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Digital people are the world’s best innovators

Patrick Glinski

I'm not trying to discount the capabilities of industrial designers, researchers, or architects who've found their way into the innovation space, but the qualities of digital innovators put them in a unique position to solve some of the world's biggest problems.

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48 Hours. 1,236 Service Designers. 60 Locations. 203 Service Design Concepts.

Nicole Chen

48 hours. 1,236 service designers. 60 locations. 203 service design concepts. Mix these all up and what do you get? An global event demonstrating what immense creativity, collaboration, innovation, and an aggressive time crunch can produce — Global Service Jam 2011! Participants from San Paulo, Rotterdam, Oslo, Berlin, Stuttgart, Shanghai, Seoul, Sydney, Barcelona, and of [...]

Karma is a B*tch

Lily Tse

Consumers are smarter than ever- in fact, most consumers today would agree that when they go shopping, they want to know more about the companies they are buying from. From food to clothes to cars, the ever-expanding socially responsible shoppers want to know if the companies they are buying from are respecting the environment. It [...]

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Hopes and Fears from eMetrics Toronto

Patrick Glinski

The digital measurement industry is in flux. From April 7th - April 10th, I'll be attending and speaking at the eMetrics Marketing Optimization conference in Toronto, hopefully finding clarity through interacting with the world's best and brightest digital measurement practitioners.

Search. Chat. Email. Facebook?

Adam Rubin

So, Facebook is evolving. With emphasis on at least 3 core web services – search, chat and the upcoming email – Facebook is getting more serious about functions that Google, among others, are doing well at providing. It makes sense. So here are some quick thoughts on what 400 million users are experiencing on Facebook [...]

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How to avoid the Facebook / Twitter Addiction Disorder (FTAD) Pandemic?

Idris Mootee

A growing body of research in the area of addiction suggests that Social Media Addiction Disorder is becoming a real problem, it is a psychophysiological disorder involving tolerance; withdrawal symptoms; affective disturbances; and interruption of social relationships. The most common one is Facebook /Twitter Addiction Disorder (FTAD). To be diagnosed as having FTAD, a person [...]