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I’ve been reading a lot about innovation recently. Often, people talk about innovation as a necessary means to a company’s or nation’s success in today’s troubled economy. They proceed to defining what innovation is by using very complicated terms, and this is usually a cue to switching the channel. Is there a simple way of [...]

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I was always good at chemistry.
So, when my laptop ran out of juice again and I lost my work on new Cuesense wireframes, I tinkered with the battery a bit and, voila, got some very, very promising results.

I am talking to some patent attorneys now …

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Biznik is a Seattle-based startup that aims to provide “business networking that does not suck”. I admit I was a bit sceptical about another social networking site aiming to compete with LinkedIn, Spoke and the rest, but yesterday I became a convert, after attending a glitzy Oscar’s-themed event at the Fremont Studios organized by Dan [...]

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There’s a bit of a heated discussion going right now on Techcrunch due to Thwirl missing from the top 20 popular Twitter clients’ list. Technically, the list is correct. Techcrunch put down the selection criteria loud and clear - “popularity, as measured by unique monthly visits”. Unfortunately it’s a bad metric for client applications for [...]

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The US stimulus plan includes $19 billion to modernize the healthcare information technology. I spent four years in the healthcare IT area, first designing patient management systems for hospitals in Germany and then working on public health applications in Canada. During this time I learned a few simple truths

Data interchange costs in healthcare are not [...]

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Yuri Kostenko, the owner of Front Pictures studio, enjoys what he does. And what he does is amazing. I’ve seen and played with Microsoft’s Surface a few times, but Front Picture’s i.m.table (interactive multimedia table) goes beyond it and then some. I met the team at the Kvitnu Fest where they presented the i.m.table to [...]

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Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web inventor, threw his weight behind the semantic web and “mega-mash-ups”. “In the semantic web, it’s like every piece of data is given a longitude and latitude on a map, and anyone can ‘mash’ them together and use them for different things”, Bernes-Lee said in an interview with Times Online. [...]

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I just stumbled upon Openads.org – a publisher (as in “ad publisher”) solution available both as software and hosted service. If you own a few websites and are considering allocating some of your web real estate to revenue-generating ads, you should definitely check these folks out. I like the fact that Openads aggregates ad inventory [...]

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If you have a few free minutes, check out zaaz.com. Zaaz is an interactive marketing agency and their site concept is truly refreshing as it is built around a combination of search and chat metaphors. First, the Flash-based site recognized my wide aspect ratio display and printed a quirky message. I was hooked. On my [...]

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