Every so often I take stock of the devices and services that I use in my day-to-day working (and not-working) life. Here's where I'm at as of April 2014: Devices Samsung Chromebook I've written about my experiences with Chromebook (a post that still gets quite a few views) and I'm generally pretty happy with … Continue reading The toolkit
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According to reports in The Daily Telegraph today over 3/4 of British businesses are running Windows XP, the operating system that Microsoft moves to "end of life" status next week. The headline is obviously misleading. 77% of UK businesses using XP isn't anything like 77% of British business PCs using the old OS which estimates within … Continue reading Any worse at end of life?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJzTKyp6LYE Here's a retelling of the presentation that I gave at last week's CIO network event. You can find further materials at http://stamplondon.co.uk/winmarkevent
I spent much of Sunday evening in A&E. Nothing serious - just the average sort of flesh wound you come to get used to when living with toddler siblings who've just worked out the basics of projectiles. The children's department was unusually busy, and so I had quite a few hours to look at the sign … Continue reading Change pain
I've just started reading a book about the Psychology of Pricing (The Psychology of Price: How to use price to increase demand, profit and customer satisfaction - a review to follow when I'm finished). It's opening gambits are quite pertinant to a conversation I had yesterday about how IT now finds itself in an open market. … Continue reading The psychology of pricing IT
As is so often the case it started with me being a smart-arse... This morning I presented to a select group of CIOs on the topic of consumerized innovation in the enterprise. How, in short words, do IT departments become the go-to people when others in their organisation want to try something new that either relies … Continue reading Consumer meets enterprise; enterprise wins
A few days ago the legend of tech investing Fred Wilson blogged about an observation of how followers on the SoundCloud service might be able to turn into a rough and ready basis for classifying artists on the service: ... for emerging artists, follower counts on the platform of choice for their media type might … Continue reading The value of followers
For some time now I've been arguing that modern trends in digital design seem to be putting aesthetics ahead of usability, with designers in a madcap dash to become flatter and more modernist than their peers. A couple of times in the past few days I've seen evidence of this on major media sites. The … Continue reading What’s going on with modern web design?
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