July 2009
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Platforms in the hardware space
We truly live in an age of platforms. It is fascinating to see how smartly designed architectures can inspire the creation of all sorts of useful, and useless, applications.
In the software world, the examples are endless. Arguably, the true value of twitter today lies in the ecosystem of applications that have been built to help twitter users get more from their experience. Boxee’s...
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WatchSome more fine work in response to a creativity brief, this time by Matt Robinson and Tom Wrigglesworth at Kingston University. They were responding to a Hewlett Packard brief looking to demonstrate that their new printer range is capable of achieving anything that the creative mind can achieve itself.
Reminds me a lot of the AKQA microwave Christmas carol from last year. Lovely to watch.
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Free and Gladwell
Its been interesting reading through the back and forth that has developed this week around Chris Anderson’s new book, Free. Its an important book that explores the concept that in the future, the best business models will offer products for free.
The reality is that ‘free’ is already becoming the norm, which is pretty handy for Chris because it gave him plenty of examples to...