chapter four – my 30s
Okay, I get it, we’re in a downturn. A recession or whatever you want to call it. Fine. The question is what do you do to ensure long term success during a down turn? Our office had an interesting professor from IMD visit us and talk to us about macroeconomic trends and behaviour, basically addressing [...]
Chris Anderson’s written a book about it, Umair Haque’s written lots of manifesto’s and posts about it, and Fred Wilson’s written countless blog posts about it. It is radical and new business models (from free to freemium to radical pricing and value) and it’s use in the digital and real world. So when I heard [...]
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 after it’s [...]
So @Ev pointed out that Microsoft Australia was doing a marketing campaign where the buried 10K (Aussie dollars I think, but the site doesn’t specify) somewhere and have launched a social media blitz to get people to use… wait for it… wait… Internet Explorer 8! I have three major gripes with this campaign: 1- Burying [...]
1 year ago, twitter had few users. 5 years ago, barely anyone was on facebook. 10 years ago, if someone told you they didn’t have an email address, you probably didn’t give it a second thought 10 years ago, AOL, Alta Vista and Yahoo! were the internet. I used to be thankful that I was [...]
1 – Stephen Fry gets a message from James Morley-Smith about his running the London Marathon for the Childhood Eye Cancer Trust, Fry posts a tweet, I go I donate, so too do about 20 other good folks and James is raising his fund-raising target. Along with sending me an email about his son’s radiotherapy [...]
I like using Flickr. Infact, I liked using it so much I ponied up 20 USD for a pro account and have topped it up. I also enjoy Facebook, but would I pay 20 USD a year for Facebook now, probably not. Now if facebook had begun by only introduced a limited function for free, [...]
Like most of the rest of the world, I’ve been really interested in the US election this year. It’s been the most anticipated and tightly fought battles in my lifetime and I think it’s very cool to be an adult with so many American friends and family living in America at this time. But the [...]
Howard Lindzon has an interesting post on the future of hedge funds, in a nutshell he’s saying that technology is shaking things up, those who adapt and are transparent will survive and their reputations and credibility will improve helping them outlast the competition. I think he’s bang on. And not just with regards to hedge [...]
One of the reasons I love twitter and SMS messaging is that you have a limit to the number of characters you have to get your message across. So you’re constantly thinking about the most effective way to use the limit to get your message across. Communication formats without limits makes it more difficult to [...]