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Use technology to make life better
24 April 09 12:20 AM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

Use technology to make life better – for your family, friends, neighbors, customers, suppliers, partners, and yourself. Sounds obvious, and yet sometimes it’s not. Take the so called “mobile web”, which excels primarily in sucking. So often people try Read More...

Filed under: innovation, mobile, consumer value stream

Social graph analytics for the *benefit* of users
10 March 09 09:55 PM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

Angus Logan, a Product Manager on the Live Services team, came out with an interesting post recently on address book portability between social sites/services.  The thrust of his argument is that the various address book repositories in the world Read More...

Filed under: social networking, consumer value stream

steelcase blog: Docs for Change…, The Tao of OBA and S+S
15 January 08 05:06 AM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

Saw this today. Mark Greiner, who runs Steelcase's "Workspace Futures" team spoke at a Transformation, a Symposium on Innovative Health Care Delivery recently at the Mayo Clinic. Among the speakers that stood out to Mark was Michael Howe, CEO of MinuteClinic. Read More...

Filed under: S+S, Software + Services, consumer value stream, OBA

Surface, Popfly, Photosynth, Silverlight, Windows Live Platform, and consumer value stream links
15 December 07 02:39 AM | john.mullinax | 1 Comments   

Was talking to some folks the other day about some of the cool stuff emerging from Microsoft, and after mentioning to folks they could learn more on this blog, I got request to consolidate some links together into a single post. Voila! :-) Surface Popfly Read More...

Filed under: silverlight, Popfly, Surface, Windows Live, consumer value stream, Photosynth

The consumer value stream mind set
12 November 07 07:47 PM | john.mullinax | 6 Comments   

I saw this today, and it cracked me up. It's an insightful (and funny!) one-panel exposition on the importance of understanding consumer motivations -- the things that are important to them, what they are trying to accomplish. In microeconomic terms -- Read More...

Filed under: UX, User Experience, consumer experience, Brand, consumer value stream