Having attended several conferences throughout the fall, I seemed to get hit with the same two product development points over and over: The product is the platform (and sometimes the process) The platform allows consumption, production, and sharing The platform caters to the idea, brilliantly covered by Clay Shirky, that people don’t just want to… Read More
Options, options, options. Should developers of content products take a lesson from the Obama campaign, transition, and, hopefully, the administration? The lesson: Give people what they want, where they want it. Options people had to monitor the campaign included:• The Obama iPhone application (campaign related)• BarackObama.com • Twitter • Text messages• Facebook If you’re… Read More
Earlier in September I attended the Global Information Industry Summit (GIIS). In one of the sessions David Nicholas, Director, School of Library Archive and Information Studies (SLAIS) at University College London presented a study the College had done on “the digital fingerprints” left behind by digital natives browsing the Internet. As I wrote on the… Read More
My son told me he hated poetry. I showed him this. He wanted to show his teacher but YouTube is blocked at school. That’s too bad. It was a poem he liked!… Read More
Colin Hughes, Managing Director of The Guardian Professional presented the keynote at GIIS Thursday morning. To understand The Guardian, Colin believes you must understand its roots. John Edward Taylor, after witnessing the Peterloo Massacre, feared that Parliament would not get an accurate report from the press. He wrote an account himself and got his report… Read More
Ammy Vogtlander, Managing Director of BlueInsights, participated in a panel discussion on copyright at the Global Information Industry Summit (GIIS). According to Ammy, networks of people with common interests (like LinkedIn), information sharing communities (like YouTube or SharePoint), and groups that organize information (like Connotea) are merging. That’s why she co-founded BlueInsights. As these groups… Read More
Wednesday, the Global Information Industry Summit (GIIS), started with a keynote by Hugo Dixon, Editor in Chief and Chairman of Breakingviews.com (BV), a fully electronic publication of real time financial analysis. “For me content is indeed King,” says Hugo and he believes in charging for it. BV sells team and enterprise subscriptions, can boast 5… Read More
Creating an execution plan forces us to consider options and alternatives, weigh current information, and make decisions. Without perfect information, however, those decisions are an educated guess. Today, with fast moving markets, the information explosion, and people getting stretched thinner as “project resources”, priorities are in constant flux and plans that span beyond days are… Read More