Story Telling – a peek behind the curtain shows a lot of hard work
Giving presentations in front of groups is hard work, but when we see a gifted story teller – a Steve Jobs, or Larry Keely from Doblin,…
Prototypes to tell the right story at the right fidelity
In his book “Serious Play: How the world’s best companies simulate to innovate” Michael Schrage wrote “The truly insightful model is a truly inciteful model.”…
Texting is Whispering
Its taken me a while to sort out what is so socially interuptive about texting. It’s not noisy, not a carcinogen, and not physically addictive……
iOS hidden scroll thumb masks user progress
In the days of CD-Rom “multimedia” we often talked about the “thickness of the book” factor; how much was there to read, do, watch, etc.…
Is a dictionary like a slide ruler?
I’ve often heard people, myself included telling their kids “don’t look that up on the computer – use the dictionary… The process of looking it…
My Chumby Channel
Boy, these are tempting – an attractive internet retrieval device: Check ’em out: www.chumby.com
Is Social Media ready for Open Social?
SYNOPSIS:
Is the phenomena known as “Social Software” ready to be decoupled, or opened up? I’ll go on record saying “No”. Why? Well, for one, because everyone else is saying yes, and I like to be different, but more importantly, because “The Theory” leads me to believe that.
I could be wrong, and that’s OK. I may even be trying to apply the wrong theory to this particular phenomena. I want to inspire thought and conversation here.
One reason I may be wrong, is that software is much better understood then it was just a few years ago, and is behaving much more like modeling-clay in the concept car studio, (thanks in part to better software management and thinkers like [Joel Spolsky] and others) so a software capability may be able to decouple parts of the value chain while leaving other parts available for optimization.
So give this a read and join the conversation in the Comments section at the bottom.
Forrester Research: Customer Advocacy 2007
Echoing what I’ve been preaching for years now around my day-job, firms that are seen as customer advocates will reap rewards in measurable increased wallet…
My take on Open Social
Riiiiing… Rrrinnngggg. Hey Hugh, it’s me, Lawrence. I gotta talk to you about this new open standard that’s going to revolutionize the way we drink:…
Buy Dave a new phone
This is great: Guy Kawasaki opened up a BoutyUp fund so everyone could pitch in and get Dave Winer a new Diamond encrusted iPhone. Details here:
http://www.bountyup.com/bounty/Buy+Dave+Winer+a+Jeweled+iPhone
It was when I was doing a freelance gig, producing the online version of the 1996 Bank of America Annual Report (kindda ironic, as that’s where I work now), and after showing my client the usual four tiers and types of pages the site would comprise, and getting them approved, and going into production to grind out a couple hundred pages just to have the client (yep, that was you, Cliff 🙂 ) say:
“Blue… could we change all those table headers from grey to blue?”