Kleiner Perkins' Mary Meeker has just published another presentation, with reflections on the state of the Internet and technology world in 2012 and beyond. As usual, lots of data points, and some thoughts on how many industries have been "re-imagined" (a phrase I'm now stopping using as I've realised it means little more than "changed"). … Continue reading Value of advertising
Achievements this week included: - further content creation work on Why App? (a slight change of name there...) - contacts made on the agency work in the corporate mother ship - invitations to present at an agency day happening next month - fascinating insight from Visa Europe - the wonderful news from The Partners - … Continue reading Weeknote 125: HST
A meeting earlier this week with a chap from Visa Europe spurred a whole load of thoughts about money - and actually what it is... First, some remarkable stats gleaned from the session: one in every six euros spent in Europe in retail (ie excluding things like mortgage and bill payments) is spent via Visa's … Continue reading What is… money?
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of speaking with a substantial number of the people who work for the WPP agency The Partners. The gist of the talk was about the power of analogy in designing systems, and how fun analogies could in turn deliver experiences that would solve otherwise thorny issues through … Continue reading Small victories
The recent announcements by Barclays Bank about their bulk purchase of iPads has got me thinking about the way in which it seems the consumerisation of technology is having an interesting effect - we are becoming more besotted with the software and devices than ever before. The "news" was the purchase of the devices, yet … Continue reading Business change in a consumerised world
About 13 years ago, I found myself trying to get people to understand why it would be beneficial to use a services-oriented architecture in the work we were doing to build business systems at BBC Worldwide. It was a tricky task, because whilst it all felt right from a technical purist perspective, actually adding in … Continue reading The joy of hindsight
If you read these pages with any frequency, you'll probably be aware that I have two toddler boys. For the past few months they've had a few toy obsessions mostly revolving around emergency vehicles, firemen and postmen (well, one in particular, who's called Pat). It's got me wondering - and also a little worried - … Continue reading ActionGeek!
Achievements this week included: - an interesting time at the CBI conference - presenting on the impact of consumerisation at the IT in Housing event in London - refining and developing the When to App content & workshops - some interesting conversations about activity at MWC 2013 - and a successful first week of potty training … Continue reading Weeknote 124: windy
There are a few key things that stand out from my memories of my University academic studies, and one of them is the ideas behind a book written in 1958 by Michael Young (father, I found out this morning, of journalist Toby) called The Rise of Meritocracy. In Young's satire, he paints a picture of … Continue reading Data enslavement
Human beings, I believe, are losing a skill. It's not a particularly important skill, but it is one that we developed as result of an old technology, and one that we are losing as a result of a new technology. We are losing the ability to remember telephone numbers. Nearly 40 years on, my parents' … Continue reading Machine-unreadable
