Yves Béhar of Fuseproject pulls a 2008 Brit Insurance Design Award for his rugged, low-power laptop design for the One Laptop per Child project. I saw the laptop during a session at SXSW (pictures below). It (and the purpose it serves) rocks!
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Starbucks got into crowdsourcing (share/vote/discuss/see) with My Starbucks Idea. Reviews are mixed to negative. The move highlights a few important questions. Where is the dividing line between a suggestion box and a community? And what do you do when your community speaks out in favor of a move that doesn’t fit your corporate strategy? I suspect the answer to the latter helps define the answer to the former. As for me, I’m voting for the high-protein breakfast food (pre-built pastries… blech!). Or maybe not… read my lips… how… about… OpenID… people!
I won’t be going to the PSFK Conference in New York this week. I was taking a nap and the tickets sold out. Damn! Of interest, Andrew Hoppin of NASA, who was responsible for NASA CoLab, a collaborative community that exists both in physical space and the virtual world. In his words, “Collaborative co-working is putting more people on the creative ‘edges’ of workgroups by fostering informal but vocationally relevant peer to peer interaction across boundaries of bureaucracy, organization, and in the case of NASA with Second Life, physical geography.”
I’m trying to keep up with the new innovation blogs out there. Innovation is actually how we wound up here today. InnoBlogger is a heady innovation blog by the founder of InnoCentive, an innovation-focused company that takes problems, frames them as challenges, and allows anyone to attempt to solve them. I’ve been reading about Edison and Archimedes. It’s kind of like reading a math book—about 4 hours a post to read and digest.
- Bandit
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