Here are a couple Rotobooth shots from tonight’s Awesome Foundation NYC Party at Babycastles.  Babycastles, an independent video game arcade, were the co-hosts of the party and the recipients of the latest $1000 grant from Awesome NYC.  Rotobooth, a project by fellow ITP alum Mike Kelberman, is an automated photo booth that uploads pictures directly to Flickr. [...]

My Purpose colleague, Alessandra Orofino, and I will be teaching at SVA’s MFA program in Design for Social Innovation when the department opens in fall 2012. Social innovation is the application of new strategies and models to solving the challenges the world faces and to strengthening society. The MFA in Design for Social Innovation will [...]

Haiku synopsis: Tech helps us to share Old impulses, New ideas What is mine is yours Co-authors Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers present a highly readable overview of the collaborative present and future of consumption as new technologies empower and amplify our basic human urge to share.  I was really excited to finally get my [...]

Networked coffee mugs provide an update to the old 10th-cup-free punch-card customer loyalty program. Our highly modular system allows any coffee shop to use one of our mug readers, link it to their name and physical location, and get started immediately with the program. Shops will sell RFID-enabled stickers at a low cost to customers [...]

More press for I RIDE FOR LIVESTRONG, an online interactive experience I worked on at Purpose: TechPresident: Avaaz Co-Founders Seek Purpose Driven Consumer Life Huffington Post: Julia Moulden on How to Use Technology to Change the World Cool Hunting: This Week’s Picks PSFK: Online Game I RIDE FOR LIVESTRONG Raises Funds, Awareness, and Social Empowerment [...]