“Dad, what happened to all the big companies?”
Ralph looked down at his 3rd grade son, Dan. They were waiting on a subway platform and had 103 seconds before the F train pulled in. They were perfectly positioned to board the third car, where the temperature was a perfect 70 degrees and plenty of seats [...]
keep reading →Apple design guru, Jonathan Ive, is quoted by 9to5Mac as saying about Steve Jobs:
“Despite all his successes, all his achievements, he never presumed, he never assumed, that we would get there in the end. And when the ideas didn’t come, and when the prototypes failed, it was with [...]
keep reading →Siri, the digital assistant that lives on each Apple iPhone 4S, makes life incredibly simple for you. Just lift the phone to your ear and tell her what you want.
This is as simple as it’s ever been to operate a computer, and I can’t imagine how many million lines of code it took [...]
keep reading →Like Flat Stanley, your smartphone lives in a 2D world. Its GPS identifies your location in terms of directions on a compass, but not altitude.
Let’s imagine what will be possible when phones add altimeters. Customer experience will change dramatically, as innovative and/or aggressive firms develop new [...]
keep reading →I love this sign, which reminds us that sometimes innovation takes us in a giant circle.
Much as I love – and am constantly grateful for – the produce sections of American supermarkets, nothing beats walking out back and picking food you grew yourself. Please excuse me, it’s time to go find [...]
keep reading →Over at Apple, the App Store now has more than 472,000 apps. That’s a lot of innovation.
Tech start-ups continue to pop up, despite the economy. If anything, it’s gotten cheaper to launch start-ups; two or three founders can often get a beta version running.
But can these folks explain their innovations? [...]
keep reading →Like, it would be so cool if we could, you know, get companies on the same wavelength as their customers. Can’t you see it, man? The customer pours his heart out, and then we get a bunch of our dudes to scamper around and make a solution. It would be, like, perfect.
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keep reading →This photo of the Milky Way as seen from Nepal stopped me in my tracks, making me forget about the iPad I was holding. I looked right through the device to the world that exists far beyond the reach of Apple, Google, or any other human creation.
We live in a strange time. If you [...]
keep reading →It’s hard enough to get Web, IT and marketing professionals to work together on a team. Now imagine getting such teams to both execute superbly and still be extraordinarily innovative. Sound like a blue sky dream to you? I don’t think so.
Welcome to The Teim. It’s not a typo; the “ei” stands [...]
keep reading →The best way to predict the future is often to invent it, so I’d like to encourage you to use this chart to invent the apps you’d most like to have at your disposal. You don’t actually to build them; odds are if you can dream them up, it won’t be long before someone else [...]
keep reading →Tales of Disruption
- Sometimes Words Escape Me
- No More Racing Home to Let Out Your Dog
- How to Get a Girlfriend, circa 2013
- Chatting about iBooks 2 with a Computer?
- Your Phone Won’t Let You Call Your Girlfriend
- Mission Impossible: Reaching Customer Service
- Paris with a Flexible Phone and a Sweet Tooth
- How Pachube Killed the Big, Slow Firms
- Banshee Construction Copter Robots
- James Bond meets Jonathan Livingston Seagull?
- Are Companies on Other Planets Stupid, Too?
- Fan Letter from a “Stalker”
- 3rd Party Candidate Becomes U.S. President
- Aha! (You Are a Cheating Spouse)
- Machiavellian Virtual Presence
