Shozu, and being done when there’s nothing left to remove
More from my long notes tail. For a while I wanted to write a long article on Cognima. Who? The guys who brought us Shozu, that’s who. Cognima had a reall...
Category: Strategy
‘Operators are not enemies. They are irrelevant.’
I was going through my old notes and stumbled upon a comment from a really clever guy from a UK analyst house (who shall remain anonymous). He had given an amaz...
Cool! Nokia launches a bunch of phones for emerging markets.
This is exciting. Seven, yes 7!, new phones for the emerging markets (you know I love emerging market stuff). And these don’t look like cheap phones, but ...
Christian Lindholm on: The Software Transformer – A Vision for a mobile OS
Christian posted yesterday a nice essay about mobile and multi-modal interfaces (link below). He had given me a preview of it when I saw him last week and IR...
Optimist vs Pessimist, regarding products
Optimist: Be happy with what we have accomplished. Pessimist: We can do better, no matter how good we have already done it.
Jussi attacks the Nokia Jello
Jussi attacks the Nokia Jello Originally uploaded by schickr.
Tired words: Hygiene
I’ve been hearing this word getting thrown about all too often, always related to product features. Hygiene – This word is apparently used to descri...
Remixing the Internet?
I think everyone now realizes that we are in the age of the fragmented Internet, the widgetization of everything. To me, Netvibes is the poster child of this wi...
Hubris of the left-brained technological age
Had to react to this one that was sent to me (video below). It’s a beguiling list of stats that in the end are just an egoistical and purely numerical vie...
More on Jaiku and Twitter
As many others, I’ve been playing with Jaiku and Twitter, getting a feel for what they mean to personal connections. I think Jaiku fits the always-on worl...