Archive : Design

Siri, the “secret weapon” of the iPhone 4S, builds on advances started with the iPhone and expanded with the iPad, finally opening the door to enabling us to eliminate the 19th century keyboard from everything we do.

Everyone is talking the rapid growth of the tablet market. In the midst of this explosion, something big is changing right underneath our noses: millions of us are re-wiring how we interact with computers.

Thoughts and ideas combining sci-fi, Steampunk, Eric Schmidt, George Orwell, instant gratification and the overflowing email inbox…

Location-based services offer amazing future possibilities. However, right now only early adopters are its primary users. Why? Because many mainstream consumers do not trust them. However, that addition of one simple feature to smart phones can change all of this.

MySpace, one of the original big social media players, is on the sales block for $50-$200 million. Groupon, founded years later, is now preparing a $15-BILLION IPO. What did Groupon do so differently to create 100x more value using social media?

Ten years ago, ASPs (application service providers) were the rage. Five years ago, SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) exploded. Lately, everyone is talking about cloud computing. Countless companies claim to provide one, some, or all of these. Some aspects of ASP, SaaS and cloud computing are very similar; some are very different. How can you tell the difference? [...]