January 05, 2006 · 10:18 PM

The Music of innovation

Business Week just announced their "Best of 2005" report on the most creative ideas, innovative leaders and best products stating last year there were "more revolutionary changes in more markets sparked by more breakthrough ideas than at any time since the golden 90's".

One example is the iconic search engine Google finding new ways to change the paradigm in video, classifieds, telecom, print, operating systems, ecommerce and search - with Business Week "innovation champ 2005" Marissa Mayer, speaker at DLD06, managing the innovation process by launching key products like Google's deskop search software and its social networking site. We were amazed how myspace became the peer media platform for a key pioneering group of already more than 35 million teenage users.

We saw Yahoo! bying flickr in march last year, attracting 1.5 million users with 60 million photos - just days after Caterina Fake spoke at DLD05 where she compared flickr to Haight Ashbury: "It seems like there's just a bunch of people hanging out, but there is something important going on". A pretty nice description of both the coziness and momentum of social networks don't you think?

The "best products" of 2005 also reflect this moment of incredible innovation: Apple's video iPod, the Microsoft XBox 360, the Nokia N90 cell phone - these gadgets all combine fancy design, functionality and fun consumer experience and thus shaping our digital lifestyle. So what is your best of 2005? And maybe even more interesting: what's next in 2006?

 

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