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BusinessWeek Special Report: Patent Trolls
Don't miss this Special Report from BusinessWeek. Tech Giants' New Way to Thwart Patent Suits Frustrated by litigation costs, Microsoft, Sony, and Nokia are paying third-party patent acquirers such as RPX to fend off patent lawsuits Slide Show: Patent Trolls' Top Targets Apple, Sony, Dell, and Microsoft are the companies most frequently sued by...
IPCom, Patent Trolls, Reputation Management
Is there a likelihood of confusion between IP.com Inc. and IPCom GmbH & Co. KG, a German non-practicing entity, or NPE, that is sometimes called a patent troll? The Register, a British online journal, apparently sees the potential for confusion with the similarity of names and tries to keep its readers...
Kent Displays Reflex™ LCD Tablet
Kent Displays recently announced forming Improv Electronics, a new business unit focused on development and sales of consumer electronic products. The products will utilize Kent Displays revolutionary Reflex™ no power LCD technology. The first product sold under the Improv Electronics name, the Boogie Board LCD Writing Tablet, is now available. This...
Guy Kawasaki on the Art of Innovation
Entrepreneur, Twitter star, and former Apple software evangelist Guy Kawasaki highlights advice for creating meaning, innovation, and...revenue. We follow @GuyKawasaki from our Twitter account @ipdotcom and read his blogs, How to Change the World and Holy Kaw! Guy Kawasaki has thoughtfully included IP.com's blog, Securing Innovation on his Alltop pages for Patents...
IP.com's Free Global Patent Search Engine
IP.com Inc. has released a new Global Patent Search system for you to test. IP.com's GPS is a free international database of full-text patent and patent-related publications. IP.com's goal is to encourage worldwide access to resources where innovators can explore and understand patents, technologies, and related art. In this preliminary version, the...
National Inventor of the Year Nominations
IPO Education Foundation's 37th National Inventor of the Year Award presents an opportunity for you to obtain recognition for a deserving employee, client, or colleague as one of America's most outstanding inventors. Nominations can be made here on the website of the Intellectual Property Owners Association. The deadline for nominations is...
innovation playground Idris Mootee
I really like this Stumptown coffee place, this one is in mid-town NYC. It is so much cooler than Starbucks. Don't you love the way the people dress? And the coffee is good. uses organic milk and organic coffee, and is cheaper than those expensive ones. who needs hostile coffee...
Digital is turning every industry upsaide downs and into battlefield for platform wars. The newly ended one was the war between HD DVD and Bluray between Sony and Toshiba. Before that there was the Toshiba DVD-Audio and Sony’s SACD war. I really hoped that SACD would win out as I...
Last time when I was in Tokyo my friends were telling me about their domestic robot projects, they were very cool ideas and didn’t sound too far away. I was half-jokingly talking about how I see that as another platform play. The problem with machines is their limited ability to...
Looking at this year MBA rankings by Financial Times, there aren’t many changes in the Top 10 list. Top ten remains the Top 10. The surprise is ranking No. 10 is a Hong Kong Business School and No. 12 is an Indian Business School. Other top schools (some are more...
Apple toady announced the launch of the iPad. No surprise it is a bigger version iTouch or iPhone and you can use the touch screen to send emails, see photos, run slideshows, read books and play video game etc.…all with a bigger screen. It will use flash memory storage with...
I have always wondered why many small kitchen appliances are do poorly design both in form and function. Cooking is an art form and the appliances should reflect that. I've spent an hour at John Lewis' basement looking at their kitchen appliances, they have better designs than what we see...
Creative Think
"Vanishing Point" from Bonsajo
I really like this short video (1:40) entitled "Vanishing Point" from Bonsajo, a visual performance unit in Japan. It makes me think of some stuff I saw in the late 1960s and early 70s. It's fun just to watch it and let it flow over you. Vanishing Point from Bonsajo...
Personal Highlights of the '00s
The '00s are at an end. On a personal level, I can say the '00s were a good decade. I spent most of my fifties there (I aged from 51 to 61). I had some wonderful experiences, met some interesting people, and created a few things along the way. Here...
Click HERE to follow me on Twitter! For the past month, I've been Twittering — and having a lot of fun doing it. I was an early adopter of Twitter — March, 2007 or member #1,810,431 — but didn't much do with it until recently. One thing that has helped...
New Version of Creative Whack Pack App!
Today, Apple approved a new version (3.1) of my Creative Whack Pack iPhone app. [Here is the link to iTunes.] Since it was introduced last March, this product has become the iPhone's premier creativity/innovation tool. It has also been #1 in its category (Business). Great price too: $1.99. The three...
