nick gonios
what’s flat, has a long tail and is meshed? our small yet complex world!!Archive for Uncategorized
Back to the ‘localsmiths’ production with Open Source Manufacturing
Edge is Core – Consultant urges bee model for business success
Microsoft Surface – new possibilities come alive!!
I was amazed with the iphone User Interface, Microsoft latest product Surface has blown me away!!!
IKEA here we come……..
Mobile Carriers’ Gates are being broken….eventually!
What a great moment in the mobile world!
Some of you maybe aware of the fact that I have being running a mobile solutions company (Smooth Mobility) for close to 1 year now with continuous changes to the business model and initiatives due to many reasons. One of the major issues has been the “gravity” and perception the mobile carriers have with the general consumer and business markets when it comes to the range of products and services available.
For a long time, I’ve been talking about the fact that carriers have unfortunately being using the marketing “muscle” to actually not doing anything real proactively to drive higher data volumne growth across their networks. The “poster child” in the business mobile market has been Blackberry yet this is only the tip of the iceberg with respect to data usage and user value.
An announcement this week by three (3) in the UK with its X-Series bundle and pricing has created the chnage needed to drive user adoption and value for mobile data services in my view. Check out the press release 3’s X-Series and also 3’s great promotional site for the X-Series bundle.
I really believe this will take off based on human usage and behaviouron traditional mobile voice and simple data services. Those capped plans have really given users a sense of “sleep at night” factor comfort and I see this doing the same thing.
Let’s see what other carriers do next.
Windows and the next frontier…no devices!
Many of you who know me have a passion for good design (have a real passion for industrial design and architecture) and came across this site about a design competition sponsored by Microsoft to find the next great device design.
It seems like a great success as an event and I really enjoyed the video clip depicting, in Microsoft view, the world of tomorrow!
http://www.startsomethingpc.com – select the flash cube and go to see video link.
Imagine a world with no devices and Microsoft Windows all around us – in the air!!
Wow.
Newspapers vs News……
Attending another great Fourth Estate Domain Networking Night with guest speaker Jack Matthews (Fairfax Digital CEO). What came out of this great session tonight for me was Jack’s recurring focus on the Fairfax brand(s) value proposition vs web site “eyeball”/visitor targets. I seem to agree with him with respect to brand experiences online (seeing I’m quite passionate about this) and it should be every media company’s imperative to build and drive long term brand value vs. short term revenue gains.
In simple terms – who know where MySpace will be in 5 years time? We are already seeing MySpace unique visitors (UV) per month reduced in recent times. Is this a sign?
Great points Jack! Interested to see what the new “watch this space” announcements will be in the next few weeks!
