Assorted Links and Thoughts on Second Screen
Most think of a second screen experience as one narrowly defined around viewing and engaging with content related to what is happening on a different (first) screen at the same time. Just see the first paragraph of the Wikipedia page for “second screen:” Second screen, sometimes also referred to as “companion device” (or “companion apps” […]
Contextualization through Adaptive Curation
I wrote early about the direction of curation and wanted to expand on this topic. Last week I heard Cory Haik, executive producer for digital news at the Washington Post speak the NVTC’s Destination Innovation event at which I was a judge. She spoke about and also recently wrote regarding what she refers to as “adaptive journalism.” […]
Assorted Links
IHS IMS Research predicts Google Glass will sell 50K units in 2012, 124K in 2013, 434,000 in 2014, 2.17 million in 2015, and 6.6 million in 2016. Forecast seems low in the near-term years and high for the further out years in my opinion. The Ten Commandments of sales from Dan Cole AT&T recently launched their home […]
This Week in Sensors
and a few articles I’ve missed over the last few weeks: Robots with odor sensors alert you to bad breath not exactly sensor related, but an increasing number of airlines are looking at charging passengers by weight. Samoa Air is already charging by weight. With the broad digitization of everything, one could imagine that in the […]
The Future of the Newspaper and the Modern Colonial Tavern
There has been much written about how digital is broadly changing news dissemination, but beyond simple replacement of the paper alternative and an acceleration of “news” to satisfy an always-on consumer, I think there is a deeper change afoot. Yes, “traditional news” is undergoing significant change through the direct and indirect influences of digitization – […]
The Direction of Curation
Several changes are underfoot which could be shifting the direction of curation. Over the last 24 months major content distribution platforms have been steadily moving towards becoming more curation focused. Curation feels like the natural evolution of content. As companies try to move up the value chain they become more focused on curation. As they seek […]
How More Cameras Could Stop Terror
Jonathan Turley wrote last week that more surveillance would not likely stop the type of violence we witnessed in the Boston Marathon bombing. Turley writes, “as a thousand papercuts from countless new laws and surveillance systems slowly kill our privacy, we might want to ask whether a fishbowl society will actually make us safer or just […]
Assorted Links
The New York Times on the next Federal Reserve Chairman. I’ve had the opportunity to meet with Janet Yellen on several occasions. She is insightful and extremely pleasant. She is definitely a “small lady with a large I.Q.” During the first two years of the nation’s economic recovery, the mean net worth of households in the upper […]
Best Buy’s European Exit: Thoughts on What Scales Well
Yesterday Best Buy announced they were exiting Europe through the sale of the 50 percent stake in their European joint venture to their partner in the JV – Carphone Warehouse. The deal totals roughly $775M – 573M in cash at closing, $124M in common stock of Carphone Warehouse with a 1-yr lockup period, $39M in […]
Lessons from Little League: Motivation
With three boys playing baseball, I spend every evening on the baseball diamond and the hours after I get home are often filled with more batting practice in the basement. I’ve learned a lot about baseball, boys, and myself through coaching over the last 5 years. I thought I’d share a few of these life […]
