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Will Microsoft's Pivot Reinvent How You Surf the Web?

Microsoft's in-house dev team revealed an experimental tool called Pivot, a whole new dynamic way of interacting with data on the Web and on your PC. Will it change everything? Maybe not, but it is a sign of the way things will go.READ»

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Scripps Gets a Cool $1 Million for Ocean-Going Robotic Swarms

Divers of the future may come across an interesting sea-dweller, if the Scripps Institution of Oceanography have their way. Thousands of autonomous underwater explorers (AUEs), or robotic probes, will be deployed throughout the ...READ»

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ADVERTISING   |  Comment

Razorfish's FEED Study: Brands Are the New Celebrity

We may sign up to a brand's Twitter feed for the deals, but we're staying for fun.READ»

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INNOVATION   |  Comment

Tech & Innovation Spending Show Corporations Are Recovering

Despite cutting back on spending, big corporations actually expanded their R&D budgets by 5.7% in 2008, reports The New York Times. It's only half as much as the increase in 2007, but it hints that research spending is one of the ...READ»

Great Opportunities in a Shrinking Industry Sector

Yesterday it was announced that Fisker Automotive, a company based in Irvine, California, will buy and retool a former GM assembly plant in Wilmington, Delaware, with the goal of manufacturing plug-in hybrid cars. The purchase of ...READ»

SMALL AND MEDIUM BUSINESSES HAM STRUNG ON CLIMATE CHANGE

Australia’s small and medium businesses lack leadership on environmental issues, leaving many stranded and unable to make changes that will reduce their carbon footprint and boost their bottom lines, a new survey has revealed.READ»

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SMEs FINDING SUSTAINABILITY BENEFITS OUTWEIGH THE COST

Half of all Australian Small and Medium Enterprises are willing to take action to become more sustainable even if it has a negative impact on their financial performance in the short term. This 51% equates to 153,000 businesses nationally. Leaders cited that aside from cost, a lack of information, distrust of sustainability claims and the availability of practical choices were the major barriers.READ»

The Status of the Stimulus Plan (2)

In mid-June, I posted a blog entry about the status of the stimulus plan, which I have been following closely ever since writing a book about it (Great Jobs in the President’s Stimulus Plan). I rushed out this book before the ...READ»

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Why Twitter and Facebook Will Never Kill E-mail

Twitter's on every tech-fan's lips, half the World's teens seem permanently plugged into MSN or Facebook, and seemingly every gadget's getting wired to a social network. With these big changes afoot, is email slipping into ...READ»

The Infrastructure-Manufacturing Connection

In my recent book 200 Best Jobs for Renewing America, I describe six large fields whose growth will be essential for the United States to remain competitive in the world economy. These fields are education, infrastructure, health ...READ»

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Attention Marketers: 80% of Twitterers Are Narcissists

So we all know Twitter is portrayed as a lifecasting app--a tool to let users share data on their day-to-day activities and feelings. New research has confirmed this unequivocally, but also reveals that 20% of Tweeps are "useful info" ...READ»

What's Wrong with GDP

One of the most remarkable speeches that Robert F. Kennedy made was about what’s wrong with using traditional economic measures as gauges of our success as a society:“We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction ...READ»

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Age Distribution of People on the Web

Despite Privacy Concerns, 74% of people openly show their age on the web! As a people search engine, Spock crawls and indexes millions of web documents and social network profiles everyday. As a ...READ»

What It Takes for a Career to Emerge

I have spent most of this month researching and writing about emerging green careers for a book about that subject, and the effort has made me aware of the many factors that must be in place before an emerging career can reach the ...READ»

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Twitter Doesn't Sell Advertising, Yet 20% of Tweets Mention Brands

Twitter's founder has indicated his lifecasting site won't be getting into the advertising game anytime soon, but a survey has found something to indicate the contrary: 20% of Tweets mention a brand somewhere in their text. The ...READ»

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Neuromarketing Hope and Hype: 5 Brands Conducting Brain Research

Even before the age of Mad Men marketers were trying to tap into the human subconscious to influence consumers to buy their products. But over the last decade or so, as the fields of neuroscience and marketing science (as some like ...READ»

More Than Energy Conservation

As part of my research for a book about green careers, I have been investigating the occupation Weatherization Installers and Technicians. I came upon an interesting paper by two researchers at the National Consumer Law Center ...READ»

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Living Knowledge Conference

Many academic conferences are little more than venues to present research. But is anybody conducting any research on the research? The Living Knowledge Conference aims to do just that. Held at Queen’s University Belfast, Living ...READ»

New Data on the Glass Ceiling

A researcher at the University of New Mexico’s Anderson School of Management has found evidence that suggests female managers construct their own glass ceiling by underestimating how they are perceived by their associates.Often in ...READ»

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Are Gamers More Evolutionarily Advanced?

A new study suggests there is a correlation between video gamers, depression, and being overweight. According to the CDC, the average American gamer has a higher body mass index than his peers, and also tends to be more ...READ»

Competing by Collaborating

Recently in this space I’ve written couple of articles about immigration, making reference to the experiences of my grandparents. But the global labor market is now very different than it was a century ago. Although the United ...READ»

Job Loss and Long-Term Earnings

Perhaps you saw the article in the New York Times this week, “Income Loss Persists Long After Layoffs.” If you missed it, I recommend that you read it, but I warn you that it is depressing news.The article reports on the ...READ»

Work Experiences of Immigrants

This week I came upon a study of the importance of networks in the job-seeking efforts of immigrants, and it reminded me of my own grandparents’ experiences as immigrants. It also led me to some research about the entrepreneurial ...READ»

Job Loss and Health

I’ve been interested in the effects of stressful jobs on workers’ health, which I discussed in  150 Best Low-Stress Jobs, and I’ve also been interested in job security, which I wrote about in 150 Best Recession-Proof Jobs ...READ»

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Our Brains Versus Fast Food? No Contest

Do we crave flavor, or just calories? A new study reveals that our brain chemistry may be to blame for our love affair with food.READ»

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