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This Week's Favourite Fraggl Links

Here are my favourite links from this week curated by Fraggl:

• I loved this idea - using Google Streetview to safely treat Alzheimers. Check out the video

• An excellent post from Dave Trott on how advertising agencies are becoming the 'gift wrapping department'
• A good summation from Mike Arauz at Undercurrent of common characteristics across their list of the most responsive organisations of 2014
• Inspite of the clunky headwear, Microsoft's Holographic computing looks really good
• Austin Kleon with a good thought on filtering information about a new artist or band you've discovered

And of-course you can sign up to Fraggl here.

This Week's Favourite Fraggl Links

Here are my favourite links curated this week by Fraggl:

• Beautiful travel posters made by NASA featuring actual exoplanets? OK then.
• Re-building history's biggest dot-com bust. Can Instacart (which recently secured $220m in funding) make it where WebVan didn't?
• Danah Boyd talks sense about the well-shared teenager's view of social media
• Lengthy but excellent read about the making of Pulp Fiction
• Sam Altman on policies to fix growth and innovation, and then there was Paul Graham on why it’s often a mistake for young companies to talk to big company Corp Devt teams

And of-course you can sign up to Fraggl here.

Firestarters NYC - Creativity in a Constrained World

Really pleased to say that hot on the heels of our first ever Google Firestarters in New York there will be a second event on 22nd January at 5.30pm, Google HQ NYC. This one will be taking 'Creativity in a Constrained World' as its theme, focusing on some of the topics explored on Adam Morgan's new book A Beautiful Constraint. Adam will be speaking (I saw Adam speak at the APG's Big Thinking conference and he was excellent) alongside his founding partner at EatBigFish Mark Barden.

The book, and the event, will be considering how, in a world of super-abundance of choices and connections yet scarcity of time and often resources, the way in which we respond to these constraints is becoming an increasingly important determining factor to the success of businesses, and our success as people. There will also be input from Porter Gale (former VP Marketing, Virgin America), Dr. Louise Waters (CEO, Leadership in Public Schools), and Tom Marchant (Co-founder of The Black Tomato Group)

Sadly I'll not be at this one but it will be very ably moderated on the night by Ben Malbon (Ben's write up of our last event is also up on Think with Google, and worth a read) and it's bound to be a fascinating evening. As always I have some guest passes to give away to readers of this blog so if you're a planner, will be in NYC and want to go, you can request an invite here.

This Week's Favourite Fraggl Links

10 trends for 2015 from Dan Calladine

Here are my favourite links curated this week by Fraggl:

• Dan Calladine had an excellent set of trends for the coming year (above)
• Some really interesting views on the future of privacy drawn from research by Pew
• A fascinating look at designing the best board game on the planet
• Shane Parrish's blog and newsletter are consistently excellent. This was his best of 2014
• Also worth a read - Creativity Requires Networks says Noah Brier, and Why More And More Means Less from Tim Harford
• Cool - how Japan's bicycle parking system works

And of-course you can sign up to Fraggl here.

Post of the Month - December 2014 - The Vote

Thanks for the nominations. So our vote this month is between:

7 Years by SImon White

Why we are Hooked on Books and Bookness from Tom Uglow

The Future of Marketing Depends on Ideas, Not Tinkering With Technology by Tom Goodwin

Night Bus by Beeker Northam

Maker Pedagogy from Steve Wheeler

The State of Consumer Technology at the End of 2014 by Ben Thomson

And you can vote below: