Year: 2009
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Post Of The Month Nominations – June ’09
…are now open. Please nominate any good posts that you've read that were posted in the month of June by leaving a link in the comments to this post. As a starter, I've listed six of my own favourites below (sorry – so many good ones to choose from this month I found it hard…
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Making Money From Free
In case you missed it, there's been a mild spat going on between two heavyweights in cultural thinking. In the blue corner, Chris Anderson is out launching his new book on 'Free' (The Future of A Radical Price) : marginal costs trend to zero in a world of ubiquitous choice and rapid technological advancement; the…
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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…