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Everyone knows that the office design of the 1950s that most of us still live with is well and truly dead. Today, where creativity and collaboration rule, the 50s cube farm just isn't going to suffice and pretty quickly you are going to find that your office space becomes the thing that's holding...
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Something not quite right here, Del Monte clearly hasn't been told about the environmental issue and looks...
"We’ve lost our desire to be middle class. Everywhere you look, every home or apartment is advertised as “luxury,” because god forbid anyone just have a humble hard working home. America is either a gated community or a ghetto, there’s no in-between."This is from the guys...
Ben Hammersley of Wired UK talking at the LIFT conference about how the internet has changed as is changing and transforming the concept of hierarchies. He explains how we are ruled and governed by meaningless structures and rule sets and why for global and business leaders, the shift away...
If you're a food manufacturer, a restaurant chain or just an average consumer in the US and especially the developing world, the above graph has to have you worried. Not only does it show the recent rapid increase in the costs of both food and oil, but it shows the closeness of the relationship...
The NYT recently published an article on how independent bookstores, that now account for 10% of book sales, are coping with the changing and challenging environment. Most of the sellers interviewed talked about embracing online with more seriousness, getting into social media and finding...
The full merging of brands into the social media space is now going to happen with Facebook's new initiative around sponsored stories. This means that your interactions with brands on the giant social network get turned into ads which get shared on the network. This development marks the point when...
The price of fuel has a massive impact on certain businesses and in the shipping business, the high price of marine fuel is causing all kinds of concern. Ships are on a go slow, to save fuel and money. "The largest ships burn 320 tons of fuel a day when traveling at full
speed, according to Soren...
More experiments with Google's book search tool. Shows us the rise, fall and sometimes rise again of the elements that lie within of our cultural landscape. Posted by Ed Cotton
Google's new book data base, is a planner's dream; the Google machine has digitally scanned over 15 million books- approx 12% of all books ever published, which means you can not only search them, you can turn the contents into something useful.By searching the database you can looks for trends and...
The latest Wired has a great piece by Matt Schwartz on what he terms "retail hacking". He describes a confluence of forces that have given rise to the emergence of consumers who will devote hours to hacking the system to get deals and how this world has been made accessible to masses of consumers...
While there have been a few promising innovators in the field of financial services, like Mint and some peer to peer lenders, nothing has really shaken the industry out of its lethargy and done something to meet the real needs of consumers.BankSimple could be about to change that. Instead of trying...
According to a recent survey from Booz Allen Hamilton, frugality is here to stay, at least for a while."..companies need to work to understand the essence of these changes by consumer segment, and adjust offerings accordingly. Reverting to business as usual is not an option because many of the...
Posted by Ed Cotton
Stephanie Smith looks at first glance like an intrepid pioneer who's making the best out of the worst and using the current economic situation as a chance to get off-the-grid, into a desert shack and back to learning about the fundamentals of life. However, she's more than qualified to report...