“OK, if iPad is innovating meaning even more than it is technology, what meaning might that be? Here’s my best guess:

iPad is tapping into an emerging dynamic of a more interactive, tactile experience with digital technology and information. These interactions make technology less of an interface, and more of an extension of ourselves and our environment.

The tweets above are a couple that show the natural way children engage with technology. Given the iPhone experience, they turn around and want to apply it to other devices. Buttons on devices, our traditional form of interaction, are divorced from the screen. They provide a measure of distance from the digital experience.

Touch, however, represents a new level of intimacy in the digital experience. In technology terms, it’s just an alternative form of interface. Touch, mouse, tab, whatever. But touch is a vital human sense, and a core part of experience. It’s how we interact with others, how we shop, experience textures and so much more.”

About Hutch Carpenter:

“I am the VP of Product for Spigit. Spigit helps companies manage innovation, providing idea management and prediction market software for enterprises. The goal is enable easy capture of ideas by employees, customers and partners, and convert the most promising to innovative initiatives. Spigit recently received a $10 million equity investment from Warburg Pincus.” (more)

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Ad campaign create by Craig Andrew Smith for Vaseline. It’s an interesting illustration of Everett Rogers’ revised theory about the importance of social network for the diffusion process: that is “the process by which an innovation is communicated through certain channels over time among the members of a social system” (Diffusion of Innovations, 3rd ed., 1983, p. 5).

Find out more about this ad campaign on Craig Andrew Smith website.

Exploded iPhone, da Vinci style. By artist Kevin Tong.

About Open Atrium : “Open Atrium is a team portal starter package. What makes it unique is that it’s extensible and customizable. This means that you - and everyone - can develop new features for it, add other modules, change the skin, totally re-factor the workflow, and do anything else that you can think up to make Open Atrium meet your exact needs. Check out the Developer FAQ to get started.

We open sourced Open Atrium because we see it as a seed for something much larger - a community that makes great team communications tools. And it’s working. Open Atrium is being translated in more than a dozen languages and several hundred people are growing its base of features. Together we can develop the most advanced knowledge management tools.

This is all possible because everyone can access all of the code. Most of Open Atrium’s source code falls under GPL v. 2 b, since it’s built on the open source Drupal framework. All the code that’s not under GPL has a BSD license, which keeps it just as open and gives people even more flexibility.” (Read more)

”Moore’s Law, which has held as the benchmark for IC scaling for more than 40 years, will cease to drive semiconductor manufacturing after 2014, when the high cost of chip manufacturing equipment will make it economically unfeasible to do volume production of devices with feature sizes smaller than 18 nanometers, according to market research firm iSuppli Corp.

While further advances in shrinking process geometries can be achieved after the 20- to 18-nm nodes, the rising cost of chip-making equipment will relegate Moore’s Law to the laboratory and alter the fundamental economics of the semiconductor industry, iSuppli (El Segundo, Calif.) predicted.

“At those nodes, the industry will start getting to the point where semiconductor manufacturing tools are too expensive to depreciate with volume production, i.e., their costs will be so high, that the value of their lifetime productivity can never justify it,” said Len Jelinek, director and chief semiconductor manufacturing iSuppli, in a statement.

Moore’s Law, described by Intel Corp. co-founder Gordon Moore in a 1965 paper, predicts that the number of transistors that can be placed on a semiconductor doubles every two years. The prediction has more or less held up since, as the industry has developed innovative ways to overcome technology challenges and continue to shrink process geometries—though some in recent times have pointed to trends showing that the pace of scaling has slowed.

Though Moore’s Law was originally a prediction by Moore, it eventually became a target for chipmakers, as industry-wide R&D efforts have been geared to keeping scaling on pace with it.” (article by Dylan McGrath, June 16, 2009).