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Application Design Voodoo

4, Mar 2010

PR pro, author, blogger, quantum physics’ excellent guy and friend Joel Postman just posted a new article What Do They Mean by Social Any Way?
I recommend you to go read it first.
OK, welcome back. As I read Joel’s post I was processing some ideas in the background which may or [...]

Adobe OpenScreen is game changer. Forecast for 2011

15, Feb 2010

In the news today:
At Mobile World Congress™ 2010, Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced advancements to the Adobe® Flash® Platform including the unveiling of Adobe® AIR® on mobile devices, a consistent runtime for standalone applications to come out of the Open Screen Project™, an industry-wide initiative led by Adobe that has grown to [...]

What work is man… we love mind control?

8, Feb 2010

The other day my friend @cigumo sent me this quote, which was part of an article  posted to Play This Thing:

“Game” is a term that obscures the stark potential of this form, it
sells the world on childish entertainments while delivering the most
potent mechanism of mind control ever conceived.
What else do you call the capacity to [...]

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 [...]

Microsoft’s Myopia: meet Apple’s iSlate

8, Jan 2010

Technological 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 [...]


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