Google Search vs. Apple Siri: 1600-question test →
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Intriguing study brings to light most clear-cut evidence to date
July 2012
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I played minecraft for the first time today and it was really really really fun and I don’t understand why???????
“It’s not “We The People” anymore, it’s “We The Product” and if we all banded together, We The Product could exert some influence over those who are monetizing us.”
—A Solution to the Twitter API Problem | Nova Spivack (via courtenaybird)
a blog by pud: Mass-Unsubscribe From Junk In Gmail →
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Here’s a clever way to mass-unsubscribe from spam, marketing emails, newsletters, and other stuff you don’t want clogging your inbox.
- In Gmail, do a search for “label:inbox unsubscribe OR email preferences OR subscribed OR newsletter” (without the quotes)
- Select (checkbox) the emails you want…
Brilliant.
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“The iPhone is a sustaining technology relative to Nokia. In other words, Apple is leaping ahead on the sustaining curve [by building a better phone]. But the prediction of the theory would be that Apple won’t succeed with the iPhone. They’ve launched an innovation that the existing players in the industry are heavily motivated to beat: It’s not [truly] disruptive. History speaks pretty loudly on that, that the probability of success is going to be limited.”
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Clay Christensen interviewed by Jean McGregor in Clayton Christensen’s Innovation Brain via Businessweek
Amazing how someone like Christensen can create a lauded apparatus like his Innovator’s Dilemma model, based on technological/economics reasoning, derived from the lessons of the past, and then completely miss on the iPhone. Oh, and don’t forget all those internet appliances we were supposed to buy for the kitchen.
That’s one of the reasons I believe that coming at innovation from a speculative design orientation — while not as systems-based as technologic/economic approaches — leads to deeper insights.
Besides, looking backwards to predict what’s coming won’t work, because the only law that consistently worked in the past is the law of unintended consequences. Systems thinking can explain the past, but can’t feel the future.
(h/t John Gruber)
“The iPhone is not and never was a phone. It is a pocket-sized computer that obviates the phone. The iPhone is to cell phones what the Mac was to typewriters.”
—John Gruber, looking back on five years of the iPhone. (via parislemon)
