Comments for sviokla.com blog http://sviokla.com/context musings on money and other things... Sun, 01 Aug 2010 07:13:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 Comment on Interface Tips from Pablo Picasso and Google… by sviokla.com blog : When Zombies Mate: A thought experiment about the merger of GM and Sirius XM http://sviokla.com/context/2009/02/interface_tips_from_pablo_picasso_and_google.html/comment-page-1#comment-223 sviokla.com blog : When Zombies Mate: A thought experiment about the merger of GM and Sirius XM Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:35:37 +0000 http://sviokla.com/context/2009/02/interface_tips_from_pablo_picasso_and_google.html#comment-223 [...] information in the car.  Nokia, not GM, bought Navteq – Garmin’s big competitor.  I blogged recently about the power of the map as an interface, and what more natural home for it than the [...] [...] information in the car.  Nokia, not GM, bought Navteq – Garmin’s big competitor.  I blogged recently about the power of the map as an interface, and what more natural home for it than the [...]

]]> Comment on Interface Tips from Pablo Picasso and Google… by zssachen http://sviokla.com/context/2009/02/interface_tips_from_pablo_picasso_and_google.html/comment-page-1#comment-222 zssachen Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:52:44 +0000 http://sviokla.com/context/2009/02/interface_tips_from_pablo_picasso_and_google.html#comment-222 John, Interesting post. Seems map is a relative term regardless of one's perspective (virtual or physical). I imagine there may be a new definitions and terms to describe our (perceived) locations (with the addition of virtual worlds we can be in two+ places at once).. Anyhow, consider the ad potential for Google Latitude. I have been using it on my mobile: http://www.google.com/latitude/intro.html Easy to use and privacy settings are straight forward and easy to configure. I use it to mainly contact friends and coworkers when I am in the same city they are. Luckily no ads yet... although I am sure they will build it if we keep coming. -Zach John,
Interesting post. Seems map is a relative term regardless of one’s perspective (virtual or physical). I imagine there may be a new definitions and terms to describe our (perceived) locations (with the addition of virtual worlds we can be in two+ places at once).. Anyhow, consider the ad potential for Google Latitude. I have been using it on my mobile:
http://www.google.com/latitude/intro.html
Easy to use and privacy settings are straight forward and easy to configure. I use it to mainly contact friends and coworkers when I am in the same city they are. Luckily no ads yet… although I am sure they will build it if we keep coming.
-Zach

]]> Comment on What Would Darwin Do?: Musings on his 200th Birthday by Leadership for a Networked World… - Chasing the Rabbit by Steven Spear http://sviokla.com/context/2009/02/why_all_leaders_should_be_more_like_darwin_musings_on_his_200th_birthday.html/comment-page-1#comment-220 Leadership for a Networked World… - Chasing the Rabbit by Steven Spear Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:00:53 +0000 http://sviokla.com/context/2009/02/why_all_leaders_should_be_more_like_darwin_musings_on_his_200th_birthday.html#comment-220 [...] another take on the program, please visit a blog posting by John Sviokla, now of Diamond Consulting, and of Harvard Business School for twelve [...] [...] another take on the program, please visit a blog posting by John Sviokla, now of Diamond Consulting, and of Harvard Business School for twelve [...]

]]> Comment on What Any Leader Can Learn from Microsoft’s $44.6 Billion Yahoo Tender by alsargent http://sviokla.com/context/2008/02/what_any_leader_can_learn_from_microsofts_446_billion_yahoo_tender.html/comment-page-1#comment-209 alsargent Mon, 26 May 2008 06:59:33 +0000 http://sviokla.com/context/2008/02/what_any_leader_can_learn_from_microsofts_446_billion_yahoo_tender.html#comment-209 John, nice analysis. However, "shutting down" Zimbra would be difficult since it is also available as an open source project. Even if Microsoft dissolved the Zimbra team within Yahoo, but the Zimbra source code would still be out in the wild. John, nice analysis. However, “shutting down” Zimbra would be difficult since it is also available as an open source project. Even if Microsoft dissolved the Zimbra team within Yahoo, but the Zimbra source code would still be out in the wild.

]]> Comment on MyHealthspace: Forget dating, we’re dying here! by Turner http://sviokla.com/context/2006/07/myhealthspace_forget_dating_were_dying_here.html/comment-page-1#comment-174 Turner Thu, 02 Nov 2006 17:40:37 +0000 http://sviokla.com/context/2006/07/myhealthspace_forget_dating_were_dying_here.html#comment-174 I've found www.carepages.com very useful in following a young cousin's progress as she fights cancer. The web site is trying to address the unique communications needs among family and friends when someone is ill and/or hospitalized. The twists on a basic message board model are simple but effective in addressing everyone's need to communicate as well as the immediate family's need to consolidate communications. I’ve found http://www.carepages.com very useful in following a young cousin’s progress as she fights cancer. The web site is trying to address the unique communications needs among family and friends when someone is ill and/or hospitalized. The twists on a basic message board model are simple but effective in addressing everyone’s need to communicate as well as the immediate family’s need to consolidate communications.

