KonzeptioNerd

Back to the Farm?

In her 2001 book, technology / sociotechnology journalist Katie Hafner tells the story of abut 15 years of The Well - the first online community to turn into a brand, the oldest online community we’re still talking about and the quasi paradisical state all online communities aspire to return to (not). Hafner chose to tell [...]

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It’s the customers, stupid

Once more, Gerry McGovern:
The first thing I think about in the morning is my customers and the last thing I think about in the evening is my customers.
I like being around customers. I love observing them as they use my website. I’m a good listener and observer.
I believe that website management is a process of [...]

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Bashing the blurb

I usually have a hard time finishing Gerry McGovern’s New Thinking because I can’t scroll very well with two thumbs up (maybe the new MacBook Air with its ingenious multitouch technology could be of help here?). But last week’s instalment? (Great websites do, not say, Jan 14, 2008)
McGovern apparently has a bone to grind (or [...]

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Shaping Things

I think I first read about Shaping Things on Peter Merholze’s blog. And at any rate, the prospect of reading Bruce Sterling (whose fiction writing I appreciate) on (product) design was quite appealing. However, I guess I need to adopt a different strategy if I hope to get anyone to click through my Amazon links [...]

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Pickup

Sabine Raffel’s and my article on Ingame Advertising got picked up by the December feature on CRMmanager: Ingame Advertising - Neue Wege zur Zielgruppe. Allegedly, a subscriber-only supplement to Internet World Business (print) also carried it, but I never got the proofs, so I cannot really say…
Anyway, it’s always nice to see ones work get [...]

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