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How to lose customers with Flash and Flex
So here’s a use case I thought had gone away years ago… Nicki is driving, Dug’s riding shotgun and the kids are in the back. We’re all trying to squeeze in a quick flooring purchase to finish CU-2’s room today bec...
One billion dollars a month
Never mind the pithy and insightful piece on yet more examples of why all bankers should be shot, this has to be the funniest comment I’ve seen in ages:
Jaimes Nel (live|work) on Service Design’s difficult coming of age
Really good stuff (thanks @malbonster)
Gmail -- What’s been keeping the Gmail team busy
Just noticed the flashing red more Labs! new new new! link at the top of Gmail. I’ve sorta stopped checking recently, bit of innovation overload… but this sucker is fantastic.
The old solutions have become the new problems
Shoshana Zuboff is an ex Harvard Business School professor with an ethical take on the need to focus on partnerships with customers. She calls this “The race to I-Space”
Slow Money -- Investment strategies appropriate to the realities of the 21st century
I just signed this: http://www.slowmoneyalliance.org
Been learning about evil things today…
For those of you not on Twitter, today has seen Alan Turing become a trending topic. This is in response to a published apology by Gordon Brown, the UK Prime Minister. I’ve just been sitting here dropping tears on...
AppleInsider | Bandwidth-guzzling iPhone called "Hummer of cellphones"
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/09/03/bandwidth_guzzling_iphone_called_hummer_of_cellphones.html
Telegram
Listening to my Gainsbourg playlist and was reminded of Overseas Telegram and got to wondering
Another link to the hughtrain
I frequently receive emails at work with reports that measure the value of brands (likely to involve voodoo and pixie dust, but makes a good read). Happily my employer seems to do quite well in these listings, but...
More value in the conversation than in the Powerpoint
A university professor describes the educational experience in terms of value creation. What do residential college students require to get the most value out of classes and how does the experience compare in valu...
Eames on design
David sent this through on Sunday. I didn’t manage to read it properly until this lunchtime…
IP from 2001
2001 wasn’t just an interesting year in space. I just came across some stuff from the distant past that still resides in a dark and abandoned corner of the interweb. It gave me a smile as it resonates with we’re t...
Encouraging quote of the day
Ethan Nicholas, on his iPhone game “iShoot” and why it’s a good idea to make a free version:
Vi
Just having a casual chat with one of the guys in Dusseldorf about our lab boxes and he points out:
Mobile phone evolution dolls
Wow, I can’t remember the last time I saw someone’s portfolio and had to stop to soak it all in.
Tinkering as a way in to the social marketplace
Currently working on social marketplaces (ad-hod associations) and came across this interesting piece over on experientia’s blog (actually, it links to vodafone’s receiver). Interesting stuff, we’ve been thinking ...