Category: trends
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
10 trends for 2015 from Dan Calladine Here are my favourite links curated this week by Fraggl: Dan Calladine had an excellent set of trends for the coming year (above) Some really interesting views on the future of privacy drawn from research by Pew A fascinating look at designing the best board game on the planet Shane Parrish's blog and newsletter…
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Flexible Technology Stacks
One of the areas that I think companies find hardest to let go of is the concept of locked-down technology stacks. There's no doubt a number of good historical reasons why it was once important to maintain rigid controls over the technologies your staff use, but with the plethora of advanced, secure tools and systems…
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The Problem With Powerpoint
Much used, and yet so much maligned. Poor Powerpoint. Latest in a long line of detractors is Evernote CEO Phil Libin who, at Le Web the other day, said that Powerpoint is a 'lot of what's wrong with the world today' and that Office software was partly to blame for making work 'unpleasant for many people'.…
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This Week’s Favourite Fraggl Links
Wanderers – a short film by Erik Wernquist from Erik Wernquist on Vimeo. Here are my favourite links curated this week by Fraggl: "Seven years into the smartphone world, it seems like it’s time to change the questions". A lengthy, good post from one of the smartest analysts on mobile Ben Evans. Also worth checking out this challenging post on disruption,…
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The Thin Internet
A while back I wrote a post about distributed and destination thinking as a way of framing not just an approach to content but also a more ‘digitally-native’ way of looking at the world. Distributed thinking relates to content and interaction that lives out there, away from your domain, in the stream, so your job…
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Google Firestarters 14 – Big Data, or Big Mistake? – The Event
Thursday night saw the great and the good, the interesting and interested, of UK planning come together for the 14th Google Firestarters on the theme of big data. Tim Harford, the renowned author, broadcaster and FT columnist, split his provocations into two TED style twenty minute talks (with discussion and questions in between) – one…
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How Google Works
How Google Works from Eric Schmidt I've bought but yet to read Eric Schmidt's new book on How Google Works. In the meantime comes this handy slideshare summarising some of the key points. Lots to take from it, and lots of good validation for many of the things that I consult with companies about and…
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Buzzfeed and the Full Stack Startup
In the latest a16z podcast Chris Dixon (who now sits on the board of BuzzFeed following Andreessen Horowitz’s recent $50m investment) interviews Buzzfeed's founder, Jonah Peretti. One of the things that interests me most about Buzzfeed is that (in common with a new breed of media upstarts including Quartz, Circa, Medium, Vice) they are building a media…
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Email Transparency
We all know how much of a challenge the ceaseless tide and pressure of email can be. A recent McKinsey Global Institute paper found that Email consumes an average of 13 hours, or 28% of the average working week. Quartz calculated that this meant on average that “the time spent on reading and answering email costs a company $20,990…
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Google Firestarters 13 – Agencies and Product Innovation – The Event
The intersection of product innovation and agency culture and practice is a theme that has generated considerable debate in our industry and one that has been put forward by several Google Firestarters regulars as one that we should run an event on. So on Wednesday we did just that, with a packed house and three…