http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:24:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2011/11/microsofts-vision-of-the-future-is-sterile-says-fastcompany-headlines.html Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:43:04 +0000 Writer says that the future will still be messy kitchens, non-angelic children, litter in public places, and jobs that don't involve giving glamorous presentations to ambiguously ethnic business partners. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/09/is-foursquare-stuggling-to-crack-europe.html Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:54:47 +0000 Feedback from the PurpleList suggests that the social app is finding it difficult to scale outside the US.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/apple-may-launch-context-aware-iphone-app-headlines.html Mon, 25 Jul 2011 03:01:33 +0000 Rumors have it that the iPhone 5 will have a voice operated assistant that will intelligently gather and make suggestions.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/drinks-company-tested-job-interviewees-to-make-sure-they-could-hold-their-drink-headlines.html Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:04:58 +0000 Book claims that some job applicants said they were subject to a "crash test" in which they had to drink up to 20 shots of the pastis before they were given a job at Pernod Ricard.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/jeff-jarvis-phone-hacking-murdoch-edelman-headlines.html Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:56:02 +0000 "Was it in his PR script to lash out at his competitors to for causing him to lose BSkyB, and not at himself?" ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/rim-loses-1m-blackberry-users-in-us-while-android-apple-boom-headlines.html Wed, 06 Jul 2011 13:35:55 +0000 ComScore data shows that nearly one in three US mobile users now has smartphone, with Android and Apple taking two-thirds of share – but RIM, Microsoft and Palm are losers.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/am-i-an-internet-obsessive.html Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:56:18 +0000 These days it's virtually possible to live entirely online if you want to. But the real world tends to intrude eventually.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/microsoft-may-find-it-impossible-not-to-buy-rim.html Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:33:18 +0000 RIM's stock has gone down so much that an acquirer could buy them for a 50 percent premium and still pay the lowest multiple in the industry. That may make it very hard for Microsoft to resist swooping in. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/what-makes-beyonce-such-a-success.html Mon, 06 Jun 2011 11:00:57 +0000 Her songs will start playing and girls will grab each other to dance in tight, elated circles. It doesn't really matter what she's saying, but who she's saying it to.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/160-years-later-the-new-york-times-appoints-a-woman-as-editor.html Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:54:47 +0000 Jill Abramson to take over as first female editor as the Gray Lady finally redresses gender equality.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/a-tiger-we-should-we-be-feeding-our-data-to-google.html Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:28:47 +0000 John Harris says that as Google's claws dig ever deeper, its dominance of the web should be challenged.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/05/is-it-time-for-steve-ballmer-to-leave-microsoft.html Fri, 27 May 2011 14:14:23 +0000 Hedge fund tycoon, David Einhorn, raises stake in software firm and then attacks its chief executive for 'Charlie Brown management'.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/05/dove-ad-casts-spotlight-on-madison-avenue-racism-headlines.html Thu, 26 May 2011 01:34:44 +0000 In an attempt to present Dove as a company that values cultural diversity, many believe an ad fell astoundingly short. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/05/fortune-what-its-like-to-work-at-apple.html Tue, 10 May 2011 14:31:16 +0000 Fresh insight from US magazine shows that pared-down management structure and tight feedback loops make Steve Jobs's thinking permeate the corporation.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/05/a-look-at-microsofts-marketing-headlines.html Tue, 10 May 2011 10:00:10 +0000 Now it seems that some of the folks up there in Redmond have decided that it's time to get aggressive about pushing the company's services.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/04/apple-patent-application-suggests-projector-enabled-laptop-headlines.html Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:52:43 +0000 Described as a "display system having coherent and incoherent light sources," the patent application suggests that the projector would be laser-based. Engadget]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/04/gawker-still-struggling-with-impact-of-redesign.html Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:27:36 +0000 A quick look at Quantcast shows a pretty appreciable decline in unique visitors to the network's stable of properties. Business Insider]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/03/surprise-mtvs-latest-sex-education-campaign-fails-miserably.html Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:01:30 +0000 "Chief creative officers Andreas Henke and Sacha Reeb must have been suffering from a pretty severe creative block when they designed the images." Village Voice]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/03/italy-hates-mtvs-jersey-shore.html Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:56:42 +0000 Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi and the rest of the cast of “Jersey Shore” haven’t even arrived in their would-be motherland Italy yet — but the country is already sick of them. Business Insider]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/03/nyc-street-drummer-sues-mtv-over-nicki-minaj-documentary.html Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:55:32 +0000 MTV has been slapped with a lawsuit by a NY street-drummer who claims that his privacy was violated when he was filmed by camera crews and broadcast in the network's documentary, Nicki Minaj: My Time Is Now! Perez Hilton]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/03/microsoft-co-founder-on-his-battles-with-bill-gates.html Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:14:51 +0000 Paul Allen uses memoir to portray Bill Gates as a bully who sought to deprive him of his share in Microsoft fortune.