Thursday, February 11, 2010
Twitter: Now more than 1 billion tweets per month | Royal Pingdom (via fred-wilson)

Twitter: Now more than 1 billion tweets per month | Royal Pingdom (via fred-wilson)

Posted at 10:15am Reblogged via fred-wilson
“..successful telecommuting strategy involves more than just packing up an employee’s stuff and sending him home. New teleworkers may need to go through training on technical things — like how to use remote software — and on lifestyle issues, like balancing work and family.” For Telecommuters, It’s Not About Going To Work : NPR
Posted at 10:06am
Friday, February 5, 2010

Office Parks Are Worse Than Suburban Sprawl - GOOD Blog

…500-foot driveways do not reduce rents in any obvious respect. Moreover, the suburban office park in its current form creates harmful externalities, by forcing people to drive to reach them even if they live nearby (thus increasing pollution and traffic congestion).

Posted at 2:27pm
Sunday, January 24, 2010

A stunning video demonstrating the letterpress process - Letterpress Coasters on Vimeo (via @syddesign)

Posted at 11:55am
Thursday, December 31, 2009
“The terms “customer driven” and “solutions” seem to be in every manager’s lexicon. But as Professor Gulati notes, “it’s an execution problem.” Companies, he says, “aren’t generally structured to access, absorb or utilize customer insights since they are organized by product, not by customer.” Prototype - Seeing Customers as Partners in Innovation - NYTimes.com
Posted at 6:35pm
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Amway employees work at a company cafe in Taipei, July 31, 2009. Increasingly, corporations are providing employees with alternative work environments, or “agile” space, which evolved from the dot com revolution and describes how software designers sit at tables facing one another with their computers in order to collaborate. - Large, international corporations are doing away with cubicles. How will the shift affect workers and the quality of their work? - Opinion: On the death of the cubicle

Amway employees work at a company cafe in Taipei, July 31, 2009. Increasingly, corporations are providing employees with alternative work environments, or “agile” space, which evolved from the dot com revolution and describes how software designers sit at tables facing one another with their computers in order to collaborate. - Large, international corporations are doing away with cubicles. How will the shift affect workers and the quality of their work? - Opinion: On the death of the cubicle

Posted at 8:05pm
Monday, December 21, 2009

Top 5 Startup Tips from Jay-Z « The Metric System

A fun post of business tips pulled from the lyrics of various across Jay-Z’s catalog.

Posted at 12:45pm
Monday, December 7, 2009
Seen a lot of these around before, but some are new and extremely awesome - 10 Amazing Office Designs Around the World

Seen a lot of these around before, but some are new and extremely awesome - 10 Amazing Office Designs Around the World

Posted at 8:43pm
Fallingwater® | Hard to Find Items | LEGO Shop

Fallingwater® | Hard to Find Items | LEGO Shop

Posted at 8:41pm
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
“Just 15 percent of the small- and medium sized businesses we spoke with utilize a traditional office model, where employees work from one central physical location. And 45 percent of survey respondents – including those traditionalists – spend more than three-quarters of their time conducting business out of the office.” Is the traditional office becoming extinct? | TechOat.com - I don’t think we’ll see all offices disappear at all, people need to be around other people, and everyone needs a home-base to touch down in. The day of being forced into one office for certain set hours is continuing to be pushed out to more nomadic styles of work during “available” hours.
Posted at 12:34pm