February 7, 2007

Apocalyptic Innovation

This video clip is from the beginning to Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 landmark film Apocalypse Now. If you turn up the volume on your PC, you'll hear some great music by The Doors. The lyrics are some of the most beautifully haunting in all of rock-and-roll: "This is the end / Beautiful friend / This is the end / My only friend, the end / Of our elaborate plans, the end / Of everything that stands, the end / No safety or surprise, the end / I'll never look into your eyes...again / Can you picture what will be / So limitless and free / Desperately in need...of some...stranger's hand/ In a...desperate land..."

Which is all a way of saying that this is the end of the Business Innovation Insider. I hope that you will join me at a new place on the web called Endless Innovation. (The name of the blog actually has several meanings, one of which ties in to the Doors song, and another to the final line of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species). All questions and comments, please direct to the following: basulto@gmail.com. Let's picture what will be, so limitless and free!

[video: Apocalypse Now]

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February 2, 2007

February 2 Innovation linkage, Super Bowl Style

A study of Silicon Valley's technology evangelists [Guy Kawasaki]
The exhibition title of the year [Richard Florida]
Larry Keeley on innovation [Success Books]
The most innovative engineering creations of 2006 [EDN]
Brain activity provides novel biometric key [New Scientist]
An innovative crime that will give any parent nightmares [New York Times]
Turning an industrial site into a green space for art [Olympic Sculpture Park]
Lenovo's "innovation triangle" includes Raleigh [WRAL.com]
The introspective leader's advantage [Management Issues]
The first thing ever sold on eBay [I did not know that yesterday!]

[video: Bryan Griffin of Chicago's Lyric Opera] (sorry, Colts fans!)

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January 30, 2007

January 30 innovation linkage

IBM Crowd-Sources With Many Eyes [InternetNews.com]
Even Experts Have Difficulty Understanding Web 3.0 [Daily Yomiuri]
What's next at DARPA? [Computerworld]
Do prizes spur innovation? [David Wessel]
A peek inside the world of Yahoo! Research [Financial Express]
Microsoft tackles immortal computing [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]
The future of robotics [Living on Earth]
Brazilian outsourcing takes off [Wall Street Journal]

[image: A robot that scouts for hazardous asteroids]

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January 22, 2007

January 22 innovation linkage

Hot corporations know how to swing [USA Today]
You are what you expect [New York Times Magazine]
A Tower of Babel for the technology world [BoingBoing]
Bats In Flight Reveal Unexpected Aerodynamics [Science Daily]
China is now #2 in R&D spending [Motley Fool]
55 Pics from the Intel IT Innovation Center [Tiny Screenfuls]
Brazilian prostitutes on the fashion catwalk [Reuters]
A review of the Design Life Now show at the Cooper-Hewitt [Core 77]
A free online comic adaptation of George Orwell's 1984 [1984 comic]

[video: Kiefer Sutherland in Japanese "24" commercial]

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January 18, 2007

January 18 Innovation Linkage

Portugal views India as a symbol of innovation [The Hindu]
Innovative landscapes created by your Web browser [Packet Garden]
Britain must wake up to Asian innovation [Guardian Unlimited]
Desktop fabricator may kick-start home revolution [New Scientist Tech]
The 100 most evolutionarily diverse species on the planet [EDGE Project]
An innovative way to keep hotel guests happy [New York Times]
Clap Your Hands, Say Innovation [PSFK]
The Canadian Pillow Fight League goes international [Yahoo! News]
Major Blends Aesthetic, Technical Skills [Daily Northwestern]

[image: Windows sushi]

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January 15, 2007

Martin Luther King Day innovation linkage

Martin Luther King, Jr.: social innovator [Innovation Ecosystems]
Making the innovation pitch [Killer Innovations podcast]
A manifesto for experimentation [Joseph Jaffe]
Has the backlash against Apple started? [Randall Stross]
The making of the world's best airplane [New York Times Magazine]
How Legos are made [Popandco.com]
A personal annual report for your stakeholders [Information Aesthetics]
The insanity of bottled water [Tree Hugger]

[video: "I Have a Dream"]

