Walmart is using Big Data gleaned from social media to target consumers with highly relevant suggestions for products. Last year it bought a startup focused on social media, Kosmix, and formed WalmartLabs. It uses Kosmix’s vast knowledge base, called ‘Social Genome’  to capture information and relationships about entities such as people, events, topics, products, locations [...]

Business Playground is now out as a digital audiobook on Audible. It’s narrated by British actress Linda Gallagher and sounds great. Take a listen when you get a chance.

Or is the other way around. Fuse Project out of San Francisco developed this revolutionary  solution to reduce use of packaging materials.

You can now download a free chapter from our book The Business Playground: Where Creativity and Commerce Collide.

Bad sound quality is destroying the music business. The quality of sound delivered through typical ear bud headphones devalues the music according to Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre, who as a solution have created a line of high end headphones called Beats. In this article in the Financial Times, Iovine describes how he is trying [...]

A great way to advertise Copenhagen zoo.

We have now released Creativity Lite in the iPad app store, a free version of our 5-star rated app to help unleash your creative mojo. Check out the link here.

Love this little device demonstrated at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. It’s called the Light Touch and is by UK company Light Blue Optics.

Who said popsicles (or ice lollies if you’re English) were just for kids? See more here.

Howard Gossage, an icon of 1960′s advertising, talking about “mammanoids” and “tediophobes.” mammonoids and tediophobes

Our iPad app ‘CREATIVITY’ has just been released so please download it and review it.http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pounce/id477075451?mt=8 You can find it by searching ‘Creativity.’ Here are some things to look out for on the app so you can quickly get a sense of what it includes: It includes a full-color book with loads of graphics ad pictures. There’s an [...]

The homes will be made of recycled materials – pallet flooring and framing, waterproofed cardboard walls, aluminum can roofing – and some donated materials. Architect Arthur Dyson is working with construction management students at Fresno State to create an unprecedented “Eco-Village” of tiny homes for homeless folks. If successful, it seems like Dyson’s Eco-Village could [...]

A cool steampunk desktop computer design from here.

This is a nice piece on seeing different perspectives that appeared in the Atlantic and was written by Laura Seargeant Richardson, a principal designer at frog design, a global innovation firm. Javier Hans is on a mission to change how the world’s youth think about creativity and innovation. At nine, he founded Inventors Without Borders. At 15, [...]

Pop star Cee Lo Green will make about $20 million this year. His hit single “Forget You” (actually it’s not “Forget”, but another shorter word beginning with the same letter) became the 12th most downloaded track of all time. But his music sales represent only a small proportion of his earnings. The New York Times [...]