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/03/american-express-launches-serve-online-payment-service.html Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:19:07 +0000 Credit card company creates online service that allows the sending and receiving of funds between people and sellers. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2008/12/digital-will-save-us-2.html Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:51:42 +0000 There's an interesting piece on the Profero site on how companies that have chosen to take digital into their hearts could thrive in the recession:]]> http://www.psfk.com/2008/02/underground-farming-in-japan.html Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:06:53 +0000 Neww of youths getting involved with underground farming typically suggests the illicit and causes a bit of concern… but not this time! Inside a former bank vault hidden beneath a high rise building in Tokyo’s Otemachi business district, a square kilometer of subterranean soil has been planted with rice. There are also different rooms for growing tomatoes, lettuces, strawberries, and other fruits and vegetables, as well as flowers and herbs. The facility, Pasona O2, was built as a training facility for wanna-be farmersto create job opportunities in the agricultural sector. The project is targeting “freeters,” a Japanese expression for peopleRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2008/02/not-quite-what-i-was-planning-%e2%80%93-your-life-story-in-six-words.html Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:00:15 +0000 More than a year ago SMITH online magazine challenged their readers to compress their life story into six words. The magazine was flooded with 15,000 entries and almost 1,000 of these tag line life stories have now made it into the book Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure. In addition, the editors have thrown in a couple of celebrity autobiographies including Aimee Mann, Stephen Colbert, Mario Batali, Amy Sedaris, and Dave Eggers and the result is, according to SMITH, “[...] both a moving peek at the minutia of humanity and the most literaryRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2008/02/urban-oasis-botanic-architecture-in-seoul.html Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:24:12 +0000 Urbanites might never stop craving nature in the concrete jungle, and in Seoul, they’ve found a nice compromise in Ann Demeulemeester’s new boutique. We talked about the rise of “botanic architecture” last week in our post about Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University; and this boutique follows a similar concept, bridging the gap between idyll and city with its vertical gardens. Originally conceived by French botanist Patrick Blanc, “Le Mur Vegetal” (or in English, “wall of vegetation”) relies on a lightweight material upon which greenery (in this case, manicured moss and bamboo) is cultivated and grown slowly. With the Belgian designer’s boutique,Read more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2007/11/web-20-and-trial-by-the-masses.html Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:37:03 +0000 Contributed by Jessica Greenwood: I, and no doubt thousands like me, have been closely following the case in which an Erasmus student was murdered last week in Italy. Erasmus is an exchange programme in which European universities allow students to study for a year abroad. I did my own Erasmus year at Bologna University, not far from Perugia where Meredith Kercher was killed. It’s obviously a high profile case given that the victim was young, beautiful and intelligent, and although precious few details are forthcoming, we know that Kercher’s death was both physically and sexually brutal. In addition to this,Read more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2007/11/report-from-the-futures-of-entertainment-2-conference.html Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:18:48 +0000 Hosted by The MIT Convergence Culture Consortium (C3), The Futures of Entertainment 2 conference featured 6 panel discussions spread over the weekend. With attendance split roughly 50% industry and 50% academics the event provided a debate forum on the fresh ways we interract with consumers and brands, forming richer, more meaningful experiences and strategies in the cluttered landscape of new media. A backchannel site was launched and with audience questions projected in real-time. Mobile Media Day one featured a discussion on Mobile Media with panelists Marc Davis (Yahoo), Bob Schukai (Turner Broadcasting), Alice Kim (MTV Networks), and Anmol Madan (MITRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2007/10/customized-perfume-in-paris-the-quest-for-the-nez.html Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:35:35 +0000 Uniqueness, a contemporary aspiration, a celebration of one’s Ego, and one’s “Me-Power”… Quintessence of a new luxury, less show-off and more intimate. Parisian dandies are on a quest of the ‘Nez’ that will create for them, their grail, their unique scent, and that will make them feel Unique!]]> http://www.psfk.com/2007/09/the-young-invincibles-latest-top.html Tue, 11 Sep 2007 06:50:52 +0000 Wendy Dembo who spoke at PSFK’s New York Conference has decided to speak up again, this time in the form of a T shirt. The Gap’s Red t-shirt line spurred her to mimick the design and address the rather shocking rate of health insurance in the United States. As the inside of the shirt states, 46 million US citizens have no health insurance. New York Magazine reports: It’s a state of mind so common, in fact, that the insurance industry has a name for it: the “young invincibles,” those who, betting they can get through their twenties relatively unscathed, “choose”Read more...]]>