Archive for April, 2008

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2008 FIRST Championship

I read a great video blog by Wall Street Journal — Andy Jordan reports on the robot-building tournament. See the final competition below or at WSJ site: Video
For a complete listing of awards, match results and scholarship winners, please visit FIRST online at www.usfirst.org and click on the “FIRST Championship 08” headline.
ATLANTA – April [...]

April 30th, 2008 | Rachel Yager | 0 comments | Continued
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Innovation Index – Most Innovative Companies (cont’d 2)

April is a favorite time to think about innovation… and it ain’t over yet.  
Two weeks ago, I gathered the Innovation Index – Most Innovative Companies.  I saw BusinessWeek just updated the 2008 list – The World’s Most Innovative Companies (read below). 
Not surprising, the consistent players in the top 10 are Apple, Google, and GE.  
The World’s Most Innovative Companies
Smart ideas for [...]

April 24th, 2008 | Rachel Yager | 0 comments | Continued
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The Clouds are Moving…Fast

Cloud computing is getting exciting with the beta release of Google App Engine in April.   There are many questions about the technology adoption challenges for enterprise computing.  Specifically questions like:

Is Google App Engine better than Amazon Web Services?
Can we develop enterprise applications with Google App Engine?

Both Google and Amazon promise to make Web application development easier.  Their [...]

April 22nd, 2008 | Rachel Yager | 0 comments | Continued
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Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling and Prediction

There was an interesting conference in Phoenix a week ago – Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling and Prediction . This workshop is sponsored by Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), with School of Computing and Informatics, ASU. 
Social computing is concerned with the study of social behavior and social context based on computational systems. Behavioral modeling reproduces the social behavior, and [...]

April 18th, 2008 | Rachel Yager | 0 comments | Continued
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Best of Corporate Blogging

Web 2.0 is about gathering Collective Intelligence.
I was looking at Fortune companies use of blogging and if they encourage their employees to blog.
Below are my picks (based on frequency of posts, page rank and content) – not listed by preference:

Tibco: http://tibcoblogs.com
GE Global Research: From Edison’s Desk
Sun Microsystems: blogs.sun.com
IBM: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/
Oracle:  http://blogs.oracle.com/
Google: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/ 
HP:  The Digital Mindset
Cisco: The Platform: [...]

April 12th, 2008 | Rachel Yager | 0 comments | Continued
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Google’s Innovation DNA

Google seems to be the top choice for measuring up when it comes to innovation. This April, a number of magazines analyze the makeup of Google and its success factors.  In the blogosphere, Google’s innovation recipe (written by consultaglobal.com) gave a great summary of Harvard Business Review’s article (Reverse engineering Google’s innovation machine), and FastCompany’s article (The Faces and voices of the [...]

April 10th, 2008 | Rachel Yager | 0 comments | Continued
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Innovation Index – Most Innovative Companies

Tracking the innovation index from:

FastCompany (2008 March)
Fortune (2008 March)
Wired (2007 March)
BusinessWeek (2007 March)

See all the lists below.  Google, Apple, and GE are consistently appearing in the top 10.
FastCompany’s innovation index:
1 GOOGLE
2 APPLE
3 FACEBOOK
4 GE
5 IDEO
6 NIKE
7 NOKIA
8 ALIBABA
9 AMAZON
10 NINTENDO
11 PROCTER & GAMBLE
12 NEWS CORP.
13 AFFYMETRIX
14 DISNEY
15 SAMSUNG
16 METHOD
17 TARGET
18 HP
19 TESCO
20 AUSRA
21 TIMBERLAND
22 IBM
23 ARUP
24 ANOMALY
25 AUTODESK
26 HERMAN [...]

April 10th, 2008 | Rachel Yager | 1 comment | Continued