It's time again for some inspiration from Heraclitus, the world's first creativity teacher (he lived around 500 BC). Today's insight is: “I searched into myself.” Heraclitus felt that consulting our own knowledge and intuition is a wonderful way to gain insight. Unfortunately, some of us never learned this lesson. Much...
10,000,000 Yards Swimming This Decade!
If you asked me how this decade went for me, I'd say: "Swimmingly!" Why? I'll share a personal swimming milestone with you.This week, I passed the 10,000,000 yard mark for yards swum this decade (2000-2009). (9,144 kilometers, or approx. 5,700 miles.) This started with an innocent remark that a teammate...
VizThink
[Rewind] An Interview with Jessica Hagy of ‘This is Indexed’
On this week's VizThink rewind we've pulled an interview Tom Crawford did with Jessica Hagy back in November of 2008. Jessica is the creator of "This is Indexed" and I have no doubt that you've encountered one of her humorous venn diagrams or other charts over the past couple of...
VizLinks | Visual Thinking Bookmarks for February 4th
A collection of visual thinking links found on the web in the past few days by our editors & vizthink community contributers. Have a link suggestion? Tweet it or add it to delicious and be sure to tag it with vizthink. These are the links for February 4th: GEO Data Portal Posters...
VizLinks | Visual Thinking Bookmarks for February 2nd
A collection of visual thinking links found on the web in the past few days by our editors & vizthink community contributers. Have a link suggestion? Tweet it or add it to delicious and be sure to tag it with vizthink. These are the links for February 2nd: WE’RE ALL FANS –...
We originally linked to these videos a few weeks ago in VizLinks, largely because we couldn't find them in an embeddable format. Thankfully, I stumbled across them on Vimeo the other day. These two videos, "Information" and "Architecture" were created by Maya Design, a design consultancy and technology research organization....
VizLinks | Visual Thinking Bookmarks for February 1st
A collection of visual thinking links found on the web in the past few days by our editors & vizthink community contributers. Have a link suggestion? Tweet it or add it to delicious and be sure to tag it with vizthink. These are the links for February 1st: Why Public Speaking Is...
The History of the Internet (in visual form)
While interesting to see the story of how we got to the Internet that we see today, this video is also a great example of how an information graphic video doesn't have to be complex to be effective. This entire video was built using using the PICOL icons on picol.org....
New Medici™ - Media Strategy + Lifestyle Innovation Network |
Google Checkmate on Apple and iPad Hype: Buy Adobe
With the new Apple iPad receiving an iHype or iYawn from the tech and media communities, a former colleague and Applephile, Patrick Kearney, suggested that Apple was crazy not to just acquire Adobe and own/integrate Flash. I counterpointed via the socialnet, that Adobe would be more integral to Google’s apps...
If the social or virtual goods market is exploding, expect it to also affect content online. Find a way to commoditize virtual content. So forget the Zygna virtual goodsvilles for a second, and start seeing 2010 as the year of ubiquitous “content farming” - where all of the serious digital...
FitBit: A Pocket Wii for New Year’s Health Resolutions
A new take on the Nike Plus (Nike +) physical tracking device has finally gone into fulfillment on its pre-orders. I am playing with confirming my pre-order within the week - right in time for CES, but had to wait a very long while for the pre-order to commit. As a...
2010 Media & Entertainment Predictions
2009 provided the best non-documentary film of the year in “The Hurt Locker” - it seems timely to take a few heroic stabs at predicting where media will be in the new year. Before 2009 times out in Los Angeles, a breakout of Media & Entertainment possibilities: DVD - “Hurt Locker”...
Last day of the year, and pulling out those excerpts that have been gathering dust in the draft box. Stay tuned for the New Medici network to go live in Q1 2010, as well as a breakdown of media companies for last year and going forward into the new year. via...
On today’s TenSpot - counting down to Vevo’s launch - how can it improve on the Hulu model and get subscriptions/micro and macro (macro being monthly/yearly subscriptions?) transactions; MySpace backgrounder from FT; Aardvark (Vark.com) social search eyed by Google - a blocking move for Eric Schmidt (@ericschmidt) on Twitter?; a...
Kenji Summers | The Future is Bright
400 Faces by Felix Morelo, originally uploaded by KenjiSummers. Public chalk artwork spotted on 14th st near Union Square (NYC). For more info: FelixMorelo.com Sent via my mobile office by AT&T Visit www.kenjisummers.com ...
Public School x Eastern District Gallery (Brooklyn) Event
I missed this event due to working late, but here is a video recap. The event featured art by Mario Bros, Aakash Nihilani and Cash4. For more info: Public School NYC and @publicschoolnyc ...
