Influx

The personal motivation business is worth billions of dollars; every bookstore you go to has acres of space devoted to it. People are obsessed with better understanding themselves and trying to set clear goals in their personal and business lives. It’s a like dieting, but for the mind; there are...

There’s a strong argument for agencies to move into the incubation game; the potential financial upside is obviously significant and the all kinds of side benefits that developing new technologies can bring. These positives are discussed in a recent post on Agency Collaboration Blog. However,...

It’s amazing to see these giant touch screens- they will change how news and television gets presented, how things get made and created and even how we shop. The touch screen is clearly a massive innovation with widespread implications across numerous categories.

It could easily be argued that computer code and coding is a new language that will be as important as English in the classrooms of the very near future.With technology and the internet becoming such a pervasive part of our lives, ideas and concepts will be living and breathing experiences, not...

At LucidNYC’s event last night, I was fortunate enough to hear James Pattern talk about bringing more tactile experiences to technology. James has been at the forefront of making tech experiences more engaging and physical for the past decade. His inspiration came from working in the world of...

One of the most appealing aspects of the proliferation of new technological channels has been the ability for content creators to allow their content to be accessed on new these new formats. The traditional hardware of old has now given way to multiple increasingly mobile forms. However, the simple...

Quentin Hardy over at Forbes has a very good piece on Google- where he looks to the company for the new rules of innovation. Here are some of the key points I took away from the piece. 1. It’s very tough to plan ahead For a company with so much intelligence, on the surface it comes as a...

Tom Kelley of IDEO speaking at Nielsen’s 360 Conference explained what he believes are the factors behind successful innovation. Aside from business and technology- the major influences are being able to understand people by continuous observation- everyone needs to become an anthropologist...

Social Listing is an NYC based start-up that could take some business away from E-Bay and Craigslist. It’s an application that’s designed for Android and iPhone who’s purpose is to create a geo-social market for things. It’s all based on finding these things around where you...

We all know about Groupon’s failed attempt at irony during the Superbowl and its founder’s humble beginnings helping activists and non-profits connect and take action, but what’s it’s mission and vision? While there’s certainly a benevolent side to Groupon, but as...

Nick Bilton writes in today’s NYT about the increase in the number of sensors in mobile phones and their potential applications. Here’s what they will be able to do. 1. Elevation sensors could determine exactly where you are in a building to help people “find” you more...

We new speed was now of the essence concerning news media, but it’s not just speed, it’s also the quantity of stories that now matter. For the major online players, there’s an urgent need to flood the web with content, just to make sure your site gets the traffic it needs to stay...

The clash of old and new cultures and its fight for survival in a changed landscape is the story behind, Page One, a new documentary on a year in the life of the New York Times. While the story isn’t surprising, or even anything new, it’s good to see someone has made the effort to...

"On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better. Now it's got 3D, now it's got 1080p, you know, it'll be 4K in a couple of years, which is ultra-ultra-high-def. With the Internet, the decoders are very flexible, so you can just keep making it better and...

It's now common knowledge that Twitter first broke the story of Osama's death, an event which marked the coming of age of the brand. What's especially interesting is the analysis of what happened on Twitter and how the information was dispersed. Some really good work on this has been done by...