Herkut 29.3.2008

”In future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant.”

Highlights of an interesting discussion regarding personas, process, and communication from the IxD Discussion mailing list, which spun off from a thread on presentation software.

A largr but long-in-the-tooth technology company hoping to become a bigger force in online advertising buys a small start-up in a sector that everybody agrees is the next big thing.

”The point is to share, no matter what.”

Some light on China’s digital culture, like the fact that half of the current internet users in China were not online 2 years ago, and there’s soon more people online than in the US.

The main reason why corporate social media is difficult to do is that social media by definition wants to express voice and opinion. Corporates do not.