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Watch Tim Brown urge designers to think big at TED
Tim Brown says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects -- even as pressing questions like clean water access show it has a bigger role to play. He calls for a shift to local, collaborative, participatory "design thinking." [...]
Posted in design, innovation Also tagged Amazon, collaboration, Collaborative Projects, David Kelley, design, design thinking, designer, food, food conglomerates, high tech, high tech startups, hospitals, Ideo, innovation, Labor, media, poster, Prada, Prototype, tech startups, technology, TED conference, Tim Brown Leave a comment
Education in China: 56% of student startups get low marks
More than half of government-subsidized student business companies were scored as "mediocre" or even "bad-performing" after years of operation, according to an report released recently at the Shanghai Entrepreneurship Week [...]
Posted in China, innovation Also tagged Chinese Enterprises, Chinese Government, education, Education In China, Entrepreneur, Facebook, fund manager, Game, innovation, Innovation Strategies, Li Jun, Marketing, Report, Science And Technology, Shanghai, Shanghai Daily, technology, Treaty of Nanking, USD, Yangtze River Delta, Yuan Leave a comment
Jaime Lerner’s “Sing a song of sustainable cities” talk at TED
Jaime Lerner reinvented urban space in his native Curitiba, Brazil. Along the way, he changed the way city planners worldwide see what’s possible in the metropolitan landscape [...]
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Alvin Woon’s “The future of social app interface design” talk at the Future of Web Apps
Alvin Woon is the UI lead for Plurk, a social network with a focus on short messages. His primary work is focused on designing user interface and leading aspects of usability research. Watch Alvin Woon's 'The future of social app interface design' at the Future of Web Apps London 2008...
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Gaming in China: Chinese government says no to “Wrath of the Lich King”
JLM Pacific Epoch reports the Chinese government “has rejected two applications by the second expansion for World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King since China’s Spring Festival (January 25 – February 1).”
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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: MP3 Player Sales Decreased 43.76% in the first half of 2008
According to the latest report of CCID Consulting, in the first half of 2008, China's MP3 player market realized sales of about 2.5 million MP3 players and revenue of CNY1.223 billion (nearly 180 million US dollars), year-on-year decreases of 43.76% and 43.56%, respectively. Li Ying, a consultant from the consumer electronics industry research center of CCID Consulting, says that as the MP3 player markets in big Chinese cities are close to saturation, a negative growth began to appear in its sales in the first six months of 2008...
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Watch Rory Sutherland’s “Life lessons from an ad man” talk at TED