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Pinky The Cat Very Loving Cat Available for Adoption Ritlin and declawing recommended.

BrandCameo Spots Star Products Will Coke get a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame? I may be one of the few people that actually likes product placement in movies… Provided it’s done WELL. In my opinion, intelligent product placement can tell you more about the character and even help move the story forward — […]

Realizing the Value of Ideas Another agency (finally) “gets it.” The Tom Peters website sports a “Cool People” section, wherein Tom and staff interview a pop business-culture celebrity. This time it’s Kevin Roberts, author of Lovemarks: The Future Beyond Branding and CEO of advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi (now touted as an ‘Ideas Company’). Here’s […]

Mass Customerzation Customizing a Customer’s Consumer Products I don’t think it’s an accident that the words Customize and Customer are so similar. Ten (or more) years ago, when the first digital printing presses were rolled out, I felt this was the direction EVERYTHING would go — personalized products, printed and manufactured on-demand. As time goes […]

Custom Creamery eCreamery puts the “I” in ice cream Ever peer into the freezer at the latest offerings from Ben & Jerry’s and just KNOW you could create a tastier concoction of ice cream? Now’s your chance to put your money where your cone is. eCreamery creates specialty frozen desserts that are customized to your […]

Chess’ Checkered Past Those random moves aren’t so random I’m a big fan of chess. I learned to play at a young age and have had a lot of fun playing games with my younger brother. We used to play a version we called “To The Death” — meaning we’d play beyond Checkmate until you […]

The Limits of Innovation Innovator-As-Hero vs. Innovator-As-Bureaucrat Excellent article from Carleen Hawn at Fast Company magazine on Apple Founder Steve Job’s vision (and lessons learned) on creativity in business. There’s an insightful comparison in the article between Apple’s innovations and those of Thomas Edison: “…most economically valuable forms of innovation often aren’t the tangible kind. […]