An interesting infographics in FastCompany on how bad bottled water is. Presented by Online Education Traveling in Asia this feels even worse as there is no tap water alternative to bottled water and it’s hard to imagine how much waste…
3 Learnings (and interesting question): “What if Steve Jobs was a telco CEO?”
What can telecommunication CEOs learn from Steve Jobs. Interesting question discussed at TM forum, based on an initial discussion on TelecomAsia. It has some good points in terms that Steve Jobs as the CEO of a telco operator could have made…
Social CRM – what is it ?
Interesting attempt on the definition of social CRM (and the evolution to get to it) by Oliver Blanchard at the BrandBuilder Blog: [Social] CRM is a business function supported by a system and technologies whose aims are to improve a company’s…
Two stages of simplicity
Simplicity and Zen-like elegance has been attributed as the key success factor of many products currently. Just coming out of a conversation about GUI design I realized that the push for simplicity has 2 challenges or stages. The first is…
The El Bulli of telco service
Just reading through the summer (actually the second) issue of M/I/S/C (Movement Intuition Structure Complexity) a publication of Idea Couture. An article about the experience and end of El Bulli, Ferran Adria’s fancy restaurant of molecular cooking and the future of food got…
When not “always on” breaks the user experience
When travelling back from Asia I tried to check the option of an earlier connecting flight with the new iPad App of my favorite airline. And guess what: it needs an Internet connection and in 10.000 m above the ground…
99$ HP TouchPad: A dent in the iPad universe ?
Interesting view in Forbes on the impact of 99$ HP TouchPad on the iPad future: “Why The Undead $99 TouchPad Might Portend The iPad’s Doom” However I can not really share the analysis and conclusion. Clearly the 99$ sale of the remaining TouchPads, which HP announced…
iMessage + Facetime = Skype ?
One of the more suprising announcements in Apple’s WWDC keynote was iMessage in iOS5. Besides the already mentioned fact that the operators will not like this replacement of their SMS services, especially as it seems to be seamlessly switching between…
Apple, the new / old Microsoft
Looking at all the new features Apple announced for iOS and MacOS during the WWDC keynote I had a strange feeling of deja vu. Microsoft has been known and accused of copying successfull 3rd party applications from the Windows ecosystem…
iPad changes the way we interact with computers
Just found this very insightful presentation at slideshare on how the iPad changed the way we interact with computers. Especially watching children interact with the iPad shows how great the UI and user experience is.