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There’s a Shopping Revolution Happening

There’s a shopping revolution happening—and it’s taking place in stores, online, deep inside your wallet, and everywhere else transactions have traction. From the way we spend money, to the things we spend it on, to the sales outlets themselves, consumers are wandering in a wonderland of buying potential. PayPal’s “digital wallet,” Amex’s slick socializing, Square’s disruptive tech, Warby Parker’s new way of selling eyeglasses, and Fab.com’s, well, fab design site represent just a few of the people and companies at the forefront of the movement—and the innovations powering the way we shop now.

reblogged from fastcompany

Macy's CEO Sees Stores Borrowing Ideas From Online

Good read on how e-commerce is inspiring Macy’s in-store features.

I wouldn’t mind one bit if Manhattan was full of these electric tricycles via good. In fact, I can imagine this would be an awesome place for brands to step in, similar to how Barclay’s owned bike lanes in London, a major brand could pony up branded parking spots for these things.

“A woman and her son sit in the capsule of an electric tricycle as they drive along a main road.” When/where/how can we get one?

On the streets of Beijing: an electric tricycle

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reblogged from good

world-shaker:

courtenaybird:

BBC News - App helps blind to send text messages

“[There is] a growing anxiety shared among the blind community that the widespread adoption of touchscreens for many machines and devices is making them ‘truly blind’… from copying machines to machines at the gym - is all coming with touch screens.”

“Blind people say I ‘see’ things with my fingers, but on touchscreens they are truly blind.”

This is awesome.

reblogged from morpheusmedia

Disloyalty Rewards

Love this item by @Springwise: ”Designed to encourage consumers to discover different coffee venues while bringing businesses together to grow as a vertical,” the Be Disloyal card lets consumers in Singapore score points for cultivating other relationships.

Check out their post and get inspired!

On “Change” and Getting Out From Behind a Desk

Earlier in the day yesterday Richard Branson tweeted about the value of getting out from behind a desk. He was chiefly illustrating how inspired he got from meeting and talking with his employees, from different groups, but I vigorously agree in getting out and about if you hope to be at all inspired to then go back to your desk and do something interesting. So yesterday afternoon I did just that and headed over to Saatchi & Saatchi’s gorgeous offices for the Change event, part of the Influencer Conference.

Marking the second time in as many weeks that I’ve hard from Charity:Water, it was a delight to hear from Paull Young on how the organization got to where it is today, thanks to a guy with a lot of friends who figured out how to transform his social butterfly into social good.

The devastatingly charming Lakshmi Pratury then introduced us to one of India’s most successful emerging artists (who could equally charm the birds out of the trees) Raghava Kk, who walked through his groundbreaking iPad app and showed some of the fantastic animated illustrations he created to introduce speakers at an INK conference. Check it out:

One of the talks that really inspired me was the first by social innovation strategist Jerri Chou. Founder and managing partner of Lovely Day, and co-founder of The Feast Social Innovation Conference, she framed up the opportunity for businesses to rethink, co-create, and adapt.

Just three hours away from my desk and I had scribbled about eight pages in my Moleskine and my head was buzzing like I’d had five cups of green tea. Not only was I ready to go back to my desk and produce something but I feel ready to work through the weekend. Getting out and about is the healthiest way to stay creative and I’m so lucky to live in a vibrant city where amazing events are happening constantly. To stay parked in an office all day, every day would be nothing short of criminal.

More in tagging and objects… now this, we could all use

smarterplanet:

Confidential lost & found tags help protect users’ things

It used to be that protecting one’s stuff meant putting a name or phone number on it somewhere. Today, however, many consumers would rather not expose such potentially sensitive information. As a result, there’s TurlyTag, a system of hard tags and stickers that lets users label their things without giving out personal details. READ MORE…

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