Achievements this week included: - clarity starts to emerge on our approach to spreading the word in the next nine months - views into how we can use data from our app marketplaces... - ...and strategies about how we can manage contact data more effectively - and completed this, my 400th blog post Next week: … Continue reading Weeknote 68: blog post 400
I was in conversation with a consultant chum of mine recently who made an interesting observation about his view on CIOs in the UK at the moment; from his perspective, they fall into three chunks (his idea/my terminology): The transformationals, who see technology as an enabler to businesses, and are working to align the technology … Continue reading Three CIO paths…
My team are organising a series of online events for developers next week, focusing on three of our key technology platforms (Windows Phone, Windows Azure, and Internet Explorer). The Phone event focuses on user-centric design; it’s one thing to create an application for Windows Phone. It’s another to design an application for Windows Phone that … Continue reading Public Service Announcement – Developer online events
A couple of experiences in the past few days have made me realise that the worlds of technology and business are converging in a way that technology companies are maybe not realising. The first was Seedhack, where 120 folk put in a weekend's work to try to develop out new business ventures based on technology, … Continue reading The Business/Technology split
As part of a presentation I'm giving tomorrow, I've pulled together a timeline that shows the release years of key devices, software and services in the past decade. It's interesting... how we forget that iTunes came before the iPod; that the first BlackBerry phone was only in 2003; that the current crop of games consoles … Continue reading A decade of devices and services
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I spent this evening at the first Seedhack event, a weekend hackathon organised by the start up organisation Seedcamp. I was doing a bit of thought-provoking, which it's always fun. The event format, which will be continuing over the weekend, began with a series of short talks, some about specific technologies some about industry sector … Continue reading Seedhack
Achievements this week included: - discovering what we can and can't say about what we may or may not have seen last week (ssshhhh!) - continuing conversations about new ideas for live event formats - great catch ups with Richard Hall (@CloudOrigin), Trudy, the boys from The Telegraph, and Drew @ 33 (@drewb) - preparation … Continue reading Weeknote 67: back home
I've been thinking and talking a lot in the past few weeks about a concept that I picked up on from a Malcolm Gladwell essay that I read last year... the distinction between mysteries and puzzles. The short summary is that a puzzle is something that had an unknown but fixed solution, whereas a mystery … Continue reading More mystery than puzzle…
I've written about the Dan Gardner book Future Babble a couple of times... if you want to find out more about the underlying research, then the new Freakonomics Podcast covers much of the same ground in 58 nicely produced minutes of radio. Well worth a listen.
