Tag: google
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Livestream With Google at CES 2013 Featuring Scratch, IPG Labs, DeepFocus, Weber Shandwick and Mother, Hosted by PSFK Founder Piers Fawkes
From PSFK‘s site: What trends and emerging technologies will influence creative business in 2013? PSFK and Think with Google gathered top minds in advertising and marketing to give their insights on how anticipatory devices, life capturing, open ecosystems and more will help agencies create value for clients and consumers. See the full video below. In attendance were:…
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Yale School of Management 2012 Conference: “People Are More Likely To Buy Cake On Rainy Days”
This year’s annual Yale School of Management conference was entitled “The Higher Velocity Marketplace: Technology, Innovation and Engagement in the New Marketplace.” A good topic for Scratch, since we live it. Hosted by Professor Ravi Dahr, the Director of Yale’s Center for Customer Insights, the conference featured some awesome insights and approaches from fellow keynoters Jon Iwata (CMO, IBM),…
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Juliette LaMontagne’s New “Breaker” Project: Urban Micro Agriculture
Last year, Scratch joined GoogleLabs, IDEO and Yves Behar’s Fuse Project as advisors to a project to imagine the future of the book. Inspired by legendary book publisher Charlie Melcher, the working group included about a dozen or so Millennials from diverse backgrounds, who were led by educator and social innovation pioneer Juliette LaMontagne. Juliette, a TED Fellow,…
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How You Choose What To Do: Larry Page On Search, Google+, YouTube, Chrome & Android At Google Zeitgeist Conf 2011
“If you have a healthy disregard for the impossible, you actually get better people to work on your project. And they get really excited, they work really hard and they work late at night. It also turns out that most companies aren’t crazy enough to do anything like that. And so nobody else is doing…
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UPDATE: Jeremy Ellis Performing At Google Zeitgeist Right Now — With Surprise Guest Justice Sandra Day O’Connor!
A couple of weeks ago, Scratcher Mark Lowyns showed me some videos of Jeremy Ellis drumming with his fingers on an electronic trigger-board. I loved Jeremy’s stuff so much, I introduced him to the team that runs Google Zeitgeist, Google’s annual partner conference. Zeitgeist 2011 began here in Arizona, last night. Today featured Ray Kurzweil,…
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Say Hi On Google+
I’m exploring Google+ If you’re already on, come say hello there and we’ll figure out what it can do and how we’ll ultimately use it.
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That Matador Records Ad On SomethingBurning.com
Can’t believe an advertisement on my blog just made my day, but it did. Last week, I called up the supreme webmaster of SomethingBurning.com (F-Train Media), and I asked if he would try putting some Google Adsense ads on the blog. Reason being, traffic’s way up, more than I ever thought (thank you, by the…
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Robot Folding Laundry (& Other Stuff From Willow Garage) At Google Zeitgeist 2010
Ok so I met this robot today at Google Zeitgeist. For some people, folding laundry is meditative. For me, watching a robot do it is much more relaxing… It’s all part of a project from Willow Garage, which is betting on its open source robotics innovation community. Here’s more about these guys: And if you…
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Google Image Ripper From “Dear Computer”
Meet the “Ripper.” it finds you incredible images based on keywords… It kinda Bings Google because it takes you straight to images, no more thumbnails, and the curatorial choices it makes can be hilarious. For example, I entered the word “Rzepka,” while I was on a snoozefest conference call with Jason Rzepka, and here are…
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DJ Clark Kent’s Brooklyn Nike Vs Bronx Nike Vs Queens Nike Air Force Ones
Thanks to Patty, I’m feeling conflicted. My loyalty to my home borough, Brooklyn, dictates I should get these ones: But they are ugly. So I thought about the Bronx