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Kei Shimada Discusses Japanese Innovation
Click here to watch Kei Shimada Japan innovated the mobile internet, QR codes, app stores, and digital broadcast TV. Today the nation’s innovation continues, with cars that generate electricity for your home, vending machines with facial recognition, an app that reads … Continue reading
Curiosity Didn’t Kill The Cat, It Created The Mousetrap
Chimpanzees do it. Birds do it. Rubberneckers do it. “Everybody is curious,” declares Dr. Henry Weisinger, author of the best-seller Nobody’s Perfect. “It’s an instinct that is hard-wired. To explore or investigate our environment is life-enhancing. Organizations that are interested … Continue reading
Are You Listening?
Today, there are so many different kinds of people, so many voices on blogs, tweets and txts. Scanner data and quantitative analyses are stored not in mountains of data, but in cloud banks. And more and more “real time” information … Continue reading
Food Waste Infographic Shows What Food Gets Fed
While working on a food waste project for the United Nations, Thinktopia discovered that it was not just the food itself that was being wasted. The hidden waste is the resources it takes to create our food: water, fuel, energy, … Continue reading
Thinktopia Attends Big Data Breakfast With Danny Meyer
Thinktopia partners Patrick Hanlon and Susan Cantor attend Union Square Hospitality Group March 13 breakfast event with famed New York City restuaranteur Danny Meyer. “Hospitality is all about people doing something for you, not to you,” says Meyer.
Why Korea Needs To Become A Brand
Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co. announced Tuesday that it capped its best year ever with another record quarterly profit. Korean car manufacturer Hyundai announced another year of record auto sales—double digits over the previous year’s record-breaking sales. South Korean rapper Psy’s … Continue reading
Backed By Popular Demand: Social Videos Skyrocket In 2013
Jerry Seinfeld rolls across the 59th Street Bridge heading for Queens and Silvercup Studios. The car he is driving, a signal red 1970 Mercedes 280SL convertible, is a prop, as are the Rolls Royce, Porsche, and VW microbus Seinfeld uses in later … Continue reading
Branding The (UN)Brand
In a recent New York Times Magazine, writer (and fledgling psychotherapist) Lori Gottlieb bemoans her entry into the grim circus of capitalism. Recently graduated, she finds herself in a Manhattan market chockfull of psychotherapists (go figure). She must now, to her … Continue reading
What Do Lady Gaga, Ted Branson, Lululemon, Know About Listening?
In a webex sponsored by uberVU a few weeks ago, Lady Gaga’s social media expert Jaunique Sealey announced that “listening is innovation”. Virgin founder Ted Branson advises new business owners to listen more than they talk in a LinkedIn blog. … Continue reading
Mini-Retail Becomes Big, Bigger, Biggest Thing
This holiday season, GameStop is launching 80 Holiday pop-up stores. These mini-retail sites are crammed with the toys kids love: Lego, Angry Birds, Hello Kitty, and more. No line extensions or cheap knock-offs. There just isn’t room. Microsoft, Amazon, Bonobos, … Continue reading