David Report writes about five key design trends and relates them in depth to […] social, economical and ecological patterns and phenomena’s over the entire global – local scale. The 5 key design trends are: Cooltural – Abbreviation of Cool Cultural Rationaissance – Abbreviation of Rationalism Renaissance Responsibiz – Abbreviation of Responsible business Sensuctive – […]
Ja, ich habe schon lange nicht mehr über die Nachteile und Probleme von DRM gepostet, da kommt die Aufforderung von xkcd (die auch sonst sehr spannende Sachen machen, Feed hier) gerade recht:
Ein kleiner Bericht von meiner ersten besuchten Session am BarCamp Munich Samstag. Zwei Mitarbeiter des WEKA-Verlags zu “Fachportale und Webtop-Software”. Grundsätzlich interessant für mich, weil Geschäftsmodelle der Medienwirtschaft im Umbruch sind (ja, mehr Innovationen sind notwendig). Zielgruppe des Weka-Verlags sind bspw. Steuerberater, Architekten, Handwerk, … Nur ein paar Stichworte: WEKA, ursprünglich vor allem auf Loseblatt-Werke […]
Gerd Leonhard spoke at the PICNIC conference in Amsterdam – on “A New Music Ecosystem- Future Models for Music Creation, Distribution, Marketing and Selling”. The music industry is changing. Artists and developers everywhere are working on new ways of connecting fans and bands and developing new businesses along the way. In this PICNIC Special, the […]
Nice image building up: McKinsey and SandHill surveyed the software landscape (Enterprise software customer survey 2008, pdf) and find benefit in the SaaS-model. Nicholas Carr analyzes that Software’s new battle lines are becoming visible, citing from the report: These trends – the growing acceptance of SaaS and SaaS platforms – are likely to create a […]
Via Paul Williams I learned that CNBC is doing another series on innovation, it’s aimed at C-level and I welcome this quite a lot as it stresses the importance (yet, Paul has some criticisms too). But these episodes are worthwhile anyway, and I appreciate the effort (btw, back then I wrote some posts about their […]
WE magazine has launched. Ulrike Reinhard and their team (Markus Beckedahl, Bea Gschwend and Steffen Büffel too) have put on a first issue with a set of articles by people like Joi Ito, Stephen Downes, Dan Gillmor, Sugata Mitra and Ethan Zuckerman. Ulrike explains how she came up with the idea for WE magazine, the motives […]
