When companies successfully design for online discovery, people are delivered the information they need before they realize they need it. But as Facebook’s newsfeed experiment reminded us, the challenge is to… Read more »
I encountered Here On Biz, a new business social network, that is trying to leverage the mobile lifestyle as a point of entry to this somewhat crowded market place. Here On… Read more »
I saw a demo of Spreadd in Lisbon this morning. The tool is a very interesting application, a social appliance that runs in the background, automatically building user profiles based on… Read more »
I don’t mean gambling, exactly. But people at many companies are trying to take a chance on others, by setting up programs the increase coincidensity: fostering chance interactions by not leaving… Read more »
I was talking with Jennifer Magnolfi, a leading proponent of the new thinking behind workplace design and its impact on innovation, creativity, and work culture. Since I had her on the… Read more »
The Janus Friis-backed serendipitous browsing tool is now available and, based on a pre-launch play-around, there really is something new and interesting in there. Read more »
The way that social-media tools like Twitter, Foursquare and Instagram have changed our lives is often taken for granted, but the way that they can inject some much-needed serendipity into our… Read more »
Media guru Clay Shirky once famously said that the problem of the modern age isn’t information overload at all, it’s “filter failure” — and many new services have been built to… Read more »
Serendipity is often talked about by those interested in search and discovery tools, but defining it proves to be something of a problem. At its core, though, serendipity is about surfacing… Read more »
Like many of us, I spend quite a lot of time on the web and come across a staggering number of interesting things. In Clearing The Cache I pull out some… Read more »