The Flip MinoHD I am having way too much fun with the high-definition version of the Flip Mino video camera (Flip calls it the MinoHD and says it’s the “world’s smallest” HD camcorder). It weighs only 85 g and can store 60 minutes of high-quality video, supports Windows and Mac (including QuickTime and iMovie), and […]
Read MoreA year ago, we announced that Information Overload would be the 2008 “Problem-of-the-Year.” Now that we know that Information Overload costs the U.S. economy a minimum of $900 billion per year, it appears that it will be next year’s problem as well. Whether sitting at a desk in the office, in a conference room, in […]
Read MoreAt 3:25 a.m,, the mortgage calculator tool on the FSK Bank Corp website crashed for 2 hours and 9 minutes, causing a minor inconvenience. The next morning, a conference call is scheduled to get to the bottom of the problem. This is the set up for the short film Conference Call made by former Basex […]
Read MoreAccording to our latest research Information Overload costs the U.S. economy a minimum of $900 billion per year in lowered employee productivity and reduced innovation. Despite its heft, this is a fairly conservative number and reflects the loss of 25% of the knowledge worker’s day to the problem. The total could be as high as […]
Read MoreGoogle has introduced a new feature to Gmail users, including those using Google’s enterprise e-mail offering. We’ll let them tell you about it first. From the Google Lab blog: “When we’re working on features for Gmail, the email etiquette on the team is to reply all so everyone involved is kept in the loop. Mark […]
Read MoreIt’s once again time to report on what we are learning from our Information Overload Multi-Client Study. So far over 3,000 knowledge workers have participated in online surveys and follow-up interviews. (For more information on this program, please click here. The root causes of Information Overload continue to include a marked increase in content creation, an […]
Read MoreThe Status Seekers Vance Packard With so much concern about the “Digital Divide” which may occur in the United States between the Net-haves and the Net-Have-Nots, I dusted off my trusty 1959 copy (older than me!) of Vance Packard’s The Status Seekers, which is a very accessibly written book by a sociologist about class differences […]
Read MoreSome of my favorite mobile devices of the past few years have come from Research in Motion, including the BlackBerry Pearl (which we named our 2006 Product-of-the-Year in part thanks to the innovative pearl-like trackball that simplified navigation) and the 8800 series. Now Research in Motion has introduced two new BlackBerry smartphones: the Storm and […]
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