Archive for September, 2007
Music Intelligence
Mike McCready’s company, Platinum Blue, uses computers to analyze the mathematical patterns in songs. McCready and Malcolm Gladwell discuss how this technology can help the music business identify potential hits, and what Gladwell should listen to next. About Mike McCready: Mike McCready is an entrepreneur and executive in the international music industry and has been [...]
Role of Power in Talent Management
James Surowiecki talks about the evolving role of power in a time when change comes fast and furious and technology-enabled, bottom-up innovation competes with our inherent desire to obey authority. About James Surowiecki: James Surowiecki is the foremost authority on how to harness the collective wisdom of your organization for competitive advantage. He has written [...]
The Web in 2012
A panel on the future of commerce, journalism, and community on the Internet, featuring Barry Diller (fox/e-commerce), Arianna Huffington, and Craig Newmark (social media/Craigslist) from the 2007 New Yorker Conference. In a closer look at this webcast it was interesting to see the differing perspectives of Barry Diller and Craig Newmark. Diller argues that professional [...]
Inventing and Giving
Innovator Dean Kamen lays out his argument for the Segway shortly after its official unveiling. As he loops gracefully around the stage, his fact- and figure-reeling betrays his intensity: 50 percent of the world population lives in cities; 43 percent of the refined fuel produced in the world is consumed by cars in metropolitan areas [...]
Microsoft Surface Computing!
One of Microsoft Corp.’s biggest secrets looks like a normal coffee table. Until it’s switched on. Microsoft unveiled a new tabletop computing interface it is dubbing “surface computing.” In the works for five years in Microsoft Research as a project called Milan, the idea is to transform a surface as big as tabletop into a [...]
