Micahael Birch co-founder of the social networking site Bedo is interviewed in today’s Daily Telegraph.

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The Economist and Jan Chipchase.

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The IA Summit 2008 held in Miami has placed some of the presention material online – here.

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Henning Fischer a design strategist at Adaptive Path has recently interviewed Peter Coughlan who heads up the transformation design service at IDEO.

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Alltop brings together feeds from different blogs on to one page. Each Alltop page focuses one theme from the latest celebrity news through to design and the environment. The interface is elegant and very easy to ‘understand.’ You can watch a short introductory video with Guy Kawasaki here.

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The Innovation Edge is a conference held by Nesta which brings together leading thinkers, academics and practitioners from the field of innovation. The conference takes place on 20th May in London and speakers include:

• Michael Birch, CEO, Bebo.com
• David Willetts MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities & Skills
• Sir John Chisholm, Chairman, QinetiQ Group plc
• Fred Bolza, Senior Director, Digital Development, Sony BMG
• Jeremy Leggett, founder and Executive Chairman of Solarcentury
• Saul Klein, Venture Partner, Index Ventures

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Darren Sharp and Mandy Salomon have written a really interesting report on ‘user led innovation’, which uses Second Life as a case example.  As part of the research a number of leading experts were interviewed by the authors including: Eric von Hippel (Head of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management); Jimmy Wales (Founder of Wikipedia.org); Michel Bauwens (Founder of the Foundation for Peer to Peer Alternatives) and Mitch Kapor (Co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, venture capitalist and Chairman of Linden Lab).  The report can be downloaded here (opens a pdf file).

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