Success Is Not Final, Failure Is Not Fatal: It Is The Courage To Continue That Counts.

Always get up and keep moving forward… It may be slow but it is still progress.

Diana Morrow (via deeplifequotes)

Focus on PROGRESS, not perfection.

MIT finds actual wisdom in the wisdom of crowds

You just need to find the people that know they are right and expect others to be wrong.

“Put simply, it's worth looking at those folks who answer against what they believe everyone else will say, since they may be smarter than everyone else.”

The Dawn Of The Age Of Responsive Media

This year's CES announcements were more exciting to me than ever before. Sure, we've already seen dozens of drones, exoskeletons, robots, rollable displays, virtual- and augmented-reality headsets, as well as personalized artificial intelligence for smart phones, smart homes, driver-assisted and autonomous cars (aka autonomobiles) and more over the years. They're [...]

Forget about choose-your-own-adventure. Responsive media will offer immersive experiences that adapt “dynamically to the consumer’s attention, engagement and context”.

Questions to keep your brand relevant

My two fave questions from this morning’s session Congratulations! Your Brand is About to Become Obsolete were:

What are you doing that’s new and interesting?

Why are you in business? (This is about your purpose, not your product)

Answering these will help you to develop new ways of interacting with your audiences. 

Don’t wait for extraordinary circumstance to do good; try to use ordinary situations.

Charles Francis Richter (via fyp-science)

Consumer Awareness Grows Over the Internet

Earned media such as Google search, social media and online articles/content are the only growing influencers of consumer product awareness, according to Nielsen. 

No growth in consumer purchase awareness across paid and owned media like TV, newspaper, paid advertising and in-store or brand web content.

Michelle Corsano Pellettier

Panasonic Lumix CM1

Today, we present to you another addition to the hybrid crowd: recently announced during the Photokina show in Germany, Lumix DMC-CM1 by Panasonic is an Android smartphone and a connected camera packed inside one versatile and futuristic-looking device that should soon find its way to mass production lines.

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” — Galileo Galilei (born February 15, 1564) http://stuf.ly/2kA06Nd