When Rich presented Kindling to about 700 people at the NY Tech Meet-up on Monday evening, we had a group of about 10 Arc-ers representing a cheering section. Seeing our app on the big screen (aside several other talented technologists’ work) was as exciting and nerve-wracking as one might expect. Perhaps the best thing about [...]
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Iconic Collaboration
Human history is full of moments of individual inspiration – think Einstein’s Relativity – but what about examples of successful group collaboration around an idea? A few hundred years ago, a particular group of backwoods provincials gave birth to perhaps the best idea of all – a limited republican government designed to protect against tyranny. [...]
Clay Shirky on Institutions vs. Collaboration
This is a great talk given in 2005 by Clay Shirky at the TED conference.
What's This Kindling Thing?
A year ago, I had an idea about ideas. Well, let me back up. I’m Chris Dary, Lead Product Architect here at Arc90, and I want to kick things off by telling the story of how Kindling came about over the past year, from its inception to its entrance into the “innovation management” market, and [...]
Want to Keep Innovating? Start From The Beginning…Again
Bill Buxton, Principal Scientist at Microsoft Research and pioneer in the human–computer interaction field, wrote this about innovation in one of his BusinessWeek columns: We live at a time where we hear repeated calls for the need for creativity and innovation. What better way to cultivate the full potential of our creativity than by sustaining the [...]
Welcome.
Welcome to The Kindling Blog, a space for ideas about ideas. Kindling is about innovation. We here at Arc90 have been using Kindling for over a year and recently released it to the wild scene that is The Public. As a result, we’re pretty jazzed about ideas and we wanted to share that. This is [...]