Nokia World: Geoffrey Moore on "Dealing with Darwin"
Famous innovation thinker Geoffrey “Crossing the Chasm” Moore gave a lightspeed presentation about some of his more recent innovation ideas, which he has put in his book – Dealing with Darwin. Here are my raw notes: In today’s market: innovation is the key to differentiation. Dialogue around innovation has not been very articulate. Signal to [...]
Nokia World: OPK: Just call me Mr Internet
The two themes that dominated CEO OPK’s presentation were “Internet”, followed closely by “consumer benefits”. In line with Keith Pardy’s evocative description in the introduction of our vision to ‘connect people with what matters to them’, this first keynote was a fairly powerful message (to customers, partners and I suspect employees themselves) that the Internet [...]
Nokia World: Counting down to quite a party
[I've been asked to be an 'official Nokia blogger' at the forthcoming Nokia World blog in Amsterdam on 28&29 November. Will cross-post those posts to this blog too.] Despite having been at Nokia three years, this is my first time attending what used to be known as NMC (Nokia Mobility Conference) and I’m looking forward [...]
Apple can sleep soundly in Chicago
Chicago SunTimes’ Andy Ihnatko takes his gloves off in reviewing Zune: Yes, Microsoft’s new Zune digital music player is just plain dreadful. I’ve spent a week setting this thing up and using it, and the overall experience is about as pleasant as having an airbag deploy in your face. “Avoid,” is my general message. The [...]
Nokia web2mobile competition
I rather like the title, and the motivation behind this event, launched to coincide with new Nokia Research Center location opened up in Palo Alto. I visited it 2 weeks ago – very chic, and a stone’s throw from Stanford Uni.
MARA: Filtering real world via the screen
Technology Review: Hyperlinking Reality via Phones From Technology Review: A Nokia research project could one day make it easier to navigate the real world by superimposing virtual information on an image of your surroundings. The new software, called Mobile Augmented Reality Applications (MARA), is designed to identify objects viewed on the screen of a camera [...]
No dotmobi love songs from Opera
Opera CEO says DotMobi is a ‘total waste of time’, according to SciFi.com, Von Tetzchner thinks that’s stupid. He told me that the site and the browsershould work together to present Web content optimized for whatever device you’reusing. “There should be one Internet,” he says. “What if you’re using anotherdevice? Should we have .gameconsole? .car? [...]
So this is what Marko’s been up to
Former colleague and head of design strategy for Nokia Marko Ahtisaari left a few weeks ago, and has now re-emerged in this interesting sounding startup: Blyk is a pan-European free mobile operator for young people, funded by advertising. We’re launching first in the UK market in mid-2007, with other markets to follow.Blyk is an innovative [...]
- key to change is finding passion. but i wonder how david sobel actually got his fisherman to use his passion to deliver change? #mh2012
- "A good predictor of longevity is not just whether you're getting social support, but whether you're GIVING support" #mh2012
- Congrats Amos! @memotext @ourlark
- RT @jslorentzen: #MH2012 rajiv kumar: map your population via email traffic (or other method) to find key influencers > target for in ...
- likewise @grapealope. thanks for the link. let's keep talking about sensors and big ideas.
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- 2007/03 – Corporate Wikis Go Viral (Business Week) Two European companies show how the collaborative practice spreads from early adopters of wikis at work to become mainstream business tools
- 2007/03 – Recommended Reading (Wall Street Journal) Mr. Johnston is one of the brightest minds in the business of connecting people. His insights spring from working on Nokia strategy from London. The site focuses largely on the direction of the new economy and lets readers profit from the insights of some
- 2008/04 – Mobility and location (The Economist) – reg reqd MICHAEL HALBHERR was driving from Berlin to Budapest the other day when he passed what looked like an empty field. The fact that his mobile phone stayed quiet annoyed him. Here he was, speeding by the site of Napoleon’s great victory at Austerlitz, and no
- 2008/11 – Innovation in America: A Gathering Storm (The Economist) Confronted by Asia’s technological rise and the financial crisis, corporate America is losing its self-confidence. It should not
- 2009/06 – MBA Tales: Searching for Work in a Recession (Business Week) For the Class of 2009, landing a job may seem next to impossible, but for the Class of 2002, flexibility and persistence paid big dividends
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