Tag Archives for innovation
Thoughts on New Orleans Social Entrepreneurship
I’ve had the opportunity over the last couple weeks to spend some time with the nascent NOLA social entrepreneurship ecosystem. It’s been pretty cool. For example, I met an amazing couple that’s growing a backyard garden that has transformed into a … Continue reading
Occupy Wall Street, Botnets, and Thousand-Year Storms
Looks like traditional political thinkers are missing the mark altogether (the protests are ‘flailing without purpose’, ‘just rage’,’just jealous’ etc). A more useful analytic framework is to think of the protests as a form of a botnet. Why? Because the … Continue reading
John Speaking About Open Source Ventures
John Robb – Open Source Venture from East Bay Pictures on Vimeo. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.
Lytro – Light Field Photography
Lytro is slick. It captures light in all directions when taking a picture, effectively negating shutter lag and zoom. (Demo in the link.) There’s a billion security uses for this, but at the consumer level, this further lowers the barrier … Continue reading
Luis von Ahn’s Trajectory
von Ahn is the guy behind reCAPTCHA (digitizes books through those captcha gateways), and before that the Google Image Labeler (which turns labeling Google’s image index into a game). Now he’s building Duolingo, where users translate content online while learning … Continue reading