The State of Online Video in 2010
Tammy Camp has produced a detailed look at the State of Online. A few pop up such as Myspace and Facebook being a more powerful or chosen platform for uploading video content. Only 7% of users pay for online content and the major demographic sits between 14 and 29. What are your thoughts? Source | Tammy Camp
Louis Gray Selects 50 Startups Worth Watching
Louis Gray has prepared a list of 50 top startups that he is watching. Serving up the list in his ranking order from one to fifty in terms of both interest and viability. I am sure that if I ran this exercise 10 times, I would get a different list 10 times. Louis explains: I [...]
Infograph | Country to Country Entrepreneurship
According to the data, the U.S. is far ahead of any other country in the portion of our GDP that comes from entrepreneurship–11.3%, compared to our next closest competitor, the U.K., which clocks in at 6.3%. This can be interpreted two ways: Either we’ve had a longer history of entrepreneurship–and other countries are perhaps catching [...]
PSFK Presents the Future of Retail Report
PSFK presents Future of Retail report View more presentations from PSFK. Traditional physical retail remains as important as ever. So does providing the environment in which a retailer can provide an unparalleled experience. Through the dynamic use of space, the most successful store owners are pushing the boundaries of storytelling, product testing and education – [...]
4Food NYC | Taking Orders Via iPads, Tweets and Streaming Foursquare Checkins
4food is a socially networked quick service restaurant company. The mission is to bring fast food that’s fresh, delicious, and nutritious to all ages, lifestyles, incomes, and ethnicities. No fads, fillers, or anything artificial. Revolutionizing counter culture, in real-time. Location #1 opens on Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 at 40th Street and Madison Avenue, between Bryant [...]
IF TALK | A guest perspective on “The Future of Media”
INNOVATION FORUM – THE FUTURE OF MEDIA – 11/05/2010 Simon Williams is a guest (and good friend) who attended IF | The Future of Media. Simon is a musician and film producer and over the weekend, he took five minutes of his insanely hectic schedule to share his event notes with us. The IF Talk [...]
Growing Up Digital | Don Tapscott
GROWING UP DIGITAL: The Rise of the Net Generation by Don Tapscott is an examination of the first generation to be bathed in bits since birth. These 3 billion children of the baby boomers are combining demographic muscle and digital mastery to become a force for social transformation. In a nutshell, because of their access [...]
Investing More in “We” Spaces Than in “I” Spaces
The Stanford d.school, which opens officially on May 7, is a space whose design has been refined over the course of six years to maximize the innovation process. Every wall, everynook, every connecting gizmo, every table, every storage cabinet, has been created with a grand, collaborative vision in mind. George Kembel, the executive director of the school [...]
Mashable | 5 Masterminds That have Re-Defined the Startup
Gary Vaynerchuk Founder of Wine Library TV. He’s a well-known speaker at tech and business conferences, and he’s even got himself a book deal. Vaynerchuk may not have been the first non-technical tech startup founder, but he’s inspired, nay, driven countless others to follow in his footsteps through impassioned, expletive-laced speeches, and no-nonsense advice on [...]
Google | 5 Ways that Google Docs will improve the way you work.
And the hits just keep on coming to the Microsoft Empire. This time, Google Docs, has rolled out some great new features that combine many of the search-giants services into one handy product. The key to the overhaul is real-time collaboration. Essentially, it combines features from Buzz and Google chat to create a document-style layout, [...]
A VUE of the future with Issey Miyake
It is remarkable that the most real feeling in perception of time “the present”, cannot be measured in any units of time. Present is duration-less, it is an infinitesimal. Nevertheless, both the past and the future, which are seen as durations in time, encroach on the present. So why is it, that we all think more about [...]
Freshman Andrew Kim’s Coke Bottle Design.
Industrial design student Andrew Kim has created a very cool concept creating the square bottle. This is beautiful, and a smart use of space. Not sure if it is manufacturable, but a great idea and design nonetheless. This is an ambitious take on the iconic bottle, going square in the name of eco-friendliness. The new bottle shape [...]
