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Strategy Formulation

Martin Geddes on Ideas at #eComm

October 28, 2009

“Today we’ve got missed calls, tomorrow the phone will tell you why you should call back.” Martin Geddes, Head of Strategy, BT Design says in his keynote address at Ecomm Europe09, that he will present some ideas (his own).  The era of minutes in telephony is gone. Goodbye minutes, hello moments. When a global business [...]

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Blogger Relations

July 20, 2009

On Tuesday this last week I found myself in a learning lab at Fort Mason and then later out on the Marin headlands at…….. I’d been asked to be both fly on the wall and scribe. It was an opportunity to take a moment out, on my time and yet get exposure to thinking, reporting  [...]

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What could Apple see in Twitter? Are Tweets – MobileMe 3.0 Notifications? Is Apple really David?

May 7, 2009

I keep reading Apple + Twitter stories and no-one seems to have a clue why it might be a good idea… or a very bad idea… or simply unnecessary. What almost no one does… is tell me a story of why it might be a good idea. This is a crude little thought experiment. An [...]

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Bluetooth Keyboards for iPhone 3.0 Still Speculation – Is there a market?

March 19, 2009

One of the iPhone 3.0 features I’m most interested in is where the Bluetooth functionality they are unlocking is going to go. (Some think not that important.) My iPhone 3.0 now plays music on my car stereo! That’s huge from my perspective. Yet I have some yearning for the capability to use it with other [...]

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What’s the Mobile Future?

February 18, 2009

What would the lesson for mobile operators be if the world around us collapses economically. What lessons can be learned from other markets? How will users react? What and how should you prepare? I read yet another piece this morning (Jim Kunstler’s Forecast 2009) that captures an outlook similar to my own. We’re in a [...]

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Bankrupt – Nationalize — Plan – Protest

February 17, 2009

I’ve just spent more time reading blogs, catching up on the “we are really screwed views” and know we as a country, economy and people we face incredible challenges. I don’t usually post things like this and particularly two in a row. For frankly I can’t really know the facts. Quite separately yesterday I was [...]

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Social Collapse and Communications?

February 17, 2009

I’ve just been reading the Demetry Orlov’s Feb 13 speech via the Long Now Foundation. He tells a story of the collapse of Russia and poses a similar collapse for the US. He points to the importance of Food, Shelter, Transport and Security.  Stewart Brand’s summary is here. ClubOrlov: Social Collapse Best Practices His summary [...]

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Terrorism in my backyard.

December 1, 2008

I’ve been writing this post in my mind since 26/11 and the Mumbai Terrorist Attacks. These attacks hit me at my core and were assault on my values, my friends, my beliefs on how we should work and live together. With messages from @dina and on Twitter it hit my screen instantly. I was soon [...]

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The Future of Money

November 7, 2008

Sometimes reminders and special conversations come out of the blue – unexpectedly. I had one of those Phweet calls today with @transitioner which pointed me back to the work of an old friend Jean Francois Noubel which is perhaps more relevant than ever today. If nothing else just read the description for the conference and [...]

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The Mobile Social World of Presence

May 29, 2008

I’ve been thinking recently about my connectivity and mobility and one of the reasons I keep coming back to it is the dissonance I have when looking at the two mobiles I use most often. There’s now been many comparisons made between the Nokia N95 and the iPhone. Both best in class so to speak. [...]

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Open Flow – Finding Meaning in New Connections

May 29, 2008

Next week on Tuesday June 3rd Kevin Werbach is hosting a pre Supernova conference call about the meaning of openness in a networked world. This could be an interesting discussion and pull in quite a wide group of people. Details to obtain the dial in number are below. On Tuesday, June 3rd, from 9am-11am PT [...]

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Take Your Team to India

May 21, 2008

Yesterday I posted this blog Emerging Markets and Mobile Impact on the Supernova2008 ConversationHub and I wanted to share it here too. My interest in doing Market Research into Indian opportunities is not limited to mobile, or technology. Banks, Financial Institutions, Healthcare, Consumer Products etc. It just traces to the size of the opportunity and [...]

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Is iPhone Lust Global?

May 15, 2008

While recently in India, Dina and I explored the iPhone factor. We saw it in the wild (eg. people using them) and talked to 18 to 24 year old leading-edge mobile users in Mumbai. We were both left a little shocked! While focus groups aren’t statistical research and Mumbai is hardly an Apple stronghold; the [...]

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iPod vTouch – September 2008?

May 14, 2008

I’m keep hearing about the technology; WiMax vs 3G vs WiMax, Skype or SIP etc. Andy wrote a post suggesting that Video would be a key component defining what next in IP communications. That’s getting closer to why it might matter. There are comments here, here, here, and here. None of these really tell me [...]

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Modding the 3G iPhone – Cracking the Case

May 12, 2008

Many have been predicting for weeks iPhone Black as the 3G version. The latest flurry over the weekend when apparently AT&T listed it on their website. Oops! The problem with all these predictions is there is no rationale other than it is cool. Who’s asking why? Why aren’t they? I believe the mobile handset market [...]

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