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• Monday, April 05, 2010 10:37 AM

  The High Costs of Legacy

  Clay Shirky posted a much-discussed article on the inability of complex business models to adapt in the face of shifts in the economic or cultural climate, which goes directly to one of the points I made in Young World Rising about the hidden costs of Read More... Posted by Rob | 4 Comments Filed under: Web 2.0, economics, Social Trends, collaboration and social computing, innovation

• Friday, March 05, 2010 2:16 PM

  Nice News to End the Week

  I was just honored to received an invitation to help judge the 2010 Innovation Contest of the Americas ( TIC Americas ), sponsored by the Young Americas Business Trust. I wrote about this organization in Young World Rising , in the context of non-government Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: Young World Rising, entrepreneurship, Latin America, innovation, NGO

• Wednesday, February 03, 2010 2:21 PM

  Colombian Innovators Win "World of Solutions" Competition

  I just heard some great news from my friends at DUTO, SA - the Colombian start-up that developed a way for visually-impaired students to read information from computer displays through touch sensitivity. DUTO was just announced as the winner of an innovation Read More... Posted by Rob | 0 Comments Filed under: Young World Rising, entrepreneurship, Latin America, innovation