„Take on dialogue with clients yourself and seriously question the trusteeship of ad agencies”

This is also Gabor Steinhart advice, chief editor of Germany economy magazine Handelsblatt. No one has better insights of their clientel and their own company than does the manufacturer.

How does the country singer, the pop star go about staying in touch with the audience, who won’t get to see their faces unless on stage at a concert?

All energy is of better use in product development than in advertising

A good product speaks for itself. It’s being discovered and recommendet no longer with analog, constraints of one to another and local reach but with global digital distribution from one to many.

The gastronomer, the car manufacturer and the pop star now follow the mommy bloggers lead. They learn that development is a friend and to make good use of readily available software tools at low cost.

The product is the media

It is being said, that the consumer does not buy the product but buys into the conviction a manufacturer has in their product.

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Mapped in New York, demonstrates new business development on a map of the five burrows.

And certifies the success of Made in NY, an initiative of mayor Bloomberg, that helped establish NYC as a magnet for new talent and digital businesses.

Sui generis

Like most Americans, I am terribly interested in how famous people get to be famous.

He has widened the genre’s gates, whether for middle-class values or high-fashion and high-art dreams.

Blurring the line between black and white

“I don’t know if this is statistically right, but I’m assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven’t won one against a white person.”

I don’t know if this is statistically right, but I’m assuming that West has already moved public perception beyond soul food, gospel singer, gangster rap and the blues brothers to inhibit the intellectual property believed to be a white anglo saxxon domain.

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Robin Thicke has a big dick

Side-by-side comparison of iOS 6 and 7 user interface designs via Kyle VanHemert

The calculator example at last must be an example of the exception to the rule of new design principles brought on us by Jony Ive.

Learn more about the new design over at Apple’s site.

At yesterday’s developer conference, Apple has made more of an impression than was expected

Far more.

A unique selling proposition would be, a business that turns words into action.
Even more so, a business that understands that has already turned words into action while the words are leaving their lips.

Shoot first ask later

Apple can’t possibly have kept much powder dry and wasted more ammo then followers and developers had expected, but will it be enough tp re-animate the stock exchange?

Recommended summary of Luke Peters brilliant impressions.

“European prosperity and its enemies”

On Saturday, a congregation at the Munich Literature House was broadcast by BR-alpha with Sigmund Gottlieb, the chief editor of Bavarian Broadcasting, Alexander Mettenheimer from the Bavarian LB (bank) and Gabor Steingart, who gave a short introduction based on his new book “European prosperity and its enemies”, and transformed a complex issue i.e. financial crisis into easy to grasp common language.

Big problems don’t need big solutions

In sharp contrast to discussions being aired every other evening on German tv with ever the same politicians or celebrities and all too typical twaddle, the conversation of these three fine gentlemen at Munich’s literature house, a beginning, a middle part and an an end incl. an incentive toward feasible solutions.

German’s owe all three, Steingart, Gottlieb and Mettenheimer plenty of thanks for a cool, calm, collected conversation, which simply skipped the thinking blockades of accusations otherwise all too common and took the audience onto a resumption of the age of enlightenment which ended prematurely in the 17th century.

5 steps to end the bastard economy

Above bulletpoints lead to German language insights.
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German music promoter and tv anchor man Stefan Raab steps up to maintain a reputation for the German Design Nation

Anthony Bourdain had put his finger on what may well be Germany’s deepest wound when exploring Berlin for his pre CNN food documentary.

“It’s all dead.”

Germany needs to buckle up and send light beams of innovative signals and demonstrate a willingness to share with Europe’s economy as does every other nation. So yes, Stefan Raab you are welcome

German manufacturers and marketers may however want to trust their product development and enngineering skills and listen tightly to what the change in consumer behaviour is longing for. Products so good they speak for themselves.

Omit the additional level Stefan Raab makes use of in the doosh launch campaign it only demonstrates lack of confidence in the product and in the level of sophistication, informed consumers have reached.

The product is the media

With all energy put into developing a good product and its mature performance, you are safe to omit additional levels and rely on the product, its usefulness, relevance and social goodness

Product design now has an obligation to contribute to social goodness and help prevent things from getting worse.

The good story the manufacturer aims to tell and get the product talked about must now be centered around a unique selling proposition inherent in the product design as a serious contribution to social goodness.

Some of the worst the web brought on us, were useless intranets besides a landslide of tedious and useless CMSs.

A devastating lack of elegance and efficiency.

And a complete waste of time.

Why then would Dan Hou, Honey’s CEO want to get burned by introducing yet another intranet?

An intranet that won’t suck

I read from Honey’s communication, that it is important to allow for participants to take their time and help take the pressure, in particular peer pressure from them and make it easier for the quiet ones to deliver on their own terms amongst shameless loudmouths. The internet is developing into what I call a slow web, with improved, built in quality assurance to benefit those rare birds equipped with and propelling clear consciousness.

Further insides by Kyle VanHemert.