Thinking out loud

Infographic by PPC Blog

Below is a presentation by Jesse Schell at DICE 2010 “Design Outside the Box” Conference explaining what’s next in gaming. Interesting points throughout. Great food for thought.

All feature comparisons can be over-used for product management and consumer product selection. They are useful for comparing features but many products succeed or fail based on a lot of other factors. Focusing on feature grids can really blind you to the potential for your product and what you are trying to build. Some important things don’t usually show up in feature grids like support quality, reliability, user experience, and product ecosystem. A bad product can have a great grid and a great product can have a bad grid – don’t take your eyes off your strategy and the customer experiences. Some of these grids actually make that point without trying to. Below are some amusing grids that were created to compare features of the iPad to other products.

iPad vs Kindle vs Rock « Amnesia Blog.

iPad v. A Rock.

74% of apps listed in the app store are paid. Average listed price of an app (including free): 3.63 x .74 = 2.70 (with rounding)

via UPDATED: The Apple App Store Economy – GigaOM.

via STI International – Service Web 3.0 – The Future Internet Video – medium.

There are some interesting elements in this video. I’ve definitely been discussing and reading about the semantic web for at least a decade now. I think that someone once referred to the semantic web as Web 2.0 at one time (before we had a different Web 2.0 concept). Anyway, this is an interesting demonstration of some things that some of us have been thinking about – and perhaps some will implement some additional new executed ideas around soon.

Google’s filed a patent entitled “Claiming Real Estate in Panoramic or 3D Mapping Environments for Advertising,” and it should allow them to automagically cut out billboards shown in Street View and replace them with their own current ads.

via Google May Insert Real-Time Ads Onto Old Billboards in Street View – street view – Gizmodo.

Check out this guy’s augmented reality business card…

AR Business Card from James Alliban on Vimeo.

I just launched a site that Tomorrow’s Trends followers may be interested in. It is called LinqMax.

If you are a user of Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, FriendFeed, or Gmail and like to share links then this may be a service you might be interested in. It is pretty basic and simple, but that is how I like it. Basically, you add a button to your browser bar. As you surf the web you can click on the button that adds a bar across the top of your web page. You can then share with friends on your favorite social websites and email. It also has voting and discussion capabilities if you choose to log in and use that functionality. It is integrated with Google and Yahoo! so that you can login using your existing login and password.

Check it out if you are interested.

LinqMax

Cool video of Steve Jobs presenting the Macintosh in 1984: