It targets people. It focuses on users. And Apple lets them decide how and where they’ll use its products.
This sounds simple, but in my experience very few companies think this way. Most startups write business plans that dredge up IDC data on market size, then define their target market (e.g., “Global 2000 [...]

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But the most interesting thing Pleasants noted was that he recently heard (from his own source, apparently) that half of all users on Facebook now play social games. More impressively, 40% of total usage time on the service is spent on these games. That’s meaningful, of course, because “a huge amount the Internet is on [...]

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Only a Game: Top Ten Videogame Emotions

June 13, 2010 Uncategorized

http://onlyagame.typepad.com/only_a_game/2008/04/top-ten-videoga.html
Sent from my iPhone
Posted via email from John Whalen’s Posterous

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How to be a Gov 2.0 Ninja @lostonroute66 #g2e #gov20 #ux #ixd #ogov

May 26, 2010 Uncategorized

Focus on Pillbox
Has API – drive traffic to it
Pillbox by phone – queries pillbox by speaking – created by student at GWU – created it in 3 weeks
There’s an IM version of it tool
iPhone Pill Discovery App – someone scraped our data and made the app
PharmvilleRx – prescribe meds, does teach about meds, even if irreverent
Sharing [...]

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Democratizing Content: Gary Vaynerchuk @garyvee #g2e #gov20 #crushit

May 26, 2010 Uncategorized

Built $60M job w/ Web 1.0 strategy
How I built brand, and amazing opportunity
America is the brand that sold my parents
Not techie, not interested in platform.  Like message.
Disrupted my marketplace in 24 months
We have been in push business for last 70 years
Now in pull business
Writing new book on ROI of new media.
Interesting idea: Raise your hand: “How [...]

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Creating Passionite Citizens: Kathy Sierra #g2e #gov20 #ux #ixd

May 26, 2010 Uncategorized

Gov Social Media fantasy: Open Data; ????; Passion!   < really???
No, so we need to see what people are really interested in and passionate about
You hear more the more you’ve learned about music, or see more if stargazer 
High resolution means deeper dive.  Must find a way to enable “kicking ass & higher res”
Don’t make a better [...]

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Berners-Lee: Open, Linked Data for a Global Community #g2e #gov20 #semanticweb

May 26, 2010 Uncategorized

Tim Berners-Lee

Four levels: Putting info up, making it accessible, give it location and linking it.
Name: not crisps – called potato ships – local name
Working on potato chips labeling…nutrition facts, serving size, calories – that’s what people look for in US
Bar code – language understood globally by machines
Need common schema and link the different sets of [...]

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The Pillars of Gov 2.0 #g2e #gov20 #cloud #australia

May 26, 2010 Uncategorized

Senator Kate Lundy @katelundy

Australian government – seeing a lot in UK, US, and Canada
Pillars: Democratizing data, make information publicly available in useful open format.  Attitude and practice needed. (GovHack)
Citizen-Centric Services: always up-to-date.  Not obscured by org-chart of gov.  Give personal detail based on personal info they are willing to provide.
Participatory Government: always been there with [...]

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Unlocking Real-Time Data #g2e #gov20 #cloud

May 26, 2010 Uncategorized

Joshua Rubin, Unlocking Real-Time Data

Unlocking real-time – why hard?
National weather service is open…so consumers have lots of choices
Opened up MBTA (Boston) data, several apps built quickly for schedule
Traditional model: countdown system, then shared.  What if we shared first bus location system first.
Provided real-time data feed.  W/in 1 hour someon had it on google maps, 1 [...]

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Cloud Computing Services: O’Reilly chat w/ Google and City of LA. #g2e #cloud #gov2

May 26, 2010 Uncategorized

Randy Levin (City of LA), Dave Girourd (Google), O’Reilly

Going to cloud, saving $500M
Novell currently for email.
End of RFP process what would need is going to google and leapfrog
Google – biggest cloud objectives

who owns data
how is it managed
data distributed over massive computing infrastructure

Google: not trying to lock people in
O’R: do you feel locked in?  
L: No [...]

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