March 2012
3 posts
December 2011
2 posts
Marc Andreessen: Predictions for 2012 →
“Software is eating the world… 2012 is the year that retail really starts to feel the pressure.”
Innovation strategy as brand strategy →
“From promise to proof, from stories to services, from disconnected to integrated.”
November 2011
1 post
The next big thing will start out looking like a...
‘A majority of the top internet companies a decade ago are barely in existence today. How did this happen? These companies weren’t complacent – they were run by smart executives who were constantly aware that they could lose their lead.
The reason big new things sneak by incumbents is that the next big thing always starts out being dismissed as a toy. This is one of the main insights of...
October 2011
3 posts
Apps Are the New Channels →
Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends 2011:
Locative Entertainment Futures →
When the ‘real world’ becomes a storytelling-media form…
February 2011
2 posts
January 2011
21 posts
New Emotion Measurement Technology →
Affectiva’s electrodermal testing and facial expression recognition tools are now available for market research, product testing and development via @mashable http://on.mash.to/g5dJCV
iPad Mags Need A New Blueprint →
Erick Schonfeld: “Replicating a dead-tree publishing model on a touchscreen is a recipe for obsolescence… If I were creating an iPad mag it wouldn’t look like a magazine at all. It would look more like a media app.”
Next gen iPads & iPhones to leverage NFC →
Apple’s plan to add near field communications (NFC) chips to its next generation iPhone and iPad products constitutes a major and hugely disruptive move into mobile payments, especially as iTunes already has credit card and purchase info.
Studies show users value (most to least): status,...
Important observation on gamification by Gabe Zichermann via Chris Dixon and Jocelyn Leavitt: studies show that users value rewards, from most important to least important:
Status — i.e. Platinum Elite in frequent flyer programs.
Access — i.e. Gilt Noir members get access to sale items 15 minutes before others.
Power — i.e. A player gets “power” over others, like power moderators on...
Zynga acquires social and real-world gaming... →
“Area/Code has developed a number of games on Facebook and for mobile, including CSI: Crime City with partner Ubisoft, Facebook game Parking Wars and Drop7 for the iPhone. According to the startup’s site, the developer focused on highlighting ‘the connections between the interactive systems and imaginary landscapes inside of games and the real world around them.’ These...
“As I think about Google’s strategic initiatives in 2011, I realize...”
– Eric Schmidt
Social Animal →
Brilliant @NewYorker piece on the rise of neuroscience: “The cognitive revolution of the past thirty years provides a different perspective on our lives, one that emphasizes the relative importance of emotion over pure reason, social connections over individual choice, moral intuition over abstract logic, perceptiveness over I.Q. It allows us to tell a different sort of success story, an...
Brands Create Media Outlets Online, Bypassing... →
Good David Carr piece in the New York Times on fashion brands learning to think like media companies and the integration of content and commerce. As I’ve said before, the future of retail is editorial. And the future of editorial is retail.
“Lucky magazine’s Brandon Holley wants to transform Luckymag.com into a “social...”
The Failure of iPad Magazines →
Great blog post from former New York Times design director Khoi Vinh: “the reality that people just don’t like to consume magazine content in the monolithic, issue-centric form that these apps take has caught up with the irrational enthusiasm that we saw in 2010… It’s bordering on obstinate to think that something you care so much about can be salvaged by doing more or less the same thing...
HBR: Shaping Strategy in a World of Constant... →
Shopping + User-Curation + Microblogs →
“Melding social networking and the style maven’s obsession with all things beautiful, sites like Fancy (thefancy.com) and Svpply (svpply.com) have emerged recently, letting users shop and fetishize while creating and sharing things they like with friends and followers, from clothes to art to gadgets.”
EBay Takes a Page From the Glossies →
“[Andrea] Linett began a new job this week as the creative director of eBay Fashion. One of her responsibilities is to enliven the experience of online shopping at a site that often feels more like a digital flea market.”
December 2010
14 posts
Artificial Intelligence to transform web, says Yury Milner: “I think that in 10 years if you ask a question on a social network and you get an answer you will not know if a computer or a person has answered you… When you receive a question, you will not know if it has been asked by a person or an artificial intelligence. And by answering you help the computer create an algorithm.”...
Sharp Drop in iPad Magazine Sales →
“…the larger issue is the publishing industry’s insistence on using new platforms like the iPad to ape antiquated models like print, when it could be using them to develop entirely new ones.”
Luxury Society: The Digital Agenda
Download Report: http://static.luxurysociety.com/report/TheDigitalAgenda.pdf
Cathy Horyn: What's Next for Designers in 2011 →
Social commerce, personalization, customization key for fashion in 2011
The State of the Blogosphere 2010 →
“2011 is the year of information curation and the dawn of the curator… networks and services that cater to the role of the curator will emerge, with several already leading the way. Storify, Curated.by, Pearltrees, Scoop.it, and Paper.li are becoming the coveted services of choice amongst curators as they not only enable the repackaging and dissemination of information, they do so in...
http://youtube-trends.blogspot.com →
Interestingly, YouTube Trends, “a destination for daily insight into the zeitgeist of the world’s largest video site,” offers an editorial layer over the raw stats.
BBHData: What is the Reach of a Tweet? →
A good question. Or is it? … The metric called ‘Tweet Impressions’ is meaningless and not a useful way to approach the evaluation of the channel. It’s using the old model of exposure for a new channel based on active participation… Instead count how many followers you get. How many people re-tweet.
“The next decade will be the decade of games.” →
WatchMcQueen creates new Tumblr for the relaunch of McQ
Moda Operandi offers Fashion Immediacy and... →
Lauren Santo Domingo and Aslaug Magnusdottir’s new start-up Moda Operandi gives consumers direct and immediate access to shop new collections within 48 hours of runway shows. Launch partners include: Thakoon, Proenza Schouler, Prabal Gurung, Narciso Rodriguez, Vera Wang, Alexander Wang and Giambattista Valli. The site expects to have 100,000 members in the first year and plans to provide...
How Video Games Are Infiltrating—and... →
November 2010
24 posts
