Archive for May, 2010

Caffeine time

Gnu/Linux Blogs lesen lohnt sich mehrfach – wie sonst hätte ich von dieser Aktion von Customgarment erfahren? Bereits bei 3DSupply hat dieser Nachrichtenkanal ganz exzellent funktioniert. Ja, wer tolle Aktionen macht soll auch von vielen Links profitieren. Und ich hoffe darauf dass ich noch nicht zu spät bin, denn die Aktion ist auf 200 Shirts […]

APIs and Data

„APIs are the sex organs of business evolution. data is it’s DNA.“ (lee bryant) via wirres.net Posted via web from stirring the frogpond

Blogs, Networks, Streams – and writing the web

Old school blogs and other publishing models that create static web pages will increasingly be treated as an archive, or as a source for social objects referenced by URL, but where the URL is used to fetch the content and display it in the stream, just as today photos are being resolved in Twitter clients. […]

Shaping space

Another addition to my collection of writings on creative working spaces and the future of work (and how to design for it) – video from Stanford’s d.school: The new space, which is intended to be a longer-term home, draws on five years of prototyping concepts for how collaborative teams might work together in four very […]

Can you design business models?

via fastforwardblog.com Earmarking a book review of Seizing the White Space – while still thinking that four boxes are way too few 😉 And then – “creating a new business model is a design effort not an execution effort” – sure it is, but the design must be put into practice as well. Posted via […]

Books I’m reading

Life’s too short. If I don’t like a book, the best thing I can do is not to mention it. If I read four or five hundred books a year, and mention maybe 30 in the blog, that’s a sign in itself. Why waste energy? via confusedofcalcutta.com Didn’t knew that JP is a deadhead too […]

From Business Models to “Betterness” Models

A great business model is a necessary — but not a sufficient — condition for competitive success in the 21st century. Betterness models are where the future of advantage begins. via blogs.hbr.org Hmm, I’ve got issues with that piece by Umair. One, I don’t see the need for a neologism called “betterness model” at all […]