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Is the iPhone Still More Personal than Professional?
In the Localytics study, which mined U.S. Also on weekends, they found that iPhone users generate 7% more traffic than on weekdays. And neither of those items, obviously, were tracked in the Localytics study.
In April of last year, for example, Forrester Research presented case studies on three major corporations that had deployed thousands of devices to their customers. According to recent data analysis from mobile analytics firm Localytics , iPhone application usage peaks in the evenings and on weekends and is much lower during the hours of a typical business day.
ReadWriteWeb
- Thursday, March 11, 2010
What Would You Ask Nature? Submit to the Biomimicry Institute/Designers Accord Challenge!
Currently there's a great deal of excitement bridging algorithms found in nature and information technology or "generative design," where we're able to extrapolate data from the way that nature goes through its iterative design process in evolution. And, using biomimetic principles, we've also been able to learn more about our own species: The Biomimicry Guild is starting conversations with global companies that manufacturer things like cosmetics--in which case their own in-house scientiststs have been studying hair and skin for decades.
Thanks to a smart TED talk by biologist Janine Beynus that made the rounds a few years ago, books like Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature , and new online resources like
Fast Company
- Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Extreme Makeover, Weiner Edition: RKS Redesigns the Deadly Hot Dog
baby-pea-sized pellets of hot dog, packaged loosely in a natural casing to retain the
into, the casing would release the pellets which would be too small to choke
RKS has helped generate more than 150 patents and over 90 design awards on behalf of its clients, which include HP, Intel, LG, Medtronic, Seiko, Sprint, and Zyliss. Last week, the American Academy of Pediatrics called
for the redesign of hot dogs . "If
Fast Company
- Monday, March 1, 2010
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Bringing the smart.fm Experience to the iPhone
All of the ideas generated were clustered and use cases for the smart.fm The next step was the organization of the resulting use cases into a mental model and the listing of application features under each mental space. Study : See what I need to do, do it, and see how I’m doing
Imagine that you want to learn how to read and speak Japanese. You’ve heard about the web-based learning applications offered by smart.fm and check them out.
Adaptive Path
- Friday, June 12, 2009
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Case Study: Twitter Usage at Wordcamp SF
That’s consistent at a high-level with the “long-tail” notion of user-generated content (i.e., The community in this case is self-selected; it's the people using event tags or interacting with the event Twitter identity. One of my many hats is as an events organizer. Twitter has become an invaluable tool for me to gauge the mood of the attendees.
OReilly Radar
- Wednesday, June 24, 2009
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Smart.fm: Imagining Possible Worlds
In reflecting on these goals, we generated numerous sketches and ideas for ways we could represent the timed, multiple-choice nature of the mobile learning game in a richly experiential manner. took the results of these exploration sessions into a bit more detail, generating a number of sketches that depict potential design directions for the learning game. “Sore” Exploring Part of the Smart.fm iPhone App Story
Adaptive Path
- Wednesday, June 24, 2009
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Paperboy 2.0: Using the Cloud to Get Paid for Application and Content Subscriptions
The Apple App Store has sparked a revolution in the mobile space generating billions of dollars for Apple and also creating look-alike services from nearly every mobile vendor. Case Study: iPad Subscriptions for Content Providers
Tags: Case Studie For content and application developers there is more opportunity than ever to monetize subscriptions. In the iPhone OS 3.0,
ReadWriteWeb
- Wednesday, February 10, 2010
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The Layoff
The company has enough money in the bank to buy a little time to study alternatives. Sushil’s suggestion about spreading the pain over the entire workforce might be more consistent with the Astrigo culture, help customer retention, and even generate employee support. In my case, I replaced eight of the 11 people on my team. "Why aren't layoffs taught as a subject at business school?" Robin Astrigo asked himself. "Boards
HarvardBusiness.org
- Thursday, February 19, 2009
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Tips for Building Next Generation Web 2.0 Applications
Expo next week in San Francisco on building next-generation Web 2.0 Next generation Web apps are also much more social than in the past with features such as friends lists, activity streams, and aggregation from other social sites as well as using that information to really learn about your customer like Facebook does [Paul Buchheit.] The key success factors for the underpinning business models of open Web platforms including brief case studies will be presented. I've been spending a good amount of time the last several weeks getting ready for the workshop session I'll be giving at Web 2.0
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Observations from a Student Leadership Summit
The members of the crucible generation, as Warren Bennis calls them , really do have a more collaborative and less competitive orientation then we ever did. The older generation has a significant contribution to make--in mentoring. Jim Collins , the dinner speaker on the final day of the summit, talked about how each of us needs a personal board of directors. That is particularly true for the crucible generation, Last week I had the opportunity to participate in the Student Leadership Summit , the inaugural event of the Frances Hesselbein Global Academy for Student Leadership and Civic Engagement , at the University of Pittsburgh.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Monday, August 17, 2009
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Tips for Building Next Generation Web 2.0 Applications
Expo next week in San Francisco on building next-generation Web 2.0 Next generation Web apps are also much more social than in the past with features such as friends lists, activity streams, and aggregation from other social sites as well as using that information to really learn about your customer like Facebook does [Paul Buchheit.] The key success factors for the underpinning business models of open Web platforms including brief case studies will be presented. I've been spending a good amount of time the last several weeks getting ready for the workshop session I'll be giving at Web 2.0
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Tips for Building Next Generation Web 2.0 Applications
Expo next week in San Francisco on building next-generation Web 2.0 Next generation Web apps are also much more social than in the past with features such as friends lists, activity streams, and aggregation from other social sites as well as using that information to really learn about your customer like Facebook does [Paul Buchheit.] The key success factors for the underpinning business models of open Web platforms including brief case studies will be presented. I've been spending a good amount of time the last several weeks getting ready for the workshop session I'll be giving at Web 2.0
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Michael Jackson and the Zombieconomy
"...Sales of his recordings through Sony's music unit have generated more than $300 million in royalties for Mr. Let's use MJ's tragic death as a mini case-study. $300 And MJ's death-by-financial-desperation should be a case study in that zombieconomy if ever there was one. Jackson since the early 1980's."
Wanna know why we have a zombieconomy ?
HarvardBusiness.org
- Monday, June 29, 2009
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