I read a great video blog by Wall Street Journal — Andy Jordan reports on the robot-building tournament. See the final competition below or at WSJ site: Video For a complete listing of awards, match results and scholarship winners, please visit FIRST online at www.usfirst.org and click on the “FIRST Championship 08†headline. ATLANTA – [...]
April 30th, 2008 | Rachel Yager | 0 comments | ContinuedArchive for April, 2008
Innovation Index – Most Innovative Companies (cont’d 2)
April is a favorite time to think about innovation… and it ain’t over yet.  Two weeks ago, I gathered the Innovation Index – Most Innovative Companies. I saw BusinessWeek just updated the 2008 list – The World’s Most Innovative Companies (read below). Not surprising, the consistent players in the top 10 are Apple, Google, and GE.  The World’s Most Innovative [...]
April 24th, 2008 | Rachel Yager | 0 comments | Continued
The Clouds are Moving…Fast
Cloud computing is getting exciting with the beta release of Google App Engine in April.  There are many questions about the technology adoption challenges for enterprise computing. Specifically questions like: Is Google App Engine better than Amazon Web Services? Can we develop enterprise applications with Google App Engine? Both Google and Amazon promise to make Web application [...]
April 22nd, 2008 | Rachel Yager | 0 comments | Continued
Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling and Prediction
There was an interesting conference in Phoenix a week ago – Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling and Prediction . This workshop is sponsored by Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), with School of Computing and Informatics, ASU. Social computing is concerned with the study of social behavior and social context based on computational systems. Behavioral modeling reproduces the social behavior, [...]
April 18th, 2008 | Rachel Yager | 0 comments | Continued
Best of Corporate Blogging
Web 2.0 is about gathering Collective Intelligence. I was looking at Fortune companies use of blogging and if they encourage their employees to blog. Below are my picks (based on frequency of posts, page rank and content) – not listed by preference: Tibco: http://tibcoblogs.com GE Global Research: From Edison’s Desk Sun Microsystems: blogs.sun.com IBM: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/ Oracle: http://blogs.oracle.com/ [...]
April 12th, 2008 | Rachel Yager | 0 comments | Continued
Google’s Innovation DNA
Google seems to be the top choice for measuring up when it comes to innovation. This April, a number of magazines analyze the makeup of Google and its success factors. In the blogosphere, Google’s innovation recipe (written by consultaglobal.com) gave a great summary of Harvard Business Review’s article (Reverse engineering Google’s innovation machine), and FastCompany’s article (The Faces and voices of the [...]
April 10th, 2008 | Rachel Yager | 0 comments | Continued
Innovation Index – Most Innovative Companies
Tracking the innovation index from: FastCompany (2008 March) Fortune (2008 March) Wired (2007 March) BusinessWeek (2007 March) See all the lists below. Google, Apple, and GE are consistently appearing in the top 10. FastCompany’s innovation index: 1 GOOGLE 2 APPLE 3 FACEBOOK 4 GE 5 IDEO 6 NIKE 7 NOKIA 8 ALIBABA 9 AMAZON 10 NINTENDO 11 PROCTER & [...]
April 10th, 2008 | Rachel Yager | 1 comment | Continued