Me and my homies had to struggle so we over shine #G #RealG
Courtesy of @AinzNeal ...
My first day observation of Seth Godin’s #Linchpin
#Linchpin has 108 reviews on Amazon in less than 2 days. 93 of those reviews are 5 stars. That means 86% of people who have read (purchased) the book believe it is perfect. For increased retention I suggest purchasing the abridged (2 hours as supposed to the unabridged 8 hour version)...
1 freEP and 1 mixtape you need to listen to, TODAY
Oh, what’s the difference between a freEP and a mixtape, you ask? Well, they have a different flow and feel. A freEp I’ll play during times of reflection while mixtapes I’ll play when I want to get live. In addition, as you know, I don’t post many full-length projects on...
Pharrell Gives Keynote at MidemNet 2010
“An idea is just that until you have a team to help you manifest and help you bring it to fruition” – P *Pardon the bits of feedback during the video* Pharrell Keynote at MIDEM 2010 from thecashmerethinker on Vimeo. MidemNet is a conference that meets in Paris to discuss the music business...
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Open Innovation and the Power of Viral Marketing: Simple and Effective Lesson from General Mills
General Mills presented several of their open innovation initiatives at the recent CoDev conference. They are doing great work and I will post more about this later. In this post, I want to show an example of how open innovation…...
Crowdsourcing Is Not Always Open Innovation: Lesson from PepsiCo
We need to be careful about defining open innovation as this can have different meanings for different companies in different situations. Personally, I like to describe open innovation as a process in which a company bridges internal and external resources and…...
The Key Questions on Open Innovation
I am working to develop a list of questions that people who are interested in open innovation can use to gauge the state of corporate initiatives. The list can also be use for interviews with companies and thought leaders in this…...
Which Company is the Open Innovation Leader?
I just created a poll on LinkedIn in which I ask the question: Which company do you view as the open innovation leader across industries and geography? I could only add five response options. They are: • Procter & Gamble • General Mills •…...
True/False: B-t-B Companies Are Slow Adaptors of Open Innovation
As I am about to write a short post on why fast moving consumer goods companies such as P&G and General Mills lead the open innovation revolution, I keep getting back to an interesting question: Are business-to-business (B-t-B) companies slow…...
Good Reads, Videos and Discussions on Innovation #10
Here comes a list of reads, videos and LinkedIn discussions that I have enjoyed in the last couple of weeks. I hope you will enjoy this as well. You can follow me on Twitter: @lindegaard GOOD READS Internet Future Driven by User Reputation…...
Blue Ocean Strategy | Gabor George Burt on Creating Blue Ocean Strategy
Basking in blue oceans of “intelligent luxury”
What is the common link among all the companies that are successful in creating Blue Oceans? The answer can be distilled down to two words: Lifestyle enrichment. Companies that understand that they are not in the business of selling certain products or services, but rather in the business of...
Defying Conventional Wisdom: Herring Power
Defying Conventional Wisdom: Herring Power Blue Ocean Strategy is all about challenging conventional wisdom — questioning taken-for-granted assumptions, and overstepping industry boundaries. It’s a frame of mind of continuously questioning and searching for a different angle and fresh perspective. You can draw inspiration from everyday life, and train your mind...
Getting the Blue Ocean strategic sequence right — Step Three
Continuing in our series which takes a closer look at each step in the Blue Ocean strategic sequence, our focus advances to the third step — target costing. Once featured, each step is made accessible through the Blue Ocean Strategy Basicsarchive of this site. Today, we turn to pages 131...
We’d like to take a moment to congratulate our friends at SAS for being awarded the prestigious title of the ‘Best Company To Work For’ by Forbes Magazine. Given our association with SAS, via Gabor’s address at the company’s Global Forum in 2007, and his contribution to the recently-published...
Will Chile become the next Innovation powerhouse?
In our recent series covering Gabor’s high-profile visit to Chile, we wrote briefly about the pivotal elections taking place in Chile. During the campaign by Sebastian Pinera’s, Innovation became a focal issue in one of the only global economies to weather the recent global financial crisis. As a natural...
Getting the Blue Ocean strategic sequence right—Step Two
Continuing in our series which takes a closer look at each step in the Blue Ocean Strategy strategic sequence, our focus advances to the second step—specifying a level within the price corridor. Once featured, each step is made accessible through the Blue Ocean Strategy Basics archive . For the second...
The Art of Raising Venture Capital in 2010: Don’t Forget to Do Your Homework!
Turning Vision into Value If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, or if you’re visiting, please invite your friends and colleagues and join us for the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute’s Innovation Society 2009 Series… SVII "First Wednesday" Innovation Society Meeting February 3rd, 20106:00 - 9:30 p.m. Featured Program:...
