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.”