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Month: May, 2008

links for 2008-05-30

Harpers Ferry Center: NPS Maps (tags: map symbols illustrator)

links for 2008-05-28

Google Friend Connect (tags: google socialnetworks socialsoftware) SCORM – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (tags: education digital learning)

links for 2008-05-27

Beautiful And Original Product Designs | Monday Inspiration | Smashing Magazine (tags: product design ideas inspiration) Design and the future of travel (tags: Design travel telepresence) Global marketplace for logo design, business card design, graphic design and website design | crowdSPRING (tags: design crowdsourcing creative agency)

links for 2008-05-22

HBS Toolkit – Basic Operations Self-Instructional Workbook – HBS Working Knowledge (tags: operations management) Evolutionary Economics: Bottom Up Solutions to Business Problems | Fast Company (tags: economics evolution)

links for 2008-05-20

Ubigraph: Free dynamic graph visualization software (tags: visualization graph development)

Strategy Conference 2008, IIT Institute of Design

On May 22-23 (Thursday and Friday), the Institute of Design is hosting a Strategy Conference at the Museum of Contemporary Art. As usual, I’m pretty excited about the speakers: notably, Bill Buxton, AG Lafley, Roger Martin, John Seely Brown, and Paul Polak! How amazing is it that we get so many great minds in one [...]

Field trip to the mkSolaire exhibit at the MSI

Today, Swapnil, Matt and I visited the Museum of Science and Industry in Hyde Park. I’ve already seen the museum before (I’m not a huge fan to tell you the truth), but we went specifically this week with the intent to see the Green + Wired home exhibit. Michelle Kaufmann, a well known prefab/modular architect [...]

Blog-lite Summer

Hi everyone…. This summer is going to be blog-lite, okay? I am taking too many classes for my own good as well as working on two pretty interesting projects that could turn into a venture soon; there’s probably little chance that I will get out of this summer unscathed from the wrath of Operations Management. [...]

links for 2008-05-14

The Future of the MBA “It selects for general intelligence and conscientiousness, not for lateral or divergent thinking, moral development, or epistemological sophistication, as we do yet know how to measure these.” “The high-value decision-maker of the future—the one that (tags: business design)

Hyper personal tracking: Where’s it all headed?

I feel like you’re going to see a lot more personal tracking applications in the near future– Imagine GTD on steroids, where you’ll know everything you spend time on. When there’s stuff like MeeTimer and Microsoft Research doing some serious inquiry into personal time tracking, you have to wonder where this is all going to [...]

links for 2008-05-09

FORA.tv – Videos Covering Today’s Top Social, Political, and Tech Issues (tags: video education lectures learning) Big Think – We Are What You Think (tags: ideas web2.0 inspiration community video)

links for 2008-05-08

All of Inflation’s Little Parts – The New York Times (tags: economics visualization infographics inflation finance)

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