TAG: innovation
"In the graph, the y axis is roughly the number or frequency of hacks, which doesn’t have a scale, because it’s based on theoretical model. The x axis is time and show how the number of hack change over time."
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"Can a fringe branch of mathematics forecast the future? A special adviser to the CIA, Fortune 500 companies, and the U.S. Department of Defense certainly thinks so."
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Enabling Innovation Through Office Design
"Work has become more mobile and team-based, but most organizations have been slow in changing their workplaces to reflect the new reality"
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"Ad agency Anomaly is pioneering a new model whereby it provides its creative services in return for a take of the profits. It's a high-risk strategy that could change the industry"
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10 Things We Can Learn From Apple
"Here are ten reasons why I think Apple is so successful today, and what we can learn from them"
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"YouTube was the beginning of the end of old Google and the beginning of new Google."
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me + alex quit google. (dodgeball forever!!!!) on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
"It's no real secret that Google wasn't supporting dodgeball the way we expected. The whole experience was incredibly frustrating for us - especially as we couldn't convince them that dodgeball was worth engineering resources"
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New article for Mediacat (and a glimpse of the green marketing book)
"Green marketing is an opportunity. An opportunity to do good business (in both senses of the word). An opportunity for creativity. An opportunity for marketing people to lead social change for once."
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A question to ponder: should big companies even try to innovate internally?
"Even though Yahoo has grown into the entity it is today by virtue of building innovative products, perhaps its future growth path should be driven by its ability to SPOT innovation, not create it."
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Big Companies, Small Companies, Innovation and Brickhouse
"Big companies are no longer competing only with big companies anymore. They're competing more and more often with two kids in a garage. Embracing risk, and the concomitant failure, is an essential part of this."
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The Greatest Innovations of All Time
"Our focus should be on platforms: broad capabilities that have the potential to cut across industries, markets, and applications. Platforms often have some proprietary capability at the core, but not always."
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Draft article on drinks innovation
"The increased extent to which consumer culture leads market development means that the gap between marketing ideas and innovation ideas is paper thin. And perhaps it has been ever since Sol put its slice of lime in the top?"
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"Homaro Cantu's odd brand of humor, technology, shock value, and flavor has turned the fine-dining experience on its head. Now this 29-year-old reformed pyromaniac is trying to redefine the nature of food--and, oh yeah, end world hunger."
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Apple's New Calling: The iPhone
Time has a good breakdown of the iPhone.
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"How does using a computer change when nothing ever has to be thrown away? And how does the experience design of software have to change to accommodate that change in usage?"
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Some thoughts on innovation from Grant McCracken.
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Why your bosses want to turn your new office into Greenwich Village.
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No schedules. No mandatory meetings. Inside Best Buy's radical reshaping of the workplace
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Questioning "VPs of innovation"
"If ever a VP of something is created, say a VP of quality or a VP of sarcasm, it means one thing: 1. The company is failing at that activity. 2. The company will continue to fail at that activity until that VP is no longer needed."
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Advertising is Dead - Interview with Tom Himpe
"I caught up with Tom Himpe, the author of Advertising is Dead, Long Live Advertising and chatted with him about his book, advertising and Brussels…"
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"It's about how brands today need to show some respect to consumers, think about building communities . . . and brand experiences not simply rely on interrupting people through broadcast advertising."
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"The following eight strategies encourage you to think productively, rather than reproductively, in order to arrive at solutions to problems."
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Ad Agencies Being Left Out of the Innovation Party?
"For advertising to succeed and move up the ladder, it needs to break away from ego-centric creativity, the 'Madison Avenue' and 'Ad guys' nomenclature that's more albatross, than asset and sharpen its collaborative processes."
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A Newspaper Investigates Its Future
"The [Los Angeles] Times is dedicating three investigative reporters and half a dozen editors to find ideas, at home and abroad, for re-engaging the reader, both in print and online."
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"Now the challenge becomes matching the panoply of innovations to the business goals, otherwise you run the risk, as Google is doing, of losing focus and confusing customers."
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"One trend I’ve found is the high number of innovation efforts within established companies, and how rarely they have any effect."
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5 ways to learn to be more innovative
"1. Producing smart individuals is the first step; teaching them to collaborate is the second step"
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Advertising's New Idea: Don't Push the Product; Pull the Consumer Instead
Advertising's New Idea: Don't Push the Product; Pull the Consumer Instead
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"What if someone told Steve Jobs to “stay in the lines�, or what if Thomas Edison never tried coloring outside of a line, just to see what would happen?"
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Advent of an era? Corporate America finally gets contemporary culture?
