Well, ain’t this a bitch
Wow. So it’s been almost 7 years since I added something here. Time to get back on the horse. More coming soon. Hopefully much more.
The Apple Card Trojan Horse
The Apple Card has intrigued me since being announced in March 2019. The power of iPhone. In a credit card. as the site says. Partnered with Mastercard and Goldman Sachs. And out now for early users, apparently. There’s been some good thought about how disruptive it will be to the payments system, taking on the […]
Could Toys R’Us have saved itself?
If you are like me and attend events where people talk about disruption, transformation and customer experience, then you’re most likely familiar with the brands that speakers love to mention when they talk about disruption: Kodak, who designed the first digital camera yet bet the bank on film. Yeah… Blockbuster, who never left the brick […]
The nuances of change
Bill Gates has a fantastic blog/site over at https://www.gatesnotes.com. If you don’t already read it, I recommend you do. I’ve been looking at the relationship between personal/emotional challenge and the connection with innovation. This recent article at Gates Notes appeared for me at a key time: Memorizing these three statistics will help you understand the […]
The extraordinary user experience that is the Nintendo Switch
I have a Nintendo Switch. I love my Nintendo Switch. it is one of the most extraordinary user experiences I’ve ever had, because of the way it focusses the nature of the device. It’s speedy The Switch is not a hardware powerhouse like the Sony Playstation or XBox One. It doesn’t want to be. […]
So this is the price of user data in the EU. The US$5bn antitrust ruling against Android.
The EU hit Google with a US$5bn fine for antitrust, and anticompetitive activity in forcing/incentivising phone manufacturers to install Android, and stick to Chrome rather than offering an alternative. While Google has of course started the usual appeal against this decision, the real question is how much this actually means. Sure, US$5bn is a lotta […]
What about if we hide behind a table and sneak past the guard? Some insights in storytelling and innovation.
I wanted to challenge my kids to think different in storytelling and problem solving, so introduced them to Role Playing Games (RPGs). For those unfamiliar with RPGs, you choose a character and play through a guided adventure as that character, fighting, finding treasure and generally reacting to the story told by your guide. With me […]
Who did you sign-in with last night?
I was having a thought-provoking chat with a friend the other day. As happens these days, the chat was over Facebook Messenger, not face to face. We were discussing things like the PageUp security breach, and I mentioned that one of the companies who had been involved in the security and data compromise, had sent […]
Facebook | Cambridge Analytica and the future of social regulation
This is a good, and extensive, and well worth, summary of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. In short, it’s clear that the company Cambridge Analytica was able to use Facebook’s architecture and algorithms to make a mockery of Facebook’s claims of user privacy – accessing, mining, analysing and influencing users in ways not thought possible or […]
Regulate. It’s a G-Man era.
Warren G represent. If you’ve read some of my past posts, you know I have a keen interest in the way that the tech industry is maturing into something that, in my opinion, will be reined in by the regulatory bodies. We’re seeing this happen in many areas already – the explosion in privacy and […]
Where Dragons Dwell 