The Idea Blog

This piece in BusinessWeek outlines a collaboration and potential acquisition of SalesForce.com and Google. Seems ... » Continue reading "Google and SalesForce.com"

As many of you may know, Starbucks recently launched a new online community at mystarbucksidea.com where customers ... » Continue reading "What’s your idea?"

Sure it is. But in his Brand Autopsy blog, John Moore highlights the idea behind ... » Continue reading "The Internet as marketing tool"

Last year I read the three volume biography of Martin Luther King by Taylor Branch, a ... » Continue reading "MLK special on History Channel"

The news that Google searches can now have a second layer (here's a NY Times article on the topic) ... » Continue reading "Google goes deeper"

Josh Quittner's Techland column in the current Fortune focuses on Marc Andreessen, the tech giant who was among those ... » Continue reading "A bold plan for the New York Times"

Readers of this space may recall that the concept of cloud computing is something I've been following and have generally ... » Continue reading "More on cloud computing"

An eye-opening article in the current (Walk Softly and Carry a Big Checkbook, February 18, 2008) Fortune ... » Continue reading "Art is fast becoming science"

I loved watching Fred Friendly's "What would you do?" series. A bunch of important people sitting around a table as ... » Continue reading "What would you do?"

One of the podcasts to which I subscribe is WNYC's Radio Lab, a marvelous, 60-minute exploration of a science ... » Continue reading "Radio Lab"