"When does the corporation get in touch and build a system for staying in touch? Naturally, this will happen when senior managers decide that it is in their best interests that it happen."
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"Adam Gayner is the chief strategist at thread. Thread is a multi-disciplinary, idea driven New York ad agency, oriented toward Gen. X and Y."
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"I have a dream of talking directly to a business and sharing my personal data; where I am valued for this and rewarded with tailored/customized services that design out assumptions and waste. And they are rewarded with my attention."
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"If I'm right that the defining advantage of insiders is an audience, then we live in exciting times, because just in the last ten years the Internet has made audiences a lot more liquid."
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Next Search Wave: It's What you do with the Data
"Certainly, it is valuable to be able to compare prices from several carriers. But all that is presentation of data. The use of that data? That represents a significant, disruptive breakthrough. This is the way search engines should be thinking."
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Making It or Breaking It with Customer Service
"So innovative customer service these days isn’t as much about innovation as it is about core values. Getting back to basics. Sweating the details."
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Everyone fears failure. But breakthroughs depend on it. The best companies embrace their mistakes and learn from them
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"A new theory suggests that creativity comes in two distinct types – quick and dramatic, or careful and quiet."
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Using Adoption Metaphors to Increase Customer Acceptance
“Adoption metaphors have a lifecycle. They begin by introducing a new concept. They help us map something new to something we already understand and give us a framework in which to understand the new thing.�
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Laws of post-network economy: Strategy is a commodity
"In a world where strategy is a commodity, creativity becomes the vital factor from which value flows. When everyone can think strategically about everything, the locus of value creation shifts from out-thinking everyone to out-creating them."
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Why Advertising Agencies Don't Get R&D
"Why the heck are advertising and marketing agencies so often so late to invest in or experiment with new technologies and emerging media, while the marketers and clients demonstrate increasing interest and tendency to pursue them directly?"
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Wheelchairs given design makeover
A designer who has spent most of his career working on parts for Formula One cars has come up with a new, off-road wheelchair.
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Which products, used by few today, will be essential in five years?
A great look at the year 2011.
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Marissa Mayer's 9 Notions of Innovation
9 things Google does to incubate innovation.
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Architecture and interaction design, via adaptation and hackability
Dan Hill talks about hackability and architecture.
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"Since the 1960s, when management gurus crowned the consumer king, companies have been tapping ethnographers to get a better handle on their customers."
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The Road to Hell: Now Paved with Innovation?
Michael Beirut on "the brave new world of spec work."
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"What Apple and Netflix did, while not simple, was straightforward. The value they created came from innovations that dramatically improved the user's experience. They looked hard at the current experience and focused on designing an ideal one."
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Three great machines and innovation limitation
Scott Berkun writes about the great machines he has owned.
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Nintendo's answer to the console wars: Be unique.
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How smart companies are creating new products -- and whole new businesses -- almost overnight
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TV after Advertising (and Advertising After TV)
"TV's liberation from advertisers shouldn't have sent brands running to find a new unrelated medium on which to promote themselves; their panicked migration to the Internet. . . only bespeaks a lack of faith in the selling power of the products . . . "
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Breaking the Corporation - Redefining Innovation
"Why do we produce the way we do? Why do we focus on the so-called productive when it's patently absurd most of the time? Why do we manage in such obviously self-defeating ways?"
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"So add one more skill to our career advice for young people: be willing to take risks! Perhaps more importantly, be willing to tolerate (and perhaps even encourage) risk-taking in those who are managed by you."
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"That is, edge competencies are focused on learning how to utilize the universe of value outside the firm – leveraging value creation external to the firm, and, in many cases, external to all firms."
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"We must not only keep up with the facts of change, but also (and perhaps more importantly) release our death-grip on the way things are right now. It's completely futile."
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Platicity and Post Branding Mini-Case: Spot Runner
"Spotrunner's intent isn't just to make buying TV ads hyperefficient - it's to make the entire TV advertising value chain hyperefficient, like Google makes the larger media value chain hyperefficient."
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Guy Kawasaki's 9 rules of innovation. My favorite line: "Innovation is not an event. It's a process."
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How to build innovative companies
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"Getting the most out of knowledge workers will be the key to business success for the next quarter century. Here's how we do it at google."
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I Invented ... the Yellow First-Down Line
"Meet Marvin White, the mastermind behind the greatest boon to televised sports since slo-mo."
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Douglas Rushkoff: "Pretending that each aspect of your existence or your enterprise can be compartmentalized is, itself, a product of the Industrial Age"
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"Why should successful companies be losing their best people this way? I think there are several factors involved, but perhaps the overriding factor is the energy and creativity of formidable employees chafing against company inertia and close-mindedness.
