Ideas@Innovations Wrap-up #4
It's Friday, which means it's time to put a bow on the week that was in Innovation.
MONDAY
- It was Memorial Day, so there wasn't much going on for Ideas@Innovations. But blogger Dominic Basulto came through with a look at whether or not the Web was in the process of a Minority Report-style makeover.
Is this the Web's great Leap forward?Posted at 11:20 AM ET, 05/28/2012 The next big thing on the Web may have nothing at all to do with the Web itself, but, rather, how we in...- Video of the Day: It was Memorial Day, so I was, of course, trolling the depths of the Internet. I didn't have to dig too far before coming across this gem. Please, let this be a real movie.
TUESDAY
- Facebook's stock continued to descend, prompting Post columnist Vivek Wadhwa to ask:
Would the Facebook IPO have bombed if Mark Zuckerberg had an MBA?Silicon Valley frowns on MBAs. Some in the Valley even debate whether entrepreneurs need to complete undergraduate degrees. Angel investo...- The government also kicked it up a notch, so to speak, in its recruiting effort for cybersecurity talent:
Cybersecurity experts needed to meet growing demandThat's because cybersecurity is a field where the rules of the recession seem flipped: There's plenty of jobs, but relatively few qualifi...- Video of the Day: Got a problem? "Rub some bacon on it."
WEDNESDAY
- The D10 conference was this week -- the annual conference held by The Wall Street Journal's All Things D. The conference is a gathering place for the movers and shakers in the technology community. It's also where Mary Meeker releases her annual Internet Trends report. The big winner this year: Mobile.
Mary Meeker's Internet trends report landsEvery year, Mary Meeker of famed venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, puts together a report on Internet Trends. Think ...- Dominic Basulto also came through with this post on the re-invention of failure:
The new #Fail: Fail fast, fail early and fail oftenPosted at 02:18 PM ET, 05/30/2012 The future of innovation is in learning how to fail. That may sound counter-intuitive, but if you look ...- And, in case you missed it, Eben Moglen gave one of the most eloquent indictments of the technology community:
Eben Moglen on innovation under austerity and 'a little thug in a hooded sweatshirt'Posted at 10:37 AM ET, 05/30/2012 When it comes to innovation and the Internet, Columbia Law School professor and Software Freedom Law Ce...- Video of the Day: We came across this on Thursday, but it was posted Wednesday, and it's amazing. Thanks to the Post's Ryan Kellett for passing this along via Rachel Weiner:
THURSDAY
- SpaceX dominated the Innovation news Thursday, with the successful splashdown landing of the Dragon capsule in the Pacific Ocean. We covered the landing live (as we did with the launch).
SpaceX capsule successfully returns to EarthUpdated 2:50 p.m.: "Welcome home baby," said SpaceX's founder and design chief Elon Musk during a press conference Thursday afternoon fol...
