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If your a innovation ‘guy’ you need to #twist

By tom.altman ⋅ February 15, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

I’ve been tuned into This Week In Start-ups #TWIST since the beginning. But if you have not checked it out yet – @Jason is epic in a great talk he did at Penn State. Check it out. And let #TWIST know they are killing it.

i = Future Of Newspapers = Think, Know, Understand, and Feel – /Message

By tom.altman ⋅ November 24, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Interesting concept: The paper’s team worked with media consultancy Innovation to come up with a new way to organise the product. “Our feeling was,” said Figueiredo, who came on board at an early stage, moving from Diário Económico, “that people were not concerned about traditional sections any more. i = Future Of Newspapers = Think, [...]

Cut Customer Service?

By tom.altman ⋅ February 11, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Cut Customer Service? You’ll Lose Customers – Scott Anthony – HarvardBusiness.org. Another great articleby Scott Anthony. I’ve clearly stated my perspective that the worst thing companies can do in the Great disruption is to stop investing in innovation. Companies might think that innovation and survival are discrete choices. They are not. Companies that stop innovating [...]

The Army's Remote Beetle

By tom.altman ⋅ January 31, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Image by define23 via Flickr Technology Review: The Army’s Remote-Controlled Beetle. This is an interesting concept. Instead of making imitation insects for recon, they will modify the real thing.

Rebuild a TV Station on the cheap

By tom.altman ⋅ November 25, 2008 ⋅ 4 comments

I’ve been having some hallway discussions with our CEO Chuck Peters (or as I affectionalty refer to him as “Chucky P”). I think it started after I was talking too much about how cheap I thought I could rebuild a TV station. I was tossing around a number which was close to 10% of the [...]

Free ideas. Just add execution.

By tom.altman ⋅ May 29, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Image via Wikipedia This is great. I came across a post on Venture Hacks called “Free ideas. Just add execution.“ It reminds me of a conversation Nick and I have every so often about how everyone has ideas…but it takes some real talent to actually do something with one. There are a tons of places [...]

innovating stonehenge

By tom.altman ⋅ March 31, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Image from WikipediaThis Wally dude is awesome, I’d love to have a few guys like him around me. He’s figured out the mysteries of Stonehenge – and figured out how to rasie a seriously heavy stone by himself. Plans on recreating the entire thing in his backyard! He says that he feels the whole thing [...]

Rules for Start-ups

By tom.altman ⋅ March 10, 2008 ⋅ One comment

I’m not sure who’s article kicked it all off – but I recently found a few all buzzing around the same topic. It is very interesting to me – because I am involved in a new star-up called “e-Me Ventures” and we discuss some of these things weekly, if not daily! The first one is [...]

Twittering Iowa – innovative thinking by Patrick Ruffini

By tom.altman ⋅ January 2, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Patrick Ruffini blogged on Dec. 19th that he was shaking things up a bit – “Twittering Iowa” I would like to launch an experiment with Twitter on Iowa Caucus night. If you’re caucusing in Iowa on January 3rd, sign up for Twitter, make sure you have the mobile feature turned on for the night, and [...]

Making video interactive

By tom.altman ⋅ December 11, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Here’s a post from Robert Scoble about the idea of interactive video. Nat Kausik, CEO of Asterpix, shows me more of the ways that video creators can use Asterpix to add links to certain parts of the video, to interact with the surrounding area, to add clickable areas to the video, and much much more. [...]

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