Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…
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Building up
It’s been a while since I have done an update on our SL island (now called Siemens Innovation Connection), so I thought I would run through a few of the thinsg we have been up to: We’re playing around with a few different widgets to track traffic and figure out what people are actually interested…
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Wish I had some more time to geek out coming up
I have been looking at a few of the different low cost alternative PCs including the OLPC and the Asus Eee. Now it seems you can run OS X Leopard on the Eee. I really wish I had a week off soon to try this out…and get my MythTV box working again…and get Tversity working…
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Social networks in you inbox
An interesting idea coming from the big online email vendors: let’s turn people’s inbox into a social network. Don’t get me wrong: I love gmail. But email in general has such a bad name these days (info overload, spam, viruses…) I doubt they will be able to convince “social network true believers” (that view email…
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Great video on social production from one of the early pioneers
.!. It’s content like this that makes me remember why I started reading blogs and writing them. This is a great post summarinzing the content of a session I wish I had seen given recently at MIT by Eric von Hipple, who wrote Democratizing Innovation (Amazon Link or Free Download ). This is one of…
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Design Language
Take a few minutes and scroll through the pictures on the post below. You’ll really get the impression of who gets the whole “design language” thing and who doesn’t. Succeed With This
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It’s the end of ads as we know it
and I feel fine. IBM Press room – 2007-11-08 IBM Predicts the End of Advertising as We Know It – United States
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Two great tastes
That taste great together (hopefully by separating those two statements I have avoided the ire of the hershey’s attorney squad ;-)): Second Life and Social production. Xaver found an interesting tidbit on how Phillips is using Second Life as a platform for getting users directly involved in the production of the products that Phillips hope…
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Facebook has haters
With the announcement this week of Open Social by Google, the microscope is really going to be on Facebook and how its application platform is evolving. The post below from the Open Innovators blog is pretty critical of the openness of the Facebook platform. I can’t disagree with anything that is said, but honestly I…
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Design Language
Interesting post over on autoblog from yesterday. While the article describes it as an “esperanto” for design, I hope J Mays can be more successful than the UN was. We’ve all seen the elements of design languages across families of products. The distinctive “cross” grill on Dodge products. The sliver slipperiness of Apple products. What…