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The boom in the intellectual property market will not reap rewards for us all
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The 11-Year Quest to Create Disappearing Colored Bubbles
"Chemical burns, ruined clothes, 11 years, half a million dollarsâ€â€it's not easy to improve the world's most popular toy. Yet the success of one inventor's quest to dye a simple soap bubble may change the way the world uses color"
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Negroponte: Laptop for Every Kid
An interview about the $100 laptop program.
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Newsvine and How Big Companies Can Innovate
Kareem Mayan, who has and still does work at a big company, considers why they have so much trouble being innovative.
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"In an exclusive book excerpt from the general manager of Ideo, we meet the personality types it takes to keep creativity thriving--and the devil's advocate at bay."
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Battle for the Soul of the MP3 Phone
"Consumers want an iPod phone that will play any song, anytime, anywhere. Just four little problems: the cell carriers, the record labels, the handset makers, and Apple itself. The inside story of why the ROKR went wrong."
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The humble screw has changed little in 2,000 years, until a stubborn engineer at Illinois Tool Works came up with a fascinating new twist.
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Revolution Controller, Revolutionary
"Imagine it as a virtual light saber that you wiggle, turn, jab, etc... And you can pick two up in akimbo for some two-handed action."
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"The winner of the Design Museum's inaugural Designer of the Year award in 2003 was JONATHAN IVE, senior vice-president of design at Apple whose innovations include the iPod and iMac."
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Honey, he shrunk the iPod. How Jobs and his team of Apple innovators created this season's must-have gadget
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"Information and experience are like food for the creative process. It's raw substance. Information needs to be digested to brain-fat so it can re-immerge as mature creative energy."
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"On a landscape that seems to be transforming itself with every new technology, marketing tactic, or investment strategy, businesses rush to embrace change by trading in their competencies or shifting their focus, altogether."
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Essential Resources for Creativity (163 techniques + 30 tips + books!)
"Techniques (163 of them!) by Mycoted should help you with creative thinking - those are the toolbox for you when you get stuck on developing your ideas."
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Innovation: Throwing Design Rules Out The Window
"Sometimes rules should be thrown out the window. Often the most valuable lesson in art and design schools is ignored."
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gapingvoid: "Good ideas alter the power balance in relationships, that is why good ideas are always initially resisted."
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Side-Business Software: The neglected software market
"Who cares about the Fortune 500? It’s time to care about the Fortune 5,000,000."
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Co-opting the creative revolution
Digital technology is providing people with the tools to produce and share content like never before, and it is set to throw the relationship between them and institutions into turmoil, say experts.
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How one company transforms its employees into entrepreneurs.
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Interview with Eric von Hippel: "I mean that product and service users-both individuals and firms-are increasingly able to innovate for themselves."
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Google vs. Yahoo: Clash of cultures
On the walls of Yahoo's modest Silicon Valley offices there are posters with sketches of oddball inventions that have landed patents, such as a portable bird cage. The point: If a bird cage can get a patent, Yahoo's employees can come up with something bi
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File-Swap Services Can Be Sued
Wired: "Internet file-sharing services will be held responsible if they intend for their customers to use software primarily to swap songs and movies illegally, the Supreme Court ruled Monday"
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Web Services Built on Top of One Another
pc4media: "As soon as a new web service reaches a critical value, it can spawn 1000s more web services. "
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The Man Who Keeps Nintendo Cool
Wired interview with Shigeru Miyamoto the man behind Mario and pretty much every other important Nintendo game.
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The Dark Underbelly of Holy Shit
"An honest HOLY SHIT is one which completely penetrates the PR, the BUZZ, the marketing. It's the moment when you clearly see the value of a technology and how it will permanently alter your world."
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A new book from industrial design expert Craig Vogel says companies must continually adapt their products if they are to compete.
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An overview of Jeff Hawkins talk at D3 about the brain and AI.
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Sidney Morning Herald: "An outsider, not even a fan of today's music, Steve had done the almost unthinkable: he had changed the face of a second industry."
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"Star Wars" Spawned a Galaxy of Technologies
George Lucas is responsible for the tecchnology behind Pixar and Avid
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A VC: On Google, "But I don't understand how all of these new web services have anything to do with their core business of targeting advertising via search and contextual advertising."
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Dream teams thrive on mix of old and new blood
"New team members clearly added creative spark and critical links to the experience of the entire industry."
