighted and ranked over the course of the day.

We take a look at the top 15 stories out of several thousand in a given day, and quickly place them in the email that you get in your inbox by 7am GMT.

Some questions people often ask us are:

Why don’t you build those email automatically?

The answer is two-fold. First, the Viewsflow platform is still in an alpha and the various scoring and machine learning systems are still getting trained and optimised. So for the next little while, we need a little bit of manual tweaking – which in turn is a piece of knowledge-engineering that improves the core system.

The second reason is that we want the Daily Briefing to be a human experience.. Computers don’t engage particularly well yet, although we think we know how to resolve this in the next few weeks.

Is the Daily Briefing personalised?

Right now, the Daily Briefing isn’t personalised, although for those of you who register through Viewsflow.com, we can build a personalised view (based on people you want to track or topics you are interested in). We are shortly moving the personalised mailing into an alpha (an alpha of an alpha, is that an alpha squared?) and will be in touch with some of you to test it with us. (If you would be so kind.)

We would love to hear from you

Please leave your suggestions or comments on Daily Briefing below!

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Our morning newsletter is proving to be very popular, so we want to make it easier than ever for you to sign-up and receive it.

We digest the best of the world’s business and economic content in a summary of 20 stories chosen from mainstream sources and blogs. In a typical week, our algorithms and user community scans around 2,000 articles of which we select the top 1% for inclusion in the newsletter.

Whether you access us from your computer, your BlackBerry, or iPhone, our email will make sure you get caught up with the must-know stories in no time.

Click here to sign up for our newsletter, if you haven’t already.

To become a registered user, access our reputation ranking system, tweak your business news preferences, and receive personal recommendations, please click here.

New Twitter channels are up and running

Viewsflow now has various Twitter channels set up to allow our users to subscribe and receive business commentary in the topics they are interested in.  At the moment, the following Twitter Channels are available.

Our firehose feed: with all top/interesting content.

Climate change: Policy, technology, investment and science on climate change.

Social media: All about Facebook, Twitter, and the emerging business of social media.

Offbeat stories: Unexpected applications of economics and other off-the-beaten path content to lighten your day.

Cool thinking: Where science, neuroscience and psychology meets business and finance.

Insider insights: Mostly leaked reports.

Management: Business management wisdom to navigate through turbulent times

Global economy: Global macroeconomic issues & trade

North American economy: US and Canada : business and economics

European economies: European economies, ex UK

UK economy: the UK Economy

Chinese economy: China

Indian economy: India

Japanese economy: Japan

Brazilian economy: Brazil

Rest of the world economies: Rest not covered by channels above

Tech, media & telecom:  Apple, Google, Microsoft, News Corp and the rest

VC and Private equity: VC and private equity (mostly focussed on the business of VC)

Financial services: Banking industry: Goldman, Citi, etc

Retail and consumer: Retail and consumer industry (WalMart, Target, Nike, etc)

Health and pharmaceuticals: Pharma and healthcare

Industrials and construction: Industrial and transport.

Energy and extractives: Miners and energy companies

Public and third sector: Tracking the going-ons of the public sector around the world, as well as the charitable and not-for-profit sectors.

Currencies: USD, JPY, GBP and other major currencies

Equities: Equity market commentary

Commodities: Softs and hards, inc oil, gold, silver, coffee…

Capital markets: Capital market activity

Our corporate account: various topical Twitter lists are available for following here.

Visualizing our stories

Here’s a quick visualization of what’s making our front page today.

Viewsflow visualized

Top stories from the past week: Porn, Crocs, dopamine and Goldman

Porn 2.0. The porn business is not unlike other online content-based businesses: it’s a crowded space, it’s tech savvy, it’s got your usual suspects pirating your stuff, and the stars are going all social media, baby!

How Crocs crashed.  Because “ugly and comfy” was not the most sustainable business proposition, but getting all clever on design didn’t see to help either.

Dopamine makes you addicted to seeking information. If you know of a 12-step program that can get people off of this stuff, please contact us.

Goldman and the US housing crash, Goldman, AIG and the Fed, Goldman and the global oil scam, all while doing God’s work.  Seriously, there’s just no end to this.

Everyone wants to school Murdoch on how the online news business works. Not sure he cares, or listens.

Palm Pre sales already in decline. Did it even get started?

More housework gets you, laid.

Now try to compete with that business model: less than free.

Will the US default on its debt?

Gerald Ronson answers the question what makes a great entrepreneur in his autobiography.  The Atlantic examines the science of success.

Looking ahead to the CPH climate change conference

In December, Copenhagen will host the most publicized and well attended climate conference since Kyoto.  We’ve gathered some info to prime you for the momentous occasion next month.

The Guardian has a dedicated section on the Copenhagen Summit.  Bravo!  It also recounts the breakdown of the Kyoto treaty, and questions whether CPH can dictate policy on any level:

It would not ban flights, or push nuclear power, or force people to go back to living in mud huts. A Copenhagen treaty would set new targets for overall pollution levels, and again rely on governments to meet them …

The world has changed since Kyoto and climate change threatens rich and poor countries alike. To reduce global emissions China, the US and their kin must take action: global climate change needs global attention. Copenhagen offers a chance to forge a new agreement with all the major players.

