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So, Facebook is evolving. With emphasis on at least 3 core web services – search, chat and the upcoming email – Facebook is getting more serious about functions that Google, among others, are doing well at providing. It makes sense. So here are some quick thoughts on what 400 million users...
Articles, Business Models, Economics, Strategic Innovation, Technology, Web
Media companies seem to be falling over themselves trying to prop up revenues in an ever-changing environment. Yet, there seems to be very little innovation in how they’re going about it. For the last several weeks, much has been written about Rupert Murdoch’s plans to de-index from Google and...
Articles, Service Design, Strategic Innovation, sustainability
This past summer, I left my apartment in Milan, Italy for a farm in Normandy, France; That’s right – I voluntarily traded Prada for permaculture. Little did I know that I was leaving a design capital to get a serious design lesson. Rubber boots and metal sheers in tow, I was ready to heave...
Industrial Design, Strategic Innovation, Technology
When was the last time we saw an innovation in the “fan” product category? This guy gives a quick demo. I love love this product. http://www.dyson.com/fans/ The Dyson Air Multiplier™ fan works very differently to conventional fans. It uses Air Multiplier™ technology to draw in air and...
Experience Design, Service Design, Strategic Innovation, Technology, Web
Just watching this vid already, I’m ready to buy into this software. The system itself looks great, and I’d love to use it. How do you see the future of multitouch heading? Something more along these lines? I’ve personally found touch desktop all-in-ones to be somewhat pointless, and...
Articles, Experience Design, Featured Articles, Service Design, Strategic Innovation
Over the past five years, user generated content has exploded, filling the Internet with reams of content and bringing along with it the concept of crowd-sourcing or depending on who you ask, co-creation. For those who are unfamiliar with the concept, it basically relies on the idea that two or five...
Industrial Design, Service Design, Strategic Innovation, Technology, Web
This is a week of design for me, meeting with two talented design practitioners in Boston who are running a very successful company, talked to the folks running two of the top design schools and interviewed 4 designers respectively from London, Brazil, LA and Toronto. And catching with my design reading...
Strategic Innovation
In this provocative presentation from July’s Global TED (Technology, Entertainment Design) Conference in Oxford, England, Dan Pink overviews some of the key ideas that he details in his upcoming book, “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us”, which is due to be released...
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People tinker, they build, remix, they repurpose, reverse and perverse engineer. They crack open the housing. Look under the hood. They view the source. We have always made things, and have been defined by what we make and how it was made. Today the ‘refresh rate’ of the majority of physical objects...
Articles, Business Models, Economics, Entertainment, Social Change, Strategic Innovation
The ultimate innovation challenge comes to America’s doorstep. It’s knocking, banging, kicking and screaming. Someone give that kid a lollipop and get to work. But there’s so much to do! Hmmmm… the economic crisis has destroyed banks, jobs, academic endowments, homes and more; there’s...
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