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innovation

What App Do You Wish You Could Design Today? – My Safeway Shopper

January 6, 2012

Time to consider a place I shop at least once a week and ask “Why isn’t there a Safeway App for that?” That’s right there’s been no real advance in Supermarket shopping in ages. Well a some stores have tried self-checkout (I’ve seen it more in Britain). Most have some form of loyalty program. Gee [...]

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Air Dictate: Using Siri on your Mac

December 30, 2011

I’m creating this post using air dictate a new application which allows you to use Siri on your Mac. Let’s just say it works fine. Many years ago when I first started working I used a Dictaphone . Now I just feel rusty. What amazes me is this app seems to work more effectively than [...]

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Ethnographer’s Mobile Tools – 360 Panorama

December 28, 2011

With each advance in smartphone tech I seek to find new and easier ways to capture what I actually see in the field. I find that running a video… often doesn’t do it later when telling a story with a visual. Equally, it can be difficult to let people see things through their own lens…. [...]

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Stuart – What’s Convo? What are clients saying?

September 13, 2011

Recently I was asked “Stuart what are you doing these days?” as a reference to what am I working on, with who, and where’s my passion and energy. The simple business answer is “Convo“. We engage you in strategic conversations. We’re a team of researchers, ethnographers, facilitators and strategists that want to help you find [...]

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#Google+ Circles or TRUST and the IDENTITY CIRCLE – The Past Rehashed :)

July 11, 2011

I’ve been trying out Google+ and I like it. I like Circles and Hangouts (I’ll provide a separate post on Hangouts) the names even mean something to me. By referencing the notes below I draw one conclusion – yet to be proven re Google’s longer term intent. I’ve also added additional links worth reading at [...]

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Revolutionary New Phone Charger

June 14, 2011

I just had to post this picture from some of my recent travels. While it makes an adequate phone charger, the man and his stories that showed it to me left a long-term impression. I also found it somewhat symbolic. I’ve neglected my blog for ages and it’s time to recharge my thoughts on it. [...]

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The Talking Newspaper – Dawn of the Smart Paper?

September 21, 2010

Imagine my surprise yesterday when I picked up the Times of India and it began talking to me… just like the singing birthday cards. The back page was a talking ad. An innovation I’m yet to see on the iPad although noisy websites are a fact of life. I won’t comment on the merits of [...]

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The iPad and Granddad.

August 3, 2010

I’ve written a few posts on the user implications of the iPad and changes to behavior that I’ve observed. You can find these here. Imagine my delight to find the BMWMOA International Rally had WiFi everywhere! It was excellent, consistent and delivered at high speed. Despite there being 6109 attendees there wasn’t the pressure on [...]

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Kitchen iPad – Epicurious – Food Revolution – ABC Player and where’s Safeway and Tesco?

May 13, 2010

I’m still making notes and keeping observations about my iPad. This is Part 4 of the Series where I share how I find I’m using my iPad in my kitchen. The series so far: Part 1: What the iPad means to your next iPhone purchase! Observation #1 Speed Part 2: iPad Observation #2 Content and [...]

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#ARConf and #Ecomm – Surprisingly Interrelated

May 5, 2010

Finally I’m getting to my eComm posts and notes. On the third day, AR or Augmented Reality came to eComm America2010 in the form of ARConf. I know many of the telecom crowd didn’t stick around for day three and I feel they missed out big time. Almost 12 hours long, Lee Dryburgh and team pulled together a [...]

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When you get your iPad – Think about the DayTimer days

April 2, 2010

Remember when you carried a DayTimer Diary everywhere? Well maybe not. It was a long time ago 80′s and 90′s. At one time it was the “corporate” thing to give to employees. The company worked on our time efficiency. The employees got some training in Time Management. There were many versions. Outlook killed this in [...]

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What’s cooler? Glide.TV or an iPad?

April 1, 2010

Two nights ago I was at an East Bay tech meetup. A nice small group. There the founder and designer of Glide.TV presented his new gizmo or “couch mouse”. Glide recently presented at DEMO. Glide is a remote for your computer that makes the TV a whole new browsing experience. Or it’s a PC (or [...]

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