Ideas@Innovations Wrap Up #1:
The week of May 7 for The Washington Post's Ideas@Innovations -- where it's all about what's next.
- So, I've decided that Storify is the new newsletter -- easily shared, linked to and spread around the Web. As someone who receives far more e-mail than I can possibly read, I figure this is the best way to wrap up what we were up to on Ideas@Innovations. If you prefer a traditional [email protected] e-mail, well, sorry.
So, here goes the story wrap-up for the week of May 7: MONDAY - MAY 7
- We started the week with a piece from our colleagues over at WaPo Labs on how Disney, thanks to the development of new, more sensitive touch-based technology, may be on to something with those dancing brooms:
Disney may be on to something: New technology could bring objects to lifePosted at 10:19 AM ET, 05/07/2012 This piece originally appeared on the WaPo Labs Blog on May 7.WaPo Labs is the digital team at the Wash...- Then we rounded out the day with a guest blog post from filmmaker and writer Amanda Lin Costa, covering "Story Hack: Beta," where adults had a stroty-time sleepover at Lincoln Center. But this wasn't your parents' storytelling session. Instead, this was a Red Bull-swilling crowd of people ready to blow the lid on one of the most basic aspects of the human condition: storytelling.
Not your parents' storytelling: StoryCode and Film Society of Lincoln Center host 'Story Hack: Beta'Lincoln Center in New York hosted a "sleep-over" in April. One participant sported teddy-bear ears. But don't be fooled: this was not an ...- The interesting read came via The Wall Street Journal where I discovered that, to Facebook, I'm worth just over $80.
- The video of the day is the official music video for Delta Heavy. Full disclosure, we discovered this via PSFK on Wednesday. We know, #TimelineFail:
TUESDAY - May 8
- On Tuesday, it was all about patent trolls. The Post's Vivek Wadhwa writes that these patent enforcing, non-producing entities are similar to the gangsters of the 1930s, holding up smaller, fledgling companies while the larger corporate behemoths use patents as offensive and defensive weapons against one another.
Where are the jobs? Ask the patent trolls.President Obama has been touting patents as a way to create jobs and increase U.S. competitiveness. "These are jobs and businesses of the...- Our partners over at Venture Beat offered up an interesting read on how to hire the best talent in the word. Here's a hint, stop worrying about physical geography:
How to hire the best talent in the worldWhat are the chances that the ideal people for your business live within commuting distance? And even if they did, could you actually fin...- Here's the video of the day, via Devour (man, can't get enough of that site). And who doesn't need to know this:
- Oh, and did Abraham Lincoln file a patent for Facebook?
Abraham Lincoln Filed a Patent for Facebook in 1845You guys are gonna love this story. It takes a few minutes to get to Lincoln, but it's well worth the read. Here's how it all started... ...- That brings us to...
WEDNESDAY - MAY 9
- Ha ha! No! Lincoln did not invent Facebook, and that's according to the guy who wrote the piece saying he did:
Abraham Lincoln didn't invent Facebook, says the guy who wrote the piece saying he didNate St. Pierre has had probably one of the best Web 'gotcha' moments this week. On Tuesday, St. Pierre posted a piece titled "Abraham Li...- But we didn't end there. As a matter of fact, this is where we started for the day: SWAG. That's right "stuff we all get" has, at least in one case, turned into stuff we all (at) Apple get:
SWAG: Stuff we (at) Apple getIf you haven't heard, a new mobile application is curating restaurant deals exclusively for Apple employees. If this sounds oddly like SW...
