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Apple is the Zeitgeist Company

The launch of the iPad yesterday put an exclamation mark on an increasingly obvious point: Apple is the company that has captured the cultural zeitgeist. The massive hype leading up to the event - apparently achieved in a groundswell with very little effort on Apple's part - shows that they really are the "It" company right now.

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Can Innovation Exist Without Lying?

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What Good is Design Research?

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How Google Decides to Pull the Plug

Google pulled the plug on several products recently which were not doing so well, including competitors for Twitter and Second Life. Does Google have a similar intent as GE, where if they are not number one in their industry then they pull out? Things are probably not that draconian at Google, but an article on the NY Times sheds some light on how they choose what to continue and what to cancel:

When evaluating nascent projects, Google takes a hard look at interest — and in these cases, the interest simply wasn’t there.

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Palm Treo Pro and Satisfying Needs

A few weeks ago I wrote an article about the new Palm Treo Pro, and I was fairly critical of the new smartphone. Why? Basically because I felt that it was good, but "good" isn't good enough in today’s dynamic smartphone market. To delve a bit more deeply into this I thought it might be interesting to use the Kano model as some people may not not familiar with this approach.

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Lessons in Innovation from Spore

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New Palm Treo Pro: Not digging it

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