Over at daringfireball John Gruber has an interesting piece on the challenges Nokia and especially their new CEO is facing. The main conclusion is that Nokia today is a Hardware company that needs to turn into a Software company in…
#momoMUC: some thoughts on yesterday’s Mobile Monday Munich
We had a very hot mobile monday yesterday with a perfect line-up of speakers and presentations as it turned out afterwards. Here are my personal thoughts and takes on this. Thomas Aidan Curran, CTO Software, Deutsche Telekom opened with a view…
It’s the Why that counts !
By accident I ran across this short book review of Erik Wesner’s “Success made simple” by John Moore over at Brand Autopsy. What struck me was the first paragraph of the summary about the success of the Amish people driven by…
Twitter: Serving of the Day
From his blog Seth Godin lead me to Lula’s Apothecary serving vegan ice cream in New York City. It’s not about their ice cream or business model, but they also publish their daily servings on Twitter. Every restaurant, bar, bakery…
Success in the Marshmallow Challenge
Here is another interesting talk from TED. Tom Wujec analyses the Marshmallow Challenge (www.marshmallowchallenge.com) and what it takes to succeed. [media id=2 ] . My three take-aways for successful innovation: prototyping and early feedback incentives do not improve the result,…
Robot emotions, no ?!
Just came across this interesting talk by Dennis Mong at TEDxNASA [media id=1 ] . Besides liking the overall talk, one very specific moment touched me. Roughly at 9:44 DARwIn 2a an autonomous robot scores his first goal in 2006.…
Push Notifications: Amazon, Apple and Android moving forward
Amazon just announced and released the next service on their Web Services / Cloud Service for Notifications (Amazon SNS), giving applications http- or email-notifications for free (up to a limit). At the recent keynote announcing the new iPhone OS 4…
Mobile Payment: Make your iPhone a Credit Card Reader
Mobile Payment has been a topic in the mobile telco industry for the last 10 years with several attempts on standardized APIs and a few successful implementation in some countries. Now this area of potential mobile operator unique value-add is…
The Beauty of Organization
Over at Design Thinking Tim Brown (Ideo’s CEO) asked the question about the beauty of organisations. I have started to think about a similar question concerning business models so I dropped a few thoughts as comments. Still working on finding…
Google meets the Telco Industry
Today I found time to watch the complete recording of Eric Schmidt’s (CEO of Google) appearance at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February. Already commented heavily as “Google got the heat from Telco” (here) I was surprised to see that in…