Driving down I-95 Sunday, my old lady and I spotted this billboard: I originally didn't like this ad because it was so hard to read that I nearly slammed into the jersey wall. After my wife and I took turns trying to pronounce "Hungergency", like a poor reenactment of the nitrous oxide scene in Blac...

I've been playing a little with iPhoto 09 Faces feature. It took almost 3 hours for my home dual processor G5 to go trough 15000 pictures and find all faces, but then it only took it a few minutes to learn how I look like and find me in several hundred pictures. I don't know how algorithms used in i...

Well in case you haven't heard the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the weekend said that the recession is over. HARRAHHH!! But wait. Now the bad news. Before you go jumping for joy, they've now declared that most advanced economies in the world are in a depression. So, now w...

Things are never what they appear to be, especially in geopolitics. Former Forbes writer and b usiness and energy journalist Jim (or James) Norman, who wrote the book- The Oil Card, and blew the whistle on Enron with the SEC, argues that the United States manipulated the price of oil as a kind...

Technology is not just a double edged sword-paradoxical good and bad effects. It’s far more complex-it’s a quadruple blade or four-edged blade sword. McLuhan predicted and warned us that every technology or human invented construct has 4 simultaneous effects on culture and society, which strateg...

This post started as a simple - "here's an article about incentives - ain't that great" - but has morphed into a morality play in my mind.  Here's the scenario... Nortel has filed for bankruptcy protection. Nortel is laying off workers to reduce costs. Nortel is asking the courts to allow the compa...

Guess which city in the province of Ontario, Canada has the best record of entrepreneurial start ups over the recent period? Toronto? Wrong! Waterloo. Off the mark! Give up? Well its Oshawa, the city that has been hard hit by auto sector layoffs [hat tip to Andrew Maxwell for the stats] Unempl...

In 2000, Prakash Loungani, an economist with the International Monetary Fund, published the results of a survey which looked at the ability of economists to accurately forecast economic downturns in 63 industrialized and developing countries.   "The record of failure to predict recessions...

All day - every day - folks email me, text me, twitter me, visit me, call me and instant message me with questions regarding domains, capabilities, CSS, competition, keyword strategies, client issues, sales positioning, marketing strategies, blogging, social media, etc. I get invitations to speak, t...

  I started to review and update the process of designing a business model for a new startup from the material I teach in my Innovation and Entrepreneurship classes-specifically the Opportunity Clinic.   Coincidently, Fortune magazine features an article this week on How to Manage ...