until we see new land

14/01/2012

Our friends from Gidsy just raised 1.2 M$ seed investment! Congratulations Edial, Floris, Phil and the team!

Gidsy just got funded! It’s official. We’re happy to announce that Sunstone Capital, Werner Vogels, Index Capital and Ashton Kutcher have made a significant investment in Gidsy. We could not be more...

05/10/2011

"Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready, and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense." (Henry Ford)

Creativity isn't magic. Part three of this four-part series explores how innovations truly happen. To support this project please visit: http://www.everythingisaremix.info/donate/ Buy the music at: http://www.everythingisaremix.info/part-3-soundtrack/ Nelson...

02/09/2011

Dear Berliners, our office neighbors NEST prepared an interesting event for you that will be all around information collection, visualization and interactive mapping. See you there?

Event: Maps & Mitsprache: Mit Online-Karten Transparenz und Teilhabe schaffen von Bürogemeinschaft Hochladen, N.E.S.T. Kampagnen UG, 10961

11/08/2011

‘Big ideas start as weird ideas‘ says PayPal-founder Peter Thiel who is investing in the "Seasteading Institute". Its aim: launching a floating colony into international waters, freeing them and like-minded thinkers to live by Libertarian ideals.

The Silicon Valley billionaire has funnelled $1.25 million to the Seasteading Institute, a California-based organization that plans to launch a floating colony into international waters, allowing its residents to live by Libertarian ideals.

03/08/2011

Interesting insights concerning collective intelligence in groups:

“Just getting a lot of smart people in a group does not necessarily make a smart group. So how do you engineer groups that can problem-solve effectively?
Seed them with caring people. Group intelligence is correlated with the average social sensitivity — the openness, and receptiveness, to others — of a group’s constituents. Emotional intelligence.

Do groups have genetic structures? If so, can they be modified? Those are two central questions for Thomas Malone, a professor of management and an expert in organizational structure and group intelligence at MIT's Sloan School of Management. In a talk this week at IBM's Center for S…

27/07/2011

It´s a green bike that uses your brainwaves to shift gears: http://www.toyotapriusprojects.com/ #/011
It´s foldable solar cells that are printed with a normal printer: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/printable-solar-cells-0711.html
It´s a hybrid house for less than 300 $:
http://josephsandy.com/blog/2011/06/03/hybrid-house-300-house-challenge/
What are innovative projects/ products you´re impressed by these day?

Prius people are making the world more interesting. And over the course of the next year, we're going to show you how. Projects can happen anywhere, but we'll be documenting them all here.

18/07/2011

Tell me and I forget.
Teach me and I remember.
Involve me and I learn.
(Benajmin Fanklin)

12/07/2011

"Business can´t succeed in a world that´s failing."

Macrowikinomics: Rethinking Civilization for an Age of Networked Intelligence

06/07/2011

"Our sun is just one of 100 billion suns in our galaxy and there are over 100 billion galaxies in the universe. Every atom in your body was once inside a star and in fact the atoms of your left hand could have been in a different star than the atoms of your right hand. We´re all stardust. We´re all directly physically connected to the cosmos."
6 mins with the theoretical physicist L. Krauss. Very thought provoking.

Lawrence Maxwell Krauss, author of the best-selling book The Physics of Star Trek, is a theoretical physicist and Professor of Physics at Arizona State University. His research focuses on the beginning and the end of the universe.

25/06/2011

"C-corps, stock, advisors, business cards – none of these things matter. Don’t be an entrepreneur. Be a maker with a vision who doesn’t accept no for an answer, and the rest comes free." (via Hirsch)

Entrepreneurship isn’t something you do, like rowing or programming. It’s a meta-activity. I’m going to say this again because it’s really critical and the root confusion of the most ridiculous offenders: entrepreneurship is not a verb. You can’t “entrepreneur”. So, when a bunch of people who are al

22/06/2011

"Even the simplest problems in this world are complex problems. If we really want to make the world a better place we have to face up to this complexity.
We need institutions which are capable of experimenting and learning, failing and building on that failure and turing it into a success."

Join Tim Harford as he brings you the principles you need in business and in life, to survive, innovate and prosper in a complex and ever-shifting world.

20/06/2011

We are happy to help to facilitate the 7th workshop of the Free Culture Incubator: "Collaborative Creativity". We´ll share our perspective on Open Innovation and how to develop tools and environments for collaborative thinking. Needless to say it will be very hands on.

If you want to join us for this workshop registrations are open now! See you there.

Open Innovation and other Methods to Activate People & Resources With Dominik & Simon Wind, Jonathan Imme (Until We See New Land), Nadine Freischlad (Jovoto / Social Media Week) and Ariane Jedlitschka (HAL - Hybrid Art Lab) as facilitators.

06/05/2011

The foundation for innovation are the guts to do things differently.

19/04/2011

It´s time again, so go and send in your application!

Schmiede11: Chaos Creates Structure
15.-25. September
Hallein, Salzburg, Austria

Application deadline: May 31st.
http://schmiede.ca/application/

Schmiede is a festival and community for producers.
Schmiede stands for three things: network, create, present
Schmiede is an open platform.
Since 2003, we, 150+ participants, gather in Hallein, Austria in order to
meet and work face to face.

More info at http://www.schmiede.ca/news/

24/03/2011

Even Google needs time to reflect so they launched Think Quarterly this week as "a breathing space in a busy world. A place to take time out and consider what's happening and why it matters."

The first issue of this online magazine is dedicated to Data including articles by Tony Fagan (Director of Research at Google), Hans Rosling, Guy Laurence (CEO of Vodafone UK) and many more absolutly worth a read. Enjoy!

Think Quarterly is a unique communications tool that brings together some of the world's leading minds to discuss the big issues facing businesses today.

23/03/2011

“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.” (Cecil Beaton)

18/03/2011

In her exceptional talk in Harvard Harry Potters mom J.K. Rowling explained that life is not a checklist of achievements.
"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all."

J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, delivers her Commencement Address, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination,” at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association. (via http://harvardmagazine.com)

16/03/2011

Designed by nature: This is what a complete city looks like that was not created by an individual but by collective will. The collective will of an ant colony.

From: Ants! Natures Secret Power A giant ant colony is pumped full of concrete, then excavated to reveal the complexity of its inner structure. Watch full video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj1v8hqtH18