Fitbit – keeping (f)it simple
Interesting little device I saw today (that am not affiliated with), which sits on the cusp of mobile, healthcare / wellness and data-as-a-consumer-service trend, and does it as a combined device+service, rather than just an app: Fitbit. It has an inbuilt accelerometer to measure your steps, or your sleep patterns, and spits it out to [...]
please, stop the killing, and make babies
I saw yesterday that we launched a very nice looking phone the n97, but was dismayed that it was immediately branded an iphone killer. At least we had the good sense not to officially invoke comparisons, but we didn’t discourage them. Being described as a category killer is bad for two reasons. First, it just [...]
Farewell to Bob Iannucci, Nokia CTO
Got back from honeymoom to discover that our CTO Bob Iannucci has stepped down - great shame. Was lucky enough to work with Bob on a number of projects, most recently the various internal Nokia2.0 innovation activities which helped drive the ‘Internet company’ thinking and cool projects like Beta Labs as well as a bunch of stuff still [...]
Coming to America. With thanks to the US Embassy.
(Pic from National Geographic, link embedded) This blog has been ambling along with no particular theme – an aide memoire of things that make me go aha or err. But I have noticed within me in the last few weeks an urge to reach for the keyboard when confronted with especially good service. And for [...]
Happy New Year – and a resolution
A new year and new resolutions. They seem to have a similar theme – get fit, get better at my job, and do more for charity. Don’t have a particularly good record at achieving them, but I see it as a war of attrition – in the long run I’ll grind them down. This year [...]
Nokia’s innovation story, Part 1 – key trends
Blimey, this is turning into being quite a tome. It looks like there’s going to be two parts to this story – first, some of the key trends that set the context for the discussion, and second a selection of the innovation activities that we have been working on recently to ensure we accomodate these [...]
Economist Conferences: how they all should be
My colleague, fellow brit, sailing enthusiast and co-conspirator on some dangerously interesting ideas, John Clarke, is the CIO of Nokia. Unfortunately for him his role means he has real customers to keep happy, vendors to whip, and crises to solve. Fortunately for me, a perfect work storm hit him this week, and he had to [...]
Pablos comes and stirs things up
“Pablos” is quite a well-known hacker, security expert and futurist, who I saw give a great presentation at the DLD Conference earlier this year, so invited him to come to Helsinki and talk to Nokia. He’s worked on numerous cool projects, such as OQO and the hackerbot – which drives up to people with open [...]
- Thiel on distribution. This is particularly vital in the senior market http://t.co/FgNaIFg0
- I wonder if this new gesture technology will be as big as #nintendo #wii in senior homes? http://t.co/MtTA7xfK
- I checked in at La Boulangerie Patisserie (1909 Union St) on #Yelp http://t.co/aYpnnc2d
- 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
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Some stuff I read
- Aging in Place Thoughtful commentary about growing impact of longevity disruption
- Conrad Egusa Practical advice for getting startups off the ground
- Mobihealth News Brian Dolan’s excellent comprehensive guide to mobile healthcare news
- Quantified Self Extracing and making sense of data about ourselves
- Tim Ferris Life hacking guru, provider of the most value out of any book I’ve read, and a genuinely good guy.
- Venture Hacks Useful how tos for startups
Some stuff about me
- 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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