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Power of innovation on full display at SXSW
- March 13, 2012
- By Derek Gordon
- obsessions
- innovators
- social
- disruptors
- leaders
- technology
- digital
I was at SXSW in Austin this last week -- and like anyone who’s ever attended this festival of tech glitterati, one can’t help feel a rejuvenation of hope for a ...
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Designer Yves Béhar, and One Laptop Per Child launch the XO 3.0, helping underpriveleged children gain access to a modern education.
- January 13, 2012
- By David Allen Ibsen
- obsessions
- design
- innovators
- social
- disruptors
- leaders
- technology
- digital
One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) provides affordable laptops to underpriveleged children from around the world, allowing them to use technology to gain access to a modern education. The non-profit program currently reaches ...
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THE IDEALIST: Innovations to disruptions—at THE FIVE, it is a vision thing, and the future is ahead of us.
- January 07, 2012
- By David Allen Ibsen
- obsessions
- innovators
- social
- disruptors
- leaders
- technology
- digital
THE IDEALIST sees ahead of itself. Whether by Magic Eight Ball, or by regression analysis and a-priori segmentation, THE IDEALIST looks to the future and envisions the innovations, trends and disruptions ahead of us.
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Super Bowl to be live streamed on NBC's website and Verizon's NFL Mobile application
- December 21, 2011
- By David Allen Ibsen
- obsessions
- super bowl
- technology
- marketing
- digital
- television
- mad ave
- advertising
NBC has announced that it will stream the 2012 Super Bowl online as well as the network's other postseason games. Digital viewers can select camera angles and pull up game stats ...
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Wieden + Kennedy hosts a virtual holiday meal with humanoid robot dolls
- December 18, 2011
- By David Allen Ibsen
- social
- digital
- technology
- disruptors
- fun
- holidays
Advertising agency Wieden + Kennedy's Amsterdam office is hosting a virtual holiday meal with humanoid robot dolls.Here's how it works according to The Los Angeles Times: You reserve 30 minutes ...
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Something to aspire to: White House Post creates the model for "about us" corporate videos.
- December 07, 2011
- By David Allen Ibsen
- design
- brands
- leaders
- digital
Creating an informative, entertaining i.e. valuable, "about us" video is a formidable task for most companies. Over my 25 years in marketing and advertising, and in my work with over 100 ...
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Sony PlayStation videos herald the next generation of Augmented Reality
- December 01, 2011
- By David Allen Ibsen
- obsessions
- marketing
- digital
- technology
To show the far reaching capabilities of the Sony PlayStation and the rich movie content available from the PlayStation@Store, creative agency Studio Output has created three videos based on famous blockbuster ...
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Daylife: Simplifying the complexity of managing published content
- October 30, 2011
- By David Allen Ibsen
- social
- innovators
- digital
- technology
- start-ups
- brands
- publishing
The traditional role of marketing within organizations has been blown to smithereens with the advent of digital publishing and social media. We are now content publishers across multiple platforms. We must author ...
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My voice as a social consumer; being heard at the Pivot Conference
- October 18, 2011
- By David Allen Ibsen
- social
- marketing
- digital
Rocky McGredy and I are in New York this week @ the Pivot Conference. Here are some observations from @rockymcg Well, it’s day 2 of Pivot Con and we’re a little ...
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Apple iPhone 4 prototype thieves are convicted, but can keep the money they made on the sale.
- October 12, 2011
- By David Allen Ibsen
- business
- hirings and firings
- digital
- technology
Way back in 2010, a prototype of Apple's iPhone 4 was accidentally left at a bar. The prototype was "found" by two twenty-something student technology geeks who decided to sell it ...
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