February 2, 2010
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The title of Philip Delves Broughton‘s Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School was interesting enough to jump on my reading list but when I began to see his book mentioned in blogs and on twitter I … Continue reading
January 21, 2010
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Al Gore’s latest book Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis should be considered by anyone interested in learning how the world can conserve resources with next generation technologies to reduce the globe’s carbon footprint. Its easy to … Continue reading
January 19, 2010
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Chip and Dan Heath wrote Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die and it was quickly listed as one of the top 100 business books of 2007….I couldn’t agree more. They launched a website dedicated to the … Continue reading
January 19, 2010
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15 petabytes of data a year will be generated by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) a particle physics project running at CERN and that requires a very robust network. Data generated by LHC is being distributed to over 7,000 scientists … Continue reading
January 12, 2010
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Tags: Visualization, information, Chart Wars, politics, trends
January 7, 2010
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According to the UK Telegraph: Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer failed to wow the crowds when he opened the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Wednesday night. I must admit there was not a lot of excitement from his … Continue reading
January 5, 2010
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Fortune’s TechMate segment about Apple’s upcoming tablet (referred to as the next Newton) proves to me that Michael Copeland has absolutely no idea what he is talking about. The TechMate video automatically starts when the page loads — and their … Continue reading
January 4, 2010
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Sports Illustrated is highlighting a forthcoming tablet from Time Inc. It looks interesting but what is Time’s market for this type of product with their brands? How does a subscription their publications justify the hardware and annual subscription fees? Who … Continue reading
December 20, 2009
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An overview of Google’s Web Toolkit (GWT) 2.0, a tool with new updates that empower developers to write highly optimized, browser-specific JavaScript for their apps. Pretty cool stuff. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uExEw3OVMd0[/youtube] Tags: Web Toolkit, Google, Developers, datasets, innovation, technology, trends
November 24, 2009
by donkasprzak
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University of Chicago Economics Professor Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner about Geoengineering Global Warming Fixes. Their data about innovation planning shows how important creative thinking can be in addressing global problems. From their followup best seller Freakonomics called SuperFreakonomics: I … Continue reading