YouTube – The Myths of Innovation Scott Berkun doing tech talk at Google on his book tour from the Myths of Innovation. Nice overview of parts of the book and reminded me of a couple of themes I need to build into Arup innovation material. The book gives you more

Dopplr slides from Reboot talk at mTrends – mobile media lifestyle trends – m-trends.org For anyone interested in Dopplr and who didn’t had the chance to try it out, here’s an interesting presentation from Matt Jones he presented at Reboot 9.0. (tags: convergence dopplr)

About Meet-O-Matic: The World’s Simplest Meeting Scheduler Very cool – just works… “Use a simple web form, email participants, visually juggle constraints, presto: the precise opposite of all the meeting scheduling software that no one uses! 100% free; 100% private; no registration; no setup; no hassle.” (tags: calendar collaboration software)

code, circuits, & construction :: Sensor graphing with 3 lines of code! Tigoe: “I’ve been looking for simple ways to graph the data from a sensor attached to a microcontroller lately, because it’s such a necessary activity if you want to look at sensor data over time.” very handy (tags:

ICT Statistics As the UN specialized agency for telecommunications, ITU collects the most comprehensive range of statistics on Information and Communication Technology penetration, accessibility and use. (tags: data mobile research statistics convergence)

The CommonCraft Show | Common Craft – Explanations In Plain English The Common Craft Show is a series of short explanatory videos produced on our own time. Great one to explain to your mum what a blog is or social bookmarking. (tags: blogs video training youtube) Video: RSS in Plain

Energy Environment Data Ref Bank – UK This compilation of energy and environment related indicators and statistical data has been assembled from open sources that are available on the Internet. (tags: convergence dataenergy seewatt)

Bio-X Stanford University The Stanford University Bio-X program supports, organizes, and facilitates interdisciplinary research connected to biology, medicine, engineering, information sciences, physics and chemistry. (tags: Stanford bioengineering convergence holistic)

Metaverse Roadmap: Pathways to the 3D Web Taking its name from the immersive virtual world imagined by Neal Stephenson in his visionary novel, Snow Crash, the Metaverse Roadmap (MVR) is the first public ten-year forecast and visioning survey of 3D Web technologies, applications, markets, and pote (tags: convergence metaverse transmedia

IT Conversations Useful site collecting audio from all the main speakers at events such emerging technology, poptech, where2.0 and items such as *interviews with innovators* – one for the ipod commute (tags: audio technology podcasts innovation convergence) DPerry.com: Michael Highland Video – TED.COM “[presented at] TED conference in 2006. I

Feltron Eight – annual report great example of documenting and presenting what you have done. A fair amount of data capture must have been going on through out the year…. maybe some inspiration for our internal end of year investment report….. (tags: design visualization charting) cityofsound: The Personal Well-Tempered Environment

e-SENSE WebSite: Deliverables two interesting documents from e-Sense project on “User’s expectation, technological roadmaps and business cases analysis” and “Scenarios and audio visual concepts”. Also a collection of AV demos in flash describing the scenarios used. Useful for Sensei (tags: wsn e-sense sensei scenarios)

Study takes sensory approach to improve office of the future – Design Week …According to Duncan Wilson, who describes himself as a ‘futurist’ at engineering group and Bop partner Arup, there are commercial benefits to be gained from applying pervasive computing technologies to the design of working environments…. (tags: bop