Author Archives: Chris Coldewey

Adapt

May 31, 2011 – 3:14 pm

Tim Harford is a Financial Times columnist and the presenter of Radio 4′s More or Less, which won the Royal Statistical Society’s 2010 award for statistical excellence in broadcast journalism. He is also the author of several books, including The Undercover Economist. His latest is Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure. Cory Doctorow: First [...]

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The two most effective incentives for crowdsourced work

May 30, 2011 – 9:48 am

From a recent study looking at the most effective incentives for increasing answer quality from crowdsourced Mechanical Turk workers: both of the top two incentives relied on getting workers to think about what others’ answers would be: Punishment Agreement (financial) “After this HIT has been completed, we will review the answers for at least one [...]

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Prehype helps companies execute on “20% projects”

May 30, 2011 – 9:37 am

Prehype aims to come into a company and identify its “intrapreneurs.” Then, they will host the employee or employees a la Google’s 20% time, building a new company outside of the original company. Another way it works is if an employee has an idea and seeks out Prehype. Prehype will then help them convince their company [...]

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Building companies on top of tech infrastructure

May 30, 2011 – 9:23 am

The East Coast tech-scene is booming because we are going through a phase where experience design, clever new business models and distribution is becoming as important as the technology itself. The new East Coast growth companies are standing on the shoulders of the tech platforms that the West Coast has built over the past decade [...]

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NYC Digital City Road Map

May 19, 2011 – 11:06 am

via nyc.gov Beyond the press about NYC partnerships with consumer internet companies like Foursquare and Tumblr, there is a lot of great information in here about increasing citizen access to technology, opening up government data, and supporting a thriving tech ecosystem.

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CEO Innovation Playbook

April 7, 2011 – 11:17 pm

via slideshare.net Innovation manifesto from Idris Mootee, head of “b-school + d-school” firm Idea Couture.

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Service Design

April 7, 2011 – 10:54 pm

From finance to healthcare to media, New York’s economy is primarily driven by services. Yet our understanding of what design offers is rooted in products and places rather than how those things operate or how people use them — design has traditionally concerned itself with goods, not services. Only in the past decade or so [...]

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Mondo Window

March 29, 2011 – 3:30 pm

Today’s the day to announce, along with Laughing Squid and CNET, the public beta of Mondo Window, which lets you see what you’re looking at out your airplane window. As far as we know, this is the first site designed specifically for use with in-flight internet, but those bragging rights are less important than the [...]

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Mid-size cities growing faster than megacities

March 24, 2011 – 11:20 am

By 2025, the emerging-market cities of this City 600 will be home to an estimated 235 million households earning more than $20,000 a year — markedly morethan the just over 210 million such households expected in the cities of developed regions. In other words, there will be more higher middle income households in emerging-market cities than in [...]

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Little Bets

March 17, 2011 – 11:15 pm

LittleBets-v2.pdf Download this file   Little Bets is a new book by Peter Sims on the role of experimentation and play in the world of innovation.   Fundamental to the little bets approach is that we: • experiment: learn by doing. fail quickly to learn fast. develop experiments and prototypes to gather insights, identify problems, and build [...]

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