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Futurelab shares a very interesting study on mobile...

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:09:24 -0500

Futurelab shares a very interesting study on mobile retail..

Based on a visual survey we have done in the Benelux, Germany, Greece, Romania, Russia and Ukraine, we have asked our non-mobile retail specialists to look at the mobile retail situation. We did the trend analysis. Compared best practices. We talked to consumers. We organized an internal think tank. And rather than just say what is wrong, we formulated 7 pragmatic steps that anyone in mobile retailing can take to start improving the customer experience and profitability of their stores.

via 7 New Profit Opportunities in Mobile Retail | Futurelab – An international marketing strategy consultancy

"Design Based on Trends, Not What’s Trendy Fifteen years ago when Ziba Design managers..."

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:45:58 -0500

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Design Based on Trends, Not What’s Trendy

Fifteen years ago when Ziba Design managers interviewed trends experts for a new research department, we were always struck by a commonality among the many candidates: siloed thinking. A trends specialist, for example, knew that wood was “in” that year in the auto industry and faithfully showed wood detail on all the products in her portfolio. Like her, most of the trends experts we met with had knowledge of what was trendy in a given industry, but didn’t connect the dots across industries and cultures.

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- Design Based on Trends, Not What’s Trendy - Advertising Age - CMO Strategy

FedEx unveils Senseaware, a drop-in sensor for packages that...

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:07:00 -0500

FedEx unveils Senseaware, a drop-in sensor for packages that monitors everything from nasty falls to boxes being opened.

via If the Delivery Guy Drops Your Package, Senseaware Updates You Online | Design & Innovation | Fast Company

Yesterday, in Mark’s post about new technology that could...

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:05:34 -0500

Yesterday, in Mark’s post about new technology that could one day generate power from slow moving currents in rivers and oceans, commenter SamSam wondered whether “any weird and new generators ever get out of the lab and start providing meaningful amounts of power?” It’s a fair question, and I think a lot more technologies are announced than do (or ever will) make it to market. Partly, that’s just the nature of invention. Partly, it has to do with the fact that it takes a long time to develop this stuff and we’re still kind of at the beginning of the alternative generation industry. But sometimes, the crazy ideas do work, at least well enough to move out of the lab and into beta-testing. For instance, today, Norway’s state-owned utility opened a prototype generator that produces electricity via osmosis.

via Weird, New Electricity Generator Takes Baby Step Into Real World - Boing Boing

THIS IS WHY 1982* IS NOT A BLOG, IT’S A...

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:53:00 -0500

THIS IS WHY 1982* IS NOT A BLOG, IT’S A RE-BLOG:

REBLOGGIN” REVOLUTION

How taking others” online content for your own use is no longer considered stealing

Way back when GeoCities and 56k were respected terms and not the punch lines of tech geek jokes, plenty of website coders got rich by stealing content and throwing it online with a few advertisements. But then Web surfers and search engines revolted against them, making recycled content a taboo practice (and the bottom of search queries). Times have changed though, as recently we’ve been seeing a huge boom in reblogging, with online aggregators and digests that resemble glorified bookmark pages having become accepted - and in the case of Tumblr’s “reblog” button, welcomed - forms of blogging.

via Trend Central - Today’s Article

"“The recession has certainly caused online shoppers to alter their purchasing habits and online..."

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:43:48 -0500

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“The recession has certainly caused online shoppers to alter their purchasing habits and online retailers are now also facing a severe slowdown in newcustomers. Our report suggests that retailers must turn their attention to driving repeat business – shifting marketing spend away from attracting new customers and instead focussing it on adding value for their existing customer base. Those retailers that try to win on price alone will be left behind but those that clearly offer extra value, and communicate it upfront to the customer will be ahead of the game.”

- Neil Sunders , Verdict Consulting.

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- > Download report .pdf

Ten online retail trends for the next decade — Welcome to Netimperative.com

In this episode, VBS.tv travels to New Hampshire to hang out...

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:29:17 -0500

In this episode, VBS.tv travels to New Hampshire to hang out with Ralph Baer. He tells them about his past and how he came to be one of the most important figures in video gaming history.

via Ralph Baer and his All-Purpose Boxes - MOTHERBOARD | VBS.TV

HP Labs has announced a project they’ve dubbed the CeNSE...

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:19:26 -0500

HP Labs has announced a project they’ve dubbed the CeNSE (Central Nervous System for the Earth) - their ambitious attempt to build a planet-wide infrastructure for a future Internet of Things. (via HP Labs’ Central Nervous System for the Earth - PSFK

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To promote Louisiana’s Voodoo Experience music festival,...

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:28:26 -0500

To promote Louisiana’s Voodoo Experience music festival, New Orleans agency Zehnder Communications built a custom augmented reality application for use with Layar. Users could find information about performances, attractions, and services by simply looking through their smartphone’s camera.

via Interview: Zehnder on Voodoo Augmented Reality Concert Experience « MobileBehavior

Instead of organizing food reviews by restaurant, Foodspotting’s...