The Story of Bottled Water
Annie Leonard, the mastermind behind The Story of Stuff and The Story of Cap and Trade, has released the latest in her series of animations about environmental issues, just in time for World Water Day. The Story of Bottled Water breaks down the problems with our beloved water in signature Annie Leonard form, with juicy [...]
We think you should visit: Books in the age of the iPad by Craig Mod
This is a conversation for books-makers, web-heads, content-creators, authors and designers. For people who love beautifully made things. And for the storytellers who are willing to take risks and want to consider the most appropriate shape and media for their yarns. Craig Mod takes a look at where printed books stand in respect to digital [...]
Sony Music deliver a blow to CDs
Sony Music delivered a knockout blow to CDs, announcing recently that on May 1, it will cease sending promo CDs to critics and journalists, and instead only provide them with digital previews. Sony is the second-largest music company in the world, and the first major label to do digital-only promotions–hopefully it’s not the last. This [...]
FROM THE BULL:: Innovate or Perish
Recently I had the great pleasure of participating in an Innovation Forum (IF) in Melbourne hosted by the charming and charismatic Ben Rennie of Uncluttered White Spaces. It was a brilliant evening with a great panel, an engaged audience and some lively discussions. Innovation is a curious term that means different things to different people. [...]
IF Melbourne in review:: “Nostalgia, denial & arrogance” – Ben Crowe @ IF 2010
uncluttered white spaces hosted our second Innovation forum (IF Melbourne) on Tuesday night at Denmark House Melbourne. The night turned out one of the most influential panels and guests list I have been involved in with some amazing contributions across the floor. IF exisits to bring together like minded innovators and thought leaders to share [...]
Google launches Buzz: Real time feeds for Gmail.
Google, like someone arriving late to a party already drunk and boisterous but with a lot of party favors, is trying to grab some of that Web2.0 social glimmer by polishing up Gmail with Google Buzz. The app, which is integrated into Gmail, includes the best features of Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and other well-known social [...]
We think you should visit:: TheLoop.com.au
Matt Fayle and Pip Jamieson have launched Australia’s very first online multi-media platform aimed to match creative professionals with potential employers. The idea was born in early 2009 after Matt and Pip identified a much-needed resource for the media professional environment. The Loop, in its very short existence has over 80,000 Australians signed up along with [...]
The state of the internet in 2009
Focus take a look at exactly who is using the Internet the most, how they are using it and how much the amount of usage is increasing. At a glance, we can see that there are the same number of men and women who use the Internet. However, their age, educational background and level of [...]
The Kindle. The iPad. Enter Google’s Chrome OS tablet
Google Chromium has released visual explorations of how a Chrome OS tablet UI might look in hardware. Some possibilites they explore include: Keyboard interaction with the screen: anchored, split, attached to focus. Launchers as an overlay, providing touch or search as means to access web sites. Contextual actions triggered via dwell. Zooming UI for multiple [...]
Facts about projection.
Facts About Projection from Studiocanoe on Vimeo. Facts About Projection is a film by Temujin Doran. Temujin is a Projectionist in Islington in London, where he works at The Screen on the Green. It’s a really sweet video that gives you a beautiful glimpse into a dying art form. Movies have and still are shown [...]
The Video Game Wars: Statistics provide valuable insight.
Online Education has created a comprehensive infographic about the video game industry, providing updated statistics on consumer demographics, patterns, and ‘the console wars’. The only thing conspicuously missing is statistics on whether gamers are now using their video game consoles as entertainment centers. Click here for an enlarged version. [Online Education via ThreeBillion]
Is this innovation? The PEUGEOT B1K CONCEPT BIKE
Peugeot’s new design team just released these images of a concept bicycle dubbed the B1K. Sculpted as a race bike, it features a chainless drivetrain, carbon fiber construction and scant few details on the rest of the design. Click to enlarge the images…looks like we’ll have to come up with a new term for tires. [...]
