Today’s ideal social form is not the commune or the movement or even the individual creator as such; it’s the small business. Every artistic or moral aspiration — music, food, good works, what have you — is expressed in those terms. Call it Generation Sell. Read more @ nyt.

Find a nice stock photo and copy that. Stocking is the New Planking.

An interesting infographic. Click on image below to embiggen!

$41 million. From Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital, and Silicon Valley Bank. Pre-launch. That’s how much a brand new startup called Color has to work with. Your eyebrows should already be raised, and here’s something to keep them fixed there: this is the most money Sequoia has ever invested in a pre-launch startup. Or, as the [...]

What does it take to nurture that gift rather than squelch it? How do you inspire someone to make the most of their talents?

Funniest thing online. http://tpdsaa.tumblr.com/

A short documentary that explores what it means to be an influencer and how trends and creativity becomes contagious today in music, fashion and entertainment. The film attempts to understand the essence of influence, what makes a person influential without taking a statistical or metric approach.

Ray Ozzie, Soon-to-be-retired Chief Architect at Microsoft, published an internal memo identifying a pattern based on where the tech world is headed. His POV is on the world moving towards two categories of digital innovation: continuous services and connected devices. Continuous services are “cloud-based agents” that bring together data to find insights and act on [...]

“A rose by any other name probably does look different and maybe even smells different.” says Sheena Iyengar, who has studied how we make choices — and how we feel about the choices we make. At TEDGlobal, she talks about both trivial decisions (Coke v. Pepsi) and profound ones, and shares her groundbreaking research that [...]