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Truly Engaging and Immersive Products or How To Keep Talent

By Jenny Sundén on 2011-11-14

Have you ever felt that the outside world almost ceased to exist and that time faded away? Did you feel deeply concentrated? Focused? Was it impossible to interrupt you? Did you forget to eat? Comics and books did this for me when I was a kid, my parents and child minders got mad at me for not answering when calling for me. But I wasn't rude (at least not intentionally), I was immersed.

The key is flow.

The Kids and Tech Debate

By Megan Miller on 2011-10-28

Fisher-Price's "Laugh and Learn Baby iCan Play" iPhone case

Over the past two weeks, the U.S. media has been circling the issue of young children and technology. The catalyst for the discussion may have been this viral video of an infant trying to pinch and zoom a paper magazine. The commentary went something like this: Tech bloggers: “Hilarious! She thinks it’s a broken iPad.” Luddites: “Frightening! Why has this baby been playing with an iPad so much?” Magazine people: “Oh god, this is the future. We’re doomed.”

Your Business Needs an App Store

By Eric Foster on 2011-10-11
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(image via Cristiano Betta)

One of my favorite questions on Quora is "Why don't big companies innovate?". I would say it's because companies aren't giving their employees the best tools, specifically software. Employees are regularly saddled with cumbersome corporate software for everyday activities like filling out expense reports or retrieving customer information.

Disrupting the Disruptors

By Andrea Mazey on 2011-09-28

10 years ago when the dot-com bubble burst, and with it a slew of services claiming to disrupt various levels of the retail value chain, a small number of sustainable, truly disruptive e-commerce models managed to survive. Many of these companies - the Amazons, eBays, and Zappos of the world - live still, some stronger than ever, and have left in the wake of their survival a ghost town of physical retail chains unable to compete with the prices and underlying cost structures of their digital counterparts.

The Third Space

By Tore Fjaertoft on 2011-09-26

The Terminal (via japantrends.com)

I often find myself in a weird situation. I wake up, go to work and eight hours later I've done a ton of things. Meetings, phone calls, a bazillion emails. I've bumped into people. Explained things using funny geometric shapes on a whiteboard while trying not to think about all the things I really should have been doing. Because of all those unplanned yet necessary distractions, that mental todo list is usually nowhere close to being done when my workday wraps.

Rationality won't make you rich, or how to think about the Internet of Things

By Jonas Olofsson on 2011-09-16
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Last month I went to The Conference and listened to a lot of great presentations. There were three conference tracks, one of them dedicated to the Internet of Things. The idea that all things around us, even small everyday objects, at some point will become connected to the internet fascinates me a lot.

Why Talk When You Can Text?

By Eric Foster on 2011-09-13

Barack Obama used SMS to announce his VP nominee. (via adria.richards)

In the future, telepathic communication might begin to attract the money men but, for the time being, short message service, or SMS, is disrupting the way we communicate. The king of the crowd? GroupMe.

Your App Ideas from GRID'11!

By Megan Miller on 2011-09-07

"Weather Forecast for Takeaway" app idea generated at GRID'11

Thanks to everyone who participated in the app breakout session I hosted at GRID’11 yesterday. In our workshop, we did a gamestorming activity and generated lots of great app ideas. They were then sorted by participants into four categories: Entertainment Ideas, Funny Ideas, Money-Makers and Helpful Tools. Here’s a list of all the ideas (well, all the ideas I could decipher—a few of the cards were a bit difficult to read) and what categories the participants placed them in.

 

How Sustainable A Buy Is a Daily Deal?

By Andrea Mazey on 2011-08-12

As group buying, flash sales, and daily deals continue to swarm the internet faster than you can say "Groupon IPO," much of the hype around these types of services has come under closer examination. "It's just a coupon with a fancy distribution model," "It's good for the end-user but not for the businesses," and "Why pay full price for a massage when I can wait for a Groupon?" are some of the murmurings that have made their way across the blogosphere in critique of the daily deal phenomenon.

Best Links week 32

By Jonas Olofsson on 2011-08-12
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We're back from the holidays – here's the first round of Bestlinks A/W11!

History Doesn't Always Repeat Itself ...but It Usually Rhymes (link)
"We fail when we fall in love and believe there is no next step."

Skills
What Will Be the Business Skills of the Future? (link)

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