Sentiment building. "We're now at the stage where we should be getting the next wave of disruptive surprises. But – guess what? – they're nowhere to be seen. Instead, we're getting an endless stream of incremental changes and me-tooism. If I see one more proposal for a photo-sharing or location-based web service, anything with "app" in it, or anything that invites me to "rate" something, I'll scream."

Worth it. Overdue. Helps explain noticeable burn-out type feelings. "There are organizing principles for what is considered a "good" idea. These ideas are supposed to be the right size and shape. There is a default spreadsheet that we expect ideas to fit onto. But maybe it's time that changed."

"Unless the web fragments again, and it’s once more us against them, I think we’re on the road to efficient and productive normalcy. Which is great in almost every way except that it’s just not as fun. The web is on its way to becoming a commodity [...] I haven’t given up. I just wonder sometimes how long we’ve got before we all have to stop being hackers and be software engineers." What's next?

"The future stars of advertising will be the consultants, craftsmen and traders." Pronouncement.

"Helps you easily make interactive arts and craft. You can quickly make a bracelet that changes color when shaken, a pet collar that blinks in the dark, or a dress that twinkles when you get a phone call. Weave it into tapestry, or make a custom bike light."

"The procession of technological discoveries is inevitable. When the conditions are right — when the necessary web of supporting technology needed for every invention is established — then the next adjacent technological step will emerge as if on cue. If inventor X does not produce it, inventor Y will."

"We have been operating under the assumption that the primary challenge is to convince businesses to focus on fulfilling user needs with higher quality products, with more meaningful experiences. But what if the 'users' themselves are the problem? What if users represent not a coherent set of needs but a messy mix of desires and influences? What, ultimately, is the role of the designer in sorting through these desires to determine which should drive our design decisions? And what frameworks, other than intuition, should we use to make these judgments?"

"Over the past 2 months the city government, in cooperation with business groups and non-profits, has turned a corner of one of the busiest intersections in San Francisco into a public plaza. The 17th Street Plaza project took 72-hours to implement, and is carefully called a “reversible trial.” Like the phrase “reversible pilot”.

"Mapumental is the culmination of an ambition mySociety has had for some time - to take the nation’s bus, train, tram, tube and boat timetables and turn them into a service that does vastly more than imagined by traditional journey planners. In its first iteration it’s specially tuned to help you work out where else you might live if you want an easy commute to work."

"I’ve seen a lot of web apps launched recently which haven’t succeeded. They’re not failing miserably, and they’re not wild successes. They’re just kind of puttering along, sapping just enough resources to be a problem, but not succeeding enough to really take off. The majority of these apps were built by small web design firms or freelancers who bought into the dream without really understanding how much time it takes to make an app succeed."

"The signature behavior of people who routinely achieve innovative outcomes is that they constantly seek to experience the world instead of talking about experiencing the world."

"The social sites we visit today are not just friend networks - they're also built around objects that connect people with shared interests. These social objects could be anything from a photo on flickr to a video on YouTube or a track on Last.fm."

"A collection of 51 cards representing diverse ways that design teams can understand the people they are designing for. They are used to make a number of different methods accessible to all members of a design team, to explain how and when the methods are best used, and to demonstrate how they have been applied to real design projects."

"The Guardian launched its 'Open Platform' with APIs for all of its content and a sets of data collected by its editors." Brave. Ace.

Makes me wish I was a hero. "A collaborative rescue team management tool to record and analyse rescue operations. Instead of archiving information as paperwork, we act as a platform, generating real-time profiles of members, available resources, and activities. Decisions for Heroes uses this data to deliver live and intelligent information to the field."

"This is the time for business model transformation. Many product categories are not giving them the margins/volume they needed to support a growth strategy. Blueray DVDs and flat screen TVs cannot power Best Buy forward, the future is not in gadgets, it is in service innovation."

"The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising, which will publish the “Social Media Futures” report compiled by Future Foundation next week, has warned that advertising agencies face growth of just 1.2 per cent a year by 2016 if the industry fails to tackle the changes to the media created by sites such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter."

"The famously baffling metropolis is home to an experiment in ubiquitous computing that could transform the city"

"A global firm of designers, engineers, planners and business consultants."

"The UK Government wants to hear your ideas for new products that could improve the way public information is communicated."

"Who says big ideas are rare?"

"Bottom line? As an entrepreneur you have to follow your nose and don't worry if you dump or change your original model. Evolution is the revolution. However, it you don't start you can't iterate."

2gether Festival London July 2-3: "will bring together over 400 radical innovators practical visionaries from a wide range of fields to focus on how using digital technologies we can generate real social benefits."

"Slowing down is essential to any kind of creativity — even if it makes you unfocused, inefficient, undisciplined, or unsystematic too"

"I think we should create a Wikipedia for data: a global database for all of these important data sources to which we all contribute and that anyone can use."

"The following lineup of innovation lessons emerged from a video game conference, an interview, and several experts’ comments."

"[A] wide-ranging dig into the past, present and future of the Semantic Web"

"When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied. Well, what can't be copied?"

"Idea generation is an addiction... an engaging, brain-spinning indulgence that must be practiced in moderation."

"An outpost for curious divergent thinkers who appreciate new ideas from a wide mix of sources. Completely random and updated regularly, inspiration drawn from - and relevant to - the larger creative world."

The Group calls itself a "place for anyone to share their experiences, frustrations and successes in driving change inside large organizations." Monthly meetings, the first being this week, will combine guest speakers and open discussion.

"I've been thinking about a number of new product ideas lately. In doing so, I've been trying to come up with a way more structured way of evaluating them. Here's a first attempt at defining that."

"I've been spending much time with ad agencies and focus groups lately and can only conclude that--with some exceptions--they are mostly clueless."

"Buy advertising ideas for your company by +9000 creatives worldwide. Faster, Better, Cheaper."

"High Scalability offers some secrets to Amazon’s success based on interviews and writings of early employees." Some great tips in here.

"Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improve the chances of worthy ideas?"

"3×5 notecards for studying the patterns in the book, Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas"

"A visual and entertaining example of web2.0 within the corporation"

"We’re in this Together is offering you easy access to products and ideas (we call them ‘Solutions’) that really can reduce your impact on the climate."

Keeping you up to date with the latest on mashups and the new Web 2.0 APIs

"Most companies do a good job of providing incremental improvements to existing products and processes. What are those few who struggle with innovation doing wrong?"