Aspire » google wave http://www.aspirekc.com Bigger, Better, Business Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:07:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= 3 cool things that are well worth your time http://www.aspirekc.com/Blog/2009/10/02/3-cool-things-that-are-well-worth-your-time/ http://www.aspirekc.com/Blog/2009/10/02/3-cool-things-that-are-well-worth-your-time/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:45:19 +0000 Shawn Kinkade http://www.aspirekc.com/Blog/2009/10/02/3-cool-things-that-are-well-worth-your-time/   photo by emdot 

It’s a Friday afternoon and I thought I would share 3 fun and interesting, but totally unrelated things.  The internet is an amazing resource…what is it not capable of?

Item #1 – Accidental Innovation

Most of the time you think about inventors laboring away in the lab, spending years coming up

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It’s a Friday afternoon and I thought I would share 3 fun and interesting, but totally unrelated things.  The internet is an amazing resource…what is it not capable of?

Item #1 – Accidental Innovation

Most of the time you think about inventors laboring away in the lab, spending years coming up with great ideas and products.  However for a lot of products, the innovation actually comes about accidentally.

You may have heard the story about Post-its as an accidental creation at 3M, but did you know that  Corn Flakes were totally an accident discovered by the Kellogg brothers in the late 1800s?

Or that the x-ray was discovered accidentally when a fluorescent screen unexpectedly started glowing during an unrelated experiment? 

The fun folks over at Business Pundit have pulled together an article on popular products that were invented by accident – you can see it here at the unique origins of 25 popular products!

Item #2 – Unbelievable Photos!

I’m a big fan of photography and the amazing things you can do with Photoshop, but it’s even more amazing to find untouched photos that are unbelievable.

  photo by phillip perold

The WebUrbanist has come up with 15 incredible images that look altered but aren’t.  As an example, the picture above is actually a reflection on a beach, not a body of water.  Cool stuff – check it out.

Item #3 – Google Wave is coming!

Finally, if you haven’t heard about Google Wave, you’re hearing about it now and you’ll be hearing a lot more in the next couple of months.  The quick explanation of Google Wave is that it’s a new platform / technology / application that represents what email would be if it were invented today instead of 40 years ago – bringing in all of the real-time collaboration and sharing that people are using in Social Media applications everywhere else. 

Confused?  Me too – but this video might help you make sense of it (and it’s only 2 minutes long!). 

 

If you can’t see the video, you can find it here.

I can see a ton of uses for something like this and with Google’s backing you know it’s going to get a lot of exposure.  Stay tuned, it will be interesting.

If you’ve seen some fun stuff lately, share it in the comments below – I’d love to see it.

Shawn Kinkade   Kansas City Business Coach

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