There is a lot of chatter about calendar being the next native iOS application (much like Mailbox and Taskbox for Mail) that is set to be out replaced by a startup. Just looking at my phone you’ll find: Sunrise Calendar Tempo Smart Calendar Atlas Agenda Tempus Calvetica Fantastical Cue I’m hopeful for Atlas because it [...]
My friend Howard Gwin (LinkedIn) has said the perfect role for me would be one of “Chief Shit Disturber”. “an individual who creates unnecessary conflict and unhappiness where it is especially not required” - Urban Dictionary I’m not sure that this is quite what Howard intended. But that I live in the creative tension between product, [...]
I was just struck by how similar my GMail experience was to the ReMail work that the CUE team at IBM Research published in 2003. The experiences are different. But the integration of the GCalendar, live names (think GTalk status), thread size and threaded messages, thread visualization (reminds me of Rapportive), collection categorization (a combination of [...]
Scott Brinker Follow @chiefmartec provides a must read summary of the 5 meta-trends that underly most modern marketing. The great digital migration of marketing (and business). The convergence of paid, earned, and owned media. Customer experience as the core of marketing. Rise of the creative/marketing technologist. Agile marketing management. The post lays forth a strong [...]
The Mesh Conference team continually amazes me. You can read my bromance piece on the big brother Mesh Conference. But Mark, Rob, Mathew, Stuart, Mike and Sheri continue to do a fantastic job bringing together leading thinkers with the Toronto community. I have hosted my share of local events and I recognize balance of cost [...]
I had a great time at NxNE. It wasn’t representative of the time I’ve spent at SxSW. But this is probably a good thing. I was on a panel hosted by Dave Senior of Playground Inc. with Michael Litt (@michaellitt) of Vidyard and Raja Bhatia (@raja) of Confluence Labs. Great fun talking about startups, traction, funding, teams, [...]
Image courtesy of gotosira some rights reserved I was talking to a friend who runs a >10 person distributed professional services firm. He was looking for better tooling to automate his customer processes. He had recently dropped Salesforce, not because it was too much or too expensive, but because the configuration and usage was too complicated for [...]
This is just too awesome. It looks like the Hyperdrive team staring as a Blue Man like group doing an interpretive dance number. And because when you’re trying to stand out as a startup incubator/accelerator/cyclotron you need to think different in order to change the world. I guess I know why I’m ordering a red body [...]
The good folks at Fast Company sourced an interesting visualization from futurist Michell Zappa and the Envisioning Tech crew. Lots of science fiction, but it provides an interesting analysis based on the breaking down of information silos. Follow @envisioningtech “This visualization is an exercise in speculating about which individual technologies are likely to affect the scenario [...]
I had never had a michelada. I didn’t even know they existed until early this morning. I haven’t had a Bloody Caesar in about six years, they are delicious but since I’m now watching my salt intake, I can’t justify 36% in a cup of clamato. Mott’s Clamato Nutritional Facts Amount per 8 fl oz. [...]