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Want More Productive Workers? Adjust Your Thermostat
Some years back, the Campbell Soup Company stumbled upon a marketing insight worthy of Don Draper. If you want to predict when people will buy soup, the reasoning goes, you have to look beyond the...
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How To Move Past The "Everything's Been Done" Trap And Find Your Next Great Idea
Have you ever felt the sheer terror of a stark white document? Have you raged at your inability to simply tap your keyboard and put down just one semi-original thought? Yes, you have. Everybody has,...
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Microsoft Acts Swiftly On Internet Explorer Zero-Day Flaw
Microsoft is offering up free security software after it discovered a security hole in some versions of its Internet Explorer browser. The firm is working to repair the flaw, which can be exploited by...
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Lessons From One Company's "Near-Death Experience"
Reggie Aggarwal is the founder and CEO of Cvent, which he used to describe as something like “Evite for conferences.” (He doesn’t say that anymore, with Evite mostly obsolescent among young Facebook...
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Apple's Jony Ive Teaming With Leica To Design One-Off Camera For Charity
Jony Ive, perhaps the best-known Apple employee--yes, the one responsible for the iconic designs of the company's products--is jumping ship to Leica. Not permanently, you understand, just for a one-off...
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Amazon Cloud Player Launches In Parts Of Europe
Cloud Player, Amazon's music storage system, has made it over to Europe, 18 months after the service launched in the States. The service--free space for 250 songs--is available in France, Germany, and...
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New BBC Chief Reveals His Vision: Online Is The Future
George Entwhistle, the new director-general of the BBC, addressed staff this morning for the first time in his new capacity as capo di tuti capi of the organization. And, in an about turn from his...
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How To Make Your Employees Feel Like Superheroes
I once got this in a message from a former employee: When I worked for you, I thought I was Superman. I have occasionally reflected on why that was. Not sure I know all the answers, but the things I do...
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Designers are to businesses what architects are to malls: they define and...
Designers are to businesses what architects are to malls: they define and differentiate experiences, and of course, improve them. Attribution: Andrei Gonzales, Commenter, "Why Good Design Is Finally A...
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AccuQuote CEO Byron Udell On How Mistakes Can Build Trust
People understand that mistakes get made, says AccuQuote CEO Byron Udell. And, if handled the right way, they can build trust between company and customer.
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Ship First And Ask Questions Later: How Fondu Made Its Mobile App More Tasty
No one cares where their cell phone thinks they should eat dinner. Too bad Gauri Manglik only learned that after spending a year developing SpotOn, a mobile app that provided people with personalized...
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Why Books Are The Ultimate New Business Card
“You don’t understand,” the three-time, big-six published author told me. “Books aren’t designed for you, the customer. Today, non-fiction books are business cards--for speaking, consulting, and...
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Behold, The Very First Documentary Shot With Google Goggles
It’s a new era for first-person documentaries and celebrity/geek synergy.
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Twitter Redesigns Its Mobile UI, And Looks More Like Facebook
New mobile apps from Twitter show that the company is bending toward the more visual web.
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This Airplane Combines All The Fuel-Saving Technologies Airlines Will Use In...
Boeing’s latest airplane won’t be carrying any passengers. Instead, the ecoDemonstrator is a test-bed for cutting edge tech that will hopefully one day make air travel more efficient.
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A Former iPhone UI Designer Defends Apple's Fake-Leather Design Philosophy
In defending Apple’s use of skeuomorphism, a former Apple designer offers a wealth of smart insights about UI design.
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Kickstarting: A Digital Photo Frame Puts Instagram On Your Mantle
Instacube displays Instagram feeds on a touch screen. Does anyone still need an old-school approach to photo sharing?
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Lasers, 3-D Printers, And Robots: The New Shop Class
DARPA is funding the creation of 1,000 Makerspaces in high schools across the country to get American kids interested in making things again.
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7 Ways Kate White Teases Out Bold, Brilliant Ideas
One of the reasons for the success you have today is that along the way you must have had a few damn good ideas. Perhaps you suggested to your boss some clever way to trim costs, or you came up with a...
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Visualizing Civic Data To Make The Case For Civic Health
A new contest found four online tools that help people be more engaged in politics and their communities--from finding out which candidates' policies help you more to archives of photos of your...
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