Archive for October, 2011
Post Mates: An App to Improve the Productivity of Courier Services
Springwise has an article about a Postmates, a firm that is using social media to make better use of local courier services: San Francisco-based Postmates aims to benefit local businesses by facilitating the easy delivery of goods to customers, as well as enabling couriers to earn extra money. Currently only available in the San Francisco [...]
Is College becoming another company store?
You know the old saw about the company stores in mill towns: they made sure they charged enough for their goods so that workers never got ahead and had to keep working at the mill. Well, according to a recent post by Mike Mandel at innovation&growth, the same thing might be happening with colleges. In [...]
How to Attract Digital Talent. . .Or not
Fast Company has a unique take on this question, starting from the negative side of the equation: Why doesn’t digital talent want to work at your company? It’s not because you’re a consumer packaged goods company, rather than Google. It’s not because you’re in Ohio instead of Silicon Valley. It’s not because your salaries are [...]
Small Companies Are Better at Green Innovation
This according to a recent study by the Small Business Administration. According to SmartGridNews.com: The report found that while small companies are responsible for about 8% of all U.S. patents, they account for 14% of all green technology patents. . . . [It] notes that the small innovators are 16 times more productive than larger [...]
Cars Headed for the Cloud?
Well, not literally. But in a recent press release, Ford announced it is exploring ways of increasing the efficiency of both gasoline-fueled and electric cars by linking them with cloud technology: At the Google I/O conference in May, Ford introduced its research and innovation into using the cloud to predict driver behavior in order to [...]
Going Green in Cities: Taking a “Lichen” to Skyscrapers
It is an awful pun but an interesting project. According to FirstScience.com, a Rutgers professor is introducing lichens to the sides of sky scrapers as a way of adding more vegetation to cityscapes: Elizabeth Demaray, an associate professor of fine arts, is cultivating lichen on the sides of New York City skyscrapers to counteract the [...]