Puzzles, Mysteries, and Muddles: Problem Solving and Innovation
Turning Vision into Value If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, or if you’re visiting, please invite your friends and colleagues and join us for the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute’s Innovation Society 2009 Series… SVII “First Wednesday” Innovation Society Meeting January 6th, 2010 6:00 - 9:30 p.m. Program: Puzzles, Mysteries, and Muddles:...
Masdar City, UAE: World’s First Carbon-Neutral, Zero-Waste Community
Turning Vision into Value Invite your friends and colleagues and join us for the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute’s Innovation Society 2009 Series… Next Meeting: Wednesday, December 2nd, 20096:00 - 9:30 p.m. Masdar City, UAE: World’s First Carbon-Neutral, Zero-Waste Community Guest Presenter: Karin Larsen, Masdar City Project Masdar City is the expression of a vision. It represents...
Invest in Innovation by Growing Creativity: How to Love and not Fear the “C” Word Behind Innovation
Creativity, a presentation by Jakob Denk View more presentations from Jakob Denk. (tags: gradient paper) In a recent Silicon Valley Watcher post, Founder/Publisher Tom Foremski blogged about “10 Reasons Why This is a Great Time to Invest in Innovation.” At the end of his post, which listed many excellent reasons why...
Tom Foremski Discusses Silicon Valley’s Role as the Global Engine of Innovation
Turning Vision into Value Invite your friends and colleagues and join us for the Silicon Valley Innovation Institute’s Innovation Society 2009 Series… Next Meeting: Wednesday, October 7, 2009 6:00-9:30 p.m. Guest Speaker: Tom Foremski, Publisher and Editor, Silicon Valley Watcher What are you observing lately, regarding Silicon Valley’s role as the global engine of innovation? Are...
Innovation Weblog
YourEncore.com finds new use for retired scientists, engineers as part of open innovation network
What happens to brilliant scientists and engineers when they retire, or are pushed into retirement by today's challenging economic conditions? Their knowledge, skills and wisdom walk out the door with them. YourEncore.com has a better idea. ...
Presented By: Blackberry Webinar: Web Development
Join us in an online discussion about the many exciting new web development tools for the BlackBerry Application Platform. Blackberry Developer Webinar >> Read more Ads by Pheedo ...
2nd Annual Innovation Climate Survey - Please Participate
Last February, I conducted InnovationTools' first ever Innovation Climate Survey. It's now time to see how things have changed for you and your company. ...
How to avoid open innovation failure
Make sure your internal innovation capabilities and processes are in order before you open up your idea and innovation strategy to the world. ...
A compilation of my video interviews and updates from the CoDev conference
During the 2010 CoDev and Open Innovation Conference in Scottsdale, AZ, I recorded a number of video interviews with key speakers. I also recorded two brief videos that summarize some of the key insights from each day of the conference. Here is a list of those videos with links for...
A summary of key insights from Day 1 of the 2010 CoDev and Open Innovation Conference
Chuck Frey provides a brief summary of some of the key learnings from the 2010 CoDev and Open Innovation Conference in Scottsdale, AZ. This 2-day conference took a deep dive into one of the hottest trends in the world of innovation. ...
Adaptive Path
Signposts for the Week Ending February 5, 2010
Don’t call them “whiteboards”! We most definitely find these bamboo dry erase boards compelling. We’re digging on these tips for crafting subtle & realistic user interfaces. Like everyone else, we’re itching to design for iPad. Already some folks have made it a little bit easier: Here’s a collection of iPad UI elements...
My spirit animal is slime mold and I’m not afraid to admit it. This stranger-than-fiction life form has become the poster child of self-organizing systems, and the experimentation is getting interesting. I’m a bona-fide member of the Slime Mold fan club, and it’s inspired a collection of thoughts about how...
Analytics – The Usability Lab of the new decade
Brandon started a discussion on an internal mailing list, asking, “The usability lab is now the ________ ?”, and explaining: 10 to 15 years ago the usability laboratory was the must-have for vetting and testing your design ideas. But more nimble development processes and new tools seem to have superseded the...
I tweeted a while back that it’s been discovered you can boost creativity with side-to-side eye movement. People who watched a target moving side-to-side for 30 seconds have been tested as producing significantly more ideas when immediately given a creative task. This technique is, “thought to increase the cross-talk between...
Signposts for the Week Ending January 29, 2010
This week we learned how to report the news. We also followed the release of a new touchscreen tablet and a whole lot of practically obligatory cheeky commentary, especially from MadTV. Okcupid’s blog has been fascinating lately, analyzing what factors affect the rate of messages (or replies) someone gets on their site....
