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TED 2008: A great source of inspiration and big ideas

Montag, Juni 30th, 2008

Thinking about ideas and creating our line of reasoning is our passion. We recommended already earlier as a great source of inspiration the annual conference TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) and their videos of some of the most fascinating thinkers of the present.
To get a first idea of the ideas shown at the 2008 conference we [...]

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Research proves that speed matters: The faster your service is the more it will be used

Freitag, Mai 30th, 2008

[Post edited last 5th of June 2008 to insert performance findings from Nigel Pendse's OLAP research study "The BI Survey 7"]
Let us give some pragmatic advice to all “Interactive-Product” Managers out there:
If you make the interaction with your device or service faster
you will increase its usage and value.

This is common sense and not worth to [...]

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Maybe Sony bought Gracenote so that Apples iPhone 2.0 will not be able to listen

Mittwoch, April 30th, 2008

[Post edited last 1st of May 2008 to insert comment below the article about Shazam as an alternative to Gracenote]
Our hypothesis:
Maybe Sony bought Gracenote at the 22nd of April 2008 for $260M so that Apples iPhone 2.0 announced for June 2008 will not be able to listen to music and identify what song is [...]

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IBM Global Innovation Outlook: If you want to see what business leadership may look like, look at what is happening in online games

Donnerstag, April 3rd, 2008

"Online games put the future of business leadership on display. Online gaming environments facilitate leadership through:
1. Project-oriented organization 2. Multiple real-time sources of information upon which to make decisions 3. Transparent skills and competencies among co-players 4. Transparent [...]

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Touching on the central dualism of the information age: What information is available to you versus what information are you making available (or is available about you) to others?

Freitag, Februar 29th, 2008

In sometimes heated discussions around Facebook, Twitter, P2P, Social Networks, Meshups the Internet community has recently touched from different angles on the same underlying generic question:
What information is available to you versus what information are you making available (or is available about you) to others?
Lots of concepts that in the past have been considered only [...]

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Not on Youtube: Great lecture videos from ResearchChannel

Donnerstag, Juni 21st, 2007

If you have any interest in learning about today’s IT industry from industry leaders themselves, scientists and great thinkers I strongly recommend to have a look at the website ResearchChannel.
Please find below my current favorites, but there are hundreds of videos more to be explored (Browse the Video Library of [...]

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