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Google Wave

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:53:20 GMT

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All in all the developer crowd seem enthusiastic about Wave--it's just possibly a real paradigm shifter that will change how we think about email. But that's assuming several things, that tie up neatly with some of the points in our "Five Reasons to Be Terrified" post.

Redbox has positioned itself as the perfect in-between technology

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:29:49 GMT

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Clip Source: www.fastcompany.com

Redbox is convenient and it's cheap, but the company's fortunes also rest on a more sophisticated calculation about the marketplace. Ask any entertainment bigwig where the movie-rental business is going and you'll hear one thing: digital streaming. Amazon, Apple, Netflix, the cable companies, and many startups are gearing up to send every movie to your home on demand. But Hollywood's byzantine licensing structure precludes that from happening anytime soon. Redbox has positioned itself as the perfect in-between technology -- the next best thing to on demand. It's winning by being in more places than Blockbuster and faster than Netflix.

Electric Cars

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:42:49 GMT

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Clip Source: www.wired.com

There would be plugs in homes, offices, shopping malls. And when customers couldn't wait to "fill up," they'd go to battery exchange stations where they would pull into car-wash-like sheds, and in a few minutes, a hydraulic lift would swap the depleted battery with a fresh one. Drivers wouldn't pay a penny extra: The ERGO would own the battery.

StarbucksMap app

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:14:38 GMT

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Clip Source: www.fastcompany.com

How long until there's a StarbucksMap app, something that will know where you are and be able to point you to the nearest coffee shop? (Which, admittedly, is probably within a few hundred meters from wherever you are.) Any of the various location applications that have heretofore relied on giving you an overhead view of a map with some relevant thumbtack icons can now offer you "first person shooter" directions.

All employees are encouraged to use 20 percent of their work time

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:26:52 GMT

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Clip Source: www.asaecenter.org

Peers know best. There is no such thing as a department when it comes to the Google project structure. All employees are encouraged to use 20 percent of their work time as “free time” to work on projects that they have a passion for. When ready, an idea is pitched to a panel of peers, and if it is deemed valuable, the project lead is granted permission to assign a set number man hours and select who will work on the project.

Get some food for your thoughts.

Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:25:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: No wonder Pamela is always feeding me.

Clip Source: www.asaecenter.org

Get some food for your thoughts. How many times do you learn about your colleagues’ projects—and even plan ways to combine efforts—over lunch? Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page realized early on that their biggest breakthroughs didn’t come when they were working away in their rented garage but when they took a break to grab a snack. To this day, Google operates under the theory that the best ideas are formed over food. Thus, Google provides free breakfast, lunch, and dinner to all employees.

Sheetz twittering truck

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:05:36 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cspnet.com

"Right now we are only on Twitter. If you're part of the general public, that's the only place you're going to find the announcement," the company's resident Twitterer told CSP Daily News in an interview through the social-networking website.

Amazon Mechanical Turk

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:04:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is probably old news for you, but could be useful for us. Similar to virtual assistant.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Mechanical Turk began life as a service that Amazon itself needed. (The name recalls a famous 18th-century hoax, where what seemed to be a chess-playing automaton really concealed a human chess master.) Amazon had millions of Web pages that described individual products, but it wanted to weed out the duplicate pages. Software could help, but algorithmically eliminating all the duplicates was impossible, according to Mr. Bezos. So the company began to develop a Web site where people would look at product pages and be paid a few cents for every duplicate page they correctly identified.

Session by CEO of evernote

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:43:19 GMT

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Clip Source: www.fusionproductions.com

Your Brain 2.0 - Plenary Session with Phil Libin, CEO, EverNote.com

Printing the New York Times for a year costs twice as much as sending every subscriber a free Kindle

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:06:35 GMT

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Clip Source: www.fastcompany.com

THE ONCE PROFITABLE NEWS INDUSTRY IS TEETERING ON THE BRINK. The recession has battered advertising. Dailies are folding. Printing the New York Times for a year costs twice as much as sending every subscriber a free Kindle. The Daily Show is a more trusted source than network news. And consumers have been marginalized in media dialogue about how to save journalism.

Web design book that could be good

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:04:01 GMT

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Clip Source: gettingreal.37signals.com

37signals used the unconventional Getting Real process to launch five successful web-based applications (Basecamp, Campfire, Backpack, Writeboard, Ta-da List), and Ruby on Rails, an open-source web application framework, in just two years with no funding, no debt, and only 7 people.

For U.S. Autoworkers, Future Hinges on Adaptability

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:34:51 GMT

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Clip Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Goddard is the model of what Sastry wants from an autoworker: someone inquisitive, studious, and able to see that his or her professional future hinges on lifelong training and flexibility. All that sounds good to Goddard, so long as professors and GM executives understand that, if it is a genuine partnership that everybody really wants, management could do its part by demonstrating a new interest in the hands-on insights that experienced workers can provide from the factory floor.

Wired Business Conference

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:15:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Would love to go to this! Too bad invite only.

Clip Source: www.wired.com

How can individuals and organizations innovate in this disruptive climate? WIRED presents its first ever business conference - Disruptive By Design, being held June 15, 2009 in New York City. This exclusive, invite-only event will feature top industry leaders on how to think different about change, and how to use it to your advantage. The WIRED Biz: Disruptive By Design website audience will get a front-row seat to watch presentations and panel discussions after the conference as we roll-out weekly video installments from this ground-breaking event.

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