Category Archives: Intelligence

Happiness

Invest in the process of something to get hapiness, rather than focussing on the outcome (which is likely to be disappointing in relation to your expectations). Seems  a very smart philosophy, from Srikumar Rao. John Wooden never got his UCLA basketball team to focus on the winning, but on playing as well as they could. They’d [...]
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Augmented Reality Maps at TED

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Hyper local blogs, stories, are overlaid onto the maps, which can easily flip from a birds’ eye view to 45 degree Sim City style landscape, and then flow into a full 3D environment with their equivalent of street view. Immense.
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Future of Magazines is Digital

Mag+ from Bonnier on Vimeo. Creative Review has an article looking at the future of magazines as a digital media. Clearly, the impact of the iPhone on touch screen technology in every day use, getting users comfortable with it etc, has been huge.
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Billion Pound-O-Gram

Information is Beautiful just came into the office to give a charming talk about, well, the beauty – and power – of data visualisation. Above is one of the thought provoking pieces that David McCandless put together for The Guardian, which puts the huge abstract numbers and costs that are bandied about by government into [...]
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felix’s machines

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The world through the eyes of a 9 year old

If you want to see the future, look at how childhood has changed rather than technology. PSFK The decade according to 9-year-olds from allison louie-garcia on Vimeo.
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How to influence (online) behaviour

  Culled and adapted from the original article at DoshDosh, the LoneGunMan has put together a list of how to influecne people online. I’d suggest it’s relevant to real world influence too, but certainly to influential marketing. Show ratings and reviews by other users (for action through social validation). Provide instant gratification and a quick fix. Put the most important [...]
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Josh Harris again…

Spotted this article about Josh Harris in the Film/Docu section of Guardian online. Photograph: David Rentas/New York Post
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Participation Theory

I was told about participation theory recently so I thought I’d share the 5 principals that need to be clear when enticing particpation. I believe that these theories came about in the context of online or digital particpation principally, but I see them as having broader application, frankly. The principals come first from Peter Kollock, author [...]
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TED – The opportunity for positive change out of the recession

This TED talk explores the positive shifts that have arisen out of the otherwise negative recession 1. Less excess allows you to be more nimble in life, less frivolous spending (i.e: less bling, high end haggling in luxury sector, blue-collar yacht clubs, agricultural tourism) 2. Ethics, empathy, respect demanded from businesses that now have to provide value [...]
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