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Strategic Foresight

Netflix – Misses a Convo Opp – Blows off customers.

July 13, 2011

Yesterday Netflix announced new pricing. A 60% increase in the cost of getting DVD’s. Many complained that Netflix failed to provide an adequate rationale for the move. More than 5000 comments on their blog post. All resoundingly negative. And there’s a thread #dearnetflix on Twitter. However, as a Netflix user it’s obvious to me why [...]

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Gripe – word of mouth is powerful – Making Complaints Count

January 17, 2011

For years I’ve been interested in crowdsourcing complaints and how P2P systems can aggregate and shift power. Today @mrblog (David Beckemeyer) introduced me to Gripe a solution that’s using “word-of-mouth power to share public complaints or cheers that get heard!” The team at Gripe has done a great job! If you look at their resumes [...]

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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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iPad Observation #2 Content and Reading – Reinventing the Paper

April 5, 2010

I’m typing this post on my iPad using my “mac” bluetooth keyboard. I’ve done very little typing on it otherwise. Why? Well I was told it was for consumption and so I’ve been “consuming”. The thing is I’m consuming video – catching up on TV like Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution. (Yep I like it. I [...]

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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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Will You Pay $9.99 for the iPhone 4.0 upgrade? I bet you will

January 4, 2010

Since the first iPod Touch Apple has been charging Touch users for upgrades. $4.95 to get it to the latest 3.1 software. See Apple – iPod touch – Get great new features with the 3.1 software. My guess is it is now time to charge all the millions of iPhone users for the next generation [...]

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Supernova 2009 – What’s Next in the Network Age? – begins tomorrow in SF. CU there #sn09

November 30, 2009

Supernova starts tomorrow and I’m planning to attend and do a little blogging while there A few examples of the topics to be covered below. I know many of the speakers, have done for years and that scares me. On the plus side many of those presenting/talking etc remain on the leading edge (that’s their [...]

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Futures Thinking – @cascio Writes Three Short Articles on How to Think Futures

November 30, 2009

Jamais Cascio (@cascio)a dedicated futurist has written three short articles on Futures Thinking that have appeared in Fast Company. He writes “It’s quite an enjoyable job, as it allows me to indulge my easily-distracted curiosity about the world. If you have read any of my previous posts on scenarios you will see we come from [...]

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Gartner – From Wow to Shallow Thinking on Mobile Futures

November 20, 2009

First seen by me in ConsumerReports on my iPhone! Gartner has produced a list to suggest where is mobile going “Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Consumer Mobile Applications for 2012” I’ve cut down the details – left some of their comments and added some of my own thoughts. There are a few additional predictions in [...]

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Is this really 2015? What would your Scenario be?

November 11, 2009

Just imagine you woke up in 2015. What would you be doing? How would you be interacting with technology? “Nokia – life in 2015″ When I think out six years to 2015 I expect my interactions with technology will be different, I expect we will be describing different types of behaviors. I also find single [...]

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Smoke Signals – Is it time to burn our telephone numbers?

November 6, 2009

Just for fun… The Chinese, Greeks, Romans and American Indians all used “smoke” to communicate complex messages. Todayʼs smoke signals may just be Twitter or another micro- blogging service. What implications does this have for mobile communications and escalating the conversation? For sender and receiver? How are our signaling patterns changing? A new type of [...]

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Mark Rolston Thinking Beyond the Handset #eComm

October 28, 2009

Mark Rolston – Chief Creative Officer, FrogDesign. Thinking Beyond the Handset. 1. The first phone phenomena. The handset has gone from being a device to a window to a software and network experience. The object has lost it’s functional identity. So it can now be anything you want it to be. So now you can [...]

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Morten Hjerde – Mobile as a TOOL! Vodafone #ecomm

October 28, 2009

Morten Hjerde is User Experience Manager at Vodafone Group. He talks of a paradigm shift in how users are changing how they think about their phone. How people generally think about their devices? Shows a picture of a bed. It looks like a bed. How is it we can all recognize this as a bed. [...]

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Jame Enck – On the Good News (Reality Check) #ecomm

October 28, 2009

James Enck. What are the main themes over the next 30 to 40 years? The Bad News: Today we have stressed national budgets, traumatized consumers. High corporate dept rates, and the recovery rate is 1/2 the historical average. (Glad there is some realism here!) The recovery is about doing things differently. The future will not [...]

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