http://experienceisking.com This blog explores new forms of experience, economy, perceptions, information and innovation Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:09:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   Last week I was in a village in the rural hinterlands of West Bengal in India on a field research. I observed that they use a certain interesting method to share the local community information. It is done in a way that uses 'Public Information Landmarks' to distribute ... http://experienceisking.com/developing-world-markets/hyperlocal-how-community-information-shared-in-rural-societies/ Lately many parallel streams of development in Cloud Computing are making significant progress to bring about a new way of information processing impacting a large number of users, including enterprises and communities around the world. Gartner predicts that "Cloud Application Infrastructure Technology Needs Seven Years to Mature." Gartner said that ... http://experienceisking.com/emerging-markets/clouds-for-the-masses/ Recently I found this good case study on how to create a customer experience strategy by design. I particularly liked the way the experience attributes were synthesized through a thorough design process. Note how the brand characteristics are discovered, experience elements are defined & the whole program is aligned and ... http://experienceisking.com/design/customer-experience-strategy-by-design-case-study-of-teliasonera/          In a recent interview, John Quelch, professor and author of the Harvard Business Review article "How to Market in a Downturn", has talked about a very interesting psychographics of consumers in the time of a financial crisis. He sees a few emerging segments of consumer's psychology while making important ... http://experienceisking.com/business/psych-of-a-crisis/ The rich web apps are bringing in more & more interesting patterns in the interaction model. Visual interaction is really emerging as a powerful way people respond, manipulate and intermediate... Think about it...it is like a non-verbal communication, more visceral, more emotional and definitely more intuitive.  The Symbaloo web application. It ... http://experienceisking.com/cscw/picture-it/ Rich Apps are here. Page sites are gone. Internet is wearing a new look. Sites are looking more and more like applications. There are Micro-apps and Widgets, RSS & AJAX! Suddenly the Web looks very WYSIWYG, responsive! It's all good. We hear about the quantam leap in the quality of experiences ... http://experienceisking.com/future-of-internet/sharing-rich-web-pages/   In a very interesting twist, the recent wave of popularity of the 'Twitter' is somewhat on the wane. Part of the reason is that, much though it claimed to be a 'Spot Yourself' application, it never gave any geographical cue. If you looked at 'Twitter' App site, it just looks ... http://experienceisking.com/enterprise/loopt-intweet-out/ Today 'Social Networks' are a way of life. We see it in every possible web based service or application that we use. Sometimes we even wonder if all these 'sociability' actually serve their purpose in our respective information environments. So is 'Social Networking' only a business model for ... http://experienceisking.com/future-of-internet/social-translucence-in-our-everyday-web-places/ Recent buzz about the gPhone being designed by the ADG (Ammunition Design Group) of San Fransisco may or may not have been confirmed by the honchos of the company, but what is almost certain is Google's unmistakable ambition to enter the mobile web space in a big way. Typically, ... http://experienceisking.com/enterprise/gphone-or-android-the-philosophy-says-it-all/ A quick preview of Don Norman's next work "Design of Future Things", looks intriguing in the 1st chapter itself. He discusses the idiom of interaction between human and smart systems that are going to have a lot of work delegated to, in the years to come. His unique insights ... http://experienceisking.com/book-review/two-monologues-do-not-make-a-dialogue-preview-of-normans-design-of-future-things/