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• 11.12.08
  PhizzPop New York Design Thinking, Design Tools, Food and Drink, Innovations, Microsoft, PhizzPop, PhizzPopChicago | (0)

  PhizzPop occurred in New York City on November 4th (Yes, THAT November 4th). Get a taste of what’s coming to Chicago on November 20th and register for this free event at www.phizzpop.com before we sell out (We’re getting close). See an alternate version of this video here. (You'll need and be prompted to install Silverlight to watch these videos.)
• 11.05.08
  Something new: BizSpark Business, Community, Current Affairs, Design Tools, Innovations, Microsoft, Technology | (0)

  Design Thinking Digest has been a bit of a ghost town lately and that’s largely due to two big efforts I’ve been focused on. One is the return of the PhizzPop Design Challenge Tour in the US (which I’ll talk about later) and a new program we announced today called BizSpark. Some background. It’s sometimes easy to forget the roots and heritage of a company like Microsoft. Like many great businesses of yore it wasn’t sketched on the back of napkin but formulated in a dorm room. It was started by folks with a sense of ...
• 10.09.08
  Looking Closer: The future of the startup Business, Community, Innovations, Web/Tech | (0)

  Starting with a post by Jason Calacanis we see that the hangover of our overinflated economy is starting to impact the lifeblood of innovation in our culture, the startup. I suspect things will get a bit worse until they get better but some of the best innovations of our time in business models and products have been borne of grim economic realities. Regardless if you’re in a start-up or not there are some important things to consider. If you’re a startup it’s time to give up the bread and circuses approach to running the business. Provable ...
• 08.09.08
  The Olympics Tipping Point: Why Television will never be the same. Business, Community, Current Affairs, Games, Innovations, Silverlight, Technology, Television | (0)

  I think the 2008 will be looked at as the year that television and how we think about broadcasting begin to alter into something that would be unrecognizable only a few years ago. The catalyst for this? NBC's broadcasting strategy for the 2008 Olympics. It's easy to look at what's disappointing about this effort (The lack of access to this great tool outside of the US and the somewhat challenging process of identifying your local NBC broadcaster but the benefits of NBC's actions and consumer demand will, I suspect, make these constraints go away in the future too. NBC ...
• 08.04.08
  I’m speaking at Webmaster Jam Session 2008 Design Thinking, Innovations, Speaking | (0)

  Want to get up close and personal with some of the best designer and Web developers in the country? Want to be inspired and get away from the same, old conference prattle? Then check out Webmaster Jam Sessions in it's new Atlanta home this year. Sean Seibel (Peer UXE) and myself will be talking about using the Web as a stepping stone for new ideas and concepts around social media by looking at the influence of gaming, imaging and robotics. This is a nice conference where you truly get to interact with the speakers during the sessions and ...
• 08.04.08
  I’ll be at the Sarasota International Design Summit Design Thinking, Innovations, Speaking | (0)

  Want to hear a variety of opinions on what's next for the Web? How social media should/could influence you as a marketer today and tomorrow? All those topics and more will be covered at one of the premier educational and design summits in Sarasota from October 27-28th. We'll talk big picture about design and it's business value and why we think RIAs (Rich Internet Experiences) will play off big-time in the future.
• 02.24.08
  Beautiful Applications Design Methods, Design Thinking, Design Tools, Expression Blend, Innovations, MIX | (0)

  Technorati Tags: Thirteen23,MixMe,Continuum There's a great deal of talk about how Vista (when compared to Windows XP) doesn't provide value to most users. I think much of this stems for the fact that we have yet to see many applications that truly take advantage of the platform and have created applications that make us feel good when we use them. Of all the numerous designers and firms I work with I'm not sure anyone understands that better (or is able to execute their vision better with WPF and Vista) that a firm by the name of Thirteen23. Some of the ...
• 02.06.08
  The Ultimate Mash-Up: Stephen P. Anderson and Design Community, Design Thinking, Design Tools, Education, Innovations, Speaking | (0)

  Technorati Tags: Stephen P. Anderson,Design,Star Wars,The Force Behind Star Wars,George Lucas Any one that is active in local communities such as Refresh or IxDA or has attended an Adaptive Path conference has some passing experience with Stephen P. Anderson. Stephen just went out to start his own thing recently after a tenure at Sabre and I think he's one of our most cogent thinkers in the design space. But he also knows how to have fun in going about that inspiration. See the presentation below for example. Back in December I had a chance to see George Lucas speak in ...
• 02.06.08
  Design Inspiration for my IxDA Talk Conferences, Design Methods, Design Thinking, Innovations, Speaking, Tangents | (0)

  At the upcoming IxDA Interaction 08 conference in Savannah I'll be giving an abbreviated version of my classic design talk. I'll play spoiler here and say that much of what we think is pioneering today had it's roots and was even mastered far before most of us were here. In light of that of that I'll simply provide a link to this video that shows how much of our past is related to our present and our future in ways that are far more compatible than we think. Special thanks to former colleague John Tolva, whose earlier post ...
• 02.03.08
  There Will Be Blood: Why the Web 3.0 Will Be More 1.0 Than 2.0 by Chris Bernard Conferences, Design Methods, Design Thinking, Innovations, Speaking | (0)

  | View | Upload your ownThis is an update on my 'Marketing's Perfect Storm' talk that goes deeper into the technology and economic landscape and looks at how much social media is influencing this space. It also delves a little bit into how Microsoft perceives the digital marketing landscape both on the Web and beyond it. Yes, a ScreenCast is coming.

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