On this Wiki, everyone’s a critic [Business Week]
Stanford’s Lawrence Lessig, whose next book will be revised by visitors to a collaborative Web site, explains “user-supplied innovation”. Read full story
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
Insights curated by Experientia, the UX research and design consultancy
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Suddenly, it’s fast forward at TiVo [Business Week]
The digital video recording service’s Comcast deal delivers 21.5 million potential new users and transforms a faltering player into the industry’s star. Read full story
Mobile phone becomes train ticket [BBC]
Public transport users in Tyne and Wear may soon be able to use their mobile phone as a bus or train ticket. Read full story
A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age
Lawyers. Accountants. Radiologists. Software engineers. That’s what our parents encouraged us to become when we grew up. But Mom and Dad were wrong. The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind.…
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Samsung is now what Sony once was [The New York Times]
In 1997, Sony took little notice of Samsung. Less than a decade later, Samsung has twice the market capitalisation of Sony. Read full story
Does Europe need its own technology institute? [International Herald Tribune]
A proposal to create a European technology institute modeled on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology faces serious questions about financing and academic support, lawmakers say. Read full story
MP3 developer yields royalty riche [International Herald Tribune]
German labs rely on firms and state to finance research. Read full story
The rise of the creative consumer [The Economist]
How and why smart companies are harnessing the creativity of their customers. Read full story
The device that ate everything? [The Economist]
Will snazzy mobile phones gobble up digital cameras, music players and other portable devices? Read full story
A spiritual connection [The Economist]
Around the world, mobile phones seem to have a spiritual or supernatural dimension that other forms of technology lack. Read full story
Behind the digital divide [The Economist]
Much is made of the “digital divide†between rich and poor. What do people on the ground think about it? Read full story
The future, just around the bend [The Economist]
Ray Kurzweil is an accomplished inventor, but he is best known for his wild prognostications about the future. Is he as crazy as he sounds? Read full story
Phones with eyes [The Economist]
Camera-phones are not just for taking pictures. They can be used for other things too, from shopping to treasure hunts. Read full story
The empathy economy [Business Week]
“Design thinking” can create rewarding experiences for consumers — the key to earnings growth and an edge that outsourcing can’t beat. Read full story
Wearable computers you can slip into [Business Week]
The latest generation of these ever-smarter garments look like ordinary clothes, not something only a cyborg would don. Read full story
Investment bank sees blogging as way to find ‘stars of tomorrow’ [The New York Times]
Blogging has transformed political commentary, rattled the media business and inundated the Internet. Does it have a place on Wall Street? ThinkEquity Partners, a boutique investment bank in San Francisco, was going to find out on Thursday by introducing a…
Artful making: what managers need to know about how artists work
Artful Making offers the first proven, research-based framework for engineering ingenuity and innovation. This book is the result of a multi-year collaboration between Harvard Business School professor Robert Austin and leading theatre director and playwright Lee Devin. Together, they demonstrate…
U.S. companies rethinking their marketing in Europe [The New York Times]
For years, American corporations and the European companies that do business with them have faced anti-American sentiments from Europeans. But with the war continuing in Iraq and discomfort growing over United States dominance, the companies have been forced to…
Blogging at the Davos World Economic Forum
Even the Davos World Economic Forum now has its own weblog. Go to the Davos blog