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January 12, 2007

January 12 innovation linkage

"Inside the Innovation Elite" webinar series [Innovation Weblog]
A periodic table of visualization methods [Visual Literacy]
GM resurrects the electric car [Wired News]
The California innovation agenda [Mercury News]
5 Keys to Improving Innovation Success [Heads Up! on Innovation]
Sweet-and-sour postage stamps from China [Ananova]
The science of procrastination [CNET News.com]
Is this the company of the future? [Fast Company]
Flesh and Blood Avatars [We Make Money Not Art]

[image: AirScooter Prepares for Lift-Off]

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January 5, 2007

January 5 innovation linkage

P&G to showcase innovation in Cincinnati [Cincinnati Business Courier]
Jimmy Wales and Wikipedia to take on Google? [BuzzFeed]
Why innovative basketballs suck [CIO Magazine]
Inside Seagate's R&D labs [Wired News]
Innovative Japanese robots [BBC News]
A Q&A with six IT rock stars [Computerworld]
Vibrating vest could send alerts to soldiers [New Scientist]
What meetings are like with Steve Jobs [Guardian Unlimited]

[image: Pop CSI: How Science Conquered TV]

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January 3, 2007

January 3 Innovation Linkage

Inside eBay's Innovation Machine [CIO Insight]
The most amazing and creative ideas of 2006 [Creative Generalist]
The Entrepreneur's New Year's Resolution [Bill Reichert via Guy Kawasaki]
So, is AT&T innovative or not? [Tom Peters]
Gaming and learning [Edge Perspectives]
The future of energy innovation [Winston-Salem Journal]
MBA students visit Israel to learn about innovation [Israel 21c]
Creative calendar designs for 2007 [Information Aesthetics]

[image: The AppleMini]

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December 22, 2006

Have yourself an innovative little Christmas

[image: Christmas lights from Ian Wilson on Flickr]

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December 19, 2006

December 19 innovation linkage

Booz Allen Hamilton's Global Innovation 1000 [Strategy + Business]
Grooming Next-Generation Leaders [HBS Working Knowledge]
Innovation vs. Corporate Culture cartoon [Scott Adams]
Wharton's global forecast for 2007 [Knowledge @ Wharton]
Should you fire the creative enfant terrible? [Bob Sutton]
Embracing the naive prospect [Seth Godin]
Second Life Gets a Tabloid [PSFK]
Quebec unveils $1.2 billion innovation strategy [LabCanada.com]

[video: "Volume" at the Victoria and Albert Museum]

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December 13, 2006

December 13 innovation linkage

The Google patent for search page design [Google Blogoscoped]
Is Yahoo swimming in Red Oceans or Blue Oceans? [Edge Perspectives]
Crowd-sourced innovation at Netflix [Influx Insights]
YouTube releases Test Tube, a feature incubator [Futurelab blog]
Use the Nike + iPod Sports Kit with any shoes [Sci Fi Tech]
10 Things About Writing Your First Business Book [Church of the Customer]
Guy Kawasaki ponders his next book [Guy Kawasaki]

[image: Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics]

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November 22, 2006

A side dish of innovation with your Thanksgiving turkey

Tom Peter's Thanksgiving tribute to Brand Yous [Tom Peters]
The Thanksgiving menu of the gods [Lore Sjöberg]
No Spike is an Island [John Hagel]
Healthcare providers navigating toward Blue Oceans [Creating Blue Oceans]
Robert Altman, the cinematic innovator [Bloomberg News]
Innovation requires collaboration [Steve Vamos]
Innovation and lean product development [Evolving Excellence]
Booz Allen Hamilton's high-leverage innovators [Sadagopan's Weblog]
The myth of "Chindia" [The Economist]

[image: Many Turkeys]

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October 20, 2006

October 20 innovation linkage

Disruption from above [Nicholas Carr]
Six questions for Patricia Seybold on outside innovation [Principled Innovation]
Japanese workers have an incentive to be creative [American Public Media]
The Department of Doing [Bob Sutton]
Can anyone be a designer? [Fast Company]
Turkey should prioritize innovation [Turkish Daily News]
James G. March: Ideas as Art [Harvard Business Review]
The UK needs to encourage "hidden" innovation [Financial Times]
U.S. shows signs of net addiction [BBC News]

[infographic: Wal-Mart implements sustainable business practices]

