FutureFear (tm)

We have a rather obvious global crisis. War in Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya. Terror in London, New York, Madrid. Riots in Paris. And thats just what I saw in the news in the last few days. The...

What's in a name ?

We are looking to set up a new Drupal services company, and as usual, there is the endless circling around finding a good name that is avaliable as a .com. We are all over the place, playing with word...

Other People's Bedrooms

At university I lived in a house with only bedrooms. It was cheap. Where there had been a lounge, now there was just a bigger bedroom that was rented out for a little more. It was great. But there was...

Phase Change

In Jan 2006, for the first time, a computer managed to simulate phase change in a fluid. (http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=2384) This transformation is so complex that it has simply not been ...

Have you any idea who you're aiming for?

Have you any idea who you're aiming for? 3G is useless in a country where people cannot afford the handsets and where almost no 3G network exists. The reuse and recycle principle is important here, th...

You're having a laugh mate!

I recently came across a full page advert in the FT digital business section placed by BT, the headline of which read 'Innovate or die: the new strategy for 21st century business'. This is incredibly ...

Marketing Made Not So Simple

Providing services is one thing, but making sure that those services are correctly targeted and capable of making a return is quite another. On a recent trip to Poland I discovered a wealth of home-g...

Lucrative future for people network orientated services

Over the past few weeks Yahoo has purchased a number of small startup 'social community' orientated websites/webservices, including Flickr and delicious. In an article in The Guardian technology secti...

Peer Rights

I've started buying people subscriptions to last.fm for their birthdays now. I'm slowly getting my friends to become my music recommenders, and I am enjoying exploring music more than I have in years....

The speed of change will increase, until we choose to stop.

This is my assumption: Things will only get faster. Within our economic and organizational envioronment, we will not cease in our race to become more effective, more efficient and more agile. This nee...

The New Metaphor

Every aspect of modern business is wasteful. Energy and resources of every kind are left to ferment, thrown away unused. Resources have been in abundance, there was little need to worry about the inef...