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Archive for August, 2007

innovation toy

Posted by maz on August 24th, 2007

About 20 years ago when I was playing with this colorful toy bricks I wouldn’t have imagined that the manufacturer LEGO would once market a special edition for innovation. But now they have a product line called “SERIOUS PLAY“. According to the producer it can be used to: Find out who you are and where [...]

web 3.0

Posted by maz on August 22nd, 2007

My prediction would be that Web 3.0 would ultimately be seen as applications that are pieced together [and that share] a number of characteristics: the applications are relatively small; the data is in the cloud; the applications can run on any device – PC or mobile phone; the applications are very fast and they’re very [...]

brute-force design

Posted by maz on August 21st, 2007

Due to the the recent terrible bridge collapse Stephan Wolfram thought about possible ways to find new bridge designs. The way he suggests is to utilize the power of computers and start a kind of “brute-force design”. The idea is to use simple programs to generate vast numbers of possible bridge designs—say, different possible layouts [...]

gap between ambition and execution

Posted by maz on August 20th, 2007

Too many companies are talking the talk, but not walking the walk of innovation. James Todhunter (Innovating To Win)

Happy Birthday CD!

Posted by maz on August 18th, 2007

Exactly 25 years ago the first Compact Disc was produced in a German factory. The first commercial CDs pressed were The Visitors by Abba and a recording of Herbert von Karajan conducting the Alpine Symphony by Richard Strauss. (BBC News) Credit: Wikipedia So there are at least three reasons for me to pay tribute to [...]


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