Ole Kirk Christiansen created Legos in the 1940s in Denmark.  Ole's company originally sold and made wooden stepladders and ironing boards, until he started making wooden toys. The toys were more popular, so he decided to sell toys exclusively. He named the company LEGO, which came from the Danish phrase "play well". Lego bricks have withstood the test of time because of their unlimited open-ended ...

    Ekaterina Walter, social innovator at Intel, recognized marketing thought leader and author has a new book entitled “Think Like Zuck: The Five Business Secrets of Facebook’s Improbably Brilliant CEO Mark Zuckerberg.” I first met Ekaterina Walter on Facebook.  I've since gotten to know her better and received an advance copy of her book "Think Like Zuck." Although I've never been a big fa...

The continuation of Steve Job's vision is the object of Apple's "Apple University Initiative". Apple's performance is closely linked to Steve Jobs and has faced a series of ups and downs over the years. Most recently, Jobs has taken a medical leave for immune system problems, so how will Apple continue to succeed? That's where Apple University comes in — an initiative started in 2008 to teach employees to t...

Elliot Silver  has assembled some domain professional's opinions and insight about domains and digital assets in 2012.  Here are some exerpts from his post, read the full post at Elliot's Blog.   Juan Diego Calle, Founder .CO Registry / Straat Investments – .CO will continue a fast growth trajectory with a booming startup community building websites on .CO domains. The new TLD program will continue full ...

    The content sharing platform AddThis is celebrating its fifth birthday.  After 5 years the service reaches 1.2 billion users on 10 million domains and in 70 different languages. To celebrate their success, the service released an interesting infographic about sharing on the Web. Wednesdays are the peak days for sharing!  Check out these other interesting stats: People tend to share the ...