Moving from Information Age to Conceptual Age
Daniel Pink is a well known and best-selling author about the changing shape of talent. His provocative works include “The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need”, which interestingly is the first American book in the Japanese comic format known as manga. But you might know him from another one of [...]
Dangers of Blogging… for Men
Investor and prankster Yossi Vardi delivers a careful lecture on the dangers of blogging. Specifically, for men.
About Yossi Vardi:
Joseph “Yossi” Vardi has helped more than 40 startups see the light of day, among them Mirabilis (makers of ICQ) and the video companies Scopus and BrightCove. He’s a strategic advisor to Amazon and AOL, and a [...]
Technology’s Long Tail
Chris Anderson, the editor of WIRED, explores the four key stages of any viable technology: setting the right price, gaining market share, displacing an established technology and, finally, becoming ubiquitous. To demonstrate this trajectory, Anderson explores the evolution of the DVD player as it passes through each of these four tipping points, then offers specific [...]
There’s Innovation Ahead
The dot-com boom-and-bust is often compared to the 1849 Gold Rush, and Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos offers historical evidence showing how similar they were: from the riches made by pioneers to the media hype that attracted luckless speculators. But a better analogy can be found in the early days of the electric industry, he says. [...]
