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Brands could do worse than think about how they might get closer to start ups. In recent months both Facebook and AOL have made plans for this. Facebook is partnering with Seedcamp in Europe to provide start-ups with access to their platform, opportunities to visit Facebook HQ, etc. This gives the...
We all know the user experience and understanding piece is critical- Scoble drives the point home here with his comment on the much-hyped application, Color. "Users care about great experiences, they don’t care how much money you collected on Sand Hill Road."More of Robert's remarks on Color...
James Warner has written a great piece in McSweeney's on the Future of the Book. Loaded with a special flavor of cynicism, Warner examines what the book world will evolve from 2020 to 2080.Here's one of my favorite passages.2040: Authors Will Become Like Tamagotchi.
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Any one who knows about Apple in any level of detail knows the important role Johnathan Ive plays at the company. While his status is very much underplayed by Apple's PR team; he rarely makes public appearances and sometimes can be found on Apple product videos and in the odd documentary.However,...
This quote from Bloomberg's Business Week on Groupon's new service highlights the point of why the distillation of the purest human emotions combined with the delivery of services to meet them, is what will make the successful brands of the future.
"Groupon Now, and shows off two simple buttons...
When I took a look at the "about" section of a new soccer magazine, The Blizzard, a magazine designed to be downloaded, I was struck by how they defined their reasons for existence. They summed up precisely why magazine publishing has been forever changed and how developments in the web-publishing...
Facebook is certainly going to emerge as a commerce platform- the question is not about if, it's all about when? Waiting around for an answer to that question is a complete waste of time. You should be selling something on Facebook now, it could be a bunch of your inventory, or as in the case of...
Conference organizers can be certain of one thing, Bruce Sterling is never short of a point of view and he always has a perspective that forces us to look at our reality in a new way.A few weeks back, Bruce was the closing speaker at the Interaction Design Association's conference held in...
Aside from Charles Sheen, the news of yesterday was the launch of the second iPad. Apple continued to demonstrate their ability to surprise us by launching a device that was lighter, faster and thinner than the original, the ability for video communication and a clever case design. Sarah Rotman...
Google knows the future is about monetizing the power of people's social network. They know that personal recommendations are highly trusted and valuable to users, but they also know Facebook has a stranglehold on this space, but as of today, they trying to get a tiny piece of the potential pie...
Some good insight provided by Hugh Pickens on Slashdot of how Facebook ships code. It gives us a bit of a window into how Facebook's hacker culture works.1. All engineers learn the system at boot camp- 4/6 weeks of fixing bugs2. Engineers get access to the live database3. New feature ideas can be...
While many companies seem to be putting CSR behind other initiatives, Pepsi UK is forging ahead. The recently published a report on their CSR initiatives and revealed some impressive goals. - All energy for manufacturing and distribution will come from renewable sources within 13 years- Zero water...
Jack Dorsey, the founder of Square and Twitter appeared on Charlie Rose the other night and he had a nice distillation of his world view."My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction. Twitter was around communication and...
Arduino The Documentary (2010) English HD from gnd on Vimeo.The documentary of the Arduino story might not be the most compelling piece of non-fiction story telling since Grizzly Man, but it's a fascinating tale that chronicles the rise of an open-source platform that allows people to play and...
The chart above is an interesting analysis of Steve Ballmer's keynote and shows which parts of his presentation got the most pick up in the Twitterverse. Everything is measurable, not just the audience for the keynote itself, but the impact of an individual sentence. In the future, you can imagine...