read in Fortune: "There should be someone at every company whose job is to put into Google and blog search engines the name of the company or the brand, followed by the word 'sucks,' just to see what customers are saying." ...
[LifeHack] How to be creative
Few tips on the classical topic 'how to be creative': So you want to be more creative, in art, in business, whatever. Here are some tips that have worked for me over the years:1. Ignore everybody: The more original your idea is, the less good advice other people will be able to give you. When I fir...
[Misc] Valuable Back to the Future resource
A P&V reader just told me that he started a new blog about Back to the Future (in french). It's IMO one of the best resource on precisely geeky things concerning the trilogy. ...
[Research] 6 techniques to evaluate mobile computing usability
Kjeldskov J. and Stage J. (2004) "New Techniques for Usability Evaluation of Mobile Systems". International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (IJHCS) Elsevier, 60(2004):599-620. Usability evaluation of systems for mobile computers and devices is an emerging area of research. This paper presents and...
[Weird] Dog seatbelts
Now that they have psychoanalysts, dogs deserve to put seatbelts in cars... BMW launched an ugly pet seatbelt. I am definitely not a dog person. ...
[Prospective] Marketing shift: detractors are in
Capitalism, as a tentacular and always-shifting economic form always incoporate/digest/swallow new kind of behavior (see for instance what Joseph Stiglitz describes about anti-globalisation). Guy Debord would be delighted to know that now detractors (= persistent critics of a company or product tha...
[Weird] Hello Kitty Crop Circle
There seems to be Hello Kitty crop circles (picture by Derrick Santini © Sanrio 74-2004) ...
[LifeHack] Tailgating employees of Apple R&D facility
I like this kind of story, told in wired Avitzur sneaked into Apple's California HQ for six months to write a software program that, through luck and hard work, is still included on every Mac sold today.Unemployed and living on savings, Avitzur worked 12-hour days, seven days a week, to create Grap...
[Locative media] free-of-copyright street level maps of London
Nice collaborative cartography project: UO Faculty of Cartography We're making free-of-copyright street level maps of London, starting in the East End and working outwards. If you feel you need to know why, read our WhyLondonFreeMap document. We plan to rapidly develop evocative prototypes, working...
[Space and Place] Map of Geneva Free WiFi Coverage
Useful for people like me who leaves in Geneva, this map has been made by esprit de genève and published in la tribune de genève ...