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Don’t look now honey but I think the internet just ate our economy.
As you have probably figured out by now this blog is focused on busting a few myths about the Internet. That’s why we always enjoy discover fresh data to explore. Not so much because there are lies,...
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Maybe it’s time to make that call?
Tomi Ahonen has been keeping us entertained with a series of posts on the Nokia sage. Everything from karaoke to an MBA meets cosmopolitan questionnaire. Next week I am anticipating the libretto to...
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There are no challenges in mobile, just sites not yet mobile optimised
I have Antoine RJ Wright to thank for the inspiration for this post. He has just retweeted a comment by Andrew Grill suggesting that “ …there are no challenges in mobile, just sites not yet mobile...
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It’s not what you play but how you play that matters
Today just a couple of mobile phone ads to illustrate what I mean by the mobile UX Design experience being all about creating activities that meld together the real world and the digital world. First...
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Is that a smartphone in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?
The headline on today’s post comes courtesy of a Tomi Ahonen retweet from a few weeks back. The line “Is that a smartphone in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?” is of course a word play on...
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More Google Economics. This time it’s Australia
Over the past 24 hours both the Australian and International media have picked up on the Deloitte’s report commissioned by Google that suggests the Internet’s contribution to Australia’s economic...
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The Brave New World of Google Economics
Take another look at the Google Economy in Australia and you can’t help but ask the question: If it costs upwards of 2.8% of GDP to make the transition from the old Telephone, Fax and Mail Catalogue...
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So you think you can dance?
Bronwen Katsaros from 9 Muses has asked a simple question stemming from my last post on Glissification and its discontents: Game in gamification, but what is gliss?...
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The Googlerola Twitterstorm
On the day that Google makes its next play in the mobile handset market and transforms itself into Googlerola through the purchase Motorola there is much to speculate and comment on. Acquiring IP, the...
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The Roadmap from Metcalfe’s Law to the Crowdsong Innovation Paradox
Not surprisingly with all this talk of memes and patterns on the new excapite blog I have been asked what is the excapite meme? My initial reaction was there is no excapite meme. If anything in...
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The global local mobile direct response platform
As I said when I first started writing this blog, there are many ways to cut the numbers if you want to explain just how disruptive the internet has been. Take advertising for example. If you want to...
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So what is the killer iPad app?
If the history of information technology has taught us one thing it is that there is the killer app that launches the platform and then there is the discovered app that revolutionizes the platform. For...
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So how much money can you make out of developing iPad apps?
Today there are over 80,000 iPad Apps and an estimated 250,000 iPad compatible iPhone Apps available for download in the App Store . Each day over 600 Apps are submitted to the App Store for approval....
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Internet Myth Number 2: Silicon Valley is the innovation leader
We have spent a lot of time here on excapite attempting to map what makes Silicon Valley so innovative. Is it the number of start-ups, the investors or the market leaders? But is the wrong question?...
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Internet Myth Number 1: The internet is disruptive.
Throughout the past 18 months we have explored the idea of just how disruptive the internet has been to the industries that it has reportedly revolutionised over the past 15 to 20 years. In each case...
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Some thoughts on the Google wallet strategy
As well as adding few Billions and Millions to my last post Greg Pudewell was kind enough to get in touch and ask a few questions about the blog. For example Is there only one MobCon or multiple...
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and yet the networked economies have been crushed
One of the most persistent myths we read about the Internet is the contribution that the Internet has made to economic growth. There have been endless reports and studies written on the topic during...
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Will we Point, Click, Search, Scan, Swipe See, Sign or Touch the Future?
We noted late last year that there had been an explosion in emerging mobile payments platforms. Since that time we have seen a lot more announcements by the handset manufacturers, credit card...
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Has the competitive advantage of the Mobile Apps Store been over valued?
I was reading Sam Brodie’s post on the challenges he is facing as a brand architect operating within Nokia and it has left me wondering if we are now over estimating the value of the “ubiquitous” App...
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Yes it’s true. Pizza Hut’s online pizza delivery business is the same size as...
I noticed in the report circulating around the web this morning that Dominos UK iPhone pizza orders top £1 million in just three months and the UK online sales – including orders taken through Domino’s...
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