How NOT to use PowerPoint
While this doesn’t directly relate to Wikinomics, at New Paradigm we do a lot of PPT presenatations. If you have ever had to sit through a terrible presentation at work or in school you should watch...
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Photosynth – a mashup that demonstrates the power of metadata
There was an extraordinary video of a presentation from the TED 2007 conference on a new technology called Photosynth. Photosynth is a program that scrapes a photo site such as Flickr to find thousands...
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Microsoft and HealthVault.com
From an article on the New York Times An announcement was made today on the launch of the Microsoft HealthVault. The website’s services include: a free personal health record, and a search engine...
View ArticleFour reasons you should remove yourself from Facebook
In no order of importance, the following is a growing list of concerns I have with Facebook. 1. Facebook employee perks According to recent reports, there have been significant privacy concerns at the...
View ArticleThe race for the next platform
My colleague Alan and I were chatting this morning about Facebook, Microsoft and Google, and it spurred some thoughts about the future of these three companies, and who will win the fight for platform...
View ArticleBill Gates’ CES swan song (with bonus video coverage!)
Bill Gates kicked off the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) for the last time yesterday, and in doing so probably entrenched “second digital decade” – the upcoming ten years, which will be an even...
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Yahoo and Microsoft set to tie the knot
Funny… earlier this week I was wondering about the future of Yahoo’s ad network: would this once dominant network slowly sink into the ground or would it somehow turn around and revive itself? Looks...
View ArticleBring back the love
One of our collaborators, Sean Moffitt, pointed me to this very thoughtful (and funny) video on the changing relationship between advertisers and customers. It clearly shows the growing disconnect...
View ArticleThe new customer custodians
With the ongoing turmoil in the advertising industry caused by the internet, a new breed of customer custodians is emerging in the form of internet giants such as Google, Yahoo, MySpace, Microsoft and...
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An unlikely social (networking) success story
A while ago I wrote a blog post on Wal-Mart and its failed social networking endeavours. Many comments I’ve received regarding that post pointed out that Wal-Mart, in general, is not a very well liked...
View ArticleMicrosoft finds a way to make life tough for Google (I bet they weren’t using...
BBC News (and just about everywhere else) is reporting that: Microsoft is offering “cold, hard cash” to persuade users to shop online using its Live Search engine and help the company catch up to rival...
View ArticleIt’s All Coming Together… In Your Living Room
You can get a great media center for about 20 dollars. Sure, it’s ‘illegal,’ but not in the way you might think. I’m talking about modding an old XBOX, and loading it up with XBOX Media Center (XBMC)....
View ArticleCreate Your Own Video Game!
The Houston Chronicle ran a story recently about how major video game companies are allowing independent and amateur developers to create games. Being an avid Counter-Strike player back in my heyday,...
View ArticleMicrosoft has a new approach to Vista… Putting makeup on the pig
An article on ZDnet comments about Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston yesterday. Microsoft executives explain that they will launch a 300 million dollar ad campaign to help clean...
View ArticleRemember Photosynth? Well, it’s old-hat now.
Photosynth (ted talk, demo page, our coverage), a project acquired by Microsoft, made for one of the coolest tech demos to grace the internet in a very long time. The experience that Photosynth...
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XKCD, YouTube, and the Emerging Personalities of Applications and Companies
Every so often, Randall Munroe, author of the XKCD webcomic, gets it right — really, really right. A while ago, Munroe had this to say about comments on YouTube, something I tend to agree with most of...
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The ‘free’ business model
The inspiration behind this blog post came when I was thinking of doing some Christmas shopping for my sister. (Hopefully she doesn’t read this post…) I was looking to buy her the DVD Boxset of the...
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Can friendly avatars save Nortel?
I’ll start off here by stating the obvious – yesterday was a bad day for Nortel. Moreover, in this article, there’s some discussion about a few poor attempts at innovation, summarized by the notion...
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Microsoft Tag: North Americans finally set to make their mark?
In Japan, quick response codes are everywhere. A quick response code (QR) is essentially a barcode-like image that can be placed on anything, from billboards to McDonald’s wrappers. Using a...
View ArticleMicrosoft & Sony at E3 – augmented reality approaches
At this year’s E3 Microsoft announced Natal (check out the link but prepare for bad acting). Natal offers a new controller-less gaming interface – presumably an attempt to 1-up the wii, and take over...
View ArticleA Brief History of OSes
Last month I read Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash. It’s one of those books that throws your ideas about the nature of the world up in the air, leaving them differently-arranged when they land. If you’re...
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Google’s new OS – this means war
If there was ever any doubt, now it’s official: Google is at war with Microsoft. Google’s announcement late yesterday about the launch of the Google Chrome Operating System puts Microsoft square in its...
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Collaboration as competition. Microsoft decides to “collaborate”.
First off, thanks to Alex Bogusky for letting me piggyback the title of this post. Last month my colleague Laura Carrillo asked if it will be Apple or Google to own the third screen. Recent events have...
View ArticleSuccessful approaches to open government
The market for tools that are used for Open Government Initiatives is still nascent. But the Open Government Initiative of the White House reinforces the trend towards more openness in the World....
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Microsoft’s e-government browser in Austria: Just a good service or a play to...
I’ve been living here in Canada for 9 months. When I tell people that I am from Austria, they ask me if Austria is like “The Sound of Music.” Austria is indeed a small country with lots of mountains in...
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