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Gary Flake demos Pivot and asks “is it a turning point for web exploration?” talk at TED

Gary Flake demos Pivot, a new way to browse and arrange massive amounts of images and data online. Built on breakthrough Seadragon technology, it enables spectacular zooms in and out of web databases, and the discovery of patterns and links invisible in standard web browsing […]

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Autodesk Design Visualization Reel 2011 Call for Submissions

Looking to show off your best assets? Be part of the Autodesk Design Show Reel 2011! The Design Show Reel 2011 will be showcased at AUTODESK UNIVERSITY November 29th to December 1st, 2011. The Reel will be featured in all sessions and to the opening of the Main stage presentation on the Autodesk website, AREA and the Autodesk You Tube Channel as well as at events throughout the year […]

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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: Digital revolution drives retail

Chinese companies appear to be taking much more aggressive steps than their foreign counterparts to embrace the Internet as a sales channel, according to a recent survey […[

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Watch John Gerzema’s “The post-crisis consumer” talk at TED

John Gerzema says there’s an upside to the recent financial crisis — the opportunity for positive change. Speaking at TEDxKC, he identifies four major cultural shifts driving new consumer behavior and shows how businesses are evolving to connect with thoughtful spending […]

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Internet in China: Number of Chinese Internet Users reaches 457 million

An increase of 73.3 million compared with 2009, the number of Chinese netizens hit 457 million by the end of 2010, according to the “27th China Internet Development Statistics Report” recently released by the China National Network Information Center.

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Education in China: Shanghai-funded graduate start-ups fail to deliver

Almost 60 percent of Shanghai-funded start-ups by graduates from a top university have failed or are suffering losses, according to a report issued recently […]

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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: 10 Things Every Luxury Marketer in China Should Know

Chinese researcher Patricia Pao, who specializes in luxury marketing trends in China, offers ten tips to help advertisers reach affluent customers in the mainland […]

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China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: Grey Consumers Are a Golden Opportunity

JWT’s Tom Doctoroff Offers 5 Ways brands can win over China’s 300 million senior citizens, a market that will reach 500 million by 2025 […]

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Watch Dan Cobley’s “What physics taught me about marketing” talk at TED

Physics and marketing don’t seem to have much in common, but Dan Cobley is passionate about both. He brings these unlikely bedfellows together using Newton’s second law, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, the scientific method and the second law of thermodynamics to explain the fundamental theories of branding […]

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Watch Kevin McCullagh’s “The designer as synthesizer” talk at Victoria and Albert Museum’s The Future Designer Series

Kevin McCullagh argues that the future designer will have to take on the role of synthesizer […]