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Business Week interviews Nokia’s Jan Chipchase
NESTA launches £20m initiative to stimulate social innovation
New Songdo City, a living lab on ubiquitous computing in Korea
UNESCO publishes survey on ethical implications of emerging technologies
UK hosting provider imagines web in 2020
Qualitative research leads to new bicycle “for fun”
When Japanese bike part manufacturer Shimano set out to make a bicycle aimed at America’s dwindling group of casual bikers, they enlisted the help of design consultancy IDEO, and embarked on a qualitative research and design process that eventually lead…
Next step for games: social networking [San Jose Mercury News]
Jan Chipchase of Nokia on delegating positive experiences
Sociology at Microsoft
MIT Media Lab Europe founder starts Distance Lab
Canadian HOT Topics magazine on user experience
Searching for Michael Jordan? Microsoft wants a better way [The New York Times]
People searching for online health advice favour sites with a human touch, research suggests [BBC]
New interface at the confessional
Where artists and inventors plot to save the world [The New York Times]
Design led futures
New Web sites connect lenders and borrowers [International Herald Tribune]
About a year and a half ago I wrote about Zopa, a P2P banking service in the UK, and therefore a potentially disruptive innovation in the financial services sector. The International Herald Tribune has meanwhile discovered it as well: A…