Year: 2012
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Google Firestarters For Search
You'll know that I've been working with Google for over a year now, curating a series of events themed around stimulating some different thinking and debate on some of the more interesting and challenging issues facing planners today . We've had four such events now, and had some brilliant speakers and conversation around four different but related subjects…
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Customer Development
Serial entrepreneur and renowned tutor of entrepreneurship (at Stanford, Columbia, and UC Berkeley) Steve Blank has developed one of the core themes in his classes – what he calls the 'customer development model' – into a book: The Startup Owner's Manual. Customer development is a parallel process to product development that involves a focus on…
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‘Drama Is Anticipation Mingled With Uncertainty’
There's a lot to take from this wonderful TED talk by the multi-oscar winning writer and director Andrew Stanton, who was Pixar's ninth employee and whose credits include Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Finding Nemo and WALL-E. It made me think about the relationship between technology and creativity. One of the many interesting stories in the…
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On Algorithmic Curation
The use of algorithms is, I think, one of the big three big elements of content curation. There were two interesting posts that I happened across on the subject yesterday. The first, from 'Iphoneographer' Chris Smith, who (late last year) attempted to reverse engineer the algorithm that selects photos for the Instagram popular page in order…
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Post Of The Month – March 2012 – The Winner
Well, something of a runaway winner in this months vote. Despite a strong showing from Made By Many's Picle development story, it was Andy Nairn's post on the Facebook Timeline that won through. So well done Andy. You get the props of your blogging peers and are entered into the Hall Of Fame. Thanks everyone for taking…
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Post Of The Month – March 2012 – The Vote
Thanks for the nominations (as noted below the MadeByMany nomination is for the blogging of an open development process, hence the reference to other relevant posts). Our shortlist for this month's vote is: The Curation Debate by Noah Brier The Picle Story from MadeByMany (you might also want to take a look at We're Launching Picle, Picle is Here, Picle…
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Post Of The Month – March 2012 – Nominations
Time to open up nominations for Post Of The Month for March. So please nominate your favourite posts that were posted in that month in the comments below. I've listed a few of my own favourites as a starter (note: I've included MadeByMany's Picle App posts as a great example of blogging an open development process, but whilst…
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Ideas From Anywhere
"Brainstorming groups produce more ideas than an individual but fewer and poorer quality ideas than from individuals working separately. In other words, brainstorms dilute the sum of individual efforts." Diehl and Stroebe 1991 Jonah Lehrer's new book on creativity seems to be getting quoted in all sorts of places which is a sure sign that…
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What Is The Difference Between A Fad And A Trend (redux)?
Thanks to everyone who took the time and trouble to contribute feedback in answer to the question I posed in the previous post. It was brilliant to be able to pass on some wise words from some good thinkers to the graduates at Squared 2012. After I gave my talk, and before I revealed to…
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What Is The Difference Between A Fad And A Trend?
A few years back I crowdsourced a presentation – curating a bunch of individual slides contributed by the readers of this blog into a talk about community that I then gave at a conference. It was a wonderfully positive (albeit a little risky) experience. I've been asked to speak at Squared this week. Squared is…