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Category Innovation
Digital utopia
The Guardian magazine devoted to Web 2.0
Weekend, the colour magazine of the British newspaper The Guardian, is devoted to web 2.0. It includes a lead feature by award-winning novelist John Lanchester, which doesn’t contain a lot of new insights, but provides a good overview of the…
Why the “online office” won’t work for now
Philips Research magazine provides deeper look at simplicity commitment
The future of technology, according to Motorola
The impact of Ajax on user experience
12 consumer values to drive technology-related product and service innovations
Third generation Living Labs: the quest for user-centred mobile services
Faced with a context of a vast and still growing supply of relatively cheap and effective information and communications technology (ICT) and stimulated demand for new solutions to achieve mobility, even seamless mobility, Prof Jan Annerstedt and Sascha Haselmayer raise…
The Economist on mobile telephony and banking
“Most South Africans do not have bank accounts. But most do have mobile phones,” writes The Economist today in a story about mobile telephony and banking with a particular focus on Africa. “About half a million South Africans now use…
Knowledge@Wharton on getting to the heart of the customer
Making computing a people science [Computer News Middle East]
Book: Worldchanging – A User’s Guide for the 21st Century
“A new book—an outgrowth of a popular Web site—focuses on simple and complex innovations that could solve global crises,” writes Reena Jana in Business Week. “The three-year-old Web site Worldchanging.com has quickly established itself as a source for original, sophisticated…
Launching event: European Network of Living Labs
‘Presence’ technology building cell phones to anticipate your mind
Style, function and the imperfect cellphone [International Herald Tribune]
Innovative user interface design [uiGarden]
We Are Smarter Than Me
David Polinchock on creating a retail brand experience
In an article in the premiere issue of Marketing at Retail, David Polinchock of the Brand Experience Lab looks at the key developments today in creating a compelling, authentic and relevant retail brand experience. Polinchock discusses the growing trend of…