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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
March 16, 2011 – 10:01 pm
Finally, we have seen a pervasive pattern in every industry that has been transformed through disruption. This same pattern characterizes what has happened to date with disruptive initiatives in health care. The energies, talent, and resources of the leading organizations in an established system always are absorbed in improving their best products, which are sold [...]
February 13, 2011 – 4:04 pm
“they’re just a popularity contest” Voting, and especially social media voting in a cause marketing platform, is a popularity contest. That popularity brings people to a branded site which creates exposure to the contest organizer. The formula is pretty standard there. Ultimately, a degree of any competition has to do with the ability to rally [...]
February 11, 2011 – 8:19 pm
Stories exert a powerful influence on human thoughts and behavior. They consolidate memory, shape emotions, cue heuristics and biases in judgment, influence in-group/out-group distinctions, and may affect the fundamental contents of personal identity. Yes, yes, stories are touchy feely but important, yes. It comes as no surprise that these influences make stories highly relevant to [...]
February 11, 2011 – 9:22 am
As of this year, 52 percent of all Egyptians are under the age of 25, and one in five is between the ages of 15-24–the ages of many of those out in the streets demonstrating against the government. When Mubarak took office, there were 9 million youth aged 15-24, and now there are 17 million, [...]
February 11, 2011 – 9:20 am
“In other regions, integrating young adults into the work force—coupled with a declining birth rate and shrinking youth bulge—has provided an opening for democratization. Social scientists have found that, as an increasing proportion of the population had a stake in the system, formerly authoritarian states like South Korea and Taiwan felt they could experiment with political liberalization. [...]
January 29, 2011 – 3:41 pm
Time: 2020. Place: Mount Pleasant. The business streets look mostly the same, but there’s a different atmosphere, literally, because the air is cleaner. The broad sidewalks accommodate tables spilling out from restaurants in the summer. A street car runs down Main. Bicyclists still prefer bikeways over the main roads, but there are more of them [...]
January 24, 2011 – 1:19 pm
via opinion.berkeley.edu “Opinion Space is a new social media technology designed to help communities exchange ideas and suggestions about the issues and policies they care about. Opinion Space is based on a game model that incorporates techniques from deliberative polling, collaborative filtering, and multidimensional visualization. It introduces an intuitive graphical “map” that displays patterns, trends, [...]
