Category Technology (general)
Who profits from user-created content?
Paul Gardien of Philips Design on the importance of meaning in technological innovation
Nine different ways of turning off Windows Vista
Google 2.0 and its growing power [The Mercury News]
Nokia’s Jan Chipchase on mobile TV and personal experiences
European Market Research Event – Day 2, afternoon
Mike Spang, Kodak Mike Spang has the long job title: “Business Research Director, Document Imaging, Corporate Business Research, Eastman Kodak Company”. He spoke about how Kodak went about creating a satisfying global corporate web experience. To put it in somewhat…
France Telecom on disability and innovation
Yaniv Steiner speaking on rapid prototyping at World Usability Day Italy
Last Tuesday people across the globe attended World Usability Day gatherings and events, an initiative promoted by a professional association called the Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA). Experientia partner Michele Visciola is the president of UPA-Italy, and in that capacity he…
European Market Research Event – Day 1, afternoon
During the afternoon sessions of the European Market Research Event, I attended presentations by Clive Grinyer of France Telecom Orange, Sarah Pearson of ACB/University of Sussex and Francesco Cara of Nokia. There is also a short write-up of a talk…
European Market Research Event – Day 1, morning
Experientia interviews Anne Kirah, senior design anthropologist at Microsoft
Anne Kirah (bio) is senior design anthropologist at Microsoft’s MSN Customer Design Centre. In this interview, she talks on the importance of taking off your blinders and focusing on the real lives of real people. She discusses her work at…
Making the case for ease, elegance and endurance
Experientia shows gesture-based interface at international art fair
The People will be heard: Interactive technology in public spaces
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…
Goodbye, mobile phone bills. Hello, advertising. [International Herald Tribune]
Pitching itself as the world’s first advertising-supported phone company, a Finnish company called Blyk plans to roll out a free mobile phone service next summer aimed at 16- to 24-year- olds, first in Britain and then elsewhere in Europe, writes…