Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Early Indications September 2010: The Power and Paradoxes of Usability

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Usability is among the most difficult of topics to define and analyze. At one level, it is much like the famous Supreme Court justice who no...
Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Early Indications August 2010: Rethinking Location and Identity

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Even though they're sometimes overlooked in relation to spectacular growth rates (50x increases in wireless data carriage), successful c...
Saturday, July 31, 2010

July 2010 Early Indications: Living with an iPad

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I'm not typically a "gadget guy," one of those folks (Ed Baig at USA Today is one of the best) who regularly evaluate new devi...
Thursday, June 17, 2010

June 2010 Early Indications II: Book Review of Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

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To those of us who for a long time have tried to understand the many impacts of the Internet, Clay Shirky stands among a very small group of...
Friday, June 11, 2010

Early Indications June 2010: World Cup special on sports brand equity

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It's a familiar business school discussion.  "Let's talk about powerful brands," begins the professor.  "Who comes to...
Saturday, May 22, 2010

May 2010 Early Indications: Devising the cloud-aware organization

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As various analysts and technology executives assess the pros and cons of cloud computing, two points of consensus appear to be emerging: A)...
Thursday, April 29, 2010

Early Indications April 2010 The Web of Opinion: Metadata as conversation

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In the beginning, there was data, enumerating how many, what kind, where. Data was kept in proprietary formats and physically located: if t...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

March 2010 Early Indications: Behaviorism, Online

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One of the consequences of the ubiquity of our communications tools is a shift away from fascination with and the need for expertise in the ...
Saturday, February 27, 2010

Early Indications February 2010: Ticket Punching

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As one surveys the landscape of industries whose business models have been transformed by the Internet, airline ticketing and travel agents ...
Monday, January 25, 2010

Early Indications January 2010: Do You Remember?

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Looking back over the 30 or so years of the personal computing era, I'm struck by how easily we discard the past, how often we miss a re...