I’ve just been reading some nifty new stuff by Tom Peters. One of the big trends that I keep telling people about - but to almost no effect - is ageing. Fortunately Tom gets it. Here are a handful of statistics from his book on ...READ»
I am having 3 probelms with trying to set up a group.
1) Even if I make it a private group ita ppears to be visible to everyone
2) How do you change the settings of a group, ie. change it from Private to Public, I can't ...READ»
I thought the interview on Fast Company TV with the head of Everyzing.com http://www.fastcompany.tv/video/putting-better-data-into-video heralded a really massive jump in search technology. As far as I understand it (and I haven't ...READ»
Given that most of the mess we’re currently in was primarily caused by certain financial innovations, perhaps now is a good time to consider whether some innovations really are a good idea.
In my experience a great many ...READ»
I recently read an article that said a recession is a great time to start a business because when times are tight, deals can be found on many of the goods and services needed to grow a company. While this might be fundamentally ...READ»
At the close of the TechCrunch 50 conference a few weeks ago, I sat down with Rick Heitzmann of FirstMark Capital and Mark Sugarman of MHS Capital to find out why venture capitalists come to conventions, what they thought, and what ...READ»
Have you ever wondered what you would do if your business was hit by a large scale disaster? Sure you have your insurance policy, but what would you do during the weeks or months waiting for the check to arrive. If your office was ...READ»
Hi All
Any idea “why” embedded
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Donald ...READ»
Last weekend I attended the annual Blogworld and New Media Expo in Las Vegas and was struck by how much “real world” time the new media people spent with each other. It was almost as if all the blogging and new media tools are ...READ»
Okay, as a speaker/writer/blogger type, I'm happy that I'll be there gabbing and sharing opinions, but what I'm really looking forward to most at BlogWorld this year are the connections that the event will bring. Where else can I ...READ»
I attended BlogWorld Expo last year for my company, BlogTalkRadio (I'm VP, Business Development) and enjoyed a number of solid sessions and prime networking.
My focus in terms of what I wanted to learn about from the event, ...READ»
It's fall again and while summer's valiantly trying to extend its tenure, pretty soon our shadows will get longer and our days shorter. For bloggers though, while posts about drinking outside, losing iPhones on the beach, and walks ...READ»
Eight years ago I did some work with a chemicals company. One of their divisions made paint and wanted to invent a framework for innovation. One of the things we did was get into bed (not literally) with the customer complaints ...READ»
Some more thoughts from my mate Andrew at GIN...
At times of financial turmoil the temptation is to metaphorically batten down the hatches and wait for the storm to pass. Cut costs, cut jobs – if it moves (and even if it ...READ»
When Mike Macadaan, a Silicon Valley based designer at AOL, decided to throw a tech exhibition, you’d think he would have done it locally. Instead, Macadaan did the unthinkable. He went to Los Angeles. Surely this would mean ...READ»
It used to be that venture capitalists either went big or went home. If the investment wasn’t $1.5 million or more, the deal just wasn’t interesting to them. Unfortunately, this often left early stage companies facing a funding ...READ»
Back in the days of Web 1.0, a.k.a. before the great crash of 2000, Scott McNealy, then CEO of SUN Microsystems was fond of saying, “The network IS the computer.” Now that we’re in the world of Web 2.0 where the term ...READ»
Is anyone else experiencing problems with IE 6 taking a flyer when loading certain FastCo pages? I have attached a file showing this for the Big Idea on today's post. Quite annoying actually.READ»
Is anyone else experiencing problems with IE 6 taking a flyer when loading certain FastCo pages? I have attached a file showing this for the Big Idea on today's post. Quite annoying actually.READ»
For many people the term “New Media” is one of the most abused and over-hyped buzzwords around. So when I met the owner of the Roxy theatre in Los Angeles, and saw how he used new media techniques to turn around his 35-year old ...READ»
The line between the real world and the online world got a little more fuzzy today. Vivaty (www.Vivaty.com) just announced the launch of their public beta. I normally wouldn’t write about a beta launch but I saw the screenshots ...READ»
Somthing my friend Andrew Crosthwaite at Global Innovation Network just sent me. It reminds me of something about the '7 levels of why' that I had in my head for at least five years - but never managed to write down. See if it ...READ»
Have you ever heard of Lil’ Wayne? Probably not. I listen to more hip-hop than the average 38 year-old and I’ve never even heard of Lil’ Wayne. But thanks in large part to a smart mobile marketing campaign, he just had the ...READ»
It’s incredible what you can find on the Internet these days. I was cruising around cyberspace the other day without any specific sense of where I was going when I stumbled upon a paper on innovation models by Professor Joe Tidd ...READ»
Seeing that my last post was about bath bubbles I thought I’d better get a bit more serious, so here’s a quick review of innovation models. First though I think it’s worth looking at definitions because in my experience a ...READ»
