Category: trends
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Rapid Prototyping Google Glass
It's tempting to think that the prototyping for a project such as Google Glass would have been a complex, lengthy process lasting months if not years but this short, charming talk from Tom Chi (experience designer in the Google X team) gives a fascinating insight into how their process of creation was greatly accelerated through…
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Growth Hacking
I'm not one for jargon (lord knows we don't need another catchy phrase to describe something in marketing) but I rather like the applicability of some of the concepts around so-called 'growth hacking'. Lifting and paraphrasing liberally from these different definitions of the term from specialists (worth reading the whole thing) growth hacking is "a fancy…
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Will Every Industry Have Its ‘Napster Moment’?
This Spiegel Online article rather stopped me in my tracks. Acclaimed architect Zaha Hadid is currently designing 11 projects across China including the quite beautiful Wangjing SOHO complex in Beijing (above). It seems that in the land where anything can be copied, archiectural 'pirates' have cloned the design of the complex and construction teams are busy…
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Why Publishers Need APIs
Last month I wrote a post questioning why, in the context of exponential growth in the number of companies creating APIs across many sectors, so few publishers were opening up their data and content (at least in part) in this way. The question is applicable to just about every area of publishing that is making…
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The Real Marketing Lesson We’ve All Just Learned
There's already been plenty of pixel-inches written on the role that so-called 'big data' played in the Obama victory. The most fascinating of all of them was Michael Schrerer's behind-the-scenes access to the back-office data crunchers and analysts, which revealed (amongst a few other things): The sophisticated modelling to make the application of limited resource far…
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The Evolution Of Digital Display
I've been following John Battelle's thinking on the future of digital display. Earlier this year he wrote a long post on the so-called 'death of display', the rumours of which have been greatly exaggerated. Yet whilst display on the web continues to grow (for example, at more than 10% y-o-y in the UK according to the…
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NewsWeek and the Death of Print
"Exiting print is an extremely difficult moment for all of us who love the romance of print and the unique weekly camaraderie of those hectic hours before the close on Friday night. But as we head for the 80th anniversary of Newsweek next year we must sustain the journalism that gives the magazine its purpose—and…