New obsession, new future?
Last September I wanted to go to a conference in Sweden and my boss asked me what I would do different from my attendance at the US edition of the event the pri...
Author: charlie
Pause for station identification
Yup. Another year and a half has gone by since my last station identification. So much has happened and so little has changed since then. MeWho am I? I’m ...
A quick-ish sort of catch-up
OMG. I’ve been hankering to write here for the last few months, and finally, in the lull between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, I’ve run off to...
Pause for station identification
A year and half has gone by since my last station identification. So I thought it might be a good time for me to update things. Me Hello. My name is Charlie Sch...
Nike’s usability failure on the Apple Watch exposes what smartwatches could be
One of the chief reasons I bought an Apple Watch was for Nike Run Club (what used to be called Nike+).[1] But the Nike software’s bugginess and some misse...
Public/private messaging and Twitter’s stalled growth
The news today that Twitter didn’t grow in the past quarter had me scratching my head. Twitter did not add any new monthly active users in the past three ...
Might the losers of the smartphone boom suggest the losers of the wrist-top wars with smartwatches?
I recently saw (via CBInsights) this graphic of the impact smartphones had on the sales in different consumer electronic categories. Back in Nokia’s heyda...
Cars, phones, watches: Silly about our electrical anxiety
We’ve all seen the image of the folks sitting on the floor at the airport charging their devices. Yes, that’s where we are at: hyper-aware of every ...
Foreground:Background. Can watches save us from our phone attention deficit disorder?
I mentioned briefly in a previous post how the mobile phone has become a foreground object. By that I mean an object that requires two hands, full attention, le...
Smartwatches: definitions, lifestyle, what works, and haptic afterimages
Despite what many write, smartwatches have been around for a long time. I know this because I got my first smartwatch back in 2005 (or was it even earlier when ...