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Nokia Vine Experiment

I was using the new Nokia Vine and is very interesting. This is my experiment that has photos for some urbansculptures in Mexico City, which are part of the "ruta de la amistad" built for the 1968 Olympic Games

http://vine.nokia.com/#/vid=1026607&cc=&mid=&lc=&page=home

T-Mobile G1 (or whatever it's called) takes in some fresh air

Why wait for next Tuesday's grand unveiling? Well, the short answer is that most of us have no other option -- but a small handful of exceptionally lucky individuals are getting their Android on just a little early. This particular example of the G1 (or Dream, Nightmare, Slumber, whatever the hell it's going to end up being called) allegedly hails from a Google staffer, looking a little less... shall we say, "controversial" than other shots have made it out to be. Yeah, we're jealous, we admit. Anyone want to give theirs up for a few hours?

[Via Talk Android]

Design thinking in the New York Times

vía metacool de Diego Rodriguez el 5/10/08

The New York times ran a great article yesterday called "Design is more than packaging". Of course, if you're part of the metacool community, you already know that. But it is great to see this meme getting out there and sticking. I'm very happy to see that the article was published in the Business section. Cool!

Among others, the article mentions IDEO, my employer, and the Stanford d.school, my other employer.

A couple of quotes.

Tim Brown:

Design thinking is inherently about creating new choices, about divergence. Most business processes are about making choices from a set of existing alternatives. Clearly, if all your competition is doing the same, then differentiation is tough. In order to innovate, we have to have new alternatives and new solutions to problems, and that is what design can do.

George Kembel:

It would be overreaching to say that design thinking solves everything. That’s putting it too high on a pedestal. Business thinking plus design thinking ends up being far more powerful.

Well put, gentlemen!

Innovation Universities Are Hot--Rotman, Ziba, IDEO, Continuum, Stanford, Institute of Design.

vía BusinessWeek Online - NussbaumOnDesign de bruce_nussbaum el 28/09/08

I just got off the phone with Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management at the U of Toronto, who told me that corporations are flocking to his institution to learn integrative thinking (design thinking). I've heard the same thing from innovation consultancies who are setting up their own "universities" to teach design thinking to corporate managers.

The latest is Ziba U that founder Sohrab Vossoughi is establishing. IDEO and Continuum have long been teaching institutions and now demand for their brand of experiential learning is soaring. Consultancies have developed a new form of teaching--workshops, not classrooms, conversations not lectures, interaction not passive listening. It's a new form of educational IP (well, experiential learning has been around a bit but new to the business world) that B-Schools should check out. IDEO even has a new experimental lab.

Social innovation is also building informal universities to teach people the creative skills of using market forces at the bottom of the pyramid. Acumen Fund is starting Acumen U to do just that. And PopTech is offering a three day workshop of social innovation "bootcamp" to people.

This is good news. Even in the face of very deep recession and loss of revenue, companies and civic organizations. are investing in building their creativity cultures. They aren't cutting back. Which is a great sign that coming out of the recession, there will be companies prepared to win.

Kenchikukagu: Apartment Folds Out of a Box (Well, 3 Boxes)

vía TreeHugger el 23/09/08

How cool is this? A kitchen, an office and a bedroom that fold out of these lovely cabinets, designed by Toshihiko Suzuki Architect. ..

Steve Jobs @ Stanford