I was listening to a podcasts from This Week in Start Ups (TWIST) from Jason Calacanis. It was the first time I’d listened to one of his podcasts and probably won’t be the last. Don’t get me wrong it wasn’t revolutionary but it was thought provoking.
One of the thoughts I had was around [...]
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The opposite of free
Simple
While having breakfast with some friends, the question “What’s your favourite product from a design point of view of all time”. It was an interesting question and some of the answers were totally linked to people’s backgrounds and personality. My mate N said the book, a product that’s still used hundreds of years [...]
The iPhone is not just a phone
It’s a starter Mac.
I’ve had an iPod touch for about a month and a half now and I’m about to buy a Mac. Having had a Blackberry for over a year and a Windows mobile before that, and a Nokia for most of my adult mobile using life, I’ve tried all the different major handsets [...]
Distribution, product, service all trump marketing
I’ve worked in marketing. I understand marketing. I like marketing. But marketing isn’t shit if you don’t have a good (if not great, awesome) product, have your distribution channels tied up and have great service.
Here’s an example, T-mobile has great freaking commercials, the bee loves the marketing campaign. It’s great, people [...]
Three Times Three Words
I love London. I love the people. I love the energy. I love me in London. I love who I become. How I think. And the ideas I have. The idea that’s really captured my imagination right now is three word maxims, I’ve spent three days in London and [...]
Downturns and design
I’m reading subject to change by the good folks at Adaptive Path right now. It’s an interesting book that discusses features and design and why people like using what they like using. It’s all round good stuff.
At the same time I’m reading a lot about the credit crunch and how people are no [...]
Build killer products and people will get excited
Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is kicking off in a couple of minutes. I don’t own a Macbook or an iPhone (yet) but I’m pretty excited. As I mentioned earlier I’m a guy who waits for a couple of product iterations and when the price comes down a bit before I dive in. [...]
Good, evil and Apple
Umair’s been spending quite a bit of time talking about good and evil, open and closed, Microsoft and Yahoo, and Facebook and Google. A very basic synopsis would be that open is good, Microsoft, and increasingly Facebook, have bad DNA and this will prevent them from sustaining success in the long run. Whereas [...]
Innovation and authenticity
Henry Blodget and Kara Swisher have two great videos on Yahoo!’s Tech Ticker.
On the first they’re discussing the mentality of Google’s founders in comparison to other founders. Their DNA and how they’ve moulded the company in their own image. Basically, how they’ve kept it authentic.
My take, well duh, authenticity and value people, authenticity [...]
Are ebook readers and ebooks actually a market? Will Amazon capture it?
So Amazon’s releasing a ebook reader, calling it Kindle, and hoping that it will get the ebook market going. I don’t – and won’t – buy it.For some people who like the experience and have already started reading ebooks, and after reading Michael Parekh’s blog I was amazing to find that there are people [...]