]]> Comment on Is Context King? by John Julius Sviokla http://sviokla.com/context/2006/07/is_context_king.html/comment-page-1#comment-172 John Julius Sviokla Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:43:28 +0000 http://sviokla.com/context/2006/07/is_context_king.html#comment-172 Thanks for the pointers. I don't mind being scooped by Saffo (even if it was 10 years ago). Actually, Jeff Rayport and I wrote about context in an October 1993 working paper at Harvard Business School. So, contemporaneous. Thanks for the pointers. I don’t mind being scooped by Saffo (even if it was 10 years ago). Actually, Jeff Rayport and I wrote about context in an October 1993 working paper at Harvard Business School. So, contemporaneous.

]]> Comment on Is Context King? by Sean Murphy http://sviokla.com/context/2006/07/is_context_king.html/comment-page-1#comment-164 Sean Murphy Wed, 13 Sep 2006 07:20:39 +0000 http://sviokla.com/context/2006/07/is_context_king.html#comment-164 You might check out this 1994 Wired article by Paul Saffo "It's the Context Stupid" http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.03/context.html also available here: http://www.saffo.com/essays/contextstupid.php his first paragraph endorses your insight. "It's the content, stupid." This catchy apothegm [is] now the mantra of an infant new media industry. [...] As compelling as this phrase may be, it is also dead wrong. It is not content but context that will matter most a decade or so from now. The scarce resource will not be stuff, but point of view. [...] The future belongs to neither the conduit or content players, but those who control the filtering, searching, and sense-making tools we will rely on to navigate through the expanses of cyberspace. You might check out this 1994 Wired article by Paul Saffo
“It’s the Context Stupid”
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.03/context.html
also available here:
http://www.saffo.com/essays/contextstupid.php

his first paragraph endorses your insight.

“It’s the content, stupid.” This catchy apothegm [is] now the mantra of an infant new media industry. [...] As compelling as this phrase may be, it is also dead wrong. It is not content but context that will matter most a decade or so from now. The scarce resource will not be stuff, but point of view.
[...]
The future belongs to neither the conduit or content players, but those who control the filtering, searching, and sense-making tools we will rely on to navigate through the expanses of cyberspace.

]]> Comment on MyHealthspace: Forget dating, we’re dying here! by Unity Stoakes http://sviokla.com/context/2006/07/myhealthspace_forget_dating_were_dying_here.html/comment-page-1#comment-109 Unity Stoakes Tue, 05 Sep 2006 21:28:01 +0000 http://sviokla.com/context/2006/07/myhealthspace_forget_dating_were_dying_here.html#comment-109 We aren't distributing the press release until next week, but you and your readers may be interested to know we are launching a health-focused social networking site called OrganizedWisdom (http://www.organizedwisdom.com) in a few days. Our goal is to make it easy for patients, physicians, health professionals and health organizations to collaborate and share health wisdom. Our first version has a great set of features, but we have many more of the features you write about in development now. While we are in just the beginning stages of building this new health community, your suggestions and feedback would be very much appreciated. For marketing info about what we are building visit www.organizedwisdom.info. Thanks for a great post! We aren’t distributing the press release until next week, but you and your readers may be interested to know we are launching a health-focused social networking site called OrganizedWisdom (http://www.organizedwisdom.com) in a few days. Our goal is to make it easy for patients, physicians, health professionals and health organizations to collaborate and share health wisdom. Our first version has a great set of features, but we have many more of the features you write about in development now. While we are in just the beginning stages of building this new health community, your suggestions and feedback would be very much appreciated. For marketing info about what we are building visit http://www.organizedwisdom.info. Thanks for a great post!

]]> Comment on Is Context King? by John Dodds http://sviokla.com/context/2006/07/is_context_king.html/comment-page-1#comment-106 John Dodds Fri, 01 Sep 2006 18:29:56 +0000 http://sviokla.com/context/2006/07/is_context_king.html#comment-106 This is a theme that was echoed at the recent Edinburgh television festival last weekend. This is a theme that was echoed at the recent Edinburgh television festival last weekend.

]]> Comment on Marketing Remix (with Antony Paoni) by John Dodds http://sviokla.com/context/2006/04/marketing_remix_with_antony_paoni.html/comment-page-1#comment-105 John Dodds Fri, 01 Sep 2006 18:28:38 +0000 http://sviokla.com/context/2006/04/marketing_remix_with_antony_paoni.html#comment-105 I come to this very late and am not in great disagreement with you, but it is disingenuous to suggest that positioning was ever one of the 4 Ps. The fourth P was and is product and is increasingly the most important P as you acknowledge in your introductory remarks. I come to this very late and am not in great disagreement with you, but it is disingenuous to suggest that positioning was ever one of the 4 Ps. The fourth P was and is product and is increasingly the most important P as you acknowledge in your introductory remarks.

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