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Blu Dot Drops Chairs on NYC Streets; Tracks Movements, Cool, but is it Marketing?

BY Michael Cannell
Relevancy Score: 92
Fri Nov 6, 2009 at 7:32 AM

At 9:40 a.m. on Thursday, a white van pulled over near the corner of 68th Street and Central Park West in Manhattan. A cameraman armed with a telephoto lens watched from the corner. A video crew snooped from a rooftop. Half a dozen ...READ»

TECHNOLOGY | 10 comments

Technology: How Social is "Social" Media?

BY Bill Cammack
Relevancy Score: 90
Sat Feb 2, 2008 at 7:39 AM

Jonny Goldstein interviewed me back in August 2007 on his show Jonny's Par-Tay [link]. Looking at the countdown timer to the end of the show, around -18:00 he asks me "So... Did you feel a little lonely before you got into all the ...READ»

IPHONE | 3 comments

Scientists Developing iPhone App to Crowdsource Plant Research

BY Ariel Schwartz
Relevancy Score: 85
Tue May 5, 2009 at 1:21 PM

A group of scientists and researchers from the Smithsonian, University of Maryland, and Columbia University is working on an iPhone application that turns budding scientists into valuable research contributors. The application ...READ»

CHANEL | Comment

Art + Sex + Zaha Hadid + Brandbuilding = Chanel

BY Linda Tischler
Relevancy Score: 60
Mon Oct 20, 2008 at 7:02 PM

Fueled by a fortune built on a handbag, a glossy white art-filled spaceship has touched down in Central Park. It’s designed by Zaha Hadid, the Pritzker Prize winning Iraqi architect and underwritten by Chanel, making for a kind of architecture-meets-fashion-meets-art-meets-brand promotion fantas-magoria.READ»

DESIGN IN BUSINESS | Comment

The Future of Design

BY Linda Tischler
Relevancy Score: 60
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:11 AM

From the $300,000 table to the $30 teakettle, design is dressing up the American way of life. READ»

DESIGN IN BUSINESS | 3 comments

Shvo Motion

BY Linda Tischler
Relevancy Score: 58
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:17 AM

One man's real-estate vision quest, and the $15 billion portfolio he's building along the way.READ»

ATTENTION SPAN | 4 comments

Scientists Say Urban Living Makes You Stupid

BY Kit Eaton
Relevancy Score: 56
Wed Jan 7, 2009 at 9:55 AM

It's official: Living in a city is bad for your brain--or so says some new research by University of Michigan scientists. Specifically, the team of psychologists found that being in an urban environment depresses memory performance ...READ»

RE:CON GEL 2004 | 1 comment

Good Experience Ephemera

BY Heath Row
Relevancy Score: 51
Fri Apr 30, 2004 at 7:08 PM

Some of the sessions at Good Experience Live 2004 were difficult to transcribe because of the mode of presentation. The following sessions, while not fully documented, were still worthwhile, communicating useful ideas and ...READ»

ENTERTAINMENT | 1 comment

A Mix Master's Swizzle Tips

BY Peter Kaminsky
Relevancy Score: 47
Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 11:57 PM

These toddies offer a refreshing way to celebrate.READ»

SCHOOL REFORM | Comment

Colin Johnson

BY Anni Layne
Relevancy Score: 43
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:28 AM

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LEADERSHIP | Comment

Fast Talk: Creative to the Core

BY Michael A. Prospero
Relevancy Score: 42
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:01 AM

What's it like when your job depends on generating new ideas, inspiring others to do the same, and figuring out how to use the result? Creativity is the essence of business--and the elixir of these five leaders.READ»

HIGH LINE | 1 comment

The City Parks Renaissance

BY Michael Cannell
Relevancy Score: 31
Tue Sep 1, 2009 at 11:02 AM

With the success of New York City's High Line, planners and developers ask: Are parks the design destination of the moment?READ»

GLOBALIZATION | 1 comment

Global Fast Cities

BY Chuck Salter
Relevancy Score: 31
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:59 AM

They speak English, and they have the right mix of technology and tolerance to attract talent. They're the international cities competing with the United States for the global talent pool.READ»

AEROTROPOLIS | 3 comments

The Central Park International Airport Hoax, Explained

BY Greg Lindsay
Relevancy Score: 25
Fri Jul 24, 2009 at 1:19 PM

The Internet raged in response to a shadowy organization's plans to raze New York's Central Park in favor of an airport, Strawberry Fields be damned. We unravel the mystery.READ»

ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT | 1 comment

They're Trying, Linda, They're Trying

BY David Lidsky
Relevancy Score: 22
Wed Feb 16, 2005 at 2:44 PM

My esteemed colleague Linda Tischler just blogged about the massive, temporary art installation the Gates, justly lauding its refreshing lack of commercialism. I just happened by the Time Warner Center, the massive, unfortunately ...READ»

BUSINESS TRAVEL | Comment

Yet More of the Best Business Restaurants

BY Donna Williams
Relevancy Score: 20
Tue Jul 8, 2008 at 5:46 PM

This edition of Transit Authority is the fourth in a series on the best business restaurants for select U.S. cities. This week we feature restaurants in New York, Orlando, and Philadelphia.READ»

ONLINE BUSINESS | Comment

Network Effects

BY Eric Ransdell
Relevancy Score: 20
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:05 AM

How do Web companies get so big so fast? By embracing the most important strategic mind flip of the 21st century. A world governed by networks is rewriting the rules for how you build companies, market products, and create value.READ»

INNOVATION | Comment

Towards a Unified Theory of Black America

BY Corey Blay
Relevancy Score: 18
Mon Nov 10, 2008 at 10:10 AM

March 20, 2005 Toward a Unified Theory of Black America By STEPHEN J. DUBNER oland G. Fryer Jr. is 27 years old and he is an assistant professor of economics at Harvard and he is black. Yes, 27 is young to be ...READ»

ADVERTISING | Comment

The City That Spawned The Age of Advertising.

BY harry webber
Relevancy Score: 18
Fri Jan 18, 2008 at 10:49 AM

Once upon a time in a place far, far away, there was a mystical city. A city that only came out at night. During the day the city went by its Native American name. Manhattan. But the moment twilight began to fall, this throbbing ...READ»

TECHNOLOGY | Comment

Digital Matters - Issue 48

BY John Ellis
Relevancy Score: 18
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:28 AM

First Adland fell in love with the Internet, and then the Internet crashed. Now both marketing and advertising have discovered the next big thing: ideas!READ»

GORAN HADZIC | Comment

What It’s Like to Chill Out With : Ratko Mladic, Goran Hadzic and Radovan Karadzic

BY Jill Starr
Relevancy Score: 18
Thu Nov 26, 2009 at 12:59 PM

Retrospectively, it was all so simple, natural and matter of fact being on a boat restaurant in Belgrade, sitting with, laughing, drinking a two hundred bottle of wine and chatting about war and peace while Ratko Mladic held my hand. Mladic, a man considered the world’s most ruthless war criminal since Adolf Hitler, still at large and currently having a five million dollar bounty on his head for genocide by the international community. Yet there I was with my two best friends at the time, a former Serbian diplomat, his wife, and Ratko Mladic just chilling. There was no security, nothing you’d ordinarily expect in such circumstances. Referring to himself merely as, Sharko; this is the story of it all came about.READ»

BUSINESS TRAVEL | 11 comments

Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group

BY Bill Breen
Relevancy Score: 15
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:12 AM

The first surprise came within moments of dipping into the 60th Street entrance of New York's Mandarin Oriental hotel. Angela Alleyne, director of guest relations (tall, gracious, and bedecked in a silk Chinese jacket of ...READ»

CHANGE AGENTS | 2 comments

'I'm a Saboteur.'

BY Daniel H. Pink
Relevancy Score: 15
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:20 AM

Brainpower is more important than ever, but education seems more backward than ever. John Taylor Gatto, an award-winning teacher, now aims to overthrow the public-school establishment for which he worked for 30 years.READ»

LEADERSHIP SKILLS | 5 comments

A Cast of Leaders

BY Stevan Alburty
Relevancy Score: 12
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:07 AM

Broadway is the classroom, leadership is the script: 14 Duke students tackle the Great White Way to learn the role of their lives.READ»

CUSTOMER SERVICE | 6 comments

Inside the Mind of Jeff Bezos

BY Alan Deutschman
Relevancy Score: 10
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:43 AM

Amazon.com's founder is a study in contradictions -- analytical and intuitive, careful and audacious, playful and determined. What really makes this remarkable entrepreneur tick?READ»

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