Influx

One of the most appealing aspects of the proliferation of new technological channels has been the ability for content creators to allow their content to be accessed on new these new formats. The traditional hardware of old has now given way to multiple increasingly mobile forms. However, the simple...

Research work by Christopher Hsse and his colleagues at  University of Chicago has revealed some interesting traits about human behavior; namely that we are naturally inclined towards idleness to conserve energy, we would rather do nothing, but we are happier and less bored when we are busy....

This app from GE is a great example of a utility that should be able to drive incremental business for the company. Bulbs are a boring category, you buy them when one burns out or when a wave of environmental guilt hits you. Bulbs become more relevant when we think about the light they provide and...

Most of us have seen how something like Mint can be useful tool to better understand our spending habits when we compare it with others or Nike+ also us to compare our training performance with others. We are obviously going to see more of the benefits of collective data over time and especially...

A nice video by design thinkers, Gravity Tank, that takes a look of what people feel about phone applications. It makes a change to see real people talking about applications instead of just reading the data. gravitytank // Apps Get Real from gravitytank on Vimeo.Posted by Ed Cotton

Most engineers tend to think ads are a waste of time because they believe their great products will sell themselves. There's only one problem with this theory. What if you are trying sell an iPhone application? The iPhone ecosystem is mighty crowded with 30,000+ applications for sale which means...

While most of the leading applications on Apple's 30,000 plus store are games, the company is keen to inform us that there's lots of meaningful things you can do with your iPhone. This ad? (below) does a great job at highlighting all the recession-busting applications that you can get for your...

NIN has been one of the bands that's been showing brands the way in the marketing world. Its latest iPhone application is no exception. It does a very good job of mobilizing the web experience and allowing users to access all the content, but it also has a pretty cool messaging feature that allows...

While everyone yesterday was in awe of the long overdue announcement of cut and paste for the iPhone, I found myself fixated by the art of Jorge Colombo. Jorge is no ordinary artist, he's an iPhone artist; someone who uses his fingers and a downloaded application to make art. It's debatable whether...

There's a great interview in Mobilecrunch with one of the members of the iPhone Dev Team. This is not a unit inside Apple responsible for updating the phone software, quite the opposite; it's a team of unpaid renegades who are tearing up the phone and hacking it to pieces. These are a group of...

One thing I've been noticing recently with the iPhone, is how interested people are in adding very analog applications to their phones. Things that seem pretty mundane and basic and somewhat counter to the technological advances of our time. Many of the most successful applications simply take...

Good piece in Wired about the rags to riches success of some of the developers of iPhone applications. One quote stands out from the rest about the level playing field where there's no marketing involved and it's all about the quality of the application and building word of mouth momentum from...

In the last few days, just ahead of Macworld , a series of fantastic visuals were sent around the web at lightening speed. People wondered if they were real, that's how good they were. The visual concept was for an iPhone Starbucks quick ordering system, using Wi-Fi.It made sense because the...

I am not going to try and match JWT’s list of 80 things, but here are 8 things that I believe will be preoccupying our minds in 08.1.Slowdown?The terrible “R” word is everywhere, with Wall Street looking nervously at every seemingly contradictory figure. It’s clear there are...

Although it's hard to gauge the real sales numbers for the iPhone, people are talking about 1.2-1.4 million, I thought it would be interestng to look at the "noise" the launch generated and compare it to other cultural events. The tool I have used is Google Trends which looks at data for search...