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Gavin O’Malley reports that over at the A9 search engine, Amazon has added the capability of viewing a photo of the neighboring stores of the brick store you just found. How clever! But apparently this has been brewing awhile. Google has acquired similar technology. Unfortunately, A9 doesn’t have Houston yet. Link: MediaDailyNews 01-29-05. "This service…

Thanks to Tim Manners (www.Reveries.com) for catching a Wall St. Journal article (subscription required) article by Suzanne Vranica earlier this week about how advertisers are flocking to the Super Bowl, not to run high-priced commercials, but to create brand experiences for the attendees. Among the marketers setting up tents and running activities for the Super…

By digging at a book author, Art Kleiner has unearthed a valuable insight as to why innovators can fail to thrive, even in an organization that prizes innovation and creativity. The book is How Breakthroughs Happen by Andrew Hargadon, and the interview is at strategy+business, where Kleiner writes a regular column. Link: Recombinant Innovation. Most…

The next big turning point in the economy is the systemization of innovation. The MIT Sloan Business Review is available by subscription only, but the MeansBusiness newsletter has this excerpt from one of their articles by Armand V. Feigenbaum and Donald S. Feigenbaum in the Winter 2005 issue. Their new book, The Power of Management…

Check out the link below for more evidence that bad employee performance is driven by poor management. We can only afford to expect the best from each other. Link: EBF Articles on Europe Business Management Economics & Strategy. bosses who think they can mask their real opinions of subordinates should think again. Under-rated employees can…

I’ve seen this shift in attitudes coming for awhile. Now Corie Lok at MIT Technology Review has some direct evidence from India. Link: Two Sides of Outsourcing. Alumni of outsourcing companies like Wipro have launched dozens of startups in India, a few of them funded by JumpStartUp, a small venture capital firm based in Bangalore…

‘Nuff said! Link: Veer: The Skinny: Social Sloganeering. Social Sloganeering: So you’re a whiz at filling up a whiteboard with concepts and spiel, but can’t execute on an idea worth beans? Then OMG Clothing might be a gig that fits your mitts. You supply a slogan and if the voting public decides that it’s not…

Over at Salon.com, Alex Wright has a terrific round-up of the trends and issues around taking college-credit courses online. He interviews professors, students and administrators and presents a very balanced view of the ways the internet could improve higher education, and what we could lose… Link: Salon.com Technology | From ivory tower to academic sweatshop.…

Looking for that creative spark? Check out this from John Schwartz! Link to the NY Times (free registration): The Magic of Science Elicits His ‘Hmmm!’. Mr. Krulwich is one of the few people on network news you might actually enjoy being stranded on a deserted island with. You can imagine many long, unpredictable conversations, and…

Magazines in the U. S. are driven to please their advertisers, but in the international division of Conde Nast, Jonathan Newhouse is surprising and delighting readers with a new format for Glamour. Read this N Y Times article by David Carr to find out how this innovative publisher broadens his horizons. Link: The New York…