In the absence of more complete thoughts, unordered links:

• Obama’s Seven Lessons for Radical Innovators:

  In the 21st century, there is nothing more asymmetrical – more disruptive, more revolutionary, or more innovative — than the world-changing power of an ideal.

  Also: Hugh MacLeod: “The market for something to believe in is infinite.”

• Social search product Aardvark: Yahoo Answers meets Twitter — but better. Aardvark is a great way to get access to a large network of real people to get answers from real people in near real-time. With the amount of content and context we create every-day, finding the right filters to find the right answers is getting tougher: and Aardvark is a step in the right direction.
• Great listening and thinking for a Sunday morning: Google’s view on the future of business: An interview with CEO Eric Schmidt. A couple points: network effects, increasing rate of change, generational differences in the ability to deal with speed, the rule of power laws, “you better have a head”, “free is a better price than cheap”, porous companies, the need for dissent, innovation comes when you’re not under the gun, the nature of technology is for increased variants, innovation comes from small teams, get teams talking to each other, “the next war is never like the last war.”

  (via Ethan Bauley)

• On another note, Ballmer on his understanding of Google’s Android strategy:
  

  “I don’t really understand their strategy … if I went to my shareholder meetings and my analyst meeting and said, ‘Hey, we just launched a new product that has no revenue model – yeah, cheer for me’ I’m not sure my investors would take that very well, but that’s what Google’s telling their investors about Android.”

  I’m betting Ballmer understands the model, but talking down Android shows a lack of confidence in his own product.

  (via The Bank Channel)