April 2007
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Coolhunt #10 - Friday, April 27, 2007
Coolhunt Log #10 Friday, April 27, 2007 On Stage: Scott Cooper, MIT researcher with the Sloan School of Management, co-author of Coolhunting Steve O’Keefe, Professor of Internet Public Relations at Tulane University Rachelle Matherne, moderator MODERATOR: I’d like to remind everyone of the rules of the Coolhunt. We do at least one site review, one blog post, one comment on another...
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Coolhunt #9 - Thursday, April 26, 2007
Coolhunt Log #9 Thursday, April 26, 2007 On Stage: Scott Cooper, MIT researcher with the Sloan School of Management, co-author of Coolhunting Peter Gloor, MIT researcher with the Sloan School of Management, co-author of Coolhunting Steve O’Keefe, moderator Listening in from Sweden is one of the co-authors of the book Design-Inspired Innovation. Leading the Coolhunt today is Peter Gloor....
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Coolhunt #8, Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Coolhunt Log #8 Wednesday, April 25, 2007 On Stage: Scott Cooper, MIT researcher with the Sloan School of Management, co-author of Coolhunting Peter Gloor, MIT researcher with the Sloan School of Management, co-author of Coolhunting Steve O’Keefe, moderator Leading the Coolhunt today is Scott Cooper. SCOTT: I’m really excited about where we’re starting today. In Coolhunting, we...
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Coolhunt #7 - Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Coolhunt Log #7 Tuesday, April 24, 2007 On Stage: Scott Cooper, MIT researcher with the Sloan School of Management, co-author of Coolhunting Peter Gloor, MIT researcher with the Sloan School of Management, co-author of Coolhunting Steve O’Keefe, moderator Leading the Coolhunt today is Peter Gloor. PETER: There was a New York Times article yesterday documenting Wikipedia’s coverage of...
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Coolhunt #6: Monday, April 23, 2007
Coolhunt Log #6 Monday, April 23, 2007 On Stage: Scott Cooper, MIT researcher with the Sloan School of Management, co-author of Coolhunting Peter Gloor, MIT researcher with the Sloan School of Management, co-author of Coolhunting Steve O’Keefe, moderator Leading the Coolhunt today is Scott Cooper. SCOTT: Let’s start with a website that I go to everyday: O’Reilly Radar at...
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Coolhunt Log #5, Friday, April 20, 2007
Coolhunt Log #5 Friday, April 20, 2007 On Stage: Scott Cooper, MIT researcher with the Sloan School of Management, co-author of Coolhunting Renaud Richardet, software developer with the Condor software program Steve O’Keefe, moderator MODERATOR: I’m Steve O’Keefe, and welcome to the Coolhunt for Friday, April 20, 2007. Joining us today we have a special guest, Renaud Richardet,...
Coolhunt #4: Thursday, April 19, 2007
Coolhunt Log #4 Thursday, April 19, 2007 On Stage: Scott Cooper, MIT researcher with the Sloan School of Management, co-author of Coolhunting Steve O’Keefe, moderator Leading the Coolhunt today is Scott Cooper. SCOTT: I thought we would start today at the Creative Commons website. It’s not a blog, but it is a starting point for what we talked about yesterday. We wound up at a website...
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Coolhunt #3: April 18, 2007
Coolhunt Log #3 Wednesday, April 18, 2007 On Stage: Peter Gloor, MIT research affiliate with the Sloan School of Management, co-author of Coolhunting Scott Cooper, MIT research affiliate with the Sloan School of Management, co-author of Coolhunting Steve O’Keefe, moderator Leading the Coolhunt today is Peter Gloor. MODERATOR: Concluding yesterday’s coolhunt, I posted a comment on Steve...
Coolhunt #2 - Follow Up
After yesterday’s coolhunt, I posted a comment to Steve Rubel’s blog, micropersuasion, telling him that he was coolhunted and what we talked about. I sent email to Jack Dorsey and Biz Stone at Twitter to let them know we coolhunted their site. I also sent email to “feedback@whoissick.com” to let Who Is Sick? know they were coolhunted and what we discussed. STEVE...
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Coolhunt #2: April 17, 2007
Coolhunt Log #2 Tuesday, April 17, 2007 On Stage: Peter Gloor, MIT researcher with the Sloan School of Management, co-author of Coolhunting Scott Cooper, MIT researcher with the Sloan School of Management, co-author of Coolhunting Steve O’Keefe, moderator Leading the Coolhunt today is Scott Cooper. SCOTT: I’m connecting from my home office in Massachusetts. I’ve just been working...
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Coolhunt #1: Follow-Up
In completing Monday’s coolhunt #1, we sent email to half a dozen business and technology journalists at The New York Times to inform them they were coolhunted and what we discussed. Here are the six journalists we pitched: Saul Hansell - Technology Bob Tedeschi - Ecommerce John Schwartz - Internet Business Connie Hays - Retail Ecommerce Kevin McKenna - Circuits Editor John Markoff - we...
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Do We Innovate Based on Where We're From?
In the Business section of last Sunday’s New York Times (April 15, 2007, page 3), journalist G. Pascal Zachary has a “Ping” column titled “Creativity, Innovation and the Cultural Parade” (read it here). In it, he develops the idea that our national origin not only has a lot to do with how a career in technology might develop, but also that there are some things about national origin that speak to...
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Coolhunt #1: April 16, 2007
Coolhunt Log Monday, April 16, 2007 On Stage: Peter Gloor, MIT research affiliate with the Sloan School of Management, co-author of Coolhunting Scott Cooper, MIT research affiliate with the Sloan School of Management, co-author of Coolhunting Steve O’Keefe, moderator Leading the Coolhunt today is Peter Gloor. PETER: I start my day with the New York Times online to sniff the latest trends....
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Rules for the Upcoming Coolhunting Show
Rules for the Online Coolhunt Show: (Updated April 13, 2007) These are the rules the authors have accepted for their live coolhunt program, airing here every weekday at 2:00 p.m. ET USA beginning Monday, April 16 through Friday, May 11, 2007. - Each coolhunt involves: 1 site review 1 blog post 1 comment 1 connection The comment must be on a 3rd party blog or discussion group. We are helping link...
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Join Us April 16 - May 11 for a Live Daily...
NEWS RELEASE (Boston, MA — Monday, April 16, 2007) — Two Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers will put their trend-sniffing skills to the test in the coming weeks as they invite the public to join them online for a live daily “coolhunt.” Peter Gloor and Scott Cooper, both affiliated with MIT’s Sloan School of Management, are co-authors of...
Our Coolhunting Book Is Now Available
Peter and I are excited to announce that our book Coolhunting: Chasing Down the Next Big Thing (published by Amacom) is now available. You can read more about it at the publisher’s website. Coolhunting is about finding great ideas that will become cool trends. We’re not just talking about whatever is the fad of the moment or the hot product of the day, but about innovation that...
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What does it take to be happy?
Waiting for my hair to be cut at the hairdresser today, I was reading an article in a German science magazine about happiness. The article was relying heavily on the world database of happiness, a research project at the University of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. The researchers found that the Danes and Swiss are the happiest people, while people in Ukraine, Zimbabwe and Tanzania are the least...
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The New Principles of a Swarm Business
Scott Cooper and my article “The New Principles of a Swarm Business” appeared today in the April 2007 Sloan Management Review. In this article we list principles of companies that have succeeded in creating and growing businesses by tapping into the power of swarms: Principle 1: Gain Power by Giving it Away Principle 2: Share with the Swarm Principle 3: Concentrate on the Swarm, Not...
