Archive for the ‘business’ Category

New rule: I don’t work with people whose primary email account is @hotmail.com

15, Jan 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 [...]

On e-readers: don’t take it from me, take it from the Feds.

13, Jan 2010

Image via Wikipedia

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 [...]

The Irony of Continuous Innovation

12, Jan 2010

Laying 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 [...]

How to make an E-Reader product.

10, Jan 2010

And 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 [...]

More on Microsoft’s Myopia

10, Jan 2010

Paul 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 [...]


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