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User-Focused Party-Rocking: Customer Experience in the Nightclub

Posted by: M/I/S/C/, at 9:01 am on January 27, 2012

Yale Fox is a DJ and nightclub sociologist living and working between Las Vegas and New York City. In 2010, while working towards his PhD at the University of Toronto, Yale was contacted by a prominent Las Vegas nightclub – one of the highest rated in the world. So began Yale Fox’s transition from...

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Information Overload and the Great Purge of 2011

Posted by: Adam Rubin, at 4:13 pm on December 27, 2010

More is not always better, because there’s only so much that we can digest. The signal to noise ratio does not necessarily improve if that which was once signal converts to noise as new signals are introduced into the system.

There is no shortage of recommendation tools on the web. Amazon recommends books, Pandora recommends music, YouTube recommends video, just to name a few of the more popular online services. While the added value is obvious in the realm of personalized content discovery, if we keep adding streams of...

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The Internet is Dead?

Posted by: Simon Greer, at 8:21 am on August 10, 2010

The Internet is dead? According to Prince, The Artist and The Artist Formerly Know As Prince, it is. Has he gone mad? Perhaps one too many sips of the old purple Kool-Aid? Or is it just another one of his mediocre PR stunts? Needless to say, he is once again pushing the envelope and recently released...

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Magazine you can wear and play

Posted by: ltse, at 8:31 am on March 29, 2010

I stumbled upon this very innovative magazine that you can actually wear it.  Like the regular subscribed magazine, each “issue”, designed by T-Post will focus on one news issue. In this past issue, you can play rock, paper, scissors with the t-shirt through a webcam. Not only it take publishing...

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elbulli – part 3

Posted by: Scott Friedmann, at 7:23 pm on February 28, 2010

PART 3 of 4 Months after eating at El Bulli my thoughts and perspectives on the meal are still changing: Certain taste memories are extremely vivid and seem to get stronger, others are bizarrely still changing. It has also been fascinating to compare and contrast my experience there with other innovative...

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A billion dollars, one penny at a time

Posted by: Richard Lee, at 6:00 am on November 16, 2009

Just how much money will people spend while playing video games? Investors seem to be betting that it’s quite a lot.

Recently, Electronic Arts announced that it is acquiring Playfish, the company behind hit social games such as Who Has the Biggest Brain (mine is apparently 2568 cubic centimeters — which, it seems, makes me pretty smart amongst my friends but only slightly smarter than a door knob on a world-wide...

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The Most Innovative Meal on Earth: Dining   at El Bulli – Part 2

Posted by: Scott Friedmann, at 7:02 pm on September 22, 2009

After ten courses of snacks, 2 cocktails and an initial barrage of stimuli the core of the meal begins. Can I really last 25 more courses? Will each of the dishes be distinctive and thought provoking? Am I about to see the greatest show of culinary innovation the world has seen in the past half century? or longer? Is this the Cirque du Soleil of dining or a combination of creativity and hype fueled by a PR machine? What role has design thinking really played in the creation of the experience I have just started?

PART 2 of 4 This is the second in a four part series on my adventure ding at El Bulli. Before heading up the coast to Roses I spent some time in Barcelona exploring the Boqueria market. The market is the perfect place to understand the terroir of Catalonia and a major inspirational source for Ferran...

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Apples Keynote, Boiled down to superlatives.

Posted by: Paul Morrison, at 11:01 am on September 17, 2009

Apples Ipod keynote, boiled down to nothing but Superlatives. Enjoy this. Think they’re trying to let us know they product is Amazingly Nice and Just That Easy?

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Kid Robot uses QR Codes to promote 2009 line of Dunnys

Posted by: John Lally, at 8:37 pm on September 1, 2009

As a promotional tie-in corresponding with the launch of their 2009 series of “Dunny” action figures, toy and apparel designers Kid Robot have organized a mobile phone-based scavenger hunt in Manhattan centered around scanning Quick Response (QR) codes. After downloading an application for an iPhone...

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Jack Nicholson Was My Favorite Childhood Cartoon

Posted by: Paul Morrison, at 1:56 pm on September 1, 2009

Check out this awesome video experiment, great visualization and re-representation of some powerful audio from The Shining. The Colouring from Dan Britt on Vimeo.