In this "it is all about me and my personal needs" web era where users of online applications are expecting ever higher quality and usability, it is becoming ever more difficult for application designers to meet these requirements. There really is...
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Poor you, you'll never see it coming
It has been quite a while since my last post, but I blame it on the “midlife crisis-menopause-postnatal stress” kind of life changing moment when you become 27 that caused a small writer’s block. That together with the fact that I traveled...
Read moreTech predictions 2009: Dead of the money making core product
Selling your product for money is a very normal business model. If you make a product it will cost you some money and to make a profit you'll ask more money for the product than you spend on manufacturing it. The same goes for services you offer....
Read moreThe Long Tail is not a fail
Anderson downgrades Long Tail to Chocolate Teapot status: "The end came quickly," as authors of morbid weepies like to say. On Monday WiReD magazine editor Chris Anderson effectively admitted game over for his "Long Tail", the idea he's been...
Read moreTech predictions 2009: Information filtering and behavioral targeting are the new gold
Clay Shirky mentioned it some time ago "It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure". And he is right, currently there is so much information that it is hard to filter it correctly to come to the information you need (Well it is not hard...
Read moreThe 2008 "it" list
While all our colleagues (including us) are doing bold predictions on what will be hot or not in 2009, let’s take a quick recap of what was hot in 2008. In a true Web 2.0 collaboration fashion we (@mnankman, @rickmans and @leeprovoost) discussed...
Read moreTech Predictions 2009: Music-As-A-Service (…at last)
The title says it all, and I believe that 2009 will be the year in which we start to see some real music-as-a-service propositions come to life. Although some existing online music services may claim to be already providing “music as a service”,...
Read moreEuroSTAR2008 (The Hague) - Live event coverage!
Drinking our own cappuccino (I know it used to be champagne, but read on!) is something we’ve done for years, and I’m glad to say are continuing to do. My mind immediately turns to a distant image of our ‘CapCom’ intranet from a decade and a...
Read moreTech Predictions 2009: Cisco will be KLM - Air France biggest challenger
Having to attend a lot of meetings can result in traveling a few hours per week to arrive at the meeting place. Especially when your colleagues are working at a different location (or even in another country) you can earn a lot of Airmiles. You can...
Read moreSAP TechEd 2008 Berlin - Live event coverage!
Practice what you preach, eat your own dog food and drink your own champagne. While we are not a dog food manufacturer, champagne house nor religion (really?), it has no use to advice clients on how to use innovative technologies if we are not...
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