Marketing Earthquakes: Nature Provides the Clue to Mega-Hits
In a different era, you would have learned about Didier Sornette’s work as a physicist by perusing the pages of selected academic journals. Sornette was …
New for 2012: TEG-powered Cat Warmer
Happy New Year! Before they left on vacation, our award-winning research staff was tasked to come up with an under-the-radar technology that will reshape our …
Happy Season of LED Light
I spotted this video too late, but in case you need additional seasonal lighting, consider this low-risk, high-brightness LED light project. All that’s required are …
NYU ITP Winter Show: Virtual Virtuousity
Even the iconic Wooden Mirror had gone completely virtual. Maybe it was me, but this wintry NYU ITP show seemed to be less physically endowed …
SkanzJr Disrupts Show-and-Tell
I sometimes think that social networking is wasted on the wrong demographics. Every teen and young adult lives in a Facebook networking haze, and professional …
Honestly, Now’s Advice Site is Open for Business
Honestly, Now is a personal advice site that I first saw demoed at Hoboken Tech Meetup in March. Started by Bob Petrie and Tereza Nemessany, …
Hacking Government at Last Night’s Personal Democracy Event
I was listening to Occupy Wall Street’s Beka Economopolous, and I couldn’t help it: my mind wandered to pitches I’ve heard in the startup world, …
And Now a Few Words From Our Keynote Speaker, Mohamed ElBaradei
When I was more actively going to big trade shows and conferences, the star speaker was usually a meaty high-level executive (of the biggest sponsor) …
Hack Artisans Present at Hack and Tell
I won’t pretend to have understood all of the 5-minute presentations given by members of this NYC hack community on their works-in-progress at last night’s …
Mutual Force: New Marketplace for Knowledge Transfer
New Jersey-based Mutual Force pinged us the other day about their upcoming beta service that pays former employees for their institutional wisdom. We have been …
Harvard Business Review Discovers Buzzwords
Guest blogger Dan Pallotta writing for HBR’s Blog Network has a post on the meaninglessness of most business conversations. Dan founded Pallotta TeamWorks, which runs …
Demo Night at General Assembly: Tech Hootenanny
General Assembly Demo Night is an informal tech gathering in which this startup community’s members learn about new projects and launches hatched within its comfy …
Best Bits From the FCC Report on AT&T Merger
So much to choose from! I’ve gotten through the first half of the FCC’s analysis of the AT&T-T-Mobile merger. To my utter lack of surprise, …
More Audio from The Singularity Summit
I finally got around to putting together another track of audio from The Singularity Summit.
Unleash App Inventor’s Small Biz Potential
A few weeks ago I received a review copy of Ralph Roberts’ “Google App Inventor” from the ebook publisher Packt Publishing. I took a quick …
Cisco Flames HP’s Non-Compete
In the mostly bland world of corporate blogging, we almost did a spit take with our espresso this morning while scanning Cisco’s “The Platform.” Mark …
NYU ITP Winter Show
NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program exists at that oft-referred-to intersection of art and technology. At their semi-annual shows, the public gets to see how students have …
US vs. AT&T: Pre-Trial Paper Wars
They argued over lists and schedules and experts witnesses and limitations placed on adverse witnesses and written versus oral testimony and perhaps the number of …
BridesView Unveiled
How quickly they grow up. First an idea is conceived at a long Startup Weekend, then the next thing you know the little tike is …
Steve Blank and the Startup Quest
You mean you never heard of Billy Durant, the real founder of General Motors? Durant was an early 20th century entrepreneur, whose series of pivots, …