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October 18, 2006

October 18 Innovation Linkage

The art of commercialization [Guy Kawasaki]
Do you believe in innovation magic? [Idea Flow]
The new Business 2.0 blog ecosystem [Erick Schonfeld]
James Bond drives a Ford in "Casino Royale'' [Commander Bond]
Reducing fear is the killer app [Creating Passionate Users]
Thoughts on to-do lists [metacool]
Chinese B-school students must learn golf [AP]
The good news about GooTube [Wired]
Russia gets serious about innovation [RIA Novosti]
Bunny Fight Club [Starz.com]

[image: The Blue Brain Project]

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October 13, 2006

October 13 innovation linkage

The future isn't what it used to be [MSNBC]
Lessons from a starfish world [Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom]
The universe is a strange place [MIT World video]
Pruning the product tree [Innovation Weblog]
How to make important decisions [Spooky Action]
When will a new technology break through? [Eirik Solheim]
Animals on the Underground [Information Aesthetics]
The meme-brokers of the 21st century [Pasta and Vinegar]
The Oakland A's are an innovation dynasty [Innoblog]

[image: MSNBC]

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October 10, 2006

October 10 innovation linkage

10 questions with the co-author of Mavericks at Work [Guy Kawasaki]
A Firefox crop circle and infectious action [metacool]
Yahoo, time capsules and Mexican pyramids [Reuters]
Misconceptions about economic growth in China [John Hagel]
Prepare for consumer-led IT [Gartner]
Should we kill the albino moose? [Neatorama]
Who will be the 300 millionth American? [New York Times]
UC-Berkeley teaches China about innovation [Ascribe Newswire]

[image: The $1 million Skycar]

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October 5, 2006

October 5 innovation linkage

Rick Rashid on the state of Microsoft R&D [CNET News]
Underwater hotels: Poseidon and Hydropolis [Business 2.0]
IDEO and the future of design [U.S. News & World Report]
The art and science of Japanese robots [Timothy Hornyak]
Andy Warhol's 15 megs of fame [Seth Godin]
R&D adds significantly to U.S. GDP growth [Reuters]
Futurologist Ian Pearson looks into the future [ITWales.com]
The Internet in the year 2020 [BBC News]

[image: Poseidon underwater hotel]

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October 4, 2006

October 4 innovation linkage

U.S. duo wins physics Nobel for work on Big Bang [Reuters]
A cheap and easy way to protect patents [IEEE Spectrum]
Has innovation been squeezed out of teaching? [Guardian Unlimited]
Could Digg ever rival a search engine? [The Gong Show]
Microsoft's stealth ad campaign for the Zune [zunelicious]
Innovation and baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates [Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]
Most Americans know very little about science [RedOrbit]
Beware the Web 2.0 clones [Richard MacManus]
The solar-powered camper [YouTube.com]

[image: The physics of the Big Bang]

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September 29, 2006

September 29 innovation linkage

Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo interior concept [Space.com]
The state of innovation in Silicon Valley [Innovate Forum]
Can business fall in love with design? [Fast Company]
Turning in frequent flyer miles for a trip to outer space [CNN]
Innovation as a buzzword: 1987-1992 [Tom Peters]
Turning urban noise into music [We Make Money Not Art]
An extraordinary new building in SoHo [International Herald Tribune]
DuPont recognized for continuous innovation [DuPont News]

[image: Virgin Galactic unveils SpaceShipTwo]

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September 26, 2006

September 26 innovation linkage

What is it about street art that inspires us? [PSFK]
Cablevision awards stock options to dead people [Wall Street Journal]
Malcolm Gladwell loves The Blind Side [Gladwell.com]
Cal-Berkeley launches a series of innovation webcasts [eContent]
The secrets of the Mona Lisa smile [Reuters]
How 8 trends are radically changing work and play [CSC's Leading Edge Forum]
Robert Scoble's new videoblog about technology & innovation [ScobleShow]
A bar of Ivory soap goes nuclear [Metacafe]

[video: The Lexus LS 460 parks itself via Gizmodo]

