I was shopping in Kingston upon Thames and seeing the newly branded EE shops touting their network's new 4G services, it struck me that the mobile network current known as "3" is about to look very dated. Contemporary naming of brands is a risky business, as there is always going to be a factor of … Continue reading Anachronistic nomenclature
Achievements this week included: - final cut of the When to app framework for next week's Huddle - and prep for a few of the other events I've got coming up - good catch up with @andrewdotcom (he always likes a mention ;o)) - and further conversations about how the agency work moves forward Next week: event-o-rama
There's a report published by Ernst and Young that I've just being reading coverage on CIO.co.uk which, quite frankly, has depressed me. The headline is that CIOs are "struggling with cloud computing, social media and mobile risks", and the paragraph that has particularly got to me reads: Use of social media in business is prevalent, but … Continue reading Social networking accountability
I wrote a couple of weeks ago to revisit some thoughts about how native apps on devices can differentiate themselves significantly from "mere" websites. I've been refining that thinking in advance of a workshop next week to that will help people define and refine concepts for consumer-facing apps. The starting point is to have a … Continue reading When to app – the customer view
Recent announcements at Apple got me thinking as to whether the sometimes derided skeuomorphic approach to much of their software will soon be a thing of the past with Jony Ive taking control of software as well as hardware in the new world. It seems that I'm not the only person thinking that - see … Continue reading The end of the skeuomorph?
I remember many years ago my father prophesising that one day TVs would become componentised in the way that hifi systems were, with a separation of modules to be able to allow people to buy the functions that they needed. Dad's maybe not ill-placed to have made such predictions, with the first part of his career spent … Continue reading What is a… TV?
...well, assuming you're in London. Things in my diary in the next few weeks include: Talking at the IT in Housing event at Olympia http://www.itinhousingexhibition.co.uk/ Running a "When to app..?" workshop at a big Huddle that Mindshare are running next week Talking to http://www.the-partners.com/at an internal event they're running And also taking part in a Tigerspike … Continue reading Appearing at an event near you soon…
I've been reading a lot of Windows 8 reviews over the past two weeks. One thing that I don't think I've seen mentioned at all that has changed in the new OS is the audio cues - sound alerts of things happening in the system have all changed, and as someone who is fairly auditory … Continue reading Auditory preferences
Working on some content for an appearance next month at the National Housing Federation's IT in Housing Conference and have been trying to distill down thoughts on how the world of IT is changing into as few, but coherent, points as possible. There is a plethora of the usual IT buzz-word nonsense in the field, and … Continue reading The twin forces: commoditisation and consumerisation
The work I did last week with Marks & Spencer got me thinking about how many of the things we have in our day-to-day lives have, in the past 10 years or so, dramatically shifted in their even if, on the face of it, they seem pretty much the same as they ever were. This … Continue reading What is a… shop?
