Hello World its Maxwell
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My TED favorites- The world’s oldest living things: Rachel Sussman on TED.com
- Fellows Friday with Bristol Baughan
- Keep your goals to yourself: Derek Sivers on TED.com
- The technology of the heart: His Holiness the Karmapa on TED.com
- Let the environment guide our development: Johan Rockstrom on TED.com
- Super foods superheroes
- The Happy Planet Index: Nic Marks on TED.com
- New Best of the Web talk: Jeremy Rifkin
- Animal instincts: Saturday TEDTalks playlist
- What physics taught me about marketing: Dan Cobley on TED.com
Author Archives: donkasprzak
Internet Retail
Every day more people shop online. As shoppers write blog posts about their purchases and read millions of product reviews and their social networks. We have transformed retail:
Posted in Design • Education • Globalization • Innovation • Interactive • Network
Tagged decisions, digital marketplace, information, retail internet, shoppers, shopping
Comedian Maz Jobrani at TED
Maz Jobrani: Did you hear the one about the Iranian-American?
Maz is one of my favorite comedians. Found him on the The Axis of Evil Comedy Tour (iTunes Link) tour and have purchased his performances on iTunes (iTunes Link). So glad to see him perform at a TED event.
Posted in Education • Globalization • Innovation • TED
Tagged axis of evil comedy, axis of evil comedy tour, comedians, itunes, maz jobrani, TED
Freakonomics the movie
The movie everyone should have been waiting to see….on your computer before at the cinemas.
In an unusual move Freakonomics the Movie is coming to iTunes first on September 3rd and then to a theater on October 1.
Since I read this book (review)
Tags: SUPERFreakonomics, Stephen Dubner, Steven Levitt, Economics, datasets, innovation, energy, population, poverty, [...]
Posted in Design • Education • Globalization • Innovation • Reading • TED
Tagged economics, Innovation, population, poverty, stephen dubner, steven levitt, superfreakonomics, trends
Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0
Sometimes a 2.0 release is viewed as a fix for shortcomings in the initial release of just about any product….except this update from Tom Friedman: Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America.
I read version 1.0 as soon as it hit bookshelves and was just amazed at [...]
Posted in Design • Education • Globalization • Green • Innovation • OpenSource • Technology • cyberinfrastructure
Tagged america, business, change, culture, economy, Education, energy, environment, first solar, flat, global warming, Globalization, Green, green revolution, Innovation, leadership, offshoring, outsourcing, planet earth, Reading, recession, research, revolution, solar, Technology, toledo, tom friedman, trends, wall street
My latest read – Cognitive Surplus
Remember the last time you read a great story that you caught yourself peaking at the remaining unread pages because you didn’t want the story to end? That’s how I can best describe Clay Shirky’s book Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age. His stories were coming to a close before I was [...]
Posted in Design • Education • Globalization • Innovation • Interactive • Reading • Technology • Web2.0
Tagged 9/11, bandwidth, change, clay shirky, college, community, content, copy, copyright, culture, download, downloading, ebook, ipod, itunes, movies, mp3, music, music industry, napster, Network, networking, perfect storm, piracy, sharing, social, social networking, tipping point, trends, youtube
Kindle v3.0 on the way ?
Amazon plans to introduce a new version of their Kindle e-book reader in August. However after a recent price cut just three weeks ago, Amazon is now out of their current Kindle and their site suggests a new model is on the way.
The device is rumored to be even thinner an updated refresh screen and [...]
Posted in Design • Globalization • HighRes • Reading • Tablet
Tagged amazon, ebook reader, enhanced imaging, kindle, new model, touch screen
My latest read – The Big Short
Credit default swaps. Those infamous three words. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis is a fast-paced, right-to-the-point story about CDS and the collapse of Wall Street. While recent best sellers have addressed big players and multiple companies involved in the crash Lewis’s focus is just credit default swaps, how they were [...]
Posted in Education • Globalization • Reading
Tagged billion dollars, bond market, burry, cdos, consumers, credit default swaps, doomsday machine, economic collapse, eisman, financial giants, Goldman, greed, lippmann, michael lewis, research, subprime loans, wall street
BMW 6 Series Exterior Design
BMW’s official video regarding design-futures of the 6 Series Gran Coupé concept.
Anders Warming, Head of Exterior Design BMW, provides the overview about the exterior design and the future of the 6 Series and BMW design directions.
Tags: BMW, BMW 6 series, innovation, design directions, concept, ideas, business, trends
Posted in BMW • Design • Education • Innovation • Technology
Tagged bmw 6 series, concept, design bmw, design directions, design futures
Most Dangerous Man in America ?
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Posted in Education • Reading
Tagged book secrets, dangerous man, daniel ellsberg, documentary, governments, memoir, nixon, pentagon, pentagon papers, sensation, vietnam, watergate