Archive for April, 2010

Web 2.0 innovations helped us make new connections and devise new business methods. The rise of location-aware tools, linked with the growing ubiquity of real-time devices, social software , and mobile technologies, is driving these technologies off the web into human hands and the real world.

Place is central to our being in the world. It informs our online and in-person experiences, our business models, and our ability to change the world. Location information is a force for both opportunity and disruption, which will change the way we interact with everything we consume. Read More …

Place, and the ways that technology changes people’s experience of place is an important current in the development of new products and services.  In place context is everything. I once worked on a project on technology enhanced places called La Piazza. Whilst the Piazza lifestyle is all right for my colleagues from Mediterranean climes, I think we Irish and Welsh evolved the pub to avoid hanging around outside.  Does that mean that we who live on the damp edge of the Atlantic can evolve different location technologies? Read More …

Inventorium is set up to create new enterprises from conversations that might not have otherwise happened. As one of the co-authors of the Inventorium proposal I had thoughts about what new partnerships and fresh thinking might happen- illustrative examples. Although history will overtake these fake examples, here are some to share. Read More …