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Maybe Scoble got it wrong and Convofy isn’t just the future of work

The Americas by Peter Friedman 23rd Mar 5:38pm 3 Comments

Robert’s insight into Adobe’s next OS was probably right, perhaps he just didn’t take it far enough

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Lean Startup Methodology, Critical Design Theory: Separated at birth?

Grzegorz Pietruczuk 23rd May 1:12am 2 Comments

Lean startups use wild speculations about imaginary products to start conversations with customers aimed at eliciting real requirements. Critical Design aims to make things which provoke enlightening responses. Snap?

The post-screencast era

Debbie Todd 8th May 7:31pm

Screencast videos are almost all painfully harder to watch than they need to be: here’s our top 5 suggestions for making screencasts infinitely more watchable, mostly just by adding a little bit of post-production.

Turning churnalism back into journalism

Peter Friedman 30th Apr 1:59am

Covering an innovation story? Re-hashing a press release may be better than nothing, but doing it whilst maintaining full disclosure and explicitly adding your own specialist perspective? Journalism!

How can a professional economist help innovative startups?

Peter Friedman 8th Apr 11:35pm 1 Comment

What special skills can an economist bring to help innovative startups explore new business models more effectively?

A formidable new contender on the tech review scene

Peter Friedman 1st Apr 10:15pm

His YouTube channel alone is an eye-opener: is a new standard for consumer technology review videos being set?

Could Luton turn out to be the UK’s first Silicon Town?

Peter Friedman 1st Apr 7:54pm

Everyone’s looking for the UK’s next startup hotspot, but they might not be looking in the right place

Is video content heading for the holodeck?

Peter Friedman 5th Mar 9:24pm

It’s time to ask whether recent technological advances should make us revisit some long-abandoned dreams about interactive content

The contest for your living room gathers Steam

Peter Friedman 3rd Feb 3:04am

Apple TV, Google TV and let’s not forget Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft or Sony. Here at the iij, our money is on someone else.

Neurologist pivots to schoolteacher, then to teaching teachers neuroscience

Debbie Todd 21st Jan 10:22pm

She was seeing a 5 to 10x spike in teacher referrals for students with epilepsy, ADHD and OCD symptoms: mysteriously, those symptoms failed to show up outside the classroom. Did they come from changes to teaching methods? What she found made her switch careers, twice

The Achilles’ Heel of 3D Printing

Peter Friedman 30th Dec 8:29pm 30 Comments

Why additive manufacturing isn’t expected to take over large scale industrial production any time soon

Car healthcare arrangements? Incredibly better than our own

Debbie Todd 15th Dec 2:27am 1 Comment

From the ‘innovation priorities in serious need of attention’ department

MOOCs, cheap smartphones and dire poverty: about to flip the planet?

Grzegorz Pietruczuk 5th Dec 2:33am 11 Comments

Moore’s Law is rapidly putting the entire third world online. This fact, combined with MOOCs, may just turn the rest of the world upside down

It’s official: Apple has windows, Microsoft doesn’t

Peter Friedman 21st Nov 3:43am 2 Comments

Microsoft has ditched the window metaphor in order to make its OS feel like a mobile app, but Apple’s desktops, tablets and phones all still use a window metaphor

Will ‘talking to the camera’ continue to leave us mesmerised?

Peter Friedman 11th Nov 9:33pm

Video journalism may need to break the (TV) habit of a lifetime

Cultural literacy education theory humbled by games culture

Peter Friedman 2nd Nov 2:04am

A fashionable return to 19th century teaching methods is being challenged by astonishing findings on the impact of online games culture upon ‘hopeless’ struggling learners

Mel Brooks Producers as a model for lean startups

Grzegorz Pietruczuk 23rd Oct 7:25pm

Founders having an innovative idea, a fruitful search for a solution, generous early investors: what could possibly go wrong?

Rescuing serious journalism by productively reducing it to mindless fun

Debbie Todd 20th Oct 11:53pm

Few news editors would claim that they are not an endangered species, so even the most whimsical-sounding ideas are no longer quite so easily dismissed as being irrelevant or unnecessary

Instead of just scalable startups, a scalable startup ecosystem

Grzegorz Pietruczuk 11th Oct 8:38pm 2 Comments

‘Adopt lean startup methodologies’ is seen by many as the best advice to give startups, but how do we know if this advice is making a substantial positive contribution to the wider economy?

Batteries and 3D printer included

Peter Friedman 2nd Oct 11:01pm

Because giving away a free 3D printer with every big ticket hardware sale could ultimately cut support costs