Google The Next Facebook & Apple

Okay, come on ideathinker that is the worst linkbait attempt ever; why
would Google be the next anything, and even throwing in the apples and
the bookers there for good measure!

Bare with me for a second and I'll explain, but first let me comment
on my heading: Yes, I agree, but it's ment to be funny as I grown
tired of all those "the next whatever" a long time ago (but that's for
another post)...

Now let me get to the apple and facebook and maybe you'll see what I mean.

What's apple known for (except the hardware)?
A great user experience (UX), and a tightly integrated echosystem.

What is Facebook Known For?
Beeing a defacto platform for connecting and sharing your life with
friends, also in a restrictive but unison design.

So now what is google doing?
They are implementing various design changes across their services all
to give the user a more integrated experience.

They just launched their attempt at social networking called google+,
but I think this goes beyond social. It's an indication on which
direction their heading in and how they see the future.

I think google is creating a platform independent platform for what
most people do with their devices in their daily life: Connecting,
sharing, and cosuming.

And it will look and feel almost the same wheter you're on windows,
windows mobile, os x, android, firefox, or chrome...

So you see I feel my heading was not that unjust.

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How Not To Sell a Subscription to a Financial Magazine

Thank you so much for that nice letter about your magazine for business packed with good financial advice and industry insight, here is why I don't want to buy or take advice from you, and I'll tell you what you should or could have done instead to reel me in.

It's kind of humoristic really, you send me this letter in a premium envelope, with a letter printed on thick premium textured paper, for good measure you enclose a pamphlet on high grade paper, and just to top it of there is a printed members card with my name on in the same quality as creditcards ready for me to activate, that's all fine and impressive though the third time the same letter arrives, I'm thinking: and you supposedly offer financial advice and marketing insight? The sixth time the same promo that must have cost at least 4$ each - it's become a joke.

For that money you spent on those letters you could have done something that would have prob. worked much better, you could have given me 6 issues for free, or here is a campaign that would grab my attention better:
start with sending me a postcard informing me in a informal and peronal way that you're going to give me six issues of your magazine for free, when the first letter issue arrive send me a letter telling me that the faster i decide the more I'll save on the subscription

just a thought.

Twitterlists just got interesting with paper.li

I posted before about the usefullness of twitter lists for organising friends and followers, a little look around though will tell you that lists are not widely followed, so whats the Point then? Enter paper.li

paper.li in itself will not do much for lists, but it makes it interesting keeping lists, but first let me introduce you to it: it's a service cooked up by a small privately held company at a university in switzerland that let you read twitter content as a daily newspaper.

You can create newspapers by entering keywords, twitter user, or twitter lists, in will then crunch trough the info fetching content from shared links. Tag it, organize it and put it out as an online newspaper for you to read. The closest comparison I can make it's what feedly does for rss feeds. You have to see it and try it to get just how amazing it is.

my daily paper is at: http://paper.li/ideathinker

now back to how this has anything to do with twitter lists (which it hasn't really except for the idea I got), say you put various media outlets and bloggers twitter accounts onto a list together with a few twitter friends you have that shares a lot of usefullness - now browsing trough that list can be awkward and you have to look at it constantly not to miss anything - enter paper.li who digest what's been on the agenda and present it to you in a nice paper-like layout.

just a thought..

Ps! Kudos and thanks to http://www.twitter.com/armano for discovering this service and giving me a tip about it.

#tips #tech #innovation #twitter #reading

Twitterlists just got interesting with paper.li

I posted before about the usefullness of twitter lists for organising friends and followers, a little look around though will tell you that lists are not widely followed, so whats the Point then? Enter paper.li

paper.li in itself will not do much for lists, but it makes it interesting keeping lists, but first let me introduce you to it: it's a service cooked up by a small privately held company at a university in switzerland that let you read twitter content as a daily newspaper.

You can create newspapers by entering keywords, twitter user, or twitter lists, in will then crunch trough the info fetching content from shared links. Tag it, organize it and put it out as an online newspaper for you to read. The closest comparison I can make it's what feedly does for rss feeds. You have to see it and try it to get just how amazing it is.

my daily paper is at: http://paper.li/ideathinker

now back to how this has anything to do with twitter lists (which it hasn't really except for the idea I got), say you put various media outlets and bloggers twitter accounts onto a list together with a few twitter friends you have that shares a lot of usefullness - now browsing trough that list can be awkward and you have to look at it constantly not to miss anything - enter paper.li who digest what's been on the agenda and present it to you in a nice paper-like layout.

just a thought..

Ps! Kudos and thanks to http://www.twitter.com/armano for discovering this service and giving me a tip about it.

#tips #tech #innovation #twitter #reading

Will smartphones kill the phone call?

Last week there was an interesting article over at Wired about the apparent death of phone calls. Turns out that according to research by Nielsen, the average number of mobile phone calls people are making is dropping every year since it hit a high in 2007. Maybe it’s not surprising when you consider how many other ways there are to contact people with your phone.

The oldest option is of course texting. The first SMS was sent in the UK way back in 1992 and contained the words Merry Christmas. The first GSM text message was sent in 1993 on a Nokia phone by the engineering student Riku Pihkonen. Today, it’s estimated that between 4 and 5 trillion texts are sent every year!

Then there’s the instant messaging option with an ever-increasing number of chat apps available. At the Ovi Store alone, you’ll find more than half dozen apps that let you chat across multiple IM protocols.

Add to that the easy connection to email you get with the Nseries and you can see why our devices might be contributing to talk losing ground. That’s not to say phone calls will ever be a thing of the past (can you imagine saying no to your mum!), but maybe they’ll be reserved for those deeper and more meaningful conversations.

But what do you think? Is the fall of the call imminent? Or will video chatting stop talk from taking a tumble?

via blogs.nokia.com

Any Thoughts?