When the dotcom bubble burst, hotelier Chip Conley went in search of a business model based on happiness. In an old friendship with an employee and in the wisdom of a Buddhist king, he learned that success comes from what you count. Chip Conley creates joyful hotels, where he hopes his employees, customers and investors [...]

Résumé: Le chercheur spécialiste de l’Internet et expert en technologie numérique Jim Stolze nous met en garde contre l’épidémie d’infobésité qui nous guette si nous n’apprenons pas à gérer plus efficacement nos habitudes de consommation d’internet– et en particulier celles de nos enfants. En Détail: Lors d’un discours prononcé à l’occasion de la conférence Next [...]

Research scientists Cameron Marlow and D.J. Patil have unprecedented windows into the social interactions of people around the world. Marlow is manager of a data science team for Palo Alto’s Facebook Inc., which has more than 400 million members who come to socialize online. Patil is chief scientist and senior director of product analytics at [...]

Berlin, 12 May 2010 Speaking at this year’s Next conference, Dutch Internet researcher and author Jim Stolze warned of an impending ‘infobesity’ epidemic if we don’t learn how to manage our online information consumption habits more effectively – and especially those of children. In his presentation today at Next ‘10 Stolze’s central line of enquiry [...]

Since mid-2008, Energy Inside – a team of designers, engineers, content experts, psychologists, entrepreneurs, and Internet geeks – has been working from a cozy office in Cambridge, Mass. to create something that brings emotional well-being to the mainstream, in a convenient, quick, and enjoyable way. The result is pepfly, which combines the latest research with [...]

Do you check your e-mail while driving, during meetings or in the toilet? If so, you may be one of many e-mail addicts. E-mail addiction is causing people to engage in risky or inappropriate behavior, according to a study conducted by Osterman Research and commissioned by Neverfail. The study found that 95 percent of those [...]

As Internet and cellphone use continues to spread — in the workplace, classroom and at home — the trend has sparked a debate about whether technology has made us more removed from our social settings. Jonelle Martens wrote in the WSJ: “Are heavy Internet users living in an isolated virtual bubble, devoid of face-to-face human [...]

Imagine this: once a happy child with a lot of friends, little Jack has started spending many hours per day on social networking sites such as Facebook, which has turned him into a pale asocial freak. Oh, if only he’d never touched that cursed box we call the computer, he’d be a healthy young man [...]

In our work at the Virtual Happiness Institute we believe that we’ve found what makes people unhappy online. It’s not information overload. Information overload simply doesn’t exist. But there is something that we call the Sushi Syndrom. The tendency to eat it all, when you should really be picking one or two? Let me explain [...]

Recently, author and professional blogger, Therese Borchard decided to take a 10 day hiatus from the internet. She wrote, “Just like the first months of sobriety, I was intensely uncomfortable in the first few hours of my hiatus from the computer.” Writer and researcher, Jim Stolze decided to take a month off the internet to [...]