OS X Mountain Lion
to arrive this summer
Best feature? It will replace lion. Jessica E. Vascellaro shares insights from Tim Cook invite here.
What do citizens want from their public offices?
Have to have to do less.
Citizen obligations such as filing taxes or needs such as requesting business licenses and permits are more conveniently and efficiently handled online without having to wait in lines. We are a happy go lucky do it yourself bunch. Much like being comfortable with doing our transactions through online banking, or buying flight or train tickets through teller machines, we want to take care of obligatory civic tasks online and safe time with applying for needed certificates.
Links: Medienpuls Bayern
Rechts: NYC.gov
Welcome to GOV.UK, the best way to get to government services and information
A sporty challenge overwhelming governments, counties and cities until Gladwell’s 10,000 hour rule has kicked in.
Right now, GOV.UK is winning the user experience race with its pilot scheme, while Directgov, remains the official web site. Brits, well versed in promotion since the British pop invasion, have understood to feature the most needed funtionality up front whithout compromising brand building. With Medienpuls Bavaria by the Bavarian Center for New Media (BLM) is playing catch up with current developments, a courageous first step though. A meeting calendar aiming to attract media companies with a central platform as starting point for social media activities. TED talkshas long demonstrated how this is done. TED is not about a monkey stroking branch but is celebrated by a world audience, which in turn gets the industry’s attention. Medienpuls Bavaria seems to be taking a different route with help of local agency St. Elmo, they are focused on the media trade -if at all- they hope to attract a broader audience with trade insights. No secret: experts and specialist are terribly boring. . NYC.gov claims to have 25 million visitors per year – as much as Central Park. Mayor Bloomberg has hired an adorable and capable spokesperson, with whom Gladwell’s 10,000 hour rule has kicked in at age 28, with bringing back the magic of Madison Avenue (MAD MEN ☛ Silikon Alley) with a difference, make it the capitol of the digital age. First results: collaboration with Facebook and Twitter. By way of a New York hackathon NYC.gov gets a makeover. All of which should become graspable within the next 45 days. All eyes on Rachel Sterne, who was called most influential woman in tech by Fast Company.
Should you want to start up your business in NYC, you can check if your business is fulfilling the requirements with NYC.gov’s business express
Remember the under construction sign occasionally pop up on websites back in the early days of the web? Today it would send only one signal, the site owner has no idea on how communications works.
Sites had to put up the under construction sign, whenever a change was made to the format of the site or when anything was added to the content.
Useless, horrendously expensive, complex and complicated content management systems were introduced and companies who could afford them believed to have been sold on a dynamic website.
IT companies made a fortune selling Custom CMS.
Ad agencies and digital agencies made are fortune on selling dynamic websites.
Customer be warned you are still being sold on the same old lie.
Then social media demonstrated what dynamism really means.
With the event of blogs (basically an off the shelf content management system with plugins bringing connectivity to the CMSystem), communications were democratized and made available at no or little cost to the rest of us.
Today the dirty truth is, websites in contrast to blogs, have no default way of communicating with one another or social media sites. The pings send out by blogs are not being picked up by websites and no consequent action can be taken. The solution is unspectacular. Build your website based on blogging software.
DC Comics reveals new peeling back logo, new gen comic artist, Elizabeth Blue has revamped her web presence while back in England, her first comic book goes to press by Atlantic Press.
When you think about DC superheroes such as Batman, Superman, Superwoman, Green Lantern, there’s a secret identity. The new DC logo reflects a common denominating nature of DC characters as individuals and dual identities (read on here.).
Übermensch heroes yes, but with a difference. While conventional comics picture a fully developed hero with superpowers in place, the reader gets thrown right into pow wow action, new gen comic artists must start from scratch and have the story begin before superpowers have fully developed.
Both, their own and the superpowers of their heroes.
Leaving behind the anti hero of the 90s, heroes are the girl next door or the one successful Fables’ heroine, Frau Totenkinder (German for dead children) at around age 70.
Patsy Cline
Joanna Newsom
Normal is the new spectacular
A path best traveled one step at a time. A beautiful and most meaningful advantage for brand building and introducing a business to the market in our post-digital time, is taking confidence and comfort in interactivity. A purely psychological effort of not taking yourself too serious and superb accomplishment.
It separates the procrastinators from the believers. No need to plan the outcome in advance. Get done with your first step already, rather than falling prey to the old word insanity as marketing planning suggested, since you can’t foresee the action or responses of your most important prospects, those you aim to turn into happy customers. It matters most to get started and it does not matter what your initiative will be.
Thus development is a friend and happens over time. Do become a member of the cult of done now. Visit
Facebook profile picture or thumbnail of an oil painting of a royal family member?
