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The old solutions have become the new problems
Shoshana Zuboff is an ex Harvard Business School professor with an ethical take on the need to focus on partnerships with customers. She calls this “The race to I-Space”
Slow Money -- Investment strategies appropriate to the realities of the 21st century
I just signed this: http://www.slowmoneyalliance.org
Been learning about evil things today…
For those of you not on Twitter, today has seen Alan Turing become a trending topic. This is in response to a published apology by Gordon Brown, the UK Prime Minister. I’ve just been sitting here dropping tears on...
AppleInsider | Bandwidth-guzzling iPhone called "Hummer of cellphones"
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/09/03/bandwidth_guzzling_iphone_called_hummer_of_cellphones.html
Telegram
Listening to my Gainsbourg playlist and was reminded of Overseas Telegram and got to wondering
Another link to the hughtrain
I frequently receive emails at work with reports that measure the value of brands (likely to involve voodoo and pixie dust, but makes a good read). Happily my employer seems to do quite well in these listings, but...
More value in the conversation than in the Powerpoint
A university professor describes the educational experience in terms of value creation. What do residential college students require to get the most value out of classes and how does the experience compare in valu...
Eames on design
David sent this through on Sunday. I didn’t manage to read it properly until this lunchtime…
IP from 2001
2001 wasn’t just an interesting year in space. I just came across some stuff from the distant past that still resides in a dark and abandoned corner of the interweb. It gave me a smile as it resonates with we’re t...
Encouraging quote of the day
Ethan Nicholas, on his iPhone game “iShoot” and why it’s a good idea to make a free version:
Vi
Just having a casual chat with one of the guys in Dusseldorf about our lab boxes and he points out:
Mobile phone evolution dolls
Wow, I can’t remember the last time I saw someone’s portfolio and had to stop to soak it all in.
Tinkering as a way in to the social marketplace
Currently working on social marketplaces (ad-hod associations) and came across this interesting piece over on experientia’s blog (actually, it links to vodafone’s receiver). Interesting stuff, we’ve been thinking ...
Paal Smith-Meyer
Just had the most amazing chat with Lego’s Paal Smith-Meyer (see wired article on Mindstorm project)
Open Innovation and Intellectual Property
John Wilbanks on yesterday’s NESTA event. Gotta say, I left I was BUZZING. John’s talk was real shot in the arm, he describes collaborative markets in biotech where heterogeneous networks are built to buy and sell...
Energy, in the right direction
These words from David Bausola really resonate as I navigate my way around Vodafone internet services…
What is co-design?
Been thinking a lot about co-design recently and came across this lovely animation by Think Public
Caterina.net -- Hunch!
I just love it that Caterina hasn’t changed her blog template since the dawn of time:-) And now the imperatrix is up to something new and of course exciting…