?We can?t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.? ? Einstein

bbc.co.uk Eurozone unemployment rate rises in February Unemployment across countries that use the euro edged higher in February to 10.8%. That’s up from 10.7% in January and the highest level since the introduction of the single currency in 1999. Spain has the highest rate of 23.6%. Meanwhile, a separate report confirmed that manufacturing activity in [...]

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NEWS FROM THE FUTURE ? Self-Sculpting Sand

"Imagine that you have a big box of sand in which you bury a tiny model of a footstool. A few seconds later, you reach into the box and pull out a full-size footstool: The sand has assembled itself into a large-scale replica of the model. That may sound like a scene from a Harry Potter novel, but it?s the vision animating a research project at the Distributed Robotics Laboratory (DRL) at MIT?s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory."

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Application Developers Alliance reveals its founding directors

Application Developers Alliance reveals its founding directorsThe ADA hasn't only been recruiting members, but founding directors too. It's succeeded in getting Google and RIM around its laptop-laden table, as well as representatives from CBS Interactive, AT&T Interactive and numerous other companies listed in the PR after the break. If you're an app developer, and if you sign up, these guys will be your A-Team. Now they just need a logo.

Update: now with more logo.

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A Field Guide on How to Create an Innovator

tonywagner150.jpgAre people born innovators, or can they learn to become that way? An interesting new book, "Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World," by Tony Wagner, a member of Harvard's Technology and Entrepreneurship Center, explores this question in detail. It is a must-read for anyone who is thinking of taking the lonely road toward starting one's own venture.

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Wagner covers a lot of ground here. For example: What goes into parenting a future product manager for Apple's iPhone? What do you teach them? How do you motivate them to ask questions and be curious about their world, or "think different"? The future product manager, Kirk Phelps, was interested in soccer, but instead of enrolling him in the neighborhood league, his parents drove him to a blue-collar area where most of the people spoke Spanish. "I didn't care if he was on a winning team or even a starter," said his dad when Wagner interviewed him. "I just wanted him to develop his interest in sports and to experience other kinds of people." However, when Dad wanted Kirk to watch soccer on Spanish-language TV, Kirk balked. What is obvious from the interview is how much his parents considered unstructured playtime an essential part of their children's activities and as a way to build self-confidence.

Phelps goes on to say about his time at Apple: "The only reason I could do my job as a product manager at Apple was that I could talk to the optical engineers, the mechanical engineers, and the electrical engineers, and the firmware guys; the industrial designers, the packaging engineers. I couldn't do any of these guys' jobs, but I knew enough about what they did to have an intelligent conversation and to represent their interests when things were inevitably in conflict." When you think about that, it is pretty amazing.

Wagner worked with a video producer to record his interviews and publish them online. Speaking of which, here is a promotional video about the book:

Every student starts school with unbounded imagination, curiosity and creativity - until he or she learns that knowing the right answer is far more important than asking a thoughtful question. So it isn't so much about "think different," as Apple says, but acting differently and understanding where the reactions take you. This is something that I understood during my undergraduate years, when I was able to structure my own education with what turned out to be an entire year's worth of independent-study classes. I would write up a lesson plan, find a faculty sponsor and do the research. It was something that shaped my education and made me realize that I have a lot of interests. It made my college years invaluable for me.

So what are the characteristics of a good innovator? Wagner proposes four main qualities:

  • Curiosity, the habit of asking good questions and a desire to understand things more deeply
  • Collaboration, which begins with listening to and learning from others who have distinct perspectives and expertise
  • Associative or integrative thinking
  • A bias toward action and experimentation

This is just the tip of the mountain of gems and bon mots that can be found in the book, including a wonderful concluding letter to a young entrepreneur that is a must-read. Unlike many business books that quickly run out of gas after the first 30 pages, Wagner starts off slowly but packs his pages with terrific advice, including this remark from one Olin College engineering student who said, "I don't think about failure - I think about iterating." You can buy the book today from Amazon here.

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StrandVision Offers Free Digital Signage Software to House of Worship Organizations

StrandVision Digital Signage gives five years of free digital signage software (a $2,499 value) to qualified churches, mosques, synagogues, temples and other places of worship with public sanctuaries that are eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions StrandVision Digital Signage today announced that it is offering a free digital signage software system to churches, mosques, synagogues, temples and other places of worship. Organizations must supply their own high-speed Internet connection, a standard television, such as a flat-screen LCD, and a personal computer to complete the system. StrandVision LLC, based in Menomonie, Wisconsin, delivers low-cost, Web-based digital signage software through a patented Software as a Service (SaaS) approach that delivers content to subscribers' LCD flat panel screens, as well as computer screens and websites. StrandVision also offers PC-2-TV.net, a fully digital, high-definition (HD) video extender to connect a computer to a television over long distances for use with digital signage and many other applications. $sitedescription$ services and PC-2-TV.net are available directly from StrandVision and through registered affiliates and system integrators.

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Obama Leads Romney 51-42 in Key Swing States

Susan Page, USA Today
President Obama has opened the first significant lead of the 2012 campaign in the nation's dozen top battleground states, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, boosted by a huge shift of women to his side.In the fifth Swing States survey taken since last fall, Obama leads Republican front-runner Mitt Romney 51%-42% among registered voters just a month after the president had trailed him by two percentage points.

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Comodynes Holds Facebook Photo Contest

Submit a tropical vacation photo and enter to win Comodynes Self Tanning Towelettes Users can submit their favorite tropical vacation photo and enter to win Comodydnes? best selling towelettes. [...] from March 29 to March 31, everyone will vote for his or her favorite entry and from these, Comodynes will pick the lucky winner.

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