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Meir Statman on risk taking and emotions of investors.

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 02:29:54 +0200

Meir Statman on risk taking and emotions of investors.

springwise: From France, an espresso machine for the car We’ve...

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:15:04 +0200

From France, an espresso machine for the car

We’ve seen a number of innovations designed to help consumers get a good cup of coffee wherever they happen to be. One we hadn’t seen, however, is a brewing device for the car — until now, that is. New from French Handpresso, the Handpresso Auto E.S.E. is an espresso machine built specifically for use in automobiles. READ MORE…

thekhooll: Bump Launches Payments App To Let You Share Money By...

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 16:23:33 +0200

thekhooll:

Bump Launches Payments App To Let You Share Money By Tapping Phones Together

You’ve likely been in the following situation. You get dinner with a friend at restaurant that only takes cash. You grab the bill and tell your friend to pay you back when he has some cash. Of course, then you have to wait until you see him next, and even then you’ll likely forget about the $15.Bump Pay, a new app being released today for the iPhone and Android phones, is all about making sure you get that money on the spot by using something people rarely forget at home — smartphones.

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Gian Fulgoni from comScore on the future of e-commerce.

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:38:04 +0200

Gian Fulgoni from comScore on the future of e-commerce.

mediafuturist: futuresagency: This is a new video with a short...

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 02:06:15 +0200

mediafuturist:

futuresagency:

This is a new video with a short and to-the-point interview with TFA’s CEO, Gerd Leonhard, produced by marketing magazine The Drum at Digital London, about the future of social media and how it will impact us. Most important: in a digital society, you can’t FORCE people to pay, you can only ATTRACT them to pay.

Related articles

New video: MIDEM Academy 2012: Making a living with music in a digital world (mediafuturist.com)

New audio / video interview on the future of branding, business and the Internet (incl. some comments on SOPA), via TribeRadio (mediafuturist.com)

Video interview with Green Futurist Gerd Leonhard, review of… (greenfuturist.com)

fastcompany: Can you teach robots to stop spamming me? In a...

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 22:16:35 +0200

fastcompany:

Can you teach robots to stop spamming me?

In a recent paper (PDF), researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology discuss how humans can make sure that robots don’t get out of line.

Roboethics: Three Ways To Make Sure That Future Robots Have Morals

"Our clickstreams, search history, likes, tweets, photos, and so on and so forth is our data and we..."

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:05:59 +0200

“Our clickstreams, search history, likes, tweets, photos, and so on and so forth is our data and we should have the ability to control it, delete it, and limit how it is used.”

- Venture capitalist Fred Wilson has some very interesting thoughts on on-line privacy:

There are signs that Washington is gearing up to do something big in the area of online privacy. The FTC put out a report earlier this week and the White House called for a “privacy bill of rights” last month. Both have asked Congress to act on this issue.

I thought I’d lay out some basic thoughts and principals on the data we create, share, and curate on the open Internet.

1 - Our clickstreams, search history, likes, tweets, photos, and so on and so forth is our data and we should have the ability to control it, delete it, and limit how it is used. That seems like a basic right that should be available to everyone who uses the Internet.

2 - Those who do not want to be tracked should have the ability to opt-out of being tracked. The Do Not Track industry self regulation effort (in browsers, ad networks, etc) is long overdue and I hope we see real usable tools soon. The FTC expects these tools by year end. I hope they are right.

More (all 7 points): Some Thoughts On Online Privacy

"Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for..."

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:23:29 +0200

“Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.”

- Henry Ford

"This new class of micro-entrepreneurs is doing the same thing MBAs have been shouting about in..."

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:19:48 +0200

“This new class of micro-entrepreneurs is doing the same thing MBAs have been shouting about in boardrooms for years — diversifying their revenue streams.”

- Leah Busque on Why Independent Employment Is Killing the Nine to Five Job

I’ve been shouting about this very subject, myself! Diversify your income!

@mini_utne

(via moneyisnotimportant)

Ad man Rory Sutherland on small, simple solutions for big...

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:35:40 +0200

Ad man Rory Sutherland on small, simple solutions for big problems of human behaviour. (TED 2010)

fastcompany: Using techniques imported from Toyota, Herman...

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:52:27 +0200

fastcompany:

Using techniques imported from Toyota, Herman Miller has achieved stunning efficiency while empowering its workers.

An American-Made Miracle: How Your Aeron Chair Gets Built In 17 Seconds

See all the photos->

thenextweb: (via Get Behind The Wheel Of Google’s Self-Driving...

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:39:03 +0200

thenextweb:

(via Get Behind The Wheel Of Google’s Self-Driving Car [video])

Warren Buffett's $50 Billion Decision

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:54:00 +0200

Warren Buffett's $50 Billion Decision:

A story on how Warren Buffett started his business - by Warren Buffett.

I certainly did not want to sell securities to other people again. But by pure accident, seven people, including a few of my relatives, said to me, “You used to sell stocks, and we want you to tell us what to do with our money.”

oldads: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120321/17385918193/ou...

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:52:35 +0200

oldads:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120321/17385918193/our-gift-to-authors-guild-ad-brick-mortar-book-stores.shtml

That’s what I call nostalgia.

"B2B companies that narrowly focus on product and price are doing the bare minimum required to..."

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:38:00 +0200

“B2B companies that narrowly focus on product and price are doing the bare minimum required to survive.”

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Creating impact requires providing a meaningful change in a customer’s productivity or profitability.

First, you must articulate what makes your company different from your competitors and reinforce that difference at every customer touchpoint.

These are fragments of an useful article at Gallup Management Journal: Creating Impact in B2B Relationships.

"And human nature hasn’t changed much in 5,000 years. There’s this thing of greed versus..."

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:30:00 +0200

“And human nature hasn’t changed much in 5,000 years. There’s this thing of greed versus fear. The market’s going up, you’re not worried. All of a sudden it starts going down and you start saying, “I remember my uncle told me, you know, somebody lost it all in the Depression.”

- Peter Lynch

How to handle too much data and be smart

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:06:00 +0200

The key to success in the world of too much data is ignorance. But you need to be really good at it. Quality ignorance makes you a tactical, well working filter. You don’t need to know everything - in fact, it’s impossible. You just need to know a few right things.

More about that: What Science Wants to Know by Stuart Firestein

Sure, you have to know a lot to be a scientist, but knowing a lot is not what makes a scientist. What makes a scientist is ignorance.

Scientists and laypeople alike would agree that for all we have come to know, there is far more we don’t know. More important, everyday there is far more we know we don’t know.

Adam Savage talks about scientific discoveries at...

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:24:00 +0200

Adam Savage talks about scientific discoveries at TEDed.

It’s all about ideas that anyone can have. Sometimes very simple and obvious things can inspire you to discover something great. Scientific discoveries that look complicated are usually based on an inspiration and a bunch of simple steps.

"We need at least two hundred crazy people who think their idea alone can solve this."

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 01:52:25 +0200

““We need at least two hundred crazy people who think their idea alone can solve this.””

- Speaking to the Wall Street Journal’s Eco:nomics conference, Bill Gates sounded the call for ambitious entrepreneurs willing to explore cutting-edge avenues of energy exploration, from clean power to carbon capture. (Via GigaOM)

"I don’t want a lot of good investments; I want a few outstanding ones."

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:53:17 +0200

“I don’t want a lot of good investments; I want a few outstanding ones.”

- Philip A. Fisher