Does augmented reality need to use the camera?
I blogged about Dutch virtual reality business Layar last week and I spent 20 minutes last night playing with the app whilst I was waiting for a friend to come meet me for a drink in north London. As...
View ArticleSmartphones as sensor platforms for health tracking
Earlier in the year I wrote a couple of posts about the future of healthcare from a consumer products perspective. One of my points was that data gathered from smart phones and specialist wireless...
View ArticleWhen consumer internet companies should get a business model
Frank Lee, who is a new partner at Lightbank, the VC behind Groupon gave an interview to Business Insider last week. His comment on consumer internet companies and business models summed up my own...
View ArticleOn social network transience and profitability
Consider this piece of logic from Derek Powazek: The flow, as I see it, works like this. We want to be a social network. The more people in it, the more “value” it has, so we need everyone to join....
View ArticleBuilding habit forming consumer internet services
I’ve just spent an hour reading the excellent nirandfar blog by Stanford psychology and business lecturer Nir Eyal. The most important post sets out Nir’s concept of the Desire Engine which is a...
View ArticleWinning services help people do what they already want to do
My friend Sokratis posted a link to the video below in a comment on the post I wrote Wednesday about building habit forming consumer services. The main point of that post was introducing Nir Eyal’s...
View ArticleThe changing dynamics of consumer internet investing
Fred Wilson wrote yesterday about changes in the consumer web and their implications for startups. Frist he observed that the large platforms (Google, Facebook, Amazon, MSFT, Twitter, etc) are...
View ArticleCustomer segmentation and the need for good data
There was a good post on Gamesbrief a couple of days back about customer segmentation – i.e. dividing the customer base into groups based on behavioural characteristics and targeting each group with...
View ArticleDesigning for viral growth
I don’t post many infographics here, but this is a great one. It covers concepts like the viral co-fficient and time through the viral loop and lists out a bunch of tactics for increasing virality....
View ArticleMore musings on passwords–solution needs to be easier as well as more secure
Last week I wrote about my frustration with passwords. A number of you chipped in saying you shared the feeling and a few of you suggested services that can help with the problem. These services break...
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