Month: February 2011
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Fashionable Data
London Fashion Week finished this past week (strangely, I wasn't invited) so with my sometime obsession around interesting applications of data streams, it's timely to think about what the collision of two such polar opposite worlds as fashion and data might look like. Fortunately there's already some interesting examples. Take Fashiolista. Backed by one of…
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Agile Innovation
So, earlier this month I did a mini roadshow on behalf of Econsultancy to give a series of talks on digital innovation, future trends, and all that kind of good stuff. The talk was framed by some points I made about what I call agile innovation, and so I've penned a piece for them on…
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Making Stuff Hackable
"Give hackers an inch, and they'll take you a mile" Paul Graham Seeing this brilliant Spotify hack (pictured below) by Jordi Parra, an Interaction Design student at the Umeå Institute of Design in Sweden, is a reminder of what excellent stuff can happen when you let people play around with your product. The player uses…
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Everything Is A Remix
"the remix is the very nature of the digital" William Gibson As Faris (from whom I remixed the Gibson quote above) has said eloquently for a few years now, culture is inherently recombinant. Kirby Ferguson, a New York-based filmmaker, is producing a web series on the subject. The first couple of short films are quite…
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*Real* Competitive Advantage
According to the Deloitte Centre for the Edge, under 25% of the workers it surveyed are passionate about their work. Worse, the level of passion in the workforce turned out to be inversely related to the size of the company. Unsurprisingly perhaps, the self-employed were the most passionate, but the findings indicated that the larger…
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Post Of The Month – January 2011 – The Winner
So, after a strong showing for both Mel Exon's Think While You Make, Make While You Think and Amelia Torode's "Future Of Advertising" Is Utterly Depressing it was the former that in the end secured the most votes and is the winner of Post Of The Month for January 2011. Well done Mel, you get…
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Closed Publishing Apps? I Don’t Get It
Or rather (sadly), perhaps I do. So The Daily is finally with us. My disclosure right up front is that (since it is not available in the UK) I haven't actually seen it. I applaud bold experimentation of this kind but the written and video reviews of it have left me somewhat underwhelmed. It's a…
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Post Of The Month – January 2011 – The Vote
Good shortlist this month so thanks everyone for the nominations. Gemma asked if she could nominate the talk from Toby Barnes at Interesting North which was posted up in Jan. I don’t necessarily want to make a habit of incorporating talks into the vote, but I’m going to include it. Mostly because I really liked…
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Post Of The Month – January 2011 – Nominations
Time for nominations for our first Post Of The Month of 2011, so please nominate your favourite posts that were posted in the month of January in the comments below. As usual, I've listed a few of my own favourites below as a starter, but please do add to the list and I'll stick them…