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Galas: Ideas Puts Ballet Gala Soles on Ice

When San Francisco-based Ideas Event Decor & Production opted not to bid on the San Francisco Ballet's 2008 opening night gala — an event the company had designed for the past two years — company founder J. Riccardo Benavides knew he was taking a risk. “From a business perspective, it's a scary approach,� he admits. Instead, the company put all its energy into a bid for the ballet's high-profile opening night dinner celebrating its 75th anniversary “New Works� festival. Fortunately for Ideas, the risk paid off. After winning over the ballet committee with its creative “ice as diamonds� design, the company executed a truly cool affair.

New ideas prove patently protectable

Israeli companies are known for their bright ideas, but what many budding corporations do not know is how to protect their ideas from infringement by patent predators.

Men of the cybernetic caves

Every time someone complains about ideas that fall outside an arbitrary and narrow circle called “common sense” (also known in English as “horse sense”), they do so by brandishing two classic arguments: 1) the philosophers live in another world, surrounded by books and eccentric ideas and 2) we know what reality is because we live in it. But when we ask what “reality” is they automatically recite to us a list of ideas that other philosophers placed in circulation in the 19th century or during the Renaissance, when those philosophers were branded by their neighbors, if not jailed or burned alive on the holy bonfire of good manners in the name of a common sense that represented the fantasies or realities of the Middle Ages.

Iannello Announces 40 Ideas in 40 Days Blog

The blog can be found out at www.MicheleIannello.com.  The blog will focus on ideas, both big and small, to reform government, protect taxpayer money, and provide relief to the middle class among many others.“

Nintendo out of original Wii ideas, says Iwata

Satoru Iwata has said that the company has now used all the ideas in the proposal pipeline for Wii with the development of Wii Music.

News: Iwata: "Wii Are Out Of Ideas"

The arrival of Wii Music signals the end of the ideas Miyamoto originally thought up when he first put forward his proposals for the Wii.

Southern California Car Dealers to Learn New Internet Car Sales Ideas from AutoUpLinkUSA, eBay Motors, Carfax, e-autobusiness, Gumiyo

Southern California Car Dealers to Learn New Internet Car Sales Ideas from AutoUpLinkUSA, eBay Motors, Carfax, e-autobusiness, Gumiyo

Southern California Car Dealers to Learn New Internet Car Sales Ideas from AutoUpLinkUSA, eBay Motors, Carfax, e-autobusiness, Gumiyo

Southern California Car Dealers to Learn New Internet Car Sales Ideas from AutoUpLinkUSA, eBay Motors, Carfax, e-autobusiness, Gumiyo

CACM Reports: Channeling Brainpower Using Computer Games; August Issue Probes New Ideas on Using Computer Games to Solve Practical Problems

CACM Reports: Channeling Brainpower Using Computer Games; August Issue Probes New Ideas on Using Computer Games to Solve Practical Problems

Mozilla Wants You to Redesign Firefox: Responding to the Mozilla Labs' call for open-source design ideas won't make you money, but it's a business opportunity all the same.

Responding to the Mozilla Labs' call for open-source design ideas won't make you money, but it's a business opportunity all the same.

Flush away your doubts: blogs can be the ideal way for colleagues to share ideas and break the communications barrier

Flush away your doubts: blogs can be the ideal way for colleagues to share ideas and break the communications barrier

Southern California Car Dealers to Learn New Internet Car Sales Ideas from AutoUpLinkUSA, eBay Motors, Carfax, e-autobusiness, Gumiyo

LOS ANGELES - Southern California auto dealers are invited to attend an August 6 half-day seminar, “Tools to Make You Profitable,� at the Holiday Inn- Buena Park, designed to share some of the latest ideas for improving c

Philadelphia Inquirer Tells Staff Bloggers Not To Use Blogs To Test Story Ideas

When you've built a business based on artificial scarcity for years, and then suddenly find yourself in a much more competitive market, it's no surprise that some of the ideas you come up with will be to run directly towards more artificial scarcity. That's what the Philadelphia Inquirer appears to be doing with its new policy to not put many types of stories online until they hit the physical paper. This doesn't apply to breaking news (thank goodness), but pretty much everything else: "investigative reporting, enterprise, trend stories, news features, and reviews of all sorts." You can sort of understand why the paper would like to coordinate, though it does seem to treat online as a second class citizen. It also leads to one odd and highly questionable decision:

A room of their own - Studio space for young artists

Seven creative young artists have been honored for ideas that can invigorate traditional Chinese folk art. Even better, they have received cash prizes and free studio space in Ming Da Ai Tao Creative Plaza in Yangpu District to develop their ideas.

