TED conference moving to Vancouver.
Greg Klassen, the senior vice-president of marketing for the Canadian Tourism Commission, one day in December, was summoned to a confidential meeting at Tourism Vancouver.
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End-ups are old companies and institutions that want to be become more like start-up, and startups want to become more like end-ups.
At the DLD Conference in Munich, John Maeda, President of RISD, sat onstage with the co-founder and CPO of Airbnb, Joe Gebbia. They discussed the unique creative culture at Rhode Island School of Design, where Joe went to college, and where John currently serves as president. Joe shared some of his secrets of being a successful designer-founder. He asked John what it’s like to run a 136-year-old institution like RISD.
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The Chrysler Group LLC aired a very photographic commercial during the 2013 Super Bowl. This was their second during the Super Bowl, called “Farmer,” and it was for the Auburn Hills-based automaker’s Ram truck brand.
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Mars One
Mars One is a fascinating tale of a private-sector mission to put humans on Mars. They will be left there, no round-trip ticket, to build a new civilization.
Continue reading… “Bas Lansdorp got angel money to build a permanent colony on Mars”
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A new Kickstarter project has been launched by the DeltaMaker team to develop an elegant personal 3D printer.
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Digital technology is changing both how words and ideas are created and proliferate, and how they are studied.
The fundamental building blocks of language and culture are words and phrases, much as genes and cells are to the biology of life. Words are how we express ideas. Tracing their origin, development, and spread is not just an academic pursuit but a window into a society’s intellectual evolution.
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Futurist Thomas Frey: A recent TEDx talk about solving traffic jams started by asking the simple question, “Who is in charge of the daily bread supply for the city of London?”
Continue reading… “Micro Credits: A Tool for Self-Organizing the Complex World of Education”
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Tech Crunch has picked Coursera as the 2012 Crunchies’ “Best Overall Startup” for 2012. Coursera was chosen because more than anything else our country is heading into a period where higher education and job training is not catching up with the pace of innovation. The creative part of “creative destruction” has not yet kicked in. Coursera has opened up access to proprietary content, over 200 courses from over 33 top international and domestic schools like Stanford and Princeton and is one of the bright points of light pointing towards value and job creation in the creative space.
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Netflix CEO Reed Hastings
Netflix is guaranteed to make the cable industry nervous with its plan to disrupt the industry. “The traditional entertainment ecosystem is built on (managed dissatisfaction), and it’s a totally artificial concept,” Netflix CEO Reed Hastings tells GQ’s Nancy Hass. “The point of managed dissatisfaction is waiting.”
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The death of traditional retailers.
Sarah Lacy, founder and editor-in-chief of PandoDaily spoke with Marc Andreessen yesterday about ShoeDazzle’s rapid decline and subsequent rapid turn-around, She asked Andreessen if he has seen anything quite so dramatic in the startup world.
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Facebook made two pennies per user per month.
A billion people offer their two cents every month to Facebook, literally. That’s about how much income Facebook generated per user each month over the last quarter.
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Traditional retailers are successfully using mobile apps to attract the lion’s share of consumer attention. The retailers’ share of consumer time spent in shopping apps grew to 27 percent of the total in December, up from 15 percent a year prior, according to Flurry.
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