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Archive for January, 2010
No snobbery really. If you can’t tell the difference between hotmail and a service that cares for their customers, that is technically superior, or well designed, you won’t be able to tell the difference when we’re doing a bad job. And that’s just not on.
Using a hotmail account for business also means you created that [...]
- In: business| english| marketing| privacy| technology
- Tags: Email, hiring, hotmail, marketing, recruiting
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As you probably noticed, Amazon’s Kindle doesn’t pass the vruz test of proper e-reader device design.
One key element I mentioned in my feature set of 7 items was support for people with low vision and blindness should be a standard feature. And I cited not just moral reasons why this should be this [...]
- In: article| business| english| ethics| news| productdevelopment| technology
- Tags: amazon, blind, blindness, e-reader, ereader, feds, kindle, kindle dx, kindledx, low vision, lowvision, productdevelopment, usj
The Irony of Continuous Innovation
12, Jan 2010Laying around in the previous long-form blog from back in 2007 there’s a few articles I wrote on innovation. Hindsight and time are powerful teachers, and some things that felt urgent at the time -in the great scheme of things- become irrelevant with time: the difference between importance and urgence. There’s however a few topics [...]
- In: art| business| english| innovation| philosophy| stuff| technology
- Tags: Arts, Avant-garde, Creative destruction, Fashion, innovation, Mass media, progress, technology
How to make an E-Reader product.
10, Jan 2010And by a product I mean, not e-reader technology, but something human beings can use (and are willing to buy).
1) Touchscreen ( back and forth keys are a definitive no-no). You have to be able to flip pages with your fingers. Still with me? Remember, touchscreen. Throw your Kindle thing away.
2) The display must cover [...]
- In: article| business| english| innovation| marketing| productdevelopment| technology
- Tags: Add new tag, book, device, e-book, e-reader, ebook, ereader, howto, product, product development, Screen reader, Touchscreen
More on Microsoft’s Myopia
10, Jan 2010Paul McDougall of InformationWeek sums it up more concisely than I did.
What he sees in Microsoft is the symptoms of the very well known phenomenon called Marketing Myopia.
McDougall writes:
Microsoft’s problem is that it’s failed to innovate at a time when the only acceptable answer to the question of what business you are in is…innovation. Redmond [...]
- In: business| english| innovation| marketing| technology
- Tags: marketing, marketing myopia, microsoft, myopia
Microsoft’s Myopia: meet Apple’s iSlate
8, Jan 2010Technological advance in the last five years has given birth to previously unforeseen possibilities in computing, and tablets are here to kickstart what will probably be an effervescent computing decade.
If you’re a technology enthusiast and you haven’t heard about ‘the tablet’ yet -or Apple Inc’s iSlate, as the rumour goes-, you’ve most likely been [...]