mad dog in the fog

• SFGate Food — Food Carts
  Shows Bay Area food carts on a Google map, twitter feed for Bay Area food carts, etc.
  (tags: bayarea foodcarts googlemaps)

• Apple iPad and the Radical Innovation of Meaning « I’m Not Actually a Geek
  "…design-driven innovation is not a “follow the trends” approach. “Trends” are what any company can do. Rather, it’s deciding that conditions are right to introduce a product that plumbs changes previously unexplored in your industry."
  (tags: ipad apple innovation design)

• Fraser Speirs – Blog – Future Shock
  "What you're seeing in the industry's reaction to the iPad is nothing less than future shock."
  (tags: apple ipad usability)

• Apple’s New Thing (iPod) – Mac Forums
  Initial reaction to the first iPod back in 2001. Sounds very similar to the reaction to the iPad – highlighting everything it *doesn’t* do.
  (tags: apple ipod ipad)

• Google Chrome Extensions
  Now officially available on Chrome for Windows
  (tags: googlechrome chrome.extensions)

• We Are Hunted – The Online Music Chart
  "The 99 most popular emerging songs in the world"
  (tags: music musicdiscovery)
• My Customer, My Co-Innovator
  "…many companies resist the idea of bringing in customers as innovation partners. Eric von Hippel, head of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management, hypothesizes that internal innovators frequently view customer innovators as rivals who might undermine their creative role."
  (tags: innovation productmanagement)

• Corner Office – Structure? The Flatter the Better, says Cristóbal Conde – Question – NYTimes.com
  "If the very best people leave, then the people you’ve got left actually require more micromanagement. Eventually, they get chased away, and then you’ve got to invest in a whole apparatus of micromanagement. Pretty soon, you’re running a police state. So micromanagement doesn’t scale because it spirals down, and you end up with below-average employees in terms of motivation and ability."
  (tags: collaboration)

I saw two of my favorite artists – Glen Phillips and Grant Lee Phillips – last night at Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse in Berkeley last night.  Both performances were great.  They played a couple of songs together:

• Solar Flare
• Fountain of Youth

photo by Flickered! (complete set)

• Google Docs gets file storage: Is this the GDrive? | Web Crawler – CNET News
  Companies like Dropbox can't be happy about this
  (tags: googledocs filesharing google)

• A Peek Into Netflix Queues – NYTimes.com
  Interesting visualization of Netflix rental patterns by neighborhood
  (tags: movies visualization)