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Operating Systems and Recent History
Dan Gillmor: "With Tiger, Apple is plainly in the lead today. The built-in search function is getting rave reviews, among other performance boosts that keep the Mac ahead on ease of use."
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Washing machine fingers lazy male
BBC News: "It is a washing machine called "Your Turn", which will not let the same person use it twice in a row."
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FT.com: "If we don’t look at the evidence and we ignore the role of the public domain in fostering innovation, how can we possibly hope to make good policy?"
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Eide Neurolearning Blog and Learning Styles: "Definition: "Geeks are the people who deliver technological innovation.""
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adaptive path: "The Internet has always been a medium for democratization, and by reconnecting with our idealism we’re once again uncovering its poetry, nobility, and transformative power."
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Innovation Moves From the Laboratory to the Bike Trail and the Kitchen
NYTimes: "But a lot of significant innovations do not come from people trying to figure out what customers may want. They come from the users themselves, who know exactly what they want but cannot get it in existing products."
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Lecture highlights need to share
BBC: "I believe that collaboration is absolutely essential for success because it brings both global awareness and the ability to gather together diverse capabilities."
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A Few Notes from the Grokster Argument
A great summary of the MGM v. Grokster case
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Email, Scale-Free Networks, and the Mobile Internet
Using e-mail rather than SMS as the messaging medium for mobile phones has made mobile Internet services in Japan more successful than in the West, says an industry expert -- a claim supported by recently discovered mathematical properties of networks.
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Mining the Web is only part of it. The search giant faces growing pains and fierce competition.
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Jeffrey Veen: Blinking Out Design
Jeffrey Veen: "Rather than figure out how to design for your audience, design for yourself after becoming like your audience. At that point, I find, snap decisions become good decisions."
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Guardian: "Yahoo isn't just back in the game - it's winning. How weird is that? "
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Illegal file-sharers under attack
Economist: The entertainment industry has taken its battle against illegal downloading to America’s Supreme Court. But attacking the technology behind file-sharing could stifle innovation without tackling the industry’s long-term problems
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Incremental vs. revolutionary improvements
"If you're competing for market share, with products or services that are hard to differentiate, incremental improvements might be a waste of time and resources!"
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Let the truth be told…MGM vs Grokster
Mark Cuban is funding the Grokster defense. "Its about our ability to use future innovations to compete vs their ability to use the courts to shut down our ability to compete. its that simple."
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The Internet, ranked No. 1, changed the world
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Five designs that imagine the future of Apple
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Meant for Space, but Useful on Earth
NYTimes: "fter nearly two decades of research, NASA is testing a device that would recycle astronauts' sweat, urine and even the moisture from their breath into drinking water."
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Wearable Computers You Can Slip Into
The latest generation of these ever-smarter garments look like ordinary clothes, not something only a cyborg would don
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Handling its own design work is one reason for best-sellers like the iPod and Shuffle. Steve Jobs is the other
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Including sunscreen wipes and personized roses
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How new software may help us think more effectively
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John Battelle talks about the new A9 Yellow Pages
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A9's new Yellow Pages includes pictures of the address in major metropolitan areas. Also allows you to browse the pictures in a way that looks like walking up the block.
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John Battelle's talks about 17 things he thinks will occur in 2005
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How the Amazon API is transforming its business
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Bright Ideas for Boosting Innovation
A prominent group has lots of advice on how America can renew its focus on R&D and science education to keep ahead in this global race
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As you type, Google will offer suggestions.
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Gmail is a third generation web app and could make the desktop meaningless
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The future is something to get excited about again. Here's our look at the surprising people, ideas, and trends that will change how we work and live in 2005.
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The Seed of Apple's Innovation
CEO Steve Jobs says among other practices, it's "saying no to 1,000 things" so as to concentrate on the "really important" creations
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Content Creation and Organizing
Working off of Scoble's comments on the future of content creation
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Towards tag-based bookmark management in web browsers?
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My Message in a Bottle to Bill Gates
Scoble tells Gates what he needs to know for the future
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Investor doesn't see browser in Google's future
And other comments from Web 2.0
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Innovation: What Steve Wozniak Learned From Failure
Story of Wozniak's failures
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The gadget to stop drunk drivers
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The importance of small ideas in business
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The Great Open Source Giveaway
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The state of email and the technology behind it
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Will the Tiger finally break Windows?
Will the iPod's market dominance be the tipping point to displace PCs?
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Guardian Unlimited | Online | All eyes on Blinkx
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BBC NEWS | UK | England | Bristol/Somerset | 'Superjumbo' photos are released
That's a big ass airplane
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Microsoft needs to find its innovative side
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