Tired of 2.0 conferences? Well check out this for a great topic and some stellar speakers. Experience Strategies, Service Design, and Innovation are all great topics for anyone trying to create extraordinary experiences and businesses. $995 until november 30th. Hope to see you there.
Adaptive Path is launching a new conference on February 12 & 13, 2007
in San Francisco focused on the strategies and tools for managing
experiences and design teams. The conference is focused on issues
that managers face in designing the next generation of digital products.
We will be mixing inspirational talks with practical sessions, giving
people both new goals to aspire to and the tools for achieving them.
Confirmed speakers:
Tim Brown, IDEO
Caterina Fake, Flickr and Yahoo!
Scott Berkun, Author of an upcoming O’Reilly book “The Myths of Innovation”
Jennie Winhall, UK Design Council
Doug Beaudet and Sara Ulius-Sabel, Whirlpool
Jesse James Garrett, Peter Merholz, Brandon Schauer, and Todd WIlkins of Adaptive Path
and more to be announced soon.
Some of the topics to be addressed:
Perspectives on current business and societal trends for design leaders
Experience strategies - the key to long-term design value
Service Design - stop designing products!
Embedding design practices throughout your organization
From optimization to innovation - why business is turning to design
Taking advantage of flexible, agile development
The impact of new technologies (mobile, Web 2.0, ubiquitous computing)
Use the promotion code FOPM to earn 15% off the registration price.
And sign up by November 30 for the least expensive registration!
any business model build around mobile is doomed and that advertisers should ignore this medium for the time being.
So what happened to all the mobile entrepreneurs? Why haven’t we seen innovation on mobile phones as we say on PCs. The entrepreneurs were snuffed (1). Because they control the network the mobile operators figured they ought to make all the profit from any business using their infrastructure and totally control (own) the user experience (2). I know of three mobile-based start-ups, by friends of mine, all with reasonably good ideas, that fatally partnered with mobile network operators. The exception was – there is always an exception the defines the rule: ringtones.
Mobile network operators were (and are) too greedy. The only entrepreneurial mobile environment is iMode in Japan where DoCoMo charges a lowly 9% commission on sales.
Are the mobile operators the equivalent of AOL and CompuServe, trying to keep customers in a highly profitable a walled garden?
I think the recent mobile applications that google has put out there, both for mail and maps are great examples of apps that work within the constraints of mobile both from delivery and customer experience standpoint.
to get google mail on your mobile phone just point your phone at: gmail.com/app and to get maps point your phone here: www.google.com/gmm
Also related to mobile innovation are some great notes from the Mobile 2.0 conference that was recently in San Francisco (and a lot cheaper than the other 2.0 conference).
IMVU is a 3d avatar based IM tool that seems could be a competitor to myspace, secondLife etc. With 3 million users it puts SecondLife in the shade somewhat from the standpoint of membership.
One of the things that struck me was how IMVU seemed more like a virtual doll tool (hence the bratz comparison), that users can dress up their avatars (dolls) and put them in certain environments to chat to other avatars (dolls). There is actually a built in economy in IMVU where a lot of users create items to sell to other avatars, mostly fashion related, so again, the doll metaphor works, dream-house and nurses costume sold separately. It makes you wonder about the whole motivation around virtual worlds, are we just playing barbie and action man?
IMVU comes with a free web page, ala Myspace, and a co-created economy for avatar bits ala secondlife.
BTW with my new MacBook Pro Dual Core 2 Duo SecondLife is running much better My secondlife name is Karl Berry
Well, it’s not really just work that’s getting in the way of my blogging, i’m also looking for an apartment in San Francisco, under $2000, and starting in december. Not only that i’ve got my Mum visiting this weekend, and am taking a trip down to Big Sur with her.
From a work standpoint i’m actually in the throws of trying to get a blog/web site launched that talks about the coming games and game system for the Nseries phones. It’s taking time but we’re making progress. Right now there is not a common platform for launching external blogs so i’m having to go through lot of persuading and cajoling to get something put together.
I have great hopes for Nokia and blogging and it certainly seems that they do understand the importance of it, especially with their various forays into blogger relations (yes they have been sending out some new phones to bloggers and we’re going to be doing the same And of course they have been doing it without any expectation of getting written about. I’m pretty sure they sent one to Adam Curry of the DSC, he said he’s got an N91 and has an N93 coming.
David Armano Blogging Video
Talking of blogging, if you want some insight into one of blogging cinderella stories check out David Armano’s video of his “blogs eye view” presentation he made to his colleagues and members of the press. It’s really inspiring, and when I say cinderella, there was no fairy blogmother involved, just hard work, consistancy, and an original approach.
Technorati State of the Blogosphere
The other important thing that almost slipped under the radar is Technorati/David Sifry’s “state of the blogosphere” . The best news I took away from it is the leap in Technorati’s ability to deal with Splogs, and a nice description of what is the characteristics of “high authority blogs”.
CK’s “Voice In” Blogger Survey
CK asks the question “What is the single greatest point of value you receive from blogging”
Great video of David Armano making his “blog’s eye view” presentation to not only Digitas folks but members of the press and other guests. Kudos to David.
I have this PSFK thing in my rss, but a lot of the “posts” have a $ sign next to them and you only get to read them if your a paid subscriber. Is anyone paying for that? Consider this post:
It’s been a while since I last saw a really good Google Maps mash-up, but Jason over at Leo Burnetts Toronto pointed this rather nice site out to us.
More…
clicking on more of course gets you the subscription info… Seriously, is stuff like that which is likely to get reported through hundreds of blogs is worth paying for. Wouldn’t PSFK generate more value and equity by using its resources to create a great blog that that could generate revenue in other ways?
Is there anyone that can persuade me it’s worth $300 a year so subscribe to this?
(I’m guilty of this as well)
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