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Donnerstag, September 25th, 2008If someone is making a “statement” (positive or negative) about a specific thing this contextual relationship between the “thing”, the “statement” and if it is “pros” or “cons” can be captured and saved. This information can then be later easily used to combine “statements” about specific “things” and create by this dynamically a “virtual exchange [...]
Posted in Interesting Links, Issues explained | No Comments »The essence of information based human creativity (and how Robert Scoble´s Techmeme game is related to John Boyd´s military strategy)
Sonntag, August 31st, 2008Our understanding of the core aspect of information based human creativity that can be for example sometimes (and not often enough) found in
blogging,
mails,
reports/presentations and
innovative software products and services
is expressed in this slightly modified quote of Colonel John Boyd:
Live the instinctive see-saw of analysis and synthesis across a variety of domains, or across competing/independent channels of [...]
Usability of free software tends to suck and how Mozilla Labs wants to address it
Mittwoch, August 6th, 2008Matthew Paul Thomas is listing In this follow up post to the 2002 article “Why Free Software usability tends to suck” lots of reasons “Why Free Software has poor usability”.
Item number three on his list is :
“Design suggestions often aren’t invited or welcomed.”
Exactly this point seems to be addressed in Mozilla Labs recent call [...]
Enter text similar as you roll in Super Monkey Ball: How typing on iPhone 2.0 could be faster and much more fun!
Samstag, Juli 26th, 2008While the virtual keyboard on Apples iPhone gets the job done it is still not really fun.
Why not to be a little more creative and use iPhones special hardware to make typing faster and more fun? Movies and all details after the click.
TED 2008: A great source of inspiration and big ideas
Montag, Juni 30th, 2008Thinking 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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Interesting Links | No Comments »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 [...]
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 incentive systems
5. Multiple and purpose-specific communications mediums”
Source: http://domino.watson.ibm.com/comm/www_innovate.nsf/pages/world.gio.gaming.html
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, 2008In 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 [...]
Not on Youtube: Great lecture videos from ResearchChannel
Donnerstag, Juni 21st, 2007If 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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