The World, Filtered*

Are the iPhone and social networks making the classic Web and intranet obsolete?
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Hinchcliffe/?p=1007

“There’s been an important and relatively sudden change taking place over the last couple of years in the way that we interact with the Web. While direct access or search activity has been (and still is) the most common way that we access the content and applications of the Web, new ways have been rapidly growing and competing with how we work online, both at home and at work.

Thus these new models, exemplified by social networking sites like Facebook or mobile apps on platforms like the iPhone, Palm’s new webOS, and Android, will ultimately herald a change in the way that we work with our IT systems in the enterprise.

The once relatively unified world of the Internet, with a few major top-level types of access directly connected to it (browser, e-mail, IRC client, newsreader, etc.) and a few key sub-apps such as search that virtually everyone online used have been extended — as well as fragmented — into popular new channels into which users are now rapidly moving en masse.”

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Why Design Thinking Matters
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/oct2009/id20091026_228986.htm?campaign_id=rss_innovate

“"Design thinking" proponent and business school dean Roger Martin argues that the discipline provides executives with competitive advantage critical for success”

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No Need to Unplug
http://www.ideaconnection.com/new-inventions/no-need-to-unplug-02943.html

“No need to unplug your gadgets. With a simple twist the universal Switch plug disengages the plug from the power source.
The power connection is closed when the plug is not in the socket, and the socket cannot be turned unless the plug is fully inserted.”

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Now Use Google Voice With Your Existing Phone Number
http://mashable.com/2009/10/26/google-voice-existing/

“One of the sticking points with the otherwise highly convenient Google Voice service has been that you had a choose a new number to use with the service. If you had an existing number that everyone already knew and wanted to switch over, you were pretty much out of luck.

Luckily that changes today, with tonight’s Google announcement that you can now use Google Voice () with an existing phone number. Also notably, you can now add Google () voicemail service to any of the mobile numbers linked to your account. Think of it a bit like Gmail for voicemail.”

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