Its interesting how nowadays, innovation is consistently flowing from mundane consumer and entertainment applications to advanced business and industry applications.
Bonus - Bing maps presented at TED 2010:
So I guess we will see this applied to defense and industry shortly
Bullish China recounts Kai-Fu Lee's talk at Stanford about internet in China and his new innovation incubator.
Bullish China - Kai-Fu Lee on internet in China
http://bullishchina.posterous.com/kai-fu-lee-on-the-internet-in-china
"open source is - simply stated - a beautiful and effective way to scale creative thinking and culture"
New Kind articulates the need to take open source forward, from evangelism to practice. Ironically, with this elegant post, they take on the role of the open source evangelist...
Well worth reading anyhow.
"evangelists in this broader understanding of open source include many of the world’s most influential business thinkers [...] These speakers are not referring to open source software. But, through the proven success of the open source software development model, in part, they have discovered the competitive power of such creative collaborative, design thinking cultures. And they are advising today’s business leaders to rapidly adopt these new kinds of models across their organizations; internally and externally."
