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Hi. I'm the new logo and I work at the Gap. It seems most of you hate me. I gotta get a new gig and NO this isn't the phone company. Message from Marka Hansen - President - Gap North America This past Monday, without a lot of fanfare, we introduced a new logo on our gap.com site, and I wanted to take this opportunity to explain our thinking behind this decision. I've been president at Gap brand for the past three years, and I've been living and breathing the changes we've been making on our journey to make Gap more relevant to our customers. You've seen this evolution through...


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Please hear me, I still believe this is a capitalistic country and if you produce "it," you have every right to charge for the sweat of your labor. But it's extremely difficult when you first give it away to later start charging especially after years of giving it away under an advertising model. Look at the Wall Street Journal, they made pay online subscription a part of their model from the beginning and no one complained, if you wanted the WSJ it cost you - period. I have a question, if I pay for content am I not entitled to receive it un-encumbered without advertising? Here are some...


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About Google Wave Google Wave is an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. What is a wave? A wave is equal parts conversation and document. People can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. A wave is shared. Any participant can reply anywhere in the message, edit the content and add participants at any point in the process. Then playback lets anyone rewind the wave...


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Don't get me wrong by reading at my title but I love lists all those pages full of life saving advice, neatly listed out for my convenience. I lov'em and I don't use the word love lightly or often but I'm in love with all those cute lists, as much as any online tip-hound but things are getting a little out of hand. Look at these search results - "Tips on how too..." providing 329 million tip lists in 0.29 seconds. Or these results - "10 Things..." providing 438 million lists of 10 things in 0.67 seconds. That Google search thing is really incredible and I hope it takes off one day without...


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Don't say at Stella Pop, we don't provide instant and creative solutions to your everyday business obstacles. Found this list at Wellsphere and loved it, here it is for you. Use it and prosper: 1. Invent and share a refreshing solution to a stubborn work problem – solve a  difficulty that leaves you bored or in a rut at work. Brain fact: Boredom is more a habit formed in brains, and shaped by daily choices,  then stored in brain as a reality. 2. Uplift your work area with natural lighting.  Brain fact: Environments influence brainpower, and a healthy workplace inspires people...


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Eric Schmidt of Google fame writes that the model for innovation in America has to change from a top down trickle method to a bottom up via the availability of information online. This sounds about right to me and we better get working fast to cultivate and nurture our entrepreneur spirit in this country. Eric Schmidt -- Washington Post -- February 2010 Google CEO Eric Schmidt to newspapers: Innovate Your Way Out More than ever, innovation is disruptive and messy. It can't be controlled or predicted. The only way to ensure it can flourish is to create the best possible environment -- and then...


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Every business has a special message that can stimulate an audience to connect with you. Here's a great example of a quirky film with some big names stars and it serves as the perfect example of the online video content possibilities for any business: It's a simple storyline and could apply to any business or brand message providing a little clever creativity and cunning brand message delivery system. Think about it, every business I ever meet had a funny story or situation that could translate into a simple and video short that might get there (clients and client prospects) attention? StellaPop...


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I believe we are living in a moment in history when those with the ideas, will be far ahead of those that just do jobs. Want to make more money, advance your career and prepare for the future - get creative or find an organization with the desire to challenge and chase the creation of ideas. Make sure of one thing, that this organization creating ideas - delivers. The Economist believes that the world is governed by ideas. Because human progress relies on the advancement of good ideas, we are launching a new series of events that brings together top thinkers from around the world to discuss...


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Twitter is the shortest and most direct connection to the what's going on in the world - a world wide guide. When you set up your follows, you find the topics, people and ideas that interest whether it's for today or forever and your tweet-in-box gets filled with everything you 'might' want to read, watch or scan. Twitter is the new TV Guide. It's a new World Wide Guide to everything! Think on this from Bing Twitter - Today's World Wide Guide: ShiNee Avatar Lady Gaga Miss America Mass Effect 2 iPhone Check out Mashable on Twitter, The average Twitter user doesn’t...


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