Angry iPhone S4 shoppers. © 2012 mirror.co.uk
Outraged shoppers in Bejing and Shanghai waiting the night for the Apple store to open react to the delay with tossing eggs at the store. Allow me to add growing concerns of my own since the event of OS X Lion and the introduction to iCloud. If you want to take full advantage of switching workspaces with running applications and worked on documents in place from the previous session, you must upgrade your system. Upgrade to 8GB and faster clock speed than 2.26 GHz when moving to OS X Lion. With 4GB, your system will crawl like in the early Eighties.
With iCloud, address book is dropping entries, you can recover only if you know which entry to look for and have time machine recover it.
Keep a safe backup of your data on one of your devices, likely your iMac’s time capsule at home and keep an eye on data synchronization.
Synchronization was dependable with mobile me, with iCloud it is not.
Babyloid ©2012 New Scientist. All rights reserved.
Babyloid is a therapy tamagotchi and was developed by Masayoshi Kanon, an assistant professor at Chukyo university in Japan. Japan is beting their future on developing robots unlike us, the innovation nation for everything else (ideas, user interface design, package design…). Babyloid is expected to be marketed at around £830. Cute babyloid will not be taken serious before my guest country, expected to rise to having the oldest population in the world, will recognize its usefullness. Emotions are expressed by minimal, cartoonish, facial expressions.
A reductionist icon face assisted by a repertoire of up to 100 vocal expressions are aimed at invoking protective instincts and numerous sensors initiate unexpected, uncontrollable Babyloid behavior. According to New Scientist, initial tests at a retirement community found that proponent are being helped, by the arising sense of responsibility, becoming occupied with babyhood and the illusion of being needed.
Petra Hammerstein’s ‘Der Mut Anderer‘ (the courage of others) now competes with Chef Hansen, Gourmet Guerrilla, Photisserie, New Kitch on the Blog. (read on) The jury consisting of the magazine’s editors will announce the winner by end of the month.
Developer: webmatter, Berlin
Design: twenty ten, Munich
Illustration: Elizabethan Days, Eugene, OR
Requires your company on her culinary journey.
Receive comprehensively structured recipes in your inbox.
A broad selection of useful recipes, will be updated to reflect the portions according to the number of guests being served.
Was coined by the editors of German magazine Brigitte.
With her new Leica V-Lux 20, Petra could improve the quality of her imagery.
Recipes and their demonstration in pictures are embedded in the stories of their organisation.
Steve Jobs Biography and the learning thermostat from Nest
It’s the product, that holds all answers to the near future’s hits and misses. If any good, it offers a direction for everything else needed for its proper market launch. Be it packaging, marketing, distribution or what have you. If your product doesn’t hold all the answers, don’t bring it to market. Move on to the next idea. We don’t need more, we need better products.
Former Apple iPad manager Tony Fadell and former iPad developer Matt Rogers have caused a stir and vowed us all with a new business model of their own, the nest thermostat. An early comment noted, someone wanted to join nest and develop a self-learning sprinkler system. Way to go, now think of all the crap devices you have in your home. So yes people are long at it with ideas or extensions of their own (technically inclined have a look here).
One of the worst products I can think of are our landline telephones.
Is there anyone out there? Can one of the big brand names please stand up and transform our landline telephone into something useful, something helpful? General Electric, Bang Olufsen? Anyone?
The web is what you make of it
Alas, more than 99% of websites are useless. They are not technically equipped to socialize. They are as static as print. Mullen, McCann and MRM Worldwide (US edition) are the only agency websites made sociable thus far. If you achieve only one thing in 2012, have your site made sociable.
via BBH Labs
Richard Saul Wurman source: Edisonnation.com
Warren Berger has done an excellent write-up on how Wurman aims to stage a series of improvisational one-to-one conversations, held in front of a small invitation-only audience and then disseminated via a high-quality app. Ted replicates, what has become all too common in our field of business, that is to give speeches with help of powerpoint slides instead of engaging clients, partners and third parties in a conversation.
speeches, slide shows, or tickets.
An overused question no longer applicable in this and so many other cases. Now that the web sheds light on our shortcomings relentlessly with all its cruelty, we all know we can and must do better. In 2002, Wurman sold most of the TED (founded 1984) rights to Chris Anderson’s Sapling Foundation and is no longer affiliated with TED. Early support was granted by R/GA’s Bob Greenberg und @radical.media’s Jon Kamen. I have caught some glimps on R/GA’s development in the late 80s and am glad to now be witnessing a new development which will have positive and strong influence on the dynamics of today’s business practices. Wurman’s influence on the development and spread of emerging technologies is vastly underrated. Politics and businesses can learn a big deal even now at this early stage from Wurman’s systematic approach to changing the dynamics. Learn more over here from CoDesign’s brilliant article by Warren Berger .
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