Business

The B people myth (Sep 2, 2006)
You know the expression: "A people hire A people, B people hire C people." It's a stupid expression that hardly anyone really understands. Nonetheless, it's been enshrined as a management principle in places like Google and GE. In a recent...

Web 2.0 tops the Gartner hype cycle (Aug 10, 2006)
Geospatial Semantic Web posted the 2006 Gartner hype cycle for emerging technologies. Mashups, web 2.0 and folksonomies are at the very top of the peak of inflated expectations: I'm a bit cynical about these things since they often don't stand...

PaidPOV, where market research meets web 2.0 (Jul 16, 2006)
This is a little announcement about a product we've been working on called PaidPOV (as in "point of view"). It's a tool for research recruiting that will make setting up usability tests, focus groups and interviews easy and painless....

Earlier Posts

Guys with spikes (Jul 5, 2006)

Numbers to know (Apr 27, 2006)

Why Flickr and not Fotolog? (Apr 4, 2006)

More thoughts on the Google datacenter (Feb 12, 2006)

You = Your Calendar (Jan 3, 2006)

The proliferation of simple tools (Dec 16, 2005)

Business value of tags (Nov 23, 2005)

Xbox 360: optimization not innovation (Nov 18, 2005)

Kids, computers and play (Nov 15, 2005)

The Ray Ozzie memo: a design shift at Microsoft? (Nov 9, 2005)

BplusD, a business design blog (Sep 16, 2005)

What happened to the IDEO shopping cart? (Sep 6, 2005)

Hundred-year Mission (Aug 16, 2005)

Playing the Game Large (Dec 16, 2004)

Kano Taxonomy of Customer Needs (Nov 15, 2004)

The Parable of the New Coke (Nov 9, 2004)