July 2010
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Geotagging and privacy issues
It’s always amazing what you can discover by cross-referencing very simple data.Amplify’d from www.readwriteweb.comUsing sites like Craigslist, Twitter and YouTube, the researchers were able to cross-reference information contained within publicly available online content to determine the exact home addresses of potential victims, even those who had posted the content anonymously. The...
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Tiny bandages to fix iPhone 4 problems
Considering all the buzz around the iPhone 4 reception problems, this certainly is a creative idea making fun of the whole situation. Amplify’d from bits.blogs.nytimes.comAfter Apple’s iPhone 4 press conference last week, Szymon Weglarski and Jon Dorfman, two designers from Brooklyn, decided they would have a little fun with the iPhone 4’s antenna problem.They designed tiny bandages that fit...
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A/B testing, what about killing assumptions?
Mixed feelings about this article on A/B testing.
I agree it’s easy to fall into the trap of A/B testing and test every single detail, but that’s not necessarily what A/B testing was made for.
Think about these never-ending design meetings, the kind of meeting every participant knows exactly what to do, what the end-user wants and what will make the website a success.
Or, think...
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Outsource the Work, Not the Leadership
Great article from Harvard Business Review.
Poor outsourcing of I.T., especially in software, can lead to really bad results. Outsourcing the technical part of a project is one thing, as technical skills can be learned and replicated, but outsourcing leadership and creativity though, is a very different game.
One important thing to mention though, is that keeping leadership and creativity...
What favors adoption of digital content?
I was thinking about the fact that Amazon is now selling more eBooks than hardcovers and what actually started this massive shift towards digital books. In fact, it kind of reminds me the growth of digital music sales a couple of years ago when a certain company called Apple launched their online music store.
A couple of years ago, most people said digital books would never replace real books. We...
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Is HTML5 Viable...Now?
HTML5 sure brings interesting new features, but the main problem, as usual, is browser compatibility. I’m not a huge fan of Flash/Silverlight, but the the truth is that even if they’re not standards, they allow developers to build cross-browser compatible solutions. And most people have the required plugins installed, making it almost a standard.
Now, that is if you consume your...
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Google to Discontinue Nexus One
Weird coincidence. I mentioned in “Can Google keep innovating” ( http://bentremblay.amplify.com/2010/07/18/can-google-keep-innovating/ ) that Google’s biggest challenge in the coming years won’t be innovation, but everything non-engineering (marketing, customer service, etc.):
“Perhaps Google has found manufacturing and marketing hardware is outside their comfort...
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Can Google keep innovating?
Some interesting point of views on the future of Google when it comes to innovation.
For the past ten years, innovation have been at the heart of the company’s culture and I don’t see that changing in the next couple of years. Innovation won’t be the problem, entering existing markets will be the problem.
Let’s face it, Google has close to no competition when it comes...