People are highly sensitive to social norms - information about what other people are doing and what they approve of. You can use the concept of social norms to help drive and create change. While researching the drinking habits of American college students, H. Everyone is drinking way more than me." 87% of Hoyas eat before and/or during drinking. MORE >>

This awesome video from New Scientist TV shows a surgical robot with a human operator peeling a grape. This technology greatly augments what human surgeons can do, and also provides a platform for telesurgery. The robot has four arms, three of which can hold instruments like a scalpel or surgical scissors. Future of work Technology trends MORE >>

When LinkedIn launched their Company Pages feature almost a year ago, I was underwhelmed. Basically the only information that companies could put on their page was Careers and Products & Services. understand the appeal of a Careers section, given how many job-seekers visit LinkedIn – put the information where people are looking for it. MORE >>

I caught up with fellow futurist Kristin Alford last week, yet another first time face-to-face meeting after a long time interacting online. It seems most of the people I meet these days are people I know from Twitter. Kristin pointed me to some of what her company Bridge8 is doing in creating animated videos about the future. MORE >>

What's the CEO of a major advertising holding company doing at Web 2 Summit ? Well, come on down and find out. Marketing dollars are the oxygen in the Internet's bloodstream - the majority of our most celebrated startups got that way by providing marketing solutions to advertisers of all stripes. So get to commenting, and thank you! MORE >>