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Sustainable brands conference 2009 .

Feb 18, 2009

Monterey, CA, USA. May 31 — June 4, 2009.
SB’09 is your antidote to negative world news. It is where the innovators gather who are already well along the path toward crafting new business models, products, communications campaigns and cultures that will better meet the needs of today’s global marketplace.
Whether from bonfire sustainable brands like Seventh Generation, Living Homes, New Belgium Brewery and Nau, or large global innovators like Wal-mart, Coke-a-Cola, GE, Clorox, HP or Unilever, if you desire to be a leader in building smart, sustainable brands for the future, Sustainable Brands ’09 is your one must attend event investment of the year.

Live blogging TED 2009.

Feb 9, 2009

Peruse’s the blogging/twitter link to TED 2009. via BusinessWeek [PR]

Handy metal business cards.

Jan 29, 2009

Handy metal business cards. via BoingBoing [PR]

Apple Netbook(?)

Oct 23, 2008

Many people are trying to decipher the latest comments by Steve Jobs. The rumor out there now is a new product. Think MacBook Nano or iPhone Slate? Or is it the coming of the NetBook?

Remember, the iPhone was spotted online in Web traffic blogs. So many this is going to be the real deal.

Gizmodo hypothicizes what we might expect:

“Instead, if this is indeed a new unannounced Apple product, here in Gizmodo we are thinking about an iPhone HD with an updated 800 x 480 pixel display, probably coming in 2009. That resolution is something between the iPhone’s 480 x 320 pixels and MacBook’s 1280 x 800 pixels, which is completely reasonable: Other phones—like the HTC Touch HD—already have these ultra-sharp screens.”

Jobs says, “we don’t know how to build a sub-$500 computer that is not a piece of junk”, and this is believable. So rule out the computer. Maybe ramp up the iPhone to another level because Apple has sold more iPhones than computers this year.

“Although Apple said it sold more Macintosh computers than in any other quarter in the company’s history and more iPods than in any other non-holiday quarter, it is clear that the iPhone is quickly becoming its golden goose.

Sales of the iPhone accounted for 39 per cent of the roughly $7.9-billion (U.S.) in revenue Apple posted in the quarter.

Apple, based in Cupertino, Calif., has now sold more than 13 million iPhones this year, easily eclipsing the company’s stated goal of selling 10 million in 2008. Apple raked in $1.14-billion in profit for the quarter, or $1.26 per diluted share.”

New York Times reporter, John Markoff, adds to the mystery with this bit of information:

“UPDATED: That would seem to confirm findings that a search engine company shared with me on condition that I not reveal its name: The company spotted Web visits from an unannounced Apple product with a display somewhere between an iPhone and a MacBook. Is it the iPhone 3.0 or the NetMac 1.0?”

Whatever. Expect Apple to introduce a “new category” product sooner than later.

via new york times new york times gizmodo report on business

Serious Play. Art center.

Mar 30, 2008

The biennial Art Center Design Conference is a three-day international gathering of entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and innovators from many fields and disciplines. The 2008 Conference, Serious Play, will explore the essential role of play in business, the arts, science, storytelling, technology, and more.

May 7-9, 2008 Art Center College of Design, South Campus, Pasedena, California, USA