Today sees the launch of OpenIDEO – a genuinely innovative web platform and I’m very proud to have been a part of its development. OpenIDEO activates the global community of creative people to solve some of the world’s tough challenges. ...Read More
Something interesting happened at a recent gathering of like-minded technophiles: I put my rather banged-up and decrepit silver-backed iPhone on the table (screen facing up to hide my shame among the flock of shiny new black iPhones) and someone pointed ...Read More
Check out Jesse Schell's awesomely inspiring video on the future of 'gaming' delivered at the DICE conference. Here are a couple of juicy points: * There are more Facebook Farmville players than there are Twitter accounts (that is 80 million players on ...Read More
Facebook status is a great tool for holding a conversation when you're doing some lightning-fast user research. What other ready-made tools do you use to source insights from your crowd? Read More
We've begun a series of mini design exhibits curated by the multidisciplinary designers at IDEO London. The first 3 in the series represents interaction, communications and industrial design disciplines. I hope in the coming months we'll be able to showcase ...Read More
NPR has a great podcast on what credit card companies are doing to try and predict whether you'll be a bad credit risk. Credit card companies are basically taking your purchase history and data mining it (in a similar way ...Read More
After reading this New York Times article on the Netflix Prize , I thought it might be cool to register and play with some movie data. Netflix is offering a chunk of their movie rating database (2 GB worth) for download, ...Read More
At some point in recent years, the Internet got away from me. My gmail inbox filled to 7,866 unread messages, I let my google news reader bloat to 1000+ unread blog posts, and a dozen lifelong friends have poked my ...Read More
