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Here are the 10 game-changing startups most likely to upend existing industries - and spawn new entrepreneurial opportunities.

Cutting Edge Abstract:   Spotting the next Disruptors: 10 businesses with the potential to rewrite the rules of existing industries or open up entirely new markets.  Blinkx indexes 14 million hours of web video and uses software to turn speech into text.
Why it's important:  Could this be the technology advertisers are looking for to better target consumers?

A student campaign using the social networking website Facebook has forced an international bank into a U-turn over charges.

Cutting Edge Abstract:   Thousands of students on Facebook threatened to boycott the HSBC, so HSBC listened & responded.
Why it's important:  How can applications like Facebook give power back to the people?

Meraki Empowers San Franciscans to Free the Net

Cutting Edge Abstract:  Meraki takes a truly unique and innovative bottoms-up approach by empowering individuals to connect and build a Wi-Fi community.
Why it's important:  Will free public internet become a reality in SF & what's the best way for it to happen?

Vint Cerf, aka the godfather of the net, predicts the end of TV as we know it

Cutting Edge Abstract:    "You're still going to need live television for certain things - like news, sporting events and emergencies - but increasingly it is going to be almost like the iPod, where you download content to look at later."
Why it's important:  How is content consumption changing, how rapidly and how will you use your TV in 5 years?

The Facebook economy

Cutting Edge Abstract: Web 2.0 opens its doors to developers like Slide.
Why it's important:  How will advertising play into social networking applications?

Bonfire of the Brands:  How I Learnt to Live Without Labels  by Neil Boorman 

Cutting Edge Abstract:  This is a book exploring how brands have come to dominate our world.
Why it's important:  Has your identity become based on the purchasing decisions you make?

Softening a Message

Cutting Edge Abstract:  Softening ad campaigns so they aren't so hard-hitting.
Why it's important:  How are lobbyists affecting your health?
 
User Generated Video Seeks a Business Model

Cutting Edge Abstract:  Crackle.com allows viewers to rank content.
Why it's important:  Will user generated videos be able to compete?

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Events (SF CENTRIC)
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9/8/07 - Singularity Summit 07
9/14/07 - Dwell On Design
11/10/07 - Green Festival

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What is a Temple - A look at Burning Man

Zink - Inkless printing

Play Pumps

Robot Chicken Gummy Bears

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Influence Ripples + Social Media Fragmentation

Cutting Edge Abstract: "Newer social media landscapes involves content, community and conversation happening at multiple venues, times and with a varied degree of reach."
Why it's important:  What is a comprehensive marketing campaign?

No Car Day

Cutting Edge Abstract:  Sept 22 has been declared no car day in China & a 3rd of all vehicles will be ordered off the road.
Why it's important:  How would your life change if you were banned from driving?

Bike Dispensing Machines

Cutting Edge Abstract: How to make bikes publicly available?
Why it's important: Where else can we apply the Zip Car model?

Radical Honesty

Cutting Edge Abstract:  Everybody would be happier if we just stopped lying.
Why it's important:  Why not always tell the truth?

Wii Continues To Innovate

Cutting Edge Abstract:  Nintendo opens up the gaming system to indie developers.
Why it's important:  What effect does extending your business to your consumers have?

MTV So Irrelevant It's Looking to Broadway for a Boost

Cutting Edge Abstract:  MTV is playing catch up with other technology initiatives.
Why it's important:  Is MTV a dying brand?

How to Bring a City to Life: Urban Street Art

Cutting Edge Abstract:  Julian Beever paints the streets of San Francisco
Why it's important:  What's the importance of being continuously visually stimulated?

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40 Unusual Websites

Grooveshark - P2P music trading that shares revenue with uploaders

Sunday - your own personal assistant.

Google Reader Search - Search your blogs & RSS feeds

Best Web Awards

New Video Downloader for Firefox

Dope Tee's - submit your idea or buy others'

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Events (SF CENTRIC FOR THE MOST PART)
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9/11/07 - Design is your business 
9/12/07 - What is Luxury? 
9/14/07 - Virtual Unreality
9/14- 9/16/07 - Dwell On Design 
9/18/07 - PSFK Conference 
10/3/2007 - Webby Awards

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Thinking Outside the Box

Internet People

Genius: 2012 - Malcom Gladwell on collaboration in problem solving

Dangerous Knowledge

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Unconditional Love

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My Black Valentine

Get The Glass

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HOW TO - Make a minimalist (and cheap) laptop case

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Real Artist

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By Ken Fisher for EMERGE

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Who needs Google? Facebook's stealth ad system

Cutting Edge Abstract:   Facebook's advertising Flyers Pro lets advertisers target by city, gender, age, relationship status, employer, educational level, political views, and -- are you listening, Google? -- keywords.
Why it's important:  Will this targeted web2.0 advertising work on you, does your Facebook profile even contain accurate information?

The New King Cole: Long known as Kenneth's unlucky kid brother, Neil is vindicated as his Iconix soars amid industrywide stagnation

Cutting Edge Abstract:   The business model of Iconix is that it buys fashion brands — but just the brand, not the company.
Why it's important:  How much power does a brand have; even ones experiencing bad times and do they have value and revival potential simply because of their recognizability?


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QuipIt - Easily save and document things with your cellphone camera

Thrill List - events worth checking out going down in SF

Ebay - Shop Victoriously

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TV 2.0 - Content in a Multimedia World
01 Nov 2007 from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM

STREET CRED San Francisco: Architecture and the Pedestrian Experience
September 6-October 26, 2007

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People Love Live Billboards


Graffiti Art or Crime?


1 Second Film



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Accidental Creative: Rhythm

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Hard Crack Candy

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ThisIsClutch.blogspot.com
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Posted by James Friedman