Posts Tagged ‘Innovation’

One of the coolest things about YouTube and web video is that it gives us the opportunity to see innovative experiments, inventions and art from around the globe firsthand. From realistic robots to live crab dispensing vending machines, you can discover all sorts of amazing innovation from around the world on YouTube.

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Have you ever stopped to think about how YouTube and web video are driving innovation around the globe? Chris Anderson of TED gave a compelling talk earlier this month on the rise of web video and how it is driving innovation in basically every arena, from dance to science to our understanding of different cultures [...]

I wanted to write about social media’s impact on innovation weeks ago, but got sidetracked. Herein we quote the Post: “The real problem [with the Detroit automakers] is failing to stay competitive with global rivals in the realm of advanced principles of design and manufacturing – principles that exploit global, peer-to-peer information platforms to increase the variety of smash hits a firm might produce.”

So wrote Bernard Avishai in the Washington Post on November 23rd, in “Why Detroit Can’t Keep Up”. Avishai was identified in the Post as the former technology editor of the Harvard Business Review and a former international director of intellectual capital at KPMG.
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