Category: Innovation

  • Precision in search is the key

    If you’ve ever wondered how searching for information on the web works, and why Google seems to produce accurate results search after search – thankfully, it seems to me, in spite of what you type in that search box at…

  • The overwhelming appeal of self-creating your own iPhone app (and soon for Android)

    When I heard about AppMakr last week, a website that lets you create your own iPhone app for $199, I thought, wow! This is getting very affordable – anyone can now create an iPhone app in literally a few clicks,…

  • Campaign creativity in Latin America

    If Latin America is a business area of interest to you, a report by AdAge.com on marketing success stories in Latin America makes interesting reading. The report outlines ten companies that have done well in 2009 – nine of them…

  • Help Haiti via SMS donations

    Inspired by a report a few days ago in the New York Times on how making donations via text message on mobile phones in the US to support relief efforts in earthquake-devastated Haiti had raised over $2 million in donations,…

  • Apple’s tablet as the killer e-reader

    Ellee Seymour asked me if I’ve tried an e-reader yet, one of those gadgets that you use to read e-books. Something like a Sony Reader, perhaps, or an Amazon Kindle. I told Ellee that I hadn’t yet. I do read…