How Can Nerds Make a Difference In November?

Scott Aaronson offers an intriguing call for ideas on how nerds can supercharge the political process this year. He's clearly an Obama admirer and phrases his challenge this way: "What non-obvious things can nerds who are so inclined do to help the Democrats win in November?" But the question itself is not inherently partisan. The analogy Aaronson gives is to the Nadertrading idea in 2000 (which we discussed at the time). What's the Nadertrading for 2008? "The sorts of ideas I'm looking for are ones that (1) exploit nerds' nerdiness, (2) go outside the normal channels of influence, (3) increase nerds' effective voting power by several orders of magnitude, (4) are legal, (5) target critical swing states, and (6) can be done as a hobby."

A room of their own - Studio space for young artists

BEIJING, July 3 -- Seven creative young artists have been honored for ideas that can invigorate traditional Chinese folk art. Even better, they have received cash prizes and free studio space in Ming Da Ai Tao Creative Plaza in Yangpu District to develop their ideas.

A room of their own - Studio space for young artists

BEIJING, July 3 -- Seven creative young artists have been honored for ideas that can invigorate traditional Chinese folk art. Even better, they have received cash prizes and free studio space in Ming Da Ai Tao Creative Plaza in Yangpu District to develop their ideas.

Reader Question: How do you get what you need from clients?

I feel exploited when a customer takes to much time to send me all the images, texts, videos, ideas etc that I need to complete the project. In the meantime, severals changes are asked from the client. A web site project could take 3 months! Eating peanut butter 3 months in a row is not very interesting (it’s juste an exemple of how poor I can be cause I wait for my money). A project could be finished in 2 short weeks (that never happened to me)… Even if I charge 40% of the total price at the beginning, I always feel that I’m more interested in finishing the project that the customer is. Sometimes I wonder if I’m in the good job in my life, but I prefer to be poor sometimes than having a boss. I’m open to any ideas to not feel exploited, and sorry if I’m definatly not in the topic, that’s what I understood from the article, feeling exploi

Mozilla Launches Snowl Messaging Prototype

Jack Spine writes with the story that the Mozilla project "has launched 'Snowl' — an experimental messaging prototype that could allow people to collate and view messages from email, RSS, messaging, and social networks. From the article: 'Key ideas behind the project, called 'Snowl', are to enable users to prioritise messages by importance, and have a search-based interface for message retrieval, according to Mozilla developer Myk Melez. "Could the web browser help you follow and participate in online discussions?" wrote Melez in a blog post on Wednesday. "Snowl is an experiment to answer that question." Another of the key ideas of the project is that browser functionality for navigating web content, including tabs, bookmarks, and history, be used to navigate messages.

How Can You Measure a Wiki's Worth?

moldar writes "I have been involved in a major project to migrate documentation from multiple sources to a wiki (Media Wiki, if you must know). Now, the PHBs are all asking questions about how organized the data is. I've already googled for various wiki metrics ideas, but mostly they focus on page counts, average page sizes, rates of edits, etc. Can anybody suggest better ways of measuring the quality of a wiki? Things like uncategorized pages, articles that are too small, etc? Any help or fresh ideas would be appreciated."

How to Fight Name Scraping Scammers?

CurtMonash writes "I was ego-surfing the other day, and was surprised to discover that I was listed as a member of an on-line dating service. It turns out these scamsters generate web pages for lots of (FirstName, LastName) combos, each claiming that the named individual is a member of their service. I posted about this, and discovered other people were upset, at least one had lost interest in a guy because he appeared to be a member, and so on. I've since followed up with lessons learned, a big one being that everybody should have a visible web presence. But frankly, the ideas I've come up with for fighting this kind of reputation scam seem fairly weak. Do Slashdotters have any better ideas?"

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Cardboard ideas: Part I (a.k.a. This is as close to an Apple iPod dock I could ever be...)

I don't want to spend $75 on an iPod dock out there... and I only need USB connectivity to sync and charge. So who cares about spending money on a dock, when you only need cardboard?

Workers` Ideas Fueling LG Electronics` Innovation

The success secrets of Toyota Motors have spread to LG Electronics, with executives and union members of the Korean firm going to Japan to learn from the Japanese automaker.

Some ideas for the iPod touch version 2 (thanks, AT&T)

imageAT&T has provided the idea for the iPod touch version 2: just Wi-Fi with a camera, speaker and SIP-VoIP. Not that AT&T put it exactly that way. However, AT&T says original iPhones can be deactivated and used as WiFi iPods.

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