Next up, New Scientist has a three-minute briefing section to answer the what, why, how of the summit.  According to NS, here are some of the potential deal breakers:

• The US may not be able to make credible promises if Congress has not passed a climate change bill in time.
• If China and India think the US is not serious, they will hold back on pledges to green their own economic development.
• Others might wield a veto, too. Some newly industrialised countries – Malaysia and South Korea for instance – now have emissions higher than many European countries. They may protest if asked to sign up to firm targets.
• Malaysia’s emissions are four times what they were in 1990 and, per head of population, equal to the UK’s.
• Saudi Arabia’s emissions have doubled and, per head, now beat all European countries except Luxembourg.
• Qatar’s per-capita emissions are four times those of the US.
• Gulf states tried to torpedo Kyoto because they felt it threatened oil exports. Copenhagen could threaten their internal industrialisation plans.

The Economist continues its regular programming of environmental coverage, is cautious on its outlook of the conference.  It points out the following potential stumbling blocks:

One of the two big practical questions is: by how much does the world need to cut emissions? Japan and the EU have set eye-catching headline goals. America has not—though cap-and-trade legislation seemed to advance this week (see article). The rich world wants concrete promises from poor countries. Hu Jintao, the president of China, now the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, has pledged to cut the carbon-intensity of the country’s economy but he has not said by how much. India says that it will accept only a limit on emissions per person that matches rich countries. That is so easily satisfied that it is no condition at all.

The second big question, less discussed in Bangkok, is what rich countries will pay poor ones both to adapt to climate change and shrink their use of carbon. China has said that rich countries should pay 1% of their GDP a year—which would be $400 billion. Gordon Brown has suggested $100 billion a year. Despite some clever ideas about using small investment guarantees to unlock bigger flows of private capital, the gap remains large.

Spiegel Online presents the German perspective. In a crafty move, Merkel the consummate politician, has seemingly ceded much of the responsibility of pending discussion to the Americans and Chinese.

On the first day of the EU summit meeting, with bloc leaders gathered in Brussels, Merkel adopted a stance which enraged environmentalists. The EU, Merkel was quoted as saying, should not be overly hasty in offering financial aid to developing countries for climate-related projects and should wait on China and the US. Concrete pledges should not be made, she said.

The following mainstream and blog publications also have ongoing coverage of the environment, as well as environmental economics, which will no doubt be swamped with Copenhagen Summit coverage news and commentaries in the coming weeks.

Telegraph’s Earth Pulse

BBC’s Science and the Environment

Times Online’s Environment

NYT’s Dot Earth Blog

Environmental Valuation

Inhabitat

Environmental Economics

Globalisation and Economics

Green Economics

Common Trageties

Economic Dreams

Greenomics

Do you know any other good coverage of the Copenhagen Summit, or any other economic blogs we have missed?  Please share with us in the comments section.

Viewsflow will also be ramping up its coverage of the Summit in the coming weeks.  If you have yet to try the alpha version of our service, please sign up here, or Tweet us for an invitation.

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• China: US is sabotaging Copenhagen climate treaty by ‘changing Kyoto rules’ (telegraph.co.uk)
• Climate talks end in acrimony as poorer nations threaten walk-out Copenhagen (guardian.co.uk)
• Copenhagen may be a bust, and it’s all the U.S. and E.U.’s fault (green.venturebeat.com)
• Muted Optimism on Copenhagen Climate Talks (usnews.com)
• Global climate change deal ‘a year away’ (telegraph.co.uk)

Discovering the econo-blogosphere: visualizing economics

The world of econo-blogosphere is vast and varied.  And we’d love to share it with you, one corner at a time.  Following Reformed Brokers’ periodic table of econobloggers here and here, and WSJ’s top 25 economic blog list, we will be introducing a new list of econobloggers to watch, right here on Viewsflow, on a weekly basis.

This week, let’s get away from the world of text-heavy blogs, and see what the world of economics has to offer in visual indulgences.

Eco-nomics: who would’ve thought it’s possible to combine comics with economics?

Guardian’s Data Blog: Does a great job of showing off some beautiful visualizations.  It also has a flickr’s group to house all the graphics.

Infothetics: Because practically everything can be shown through infographics and other visual representations.

Information Is Beautiful: Visualizing data and making them beautiful.

Junk Chart: Using chart art to tell (economic) stories.

Visual Economics: Beautiful infographics chronicling everything from employment changes to global trading pattern.

Wall Stats: Get your visual guide to the financial crisis, fall of GM, death and taxes, and more.

LolFed: From the jokers that came up with LOLcats.

Strange Maps: Mapping the world old and new, sober and absurd.

Visualizing Economics: Because graphs speak louder than words.

Flowing Data: Putting all kinds of economic and social science numbers into perspective. It’s also got its own flikr group.

Maps and Charts: Serious map porn.

If you have any other ideas or suggestions for the list, please let us know in the comments section.  If you are looking to be part of our alpha experience, please click here to register.

* Resources we came across after blogging about it originally:

Datavisualization: everything from emissions, jobless rates, to typography and infographics.

Chartsbin: how many ways can you shade the world map?

Infochimps: map out any available data, to do as you wish.  It doesn’t get more open source than this.

DataMasher: true to its name, you can mash data up here.

Pachube: graph and share any data stream in real time, if the device and sensor is hooked up to the net.

LA Time’s data desk: works on all kinds of data projects, including healthcare costs and mapping out the drug war.

Visual think mag: visualizes our online activities and brands.

Good.Is: has some of the best infographics around.

Many Eyes: upload your own data set.

Data Viz: Visualizing the intersection between data and technology.

MemeTracker: Builds maps of the daily news cycle, ranging from mass media to personal blogs.