I was looking at the new and improved YouTube when it came to me. Check out all the new bells and whistles, the polls and the posts you can make in a tool that is more and more like a social network, and it will notify you… I just kept thinking “wow, how will users… Continue reading Notifications chaos? Across platforms, devices and the Universe. Solved!
Category: Technology
Facebook just fired your marketing department and made me invaluable
What a shock. About 60-70% of your marketing plan has just been made obsolete by Facebook’s changes. It’s not their fault. You are idiots to have ever believed them. The signs were always there. First they said “everyone make pages!” So you did. Some companies even forsake a website and make the Facebook page a… Continue reading Facebook just fired your marketing department and made me invaluable
True gamification: What Google Maps has to learn from Supercell
I am in San Francisco battling jet lag, trying to sleep at the local time. But not so far away from me a group of kids is blaring out music. It is an international bunch of kids in their twenties and they are playing from their phones what they think the others will like. You… Continue reading True gamification: What Google Maps has to learn from Supercell
Apple will never produce the best technology: here’s why
I have been branded an Apple hater a long time ago, so I don’t bother to worry about that. Since 1981 I have lived and breathed technology and Apple insults the very essence of the world as I understand it with its behavior. I don’t use the word “like”, it is not aesthetic and it… Continue reading Apple will never produce the best technology: here’s why
The best monopoly the world has ever seen
The amount of complete gibberish I am reading about the HTC-Google deal is phenomenal. You don’t need particular insight to see what is happening. Nor do conspiracy theories help or those “grand scheme” type wackos that explain how it is “just the first step” of something enormous we all don’t understand. Google is keeping the… Continue reading The best monopoly the world has ever seen
Apple: We burn Pentiums to the ground
If you don’t remember that slogan, let me remind everyone. Because in a rather strange way, it has been wiped from Google! Seriously, Google it. “We burn Pentiums to the ground” and toasting Pentiums was a major Apple promotional campaign, aimed at convincing us all that their proprietary Motorola (IBM) processors were “better” or “faster”… Continue reading Apple: We burn Pentiums to the ground
In praise of fake profiles
If you are in sales or marketing and above 25 years of age, you are probably wrong. The assumptions you base your decisions on are severely limited. We often thank our kids for ideas, for keeping us “in touch”, but it is much much more complicated a matter. And extremely important. I have hundreds of… Continue reading In praise of fake profiles
The fallacy of collective brainpower
I was 12 or 13 years old when I came across “The crowd”. It was in Greek and must have belonged to one of my many intellectual cousins. The subtitle reads “a study of the popular mind” and I couldn’t put it down. We were guests at my aunt’s house and I read it all… Continue reading The fallacy of collective brainpower
English uber alles: the language digital divide
Google assistant is fantastic. Unless you don’t speak English. In which case it is almost useless. The whole “Artificial Intelligence” vogue is rather misleading. Because when I speak to Google Allo I am still using all my experience in computing. It works great for me because I think like a computer. I break down my… Continue reading English uber alles: the language digital divide
Apple’s (real) product recalls and Brad Pitt’s (alleged) whores
If you Google “apple product recall” you get less than a page of results. That is peculiar, isn’t it? Try searching for “recall history” or anything like that and you more or less get the Google equivalent of “what you are looking for does not exist in this galaxy”. So then being Greek, I use… Continue reading Apple’s (real) product recalls and Brad Pitt’s (alleged) whores