This has been floating around marketing circles recently. One of the more creative uses of whats around you. How can you not double take and go in for a closer look. Really cool stuff,

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Seth Goodin wrote in his blog today, about the right process can leveraging intuition and how people are shouldn’t be afraid of process.

“Why are you afraid of process?

Is it because it gets in the way of intuition?

I spend a lot of time railing against organizations and teams that fall in love with process at the expense of innovation. This is not a post about that.”

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I agree with this post, however I sometimes confuse process with procedure. Some companies try to force a set way to do things. This is probably more procedure or best practices than it is process. I can only imagine their motivation is to prevent screw-ups. To me its like saying A) I don’t trust you to get the job done or understand what has to be done. B) Please dont innovate because we can’t control that C) We need a canned set of hours to get this done don’t go off the path.

Process if fine…I agree that Lots of creative people can have processes they can maximize their producitivity while still keeping their intuition alive and using process to measure or fit within a communication strategy or similar.

We see our product as part of the design process. You use your intuition to design your concepts. You post them for feedback and you rinse and repeat.

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If you watch American Inventor last week like me you may have seen the Wacom Cintiq in action. The Cintiq is basically an interactive display that combines a great lcd monitor with a wacom tablet. Basically you can draw on the screen directly with the pressure senstive pen. The Cintiq also has a cool coating on the screen which apparently makes it feel like you are drawing on real paper. On American Inventor, a product design firm handed over the pen to the inventor himself so that he can demonstrate his intentions right on the design they way he would with a sketch pad. It was cool, the guy didn’t have to know how to use photoshop or even a mouse. He just had to know how to use a pencil. Of course he could have just described verbally his corrections to the design but that’s not easy and sometimes not even possible. This is kinda what led us to ConceptShare in the first place. We know that people who are involved in the creation of anything you can see or hold, can really only discuss and or correct the thing using visual tools. Man, the Cintiq would be quite the demo tool for ConceptShare.

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Phillips patent app would force you to watch commercials, both live and recorded - Engadget

Ok in my book this is a bad idea …and i am in the marketing sphere.

Why do we need this …..so now not only are we forced to endure product placement within the shows themselves now they want to try and make me watch a TV Commercial.

“Phillips is trying to patent a method for flagging
digital TV content to not only prevent viewers from changing the channel during commercials in live broadcasts, but to
actually lock out fast-forwarding capabilities during ads in recorded programs as well. Even worse, the patent
specifically applies to the already widely-deployed Multimedia Home Platform (MHP)”

My solution is simple …..never ever buy another Phillips product …..not that i have in the past …but i can garuntee that i will never in the future.

Haven’t they learned anything? I hold the remote ….i paid for the TV ….i paid for the cable …..so where do they get the gaul to try and tell me that i cannot control the remote ….the last bastion of being a guy.

Picture these situations

- Any given Sunday during football season …..what do you mean i can’t check the Rams and Colts game during a commercial in the Bills and Giants game. Are you kidding me …..there will be anarchy …..

- Any given sunday during Nascar Season … so during a commercial a person can’t switch from the race to one of the custom incar race feeds on the specialty hd channels.

- Flipping between stations and i land on a commercial ….does that mean i am stuck on that channel until the commercial is over?

So lets wait and see what is going to happen here . I know this isn’t the last time we hear about this one …..

cheers

Scott

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We are getting closer and this has only fortified our resolve to be full on ready for this. Chris has not laid off the programming, Bernie and I are doing the things that we do.

The team is increadibly tight and functioning as a good team should. This trio arrangement has really allowed us to focus on our individual expertise and it is working.

We can to a startling realization today. Chris can do anything we dream…..we are bound and determined to keep pushing this …..

Cheers

Scott

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So we are signed up for BarCampTDot.

It has been a wild ride over the last few months bringing this to life. We have given it all while trying to maintain something that resembles a life. Every spare moment for the the last few months has been dedicated to making ConceptShare something great.

BarcampTDot is a great venue for us. A) It has put a date on our finishing work on CS B) It will give us an opportunity to unveil the product C) Will give us an opportunity to listen to other people who share our same thinking.

We are increadibly pumped about this and we are looking forward to meeting everyone who is going to be there. We are also going to be at the MESHconference on the following Monday and Tuesday….it is going to be a long 4 days.

I will be filling in the holes in the remaining 25 days leading up to Barcamp and Mesh. I wish i could have it all up now for everyone to check out…but we will be slowly getting our site together and become more dillegant on the posting.

Cheers

Scott

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Grabbed this interesting cartoon from 37 Signals Flickr Link. I think it sums up one of the main things we are trying to defeat with ConceptShare.

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Ok, I think this is pretty big news, and i think it couldn’t have happened at a better time.

“Garage Technology Ventures, a seed-stage and early-stage venture fund based in Palo Alto, today announced the launch of Garage Technology Ventures Canada, LP, a $50 million ($Canadian) fund that will support emerging technology startups in Canada and leverage the Garage links to Silicon Valley and the broader U.S. technology community. Garage Canada represents the first affiliate fund for Garage Technology Ventures.”

Canada needed a wake up call and this is it.

“The Garage Canada Fund enables us to tap a very strong wellspring of innovation and talent in Canada, and span the North American continent” says said Bill Reichert, managing director of Garage Technology Ventures.

I think there will be alot of great things to come from this move. Lets face it they have made some great moves in the past.

I think the Canadian market is perfect for this type of investment, we have some tremendously smart people out there with great ideas Conservative bankers of Canada better take note.

I will be keeping an eye in the future.

Cheers to Guy and Co

Scott

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