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So, Facebook is evolving. With emphasis on at least 3 core web services – search, chat and the upcoming email – Facebook is getting more serious about functions that Google, among others, are doing well at providing. It makes sense. So here are some quick thoughts on what 400 million users...
Articles, Business Models, Economics, Strategic Innovation, Technology, Web
Media companies seem to be falling over themselves trying to prop up revenues in an ever-changing environment. Yet, there seems to be very little innovation in how they’re going about it. For the last several weeks, much has been written about Rupert Murdoch’s plans to de-index from Google and...
Articles, Business Models, Retail Design, Social Media, Web
A retailer’s primary role may be that of curator and tastemaker, but that doesn’t mean that the crowds can’t pitch in to help. Modcloth is a Pittsburgh-based online retailer that sells affordable, independent designer women’s fashion. With a recently launched initiative called...
Experience Design, Service Design, Strategic Innovation, Technology, Web
Just watching this vid already, I’m ready to buy into this software. The system itself looks great, and I’d love to use it. How do you see the future of multitouch heading? Something more along these lines? I’ve personally found touch desktop all-in-ones to be somewhat pointless, and...
Art and Culture, Articles, Featured Articles, Social Media, Technology, Web
Don’t freak out, privacy doesn’t really exist anyways. When Google began its operations to archive and organize the web, it used the assumption that if you put something online, then you want it indexed. Opting out is your burden. This policy extends across most of its services; if there’s...
Art and Culture, Articles, Experience Design, Technology, Web
Ubicomp, (or ubiquitous computing) is a term that describes how computing devices will become invisible to the user as they gradually find a use and a home in all objects. For anyone who works in the technology space, the idea of ubicomp is incredible, inevitable, and the next evolutionary step for society....
Industrial Design, Service Design, Strategic Innovation, Technology, Web
This is a week of design for me, meeting with two talented design practitioners in Boston who are running a very successful company, talked to the folks running two of the top design schools and interviewed 4 designers respectively from London, Brazil, LA and Toronto. And catching with my design reading...
Business Models, Entertainment, Technology, Web
Apples Ipod keynote, boiled down to nothing but Superlatives. Enjoy this. Think they’re trying to let us know they product is Amazingly Nice and Just That Easy?
Social Change, Social Media, Technology, Web
Here’s the latest version of the “Shift Happens” video. Fascinating facts and statistics regarding the surge of emerging technologies and social media innovations. Enjoy the mind candy. The following quotation from 60 years ago seems more relevant today than ever before. “Before...
Entertainment, Service Design, Technology, Web
As a promotional tie-in corresponding with the launch of their 2009 series of “Dunny” action figures, toy and apparel designers Kid Robot have organized a mobile phone-based scavenger hunt in Manhattan centered around scanning Quick Response (QR) codes. After downloading an application for an iPhone...
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