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September 22, 2006

September 22 innovation linkage

Design thinking and management [Timothy Coote]
Introducing a new blog on idea management and innovation [Innovation Weblog]
Guidelines for successful crowdsourcing [IdeaFlow]
The charms of scale-model cities [Design Observer]
A fireside chat with John Maeda and Diego Rodriguez [37 Signals]
Bigger isn't always better when it comes to growth [Robert Tomasko]
Philips develops emotional clothing prototypes [Putting People First]
The Egokast video belt buckle [Gizmodo]
McDonald's gets all sexy about hamburgers in China [Wall Street Journal]
The Propella Copter [Married to the Sea]
A few thousand science fiction magazines [SF Cover Explorer]

[video: The Perfect ATM Crime]

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September 15, 2006

September 15 innovation linkage

Microsoft unveils Zune, its Apple iPod killer [ZD Net]
Football coach Bill Walsh talks innovation [CIO.com]
The evidence-based management site [Jeffrey Pfeffer and Bob Sutton]
Bruising your ego one bluff at a time [Blufr.com]
The secrets of Italian innovation [Navi Radjou]
Wal-Mart welcomes a celebrity designer onboard [Reuters]
Reading about simplicity [metacool]
A total recall of the Segway scooter [BBC News]
The world's first bionic woman [Washington Post]
The 5 founding principles of innovation [Jonathan Schwartz]

[image: Amaznode]

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September 8, 2006

September 8 innovation linkage

Audrey Hepburn dances to AC/DC's "Back in Black" [Gap.com via PSFK]
What doctors can learn from NASCAR pit crews [TED Blog]
Philadelphia opens high-tech school of the future [Reuters]
A search engine that does the cha cha cha [MIT Innovation Club]
Mr. Innovation, meet Mr. Reality [Grassroots Innovation]
Chinese funerals and graveside strippers [Freakonomics blog]
Robots attend a wine and cheese tasting [Yahoo! Asia News]
How to defend the status quo [Seth Godin]
"Chatty George" talks himself up [BBC News]
Soviet-era computer mice, built to last [EnglishRussia.com]

[image: Philadelphia's School of the Future]

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September 1, 2006

September 1 innovation linkage

Creating mass market experiences [Metacool]
How bloggers cope with summer vacations [Wall Street Journal Online]
Tracking down 'infectious agents' [Information Week]
The next Japanese toy sensation: paper robots [Wired]
70% of teens want to start their own businesses [Fast Company blog]
Interview with Adam Somlai-Fischer [We Make Money Not Art]
Lost and found: Edvard Munch's "The Scream" [BBC News]
The PC at 25 [Globe and Mail]
In 2006, age 60 is the new 45 [Yahoo! Health]
In 2033, age 70 is the new 30 [Douglas Rushkoff]

[image: Ping Genius Loci in Budapest]

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August 25, 2006

August 25 innovation linkage

Pluto: Planets have feelings, too [Baltimore Sun]
When corporations try to be cool [Brand Mantra]
AOL wants to become the king of video [TechCrunch]
Let's start a dialogue on innovation offshoring [East-West Center]
Assumptions have a sell by date [Creating Passionate Users]
The 10 power laws of social innovation [unmediated]
23 things every company should be monitoring [Joseph Jaffe]
Business ideas worth $100 million [Business 2.0]
Getting up close and personal with your customers [Fast Company]
Make a survival kit out of an Altoids tin [Field & Stream]

[image: BoingBoing via Worth 1000]

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August 22, 2006

August 22 innovation linkage

Decide to do something that will probably fail [Bob Sutton]
Is Amazon planning an online video store? [ars technica]
GM uses Flickr, do you? [Metacool]
How Snakes on a Plane created a community ecosystem [Community Guy]
The Washington Post embraces bloggers [CNET News]
Interview with Tom Kelley of IDEO [The Guardian]
12 startups to launch now [Business 2.0]
LEGO New York City mini-land [BrickShelf Gallery]
Websites that changed the world [The Observer]
Boxing + Stomp = Full Contact Concert [We Make Money Not Art]

[image: The 12-foot inflatable home theater]

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August 17, 2006

August 17 innovation linkage

50 coolest websites [TIME Magazine]
10 questions with Seth Godin [Guy Kawasaki]
Patent review goes wiki [FORTUNE]
High oil prices don't scare Jet Blue [Influx Insights]
What is the future of marketing? [Edge Perspectives]
What do futurists really know? [MSNBC]
Interview with Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga [We Make Money Not Art]
The latest Apple patent filing [Mac Rumors]
What's your YouTube strategy? [San Francisco Chronicle]
An electric commuter bike that becomes a sculpture [the cool hunter]

