http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:13:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2011/12/crowdsourcing-co2-output-headlines.html Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:15:00 +0000 John Geraci says that we must start mapping CO2 output by city so that communities can see and understand what their own contribution to the problem is. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/11/john-geraci-3d-printing-means-no-more-made-in-china-or-detroit-headlines.html Mon, 14 Nov 2011 22:14:00 +0000 Entrepreneur imagines stores that don't need to manufacture things at all – they just send a customer a blueprint.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/new-apps-are-no-longer-news-headlines.html Wed, 29 Jun 2011 01:00:04 +0000 Because there are so many new apps appearing, it's hard for news media to get people excited for another emerging app.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/04/an-ez-way-to-get-a-lot-more-people-using-ez-pass-headlines.html Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:13:06 +0000 "EZ Pass is so cool – it’s a city tech person’s dream app.. But for a system that’s so well designed to improve throughput and efficiency, they haven’t thought through their user acquisition tactics very well."]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/03/psfk-conference-new-york-speaker-john-geraci.html Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:13:07 +0000 We’re looking forward to having John Geraci, the brains behind DIYcity and co-founder of Outside.in, join us this Thursday at PSFK Conference NYC 2009. John will be participating in our “Open to Change” panel along with Domenico Vitale (People Ideas & Culture), Scott Heiferman (Meetup), Florian Peter (CScout) and Avner Ronen (boxee), where he will discuss the potential of leveraging open communities to develop new products, services and experiences for the benefit of everybody concerned. First, who are you and what do you do? John Geraci, creator of DIYcity and co-founder of Outside.in. I find ways to make cities andRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2009/03/designing-an-operating-system-for-a-user-driven-city.html Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:00:50 +0000 We wrote about DIYcity back in late October shortly after its launch. During its roughly six month life span, the budding online project has successfully created a forum for a global community of users to discuss ways that technologies can be utilized to make their respective cities run more efficiently and move towards a more sustainable model. Over that time, creator John Geraci has noticed one overarching challenge begin to emerge, an issue he identifies in a recent post by asking the question, “Can we, collectively, come up with a complete set of tools that ordinary people everywhere can plug intoRead more...]]> http://www.psfk.com/2008/12/video-good-ideas-in-2009-in-collaboration.html Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:53:46 +0000 Last Tuesday, we took our Good Idea Salon to Naked’s office space, where a packed audience sat in on our panel discussion about collaboration. Moderated by Colin Nagy (Attention/PSFK), the panel discussed innovations in how businesses, organizations and ordinary people are working together.  The panel included Amit Gupta (Jelly/Photojojo), Andrew Hoppin (NASA), John Geraci (Outside.In/DIYCity), and Matthew Stinchcomb (Etsy). WATCH COMPLETE SERIES: Good Ideas In Mobile - Featuring Allison Mooney (PSFK/Mobile Behavior), Kevin Slavin (area/code), Alistair Fulton (Deloitte), Florian Peter (CScout) and Steve Roberts (Shoptext) Good Ideas In Design – Featuring Dave Pinter (PSFK/GRID2 International), Craig Dubitsky (The Kind Group),Read more...]]>