Disruptive innovators are everywhere. Are you one of them?
It takes technology to spread good ideas and make innovating easy. For ideas on how to get started, take a look at my latest contribution over at the American Express OPEN Forum, "Make a Date to Innovate."
If you want to be a fast innovator, don’t wait for it to happen, make it happen by making a date with innovation. That way, you can drive growth within your organization and continue inventing the future.TechTip2U Powered by: Verio
There are over 2 billion literate, mobile phone subscribers in the developing world, many living on less than $5 a day.
Corporations pay people to accomplish billions of image, audio and text-based tasks.
Guess who enables these tasks to be completed via the mobile phone by people around the globe?
Find out here.
In case you are pressed for time:
txteagle is a service that enables mobile phone subscribers to earn money and accumulate savings by completing simple micro-tasks for large corporate clients. Originally conceived as a mechanism to compensate rural Kenyan nurses, txteagle is now on track to becoming one of Africa's largest employers.TechTip2U Powered by: Verio
This week at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Sony (worth a look!) unveiled a motion controller for the PlayStation 3 (pictured), offering gamers its answer to the Nintendo Wii. It's called the Move and is a rectangular device curved on the sides to fit comfortably in the hand. It also has a glowing ball at the end that contains technology used in tracking a player's motions.
Interesting what all the major players are doing in this industry:
Nintendo's success with the Wii, released in November 2006 as the first console to offer motion-sensing technology, has brought the gaming technology to the mainstream.Read more at here.Microsoft is expected to join the trend in offering a motion-sensing device for the Xbox 360 in time for this year's holiday shopping season.Unveiled in June 2009 as "Project Natal," the Xbox system relies on sensors that track players' body movements to allow them to interactively play sports and other games without having to hold any hardware.
Here are seven (7) amazing ways to filter (leverage) Twitter (a technology platform) to the hilt.
Sometimes you have to take time out to ... well ... mix your own granola!
Design your custom made organic, all natural cereal mix from over 75 healthy ingredients and enhancers. You can even add a custom picture to the mix!
Technology takes you where you want to go -- and that can be across the globe.
Learn more at MixMyGranola.
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How mobile are you? What kind of global tech user are you?
Is Facebook your window to your social world? Is your mobile device the last thing you put aside before shutting the light out at night? Or does the deluge of digital information leave you flat and the ring of your cell phone leave you cranky?Find out what kind of user you are at Pew Internet by taking a quick quiz here. The range is:
According to contributing writer Carol Tice at Inc., one-half of all small businesses do not have a website. Yes, you read that right.
Think about how many small businesses that might be if you polled the planet!
Half of Small Businesses Don't Have a Website
The actual study can be found here.
Customers.
What are you waiting for?
How do you start the new year out with a big technology bang for your business? Follow the online crowds because the crowds are talking a lot about several disruptive technologies that are bound to impact our world in 2010. Let's take a look at ten that Erick Schonfeld put together.