Apple’s iPad and the importance of price
In the early 90’s, Tandy released one of the earliest PDA’s, the Zoomer. It cost $699, and was a flop. One of the architects of the product, Jeff Hawkins, left Tandy to strike out on his own with Palm Computing. He wrote down the four criteria that his PDA must...
InnExperience - Innovation goes bananas!!
Anti-Globalization Bill 2010 passed by America
America passes first Anti-Globalization Bill on 27th January 2010. Questions and comments for Obama....
G. Kameshwar, dons many hats effortlessly — that of a software architect, philanthropist, poet, blogger, writer, wanderer… ...
The end of consumer ignorance – Marketing Predictions for 2010
“What are key marketing trends and predictions for 2010?” The answers are fantastic. ...
Green The World … make it a better place.
Green the world ... make it a better place, for you and for me and the entire human race....
Building businesses around social technologies is like attempting to achieve the ideals of Communism using the methods of Capitalism. ...
Hello folks. I am Kamesh, an old friend of Sunil. We studied in the same school but went different ways, and after many years we suddenly came across each other, and realized that both of us have ended up in the same vocation – Farming! He invited me to his Ideafarm...
Innovation in Practice
The LAB: Innovating the iPad with Attribute Dependency (January 2010)
Apple's iPad creates a new category of consumer electronic somewhere between smart phones and notebook computers. Success depends on how well it embeds into our everyday routines at work, home, and elsewhere. Success also depends on how well it creates new routines. A great innovation tool...
Innovation Sighting: Task Unification with the iPhone
The iPhone is an incredible platform for innovation. As it becomes more popular, it invites even more innovation. Many of the iPhone's functions demonstrate the Task Unification template of the corporate innovation method called S.I.T.. Task Unification is a pattern of that assigns an additional job to...
Language and innovation are inseparable. Language puts meaning to our ideas, be it spoken, written, or symbolic. We convey ideas to others which is essential in corporate innovation. Innovation would be nearly impossible if we did not have language. If you want to improve your innovation...
Linking Innovation with Strategy
Innovation that is linked to strategy is seen as more realistic and supportable. Innovating is efficient because you avoid creating ideas that are out of scope. Firms struggle with this as Idris Mootee observed in his blog, Innovation Playground: "The most amazing thing with strategic...
Proposed Certificate Program in Innovation
Certificate programs are a way for universities and colleges to offer training that is less intensive and less expensive than traditional degree programs (baccalaureate, masters, doctoral). They are ideal for working professionals who want advanced training in highly focused areas. They are ideal for corporations as they are...
Innovation Sighting: The Multiplication Template and Virtual Reality
People are fascinated with the idea of human cloning after researchers cloned a sheep in 1997. The debate about the risks and benefits of human cloning rages on. What if you could clone yourself in a virtual sense? Even better, imagine cloning yourself into another person's body?...
Creativity & Innovation
The term “cross understanding” comes from a new article by George Huber and Kyle Lewis at UT Austin. It’s essentially a theoretical elaboration of the widespread observation that “T-Shaped” people result in more innovative collaborations.The term “T-shaped people” is usually attributed to Tim Brown of IDEO and a 2007 article...
Business Week* reports on a management fad from India, that goes by a Hindi slang word, jugaad (say joo-gaardh). It means “an improvisational style of innovation”. It’s “inexpensive invention on the fly”. It sometimes has negative connotations, like cutting corners. The idea is that it doesn’t have to be perfect...
Massively Collaborative Mathematics
I like this story from the 15 October 2009 issue of the journal Nature, about how a pair of blogs allowed dozens of contributors to collaboratively solve a theorem that no single mathematician had been able to solve: the Density Hales-Jewitt Theorem (DHJ for short). The mathematician who created the...
I’ve just read a classic psychological study* by Mary Gick and Susan McGarry, published in 1992. They conducted a series of four experiments to test whether your problem solving ability could be enhanced, if you had previously worked on a very similar type of problem. The target problem was the...
No, it’s not a band, it’s a writer’s collective in Bologna, Italy. This is the group that has collaboratively authored several best-selling novles, including Q and ‘54. Q was published under the name “Luther Blissett” (after a “cultural guerilla warfare” project in 1994 where hundreds of people around Europe pulled...
A new book by Michael Tomasello, Why We Cooperate, presents evidence that babies are born to be social and to help others. Tomasello argues that helping others is genetic, rather than learned. This is an important contribution to the “altruism” debate–why would a rational (i.e. self-interested) person expend energy helping...