Month: June 2009
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Social Interfaces
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5192300&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 Touchwall Demo from Joel on Vimeo. For those not lucky enough to get to Cannes this year (me included), Schematic debuted a 12ft by 5ft intelligent, multi-user "Touchwall" designed to help delegates get the most from the event. As well as RFID technology that allowed the wall to recognise individual delegates, there were 3D…
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Self-Generated Opportunity
When I wrote about tweetable career advice, Andy left a comment suggesting one: "Don't look for the job you want. Create it." Sage advice. Because in spite of all the doom and gloom around I still believe that there is amazing potential for self-generated opportunity out there. I've been reading The Element by Sir Ken…
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Doing By Not Doing
Unfortunately I didn't get to go to this years Google Zeitgeist event a few weeks back, but I know a man that did and he came back raving about the final session of the first day – a talk by reknowned Isreali conductor Itay Talgam. Having now seen it, I can see why. Itay uses…
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Bubble Battle
This is lovely idea. A giant bubble battle in Times Square, organised by Newmindspace. Bringing people together and giving them something to do. Here's the Flickr pool to last year's event. And a nice video below. If you happen to be in NYC, this year's bubble battle takes place in Times Square on Saturday 21st…
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Think Tank – May ’09 – The Winner
Ahem. Poll Authority appears to have crashed half way through the vote for Post of the Month and has been borked for the past 24 hours. Fortunately I'd seen where the results were standing just before it went down, and there was a clear leader at the time so I propose to cut the vote…