[image: TIME]

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August 1, 2006

August 1 innovation linkage

What the Internet really looks like [FORTUNE]
Innovation and the competition for talent in India and China [Edge Perspectives]
One of these six companies could buy YouTube.com [Russell Shaw]
Get people to make a fake version of your next product [Innovation Creators]
Upgrade or die! [Yahoo! News]
The effect of mood on work performance [Knowledge @ Wharton]
Frat-house culture + venture capital = innovation [SF Chronicle]
Hurricane-proof dome homes [CNET]
Meeting China's need for management education [HBS Working Knowledge]

[image: Honda Racing F1 Car Suspended]

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July 31, 2006

July 31 innovation linkage

Lean Sigma Innovation [Evolving Excellence]
When Accidents Happen, Does Innovation Follow? [Innovate Forum]
The Power Laws of Innovation [Doors of Perception]
Updates from the Ford Innovation Acceleration Center [10Links.com]
Real innovation requires real customers [Innovation to Products to Ventures]
What's stopping innovation in today's news media [Lost Remote]
Fun telephony innovation [Deep Dark See]
Super Groups for super innovation [BizCommunity.com]
Continuous innovation in Taiwan [The China Post]

[image: Secrets of the Singing Sand Dunes]

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July 28, 2006

July 28 innovation linkage

Wrestling organizational inertia to the ground [Patricia Seybold]
Microsoft India launches Rural Innovation Fund [IT News Online]
Curiously strong innovation at Altoids [Candy Addict]
Eric von Hippel and Democratized Innovation [Robin Good]
Xavier Comtesse and the Direct Economy [Pasta & Vinegar]
The world's most innovative renewable energy source [Wired]
Wipro Technologies experimenting with quantum innovation [CIOL]
Multitasking has negative effects on learning [Business Pundit]

[video: DJ Ted Stevens Techno Remix: "A Series of Tubes"]

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July 27, 2006

July 27 innovation linkage

The Next Xerox PARC [Innovation Creators]
10 Ways to Generate Breakthrough Results [Spooky Action]
Living entirely on Web 2.0 for two weeks [MIT Technology Review]
Discover your inner celebrity with new face recognition tool [Yahoo! News]
It's Not Us Vs. Them [Horse Pig Cow]
The Long Tail may not wag the Internet dog [Lee Gomes]
The Intuitive Process [How to Save the World]
Affinity VC funds for Big 12 football fans [Houston Chronicle]
HarperCollins gets hot and sweaty for romance innovation [Business Wire]
The latest innovation happening in Denmark [Copenhagen Institute of Interactive Design]

[graphic: Activity-Centric Collaboration]

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July 26, 2006

July 26 innovation linkage

50 Innovators Who Matter [Business 2.0]
AT&T Labs vs. Google Labs [Slashdot]
Has Australian innovation lost its mojo? [The Border Mail]
The Myth of the One-Woman Inspirational Whirlwind [Evelyn Rodriguez]
Can frozen ice cubes really be innovative? [Clayton Christensen]
Asia embraces global innovation networks [DailyIndia.com]
Open innovation up to all of your employees [Entrepreneur.com]
Home Depot is now a media business [Media Buyer Planner]
Meet the winner of the 2006 Honda Prize [Technology News Daily]

[image: The Inventor's Workshop for Nokia]

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July 24, 2006

July 24 innovation linkage

With open innovation, no idea is left behind [CNET]
IDEO prototypes the future [metacool]
How to deal with oddballs and idiots [Bob Sutton]
Marvin Minsky on Common Sense and Computers That Emote [Technology Review]
Renowned thinker Ray Kurzweil sees boundless future [St. Paul Pioneer Press]
Factor L [Seth Godin]
Maybe we should leave that up to the computer [New York Times]
Deloitte & Touche on global megatrends [Electronic Design]
Summer reading for innovative corporate executives [Vijay Govindarajan]
A private spaceport for Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com [Wired]
University gets NSF grant to figure out Rubik's Cube [Computerworld]

[image: Microsoft's PlayAnywhere]

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