Category Archives: Technology

A Few Key People

June 10, 2011 – 10:55 am

I keep coming back to Mark Suster’s Techcrunch/BothSides article — just great advice about new venture management and jumpstarting regional technology ecosystems. I finally decided to just reproduce the whole thing here for my own easy reference. Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at GRP Partners. [...]

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Whole Systems Design

December 3, 2010 – 4:51 pm

Focusing on fixing small things, and not looking at the whole system, is a chronic issue among humans. Engineers and designers just happen to be the ones who make decisions that determine the energy used in your house, your transportation, or the materials in your electronics. Our partners at the Rocky Mountain Institute have been [...]

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Coming Soon: Groupon Stores and the Deal Feed

December 1, 2010 – 12:02 pm

With Groupon Stores, businesses can now create and launch their own deals whenever they want. Think of it as the online equivalent of a merchant’s physical storefront. Merchants can now: Setup a permanent (and free!) e-commerce presence on Groupon for promoting their business. Create their own offers to run deals whenever they want. Submit deals [...]

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Interest Graph vs. Social Graph

November 27, 2010 – 3:44 pm

With the massive supremacy of Facebook in the social networking space, it’s easy to assume that the door is closed for social network innovation. The reality, however, is that we’ve barely begun to scratch the surface of how we interact with and derive value and pleasure from our networks. There is good reason to think [...]

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311 for new ideas

November 27, 2010 – 4:44 am

What if there were a way to transform complaints into something positive and productive? What if we reframed the exchange to be less about adversity and more about cooperation and action? What if citizens were encouraged to offer their thoughts on how things from transit systems to city parks might be improved — as opposed [...]

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The Dragonfly Effect: Social Media for Social Change

November 18, 2010 – 11:06 am

The method relies on four essential skills, or wings: 1) focus: identify a single concrete and measurable goal; 2) grab attention: cut through the noise of social media with something authentic and memorable; 3) engage: create a personal connection, accessing higher emotions, compassion, empathy, and happiness; and 4) take action: enable and empower others to [...]

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PopTech Ecomaterials Lab

August 11, 2010 – 12:01 am

As profiled on Worldchanging in November 2009, future-focused conference organization PopTech has partnered with Nike to convene a year-long “innovation journey” on new green materials and industrial processes. Their first event, the Ecomaterials Lab, occurred last week. About PopTech Labs: PopTech is bringing together a network of innovators and decision-makers, brilliant and unconventional, to explore [...]

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Dog Wagon

April 29, 2010 – 10:47 pm

Possibly the greatest thing ever? Sweet Juniper’s dog wagon. One of the best things about being an incredibly childish adult is that there’s nobody to tell you that you can’t use the power tools. Or in this case, a simple ratchet and screwdriver, because that’s all I used to turn our old jogging stroller into [...]

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No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.

January 27, 2010 – 12:58 pm

As a former management consultant at a firm that specialized in scenario planning, I love reading the sweeping statements and predictions people have made that have turned out to be wildly wrong. “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.” – Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 “There is no reason anyone [...]

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Architecture Art

January 18, 2010 – 4:45 pm

The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo. A gorgeous, meditative tour through imagined spaces and structures. What struck me most was not that it was full-CG — which, yes, is amazing — but that here, at the beginning of 2010, an immersive virtual world like this can be produced by ONE GUY.

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