These require no introduction. Rule #1 Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anything else. If you love your work, you’ll be out there every day trying to do the best you can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you - like a fever. (more…)
Entertaible concept: combination of electronic gaming and traditional board games. The Entertaible concept is a tabletop gaming platform that marries traditional multi-player board and computer games in a uniquely simple and intuitive way. Entertaible comprises a 32-inch horizontal LCD, sophisticated touch screen-based multi-object position detection, and all supporting control electronics. (more…)
Thomson Financial has begun replacing humans with computers to write stories in the newsroom. The computers work so fast that an earnings story can be released within 0.3 seconds of the company making results public. You can’t break a story much faster than that! (more…)
A nice article in The New York Times Business section on customer research: Get Out of That Rut and Into the Shower (I can’t vouch for the title though). I really liked the fact that this brief article steered clear of the usual academic rhetoric about anthropology and ethnographic methods. Instead, just a couple of quick anecdotes that illustrate why it’s so important to get out and observe your customers. (more…)
Jennifer Rice over at Brand Mantra posted some interesting thoughts on “Innovation and brand extensions.” She was responding to a readers who asked if Amazon’s recent performance problems were due to brand extension. (more…)