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Forbes Article: 10 Startups Changing the World And What We Can Learn From Them
Friday, May 25, 2012 - 13:10
Updating to IPv6 Hosting
Saturday, January 14, 2012 - 18:09
Great news! We're upgrading all our servers to IPv6. What is IPv6? It's the latest in internet addressing and stays in step with the ever-changing technology of the internet and all our clients will benefit from it, automatically and free of charge.
How does this affect our clients? In the short term, it doesn't. In the long term it helps us keep up to speed with changes in the internet and allows us to move forward quickly with enhanced features, only available with this newer technology.
If you'd like to find out more about the IPv6 technology, you can find out more here.
We'll be making this upgrades during the month of January, but the downtime for each site will be less than 5 minutes and during the middle of the night, so you will hardly notice it.
DigitalTonto: 5 Principles of Innovation
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 18:18
Are innovators born or made? Surely, those who spawn ideas that change the world are special – different then the rest of us.
Take one look at an Einstein, a Henry Ford or a Steve Jobs and it seems that they were bequeathed with something unique. They have a flair and a surety about themselves that borders on the sublime.
Yet many others also have flair and surety and never accomplish anything of note. Moreover, as I’ve written before, stories of great innovators often contain struggle and privation. Given a deeper look, innovation seems more learned than innate and there is surprising consistency about what drives it. Here are 5 principles to guide you.
1. Think Small
2. Disruptive Innovations are Crappy
3. Innovation is Combination
4. Passion and Perseverance Are Key
5. The 70/20/10 Portfolio
Forbes: Test your Innovation IQ?
Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 14:22
Everyone knows that innovation means coming up with the next great idea in your industry, right? Actually, there’s a lot more to it than that. Test your ability to separate innovation fact from fiction by answering the following questions true or false:
Innovation is the act of coming up with new and creative ideas.
Innovation is a random process.
Innovation is the exclusive realm of a few naturally talented people.
The biggest obstacle to innovation is a lack of organizational resources and know-how.
The most important type of innovation involves bringing new products and services to market.
Teaching employees to think creatively will guarantee innovation.
The most powerful way to trigger your brain is to simply ask it a question.
Most companies pursue incremental rather than disruptive innovation.
Most companies are not structured to innovate.
Listening to your customers is a great way to innovate.
Economist: Three unconquered parts of the technology landscape will be fought over in 2012
Monday, December 5, 2011 - 13:04
In some parts of the new digital world, it is obvious who is in charge. Google rules in search; Facebook in social networking; Amazon in retail. These territories are still being fought over: Microsoft’s Bing is attacking Google in search, Google is attacking Facebook in social, and so forth. But these are all large, relatively mature fields. During 2012 the more interesting battles will be those taking place on the smaller, lesser-known territories on the fringes of the technology world, in areas such as mobile payments, location and augmented reality.
35 Awesome Quotes from Einstein - Idea Champions
Sunday, September 4, 2011 - 18:52
From the guys over at Idea Champions and the Heart of Innovation, check out their other blogs, good stuff.
1. "The only real valuable thing is intuition."
2. "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
3. "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
4. "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
5. "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."
6. "The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
ZDNET: How iPads are helping build Disney World expansion
Monday, August 15, 2011 - 13:32
Summary: In business, the usefulness of tablets tend to get overhyped, but in specialized cases they can be invaluable. Here’s an example of iPads being used in construction at the latest Walt Disney World expansion.