by Brian Prentice | January 31, 2009 | Comments Off
No, this is neither a prediction or an imminent possibility! But I’m just wondering – what if Google went bankrupt? I think this question is extremely pertinent in the light of our current economic fiasco. At the moment we’re learning a very painful and very expensive lesson. To avoid the systemic collapse of an industry [...]
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by Brian Prentice | January 23, 2009 | 1 Comment
With Microsoft’s announcement of their financial results and the impending reduction of 5000 employees – their first major layoff – I find myself thinking back on one of the more profound experiences I had in my professional life. It was the late 80′s. I was a young man who had been working at Apple for [...]
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by Brian Prentice | January 20, 2009 | Comments Off
Boy oh boy – my digital life just keeps getting better! Just last year, as I was starting to use the MP3 feature of my phone, Apple made me realize I could use the phone feature of my MP3 player. Of course, I’ve been known to listen to music on my GPS device while I’m [...]
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by Brian Prentice | January 13, 2009 | Comments Off
Well, it turns out that the ballyhoo over the 2 Google search = 1 cup of hot tea’s worth of CO2 emission is turning out to be hot air itself. It turns out that the 7 grams of CO2 per search was a misquote from physicist Alex Wissner-Gross who has been working on a set [...]
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by Brian Prentice | January 11, 2009 | 7 Comments
Some interesting research from J.P. Morgan has been doing the rounds recently. Internet analyst Imran Khan (not to be confused with the legendary Pakistani cricket player of the same name) first looked at the most frequently used search engines and found: He then asked people what it would take to for them switch search engines. [...]
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by Brian Prentice | January 6, 2009 | 1 Comment
Thomas Otter has been posting a number of thoughtful blogs on the topic of user interface design. Design is a topic near and dear to my heart. It is my firmly held view that one of the ramifications of the consumerization of IT is that enterprise IT will either become “design-focused” or it will become [...]
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