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Brand Power and Smart Phones
With the flurry of recent news about Apple’s new iPhone and iOS4, I’ve been giving a lot of thought to the masterful play that Apple has made in this arena. The bulk of their success is not due to their hardware (there is more powerful hardware available) or their software (there is more capable software [...]
Continue reading...Technology: When Novel Becomes Common
21 June 2010
How can you tell when something goes main-stream? You can get it at Home Depot, which is exactly what happened to Augment Reality (AR) this week, signaling yet another technology that has made it from the obscure to the main stream.
Continue reading...Design Done Well
19 June 2010
Looking to learn? This presentation covers a lot of ground and does it well, just like good design should: 10 Things CEOs Need to Know About Design View more presentations from Jason Putorti.
Continue reading...The Power of Exponential Growth
14 June 2010
Recently, a friend of mine let me know that her cousin was competing for a new promotion that Oprah is sponsoring to give away a TV show (presumably to fill the hole that she’ll create when she leaves daytime TV, but that’s besides the point). What’s important is the power of exponential growth, and the [...]
Continue reading...The Value of “Things”
14 June 2010
If you’ve been following my tweets lately, you may already know that our beloved 1998 Honda Accord, Yolanda, is on her way out the door. She has reached the point in both age and mileage, where she now needs more work than she’s worth. The decision to get rid of this car should’ve been an [...]
Continue reading...The Ironies of Multitasking
10 June 2010
Continuing with the theme of “Things Apple Does,” I found it extremely ironic that Apple would release iOS 4 – the new operating system for their iPhone/iPod Touch devices – this week. Why the irony? Read on….
Continue reading...Value Propositions and the Broad Brush
2 June 2010
There was a very interesting article in the New York Times recently. Entitled “Placing the Blame as Students Are Buried in Debt,” the article chronicles the struggle of one student who has amassed nearly $100,000 in debt from her four years at New York University (NYU). The author of the article, Ron Lieber, places the [...]
Continue reading...Elite by Choice?
17 May 2010
Seth Godin, a popular writer and blogger, had a post last week asking “Are you an elite?” Seth posits that the difference between those who are “elite” and those who are not is simply a matter of choice, the decision to be aware and engaged, to challenge a status quo of your choice. Seth argues [...]
Continue reading...Value of a Person
13 May 2010
I’ve written previously about our transition to the Cyborg – short for cyber organism. I was struck, however, about the strong stand for the value of the human in the loop in this New York Times Op-Ed Contribution. Cholene Espinoza, a former U2 pilot, writes: The advantage of having a human being in the pilot’s [...]
Continue reading...Starting Up | Making Entrepreneurs
8 March 2010
This is the first post in this week’s series: Starting Up. This week will explore entrepreneurship in all its various forms with a focus on technology enabled (but not necessarily hi-tech) ventures. As we begin this week’s look at entrepreneurship, I think it would appropriate to start with a great article last week from TechCrunch by Vivek Wadwha [...]
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- The Startup Life | Story Time
- Emerging Talk – A Recap
- Coming Soon: Emerging Talk
- Balance | Distractions
- Balance | Good Enough
- Balance | Saying Yes vs. Saying No
- Balance | Time
- Cyber War | Not Here, Not Now
- Cyber War | Op-Ed Fallout
- Cyber War | Is There? Are We?
- I Hate Turnitin.com, or, "Help! The Cloud Ate My Homework!"
- Duke University Professor Scores One For Academic Freedom
- Starting Up | Making Entrepreneurs
- What's a Charrette?
- An Urgent Message from LSAC
- Zombie Tag
- Individual Market Freedom
- Mental Clutter
- What Matters Now or "Be Awesome."
- Digital Literacy - It's Important! (Seriously)
- Shay: Poncho's not the jealous type - plus, the new Aston Martin would be his girlfriend, so I'm sure he wouldn't mind....
- Snyder: Does Poncho get jealous when you look at other vehicles? You're just asking for ignition system trouble....
- Shay: Thanks, Mom!...
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- Katy Kelly: Wow! What a connection. I watched and voted for the video after it showed up on my favorite blog The Daily What. I guess if I followed John Mayer on T...
- John Hughes: Congrats on Graduating and the Leadership Award. Next...life. Good luck on the drive across country. Speaking as someone who has moved frequently, I...
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- Whisky Made From Diabetics' Urine August 31, 2010It's doubtful that any other distillery will come up with a whisky that tastes like Gilpin Family Whisky because of its secret ingredient: urine. Researcher and designer James Gilpin uses the sugar rich urine of elderly diabetics to make his high-end single malt whisky. From the article: "The source material is acquired from elderly volunteers, inc […]
- 10 Media Takes on the Google-Verizon Net Neutrality Proposal August 11, 2010For a document with no actual authority behind it, the Verizon/Google policy proposal on openness rules for the country’s wired and wireless networks has caused quite the media storm. Today the authors themselves joined in via a Washington Post op-ed. In case anyone is wondering whether Google and Verizon hate their Internet freedom, Google CEO Eric Schmidt […]
- FBI Prioritizes Copyright Over Missing Persons August 10, 2010An anonymous reader writes "The FBI has limited resources, so it needs to prioritize what it works on. However, it's difficult to see why dealing with copyright infringement seems to get more attention than identity theft or missing persons. In the past year, the FBI has announced a special new task force to fight intellectual property infringement […]
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