mad dog in the fog

"…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."

"What you're seeing in the industry's reaction to the iPad is nothing less than future shock."

Initial reaction to the first iPod back in 2001. Sounds very similar to the reaction to the iPad – highlighting everything it *doesn’t* do.

Now officially available on Chrome for Windows

"The 99 most popular emerging songs in the world"

"…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."

"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."

Companies like Dropbox can't be happy about this

Interesting visualization of Netflix rental patterns by neighborhood

A new generation of mobile-phone software is helping consumers shop smarter this holiday season.

Rare snowfall in the Bay Area