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:45:28 -0500

Instead of organizing food reviews by restaurant, Foodspotting’s community catalogs individual dishes.

via Foodspotting: A Local, Visual Food Guide - PSFK

Poking. Friending. De-friending. Messaging. Posting. Tagging....

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:43:14 -0500

Poking. Friending. De-friending. Messaging. Posting. Tagging. Liking. Ignoring.

frog Senior Interaction Designer Kevin Hutchinson confesses that our social power is evolving due to our presence on online social networks because we are able to find, reach, and communicate with people at a greater speed. But with this new amplified social connectivity comes a new set of expectations for increased engagement. Social networking etiquette is still evolving and it can be difficult to decipher what is appropriate in this hyper-social online space.

Hutchinson believes that, we as social creatures, should take some cues from other forms of communication. You wouldn’t text, call, or knock on someone’s door several times a day to tell them how much you enjoyed what they were reading, doing, or saying, so why comment or “like”, everything they post on their Facebook wall. Right? How does one create social boundaries on their networks and how do we not take it so, er, personally when someone does not befriend us?

via The Art of the Unfriend | Blog | design mind

The White Briefs takes social and environmental responsibility...

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:17:53 -0500

The White Briefs takes social and environmental responsibility and delivers a high quality product in all aspects. Organic farming is a production method that not only respects human health and the environment, but is also a model of sustainable development, that improves the quality of the resources of local communities, helping them face global competition.

via David Report blog » The White Briefs

Inspiration is not something you use, but something you allow to...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:05:23 -0500

Inspiration is not something you use, but something you allow to exist from within.

Think and act! Now!

Remember NIKE: Just do it. :)

via Inspired Talks – 10 Simple Ways to Instantly Boost Your Inspiration | Inspired Magazine

Wise media learning how to survive the revolution. The...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:02:45 -0500

Wise media learning how to survive the revolution.

The Innovation Portfolio is a place where The New York Times showcases some of their best interactive creations (which are mostly pretty dam good). The pieces are represented by color-coded bubbles grouped in Virtual, Multimedia, Personal Tools, Interactive Graphics, User-Submitted and Applications. Users simply hover over a bubble and click the preview to watch the feature explained as a short video. Nice work, nice showcase.

> NYTimes Innovation Portalio.

via Rubbishcorp ® .::. New York Times | Innovation Portfolio :

On being asked how she defined ‘cool’: ‘When...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:51:07 -0500

On being asked how she defined ‘cool’: ‘When something becomes cool, it almost immediately becomes uncool, it’s like a vicious circle, except it’s not that vicious, it’s just a circle’

15 year old female, Liverpool

(via Ruby Pseudo Wants a Word: 23 things on the 23rd - some of my favorite sentences from our research with the network…)

How to use Facebook to launch a store. (Prizes...

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:59:29 -0500

How to use Facebook to launch a store.

(Prizes required)

Rubbishcorp ® .::. IKEA Vs Facebook :

A UK-based social initiative, Ctrl.Alt.Shift is a formally...

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:10:03 -0500

A UK-based social initiative, Ctrl.Alt.Shift is a formally incorporated social movement for global justice. In an interesting departure from traditional anti-establishment associations, Ctrl.Alt.Shift locates its arena of action as much within prevailing systems as outside them. This approach has come to define millennial movements, in fact; these days the phrase “by any means necessary” could refer equally to change initiated within the boardroom or protests led by bullhorn from the street below.

via Ctrl.Alt.Shift | Brain Pickings

Remember Choose Your Own Adventure gamebooks, the interactive...

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:03:31 -0500

Remember Choose Your Own Adventure gamebooks, the interactive fiction hit of the 80’s? Designer Christian Swinehart is dissecting the genre in CYOA — an incredibly ambitious atomic-level structural analysis of a dataset of 12 such books, visualizing all the possible reader paths within the narrative. (via Nonsequential Narratives: Hypertextual Books | Brain Pickings

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Intelligent Life – the Economist’s quarterly magazine – has...

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:49:51 -0500

Intelligent Life – the Economist’s quarterly magazine – has asked contemporary designers, curators and authors to pick some of the styles and items that have defined the past decade, beginning with 2000. While Apple’s iPod/iPhone seems to be pretty ubiquitous, some other themes emerge – positive and negative.

Intelligent Life: “THE i-DECADE”

via What The Past 10 Years Have Looked Like - PSFK

1158: Cada siete años, el diseñador Stefan Sagmeister cierra su...

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:18:24 -0500

1158:

Cada siete años, el diseñador Stefan Sagmeister cierra su estudio de Nueva York durante un año sabático para rejuvenecer y refrescar su panorama creativo. Explica el valor del tiempo libre, a menudo pasado por alto, y muestra los innovadores proyectos inspirados en su estadía en Bali.

Via TED