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Chris Tacy

18 Nov 2008

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Cable's Lost Generation

John Gilles
Cable's Lost Generation
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A Digital TV Experience That Was Kinda Creepy

Michael LLaneza

29 Nov 2009
Apparently at TiVo Inc. they're excited to provide new features to their customers.
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Service Design

Patrick Newbery, Adam Dole

09 Jul 2009
Service design, as a concept, has not been top of mind in the U.S. over the past decade. Why does it matter now?
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Texury

Lara de Larios

17 Jun 2009
Technology commoditization getting you down? It's time to dip your phone in Platinum and plaster it with Diamonds.
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Why Blu-ray Has NOT Been "Betamaxed"

Mike Reddy

14 Jun 2009
I posit that lukewarm consumer adoption of Blu-ray is linked to a number of very natural market forces, not perception as a limited-life technology.
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Method Takes Aim at the iPhone OS 3.0

Lawrence Edmondson

05 Jun 2009
With version 3 of the iPhone OS and SDK, Apple will once again up the ante on the capabilities of the iPhone and iPod Touch.
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Creating Large Scale Transformation

Adam Dole

21 May 2009
Why is it that too often we see smart people defending bad ideas?
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A Whole Lotta 3D

John Gilles

19 May 2009
While it's impossible to know exactly which forms of 3D will become ubiquitous, it's near-certain that 3D experiences will become commonplace and widespread.
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Future or the Death of Crowd-Sourcing Ideas?

Adam Dole

12 May 2009
How much free time do people actually have in a day to work on someone else's problem?
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Androids In Your Device

Rahul Powar

24 Nov 2008
Should Android be used to power the next generation of intelligent kitchen appliances or set top boxes?
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iPhone vs Android : A Developer's Perspective

Rahul Powar

24 Nov 2008
While the mechanics of the platforms are well documented, I would like to contrast what the platforms offer from a capabilities standpoint.
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More boxee News!

Chris Tacy

18 Nov 2008
Our friends at boxee just closed their Series A funding round. This is an accomplishment in any market at any time. In the current market, it's a clear sign that boxee is on to something powerful.
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Invest In Your Brand? Now?
Start With the Customer

Patrick Newbery, Adam Dole

18 Nov 2008
Make sure you understand your user (or in the case of brand, your customer). This means listening to them in order to learn their motivations and desires.
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The Real Truth Behind The 'Ah-Ha' Moment

Adam Dole

27 Oct 2008
How important is the actual path that a project team takes in order to get to the big "Ah-Ha" moment during a project?
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Android

Chris Tacy

22 Oct 2008
Today marks the official release of the first Android phone - the G1 from T-Mobile. Earlier this year, we did an internal development project of an Android application.
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Good People Win For Once

Chris Tacy

22 Oct 2008
Among my favorite things is getting to see good people win. It was an absolutely wonderful experience to be with Avner and Dave from boxee earlier this week at CES iStage.
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Method History, Volume 1

Alicia Bergin

13 Oct 2008
The oldest Method-designed websites still live on the Web.
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Does Business Need Brand?

Patrick Newbery

01 Oct 2008
Your brand is your reputation. If you are in business, you have a customer, who has an opinion.
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TechCrunch 50

Chris Tacy

12 Sep 2008
Trends and winners at TechCrunch 2008.
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Luxury Branding

Sean McGrath

11 Sep 2008
Luxury branding is the art of aspiration and escapism, and as such, the emotional impact of the brand in all of its manifestations is crucial.
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Finding New Ways to Use Old Strengths

Adam Dole

18 Aug 2008
Many of today's top companies are so fixated on their competition that they forget to focus on their single most important competitive advantage: their strengths.
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Opening Up the Living Room

Jennifer Crakow

14 Aug 2008
In our current world of un-conferences, regular meet-ups, and foo-camps, I easily forget about how unidirectional traditional conferences can be.
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What Role Can Social 3D Worlds Play in Education?

Method

15 Jul 2008
Corporations (as well as schools) have too long shunned games as learning tools.
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Branding in Virtual Worlds:
Part 3

Claus Nehmzow

01 Jul 2008
What makes brand extensions into virtual worlds a success or a failure? Part 3: b2b brands.
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Startups are wrong if they think they don't need research

Chris Tacy

10 Jun 2008
A start-up (read: you) can't afford to wait until after its product launches to get to know its customers.
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Explain Yourself!

Ritik Dholakia

28 May 2008
One of our unique challenges is to find ways to engage the audiences of our design more deeply in the process of our design.
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Branding in Virtual Worlds:
Part 2

Claus Nehmzow

11 May 2008
What makes brand extensions into virtual worlds a success or a failure? Part 2: successful examples of consumer brands.
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Blu-ray: The Next Connected Living Room Entertainment...

Method

08 May 2008
In addition to great picture and sound the next generation of Blu-ray disc players have something that is just starting to come into focus: network connectivitiy.
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Chindogu - Why Japan's Still Got It More Right

Ritik Dholakia

01 May 2008
Chindogu, if you don't know, is the Japanese art of the "unuseless." It is the ultimate in Not Form Over Not Function.
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Welcome to the New Method.com

Method

29 Apr 2008
We hope that it helps you understand who we are as a firm, what we might be able to do for you as a client, how we work, what we are like to work with and what it's like to work at Method.
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Branding in Virtual Worlds:
Part 1

Claus Nehmzow

27 Apr 2008
What makes brand extensions into virtual worlds a success or a failure? Part 1: less successful examples of consumer brands.
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My Irrational Love For the Backwards "N"

Khoi Uong

27 Apr 2008
The MFA in me thinks about outsider art, primitivism and the artist's mark. The designer in me thinks about Postscript and TrueType.
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The Slow March of Traditional Media Toward the Sea Continues

Chris Schmidt

19 Apr 2008
All signs are pointing in the same direction, and that direction is towards a substantial spending shift in advertising towards interactive media.
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SEO and the Shopping Mall

Mark Roudebush

19 Apr 2008
In the web environment, the ability for a company to increase its findability in search engines is key.
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The Network is the Computer...

Abdullah Shaikh

19 Apr 2008
Google and amazon are playing a vital role in leveraging their massive datacenter infrastructures and providing access to these resources to individuals and software startups.
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Parking with Your Phone

Erik Hunter

19 Apr 2008
Your phone is now your credit card and your cashier.
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Content is...Queen

Mark Roudebush

16 Apr 2008
In the end I have to wonder, whose opinion really matters?
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How Games are Changing the Channel on TV - Part 3

John Gilles

16 Apr 2008
While distribution platforms are getting morphed by games consoles, the games themselves are becoming a source of programming for TV.
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How Games are Changing the Channel on TV - Part 2

John Gilles

16 Apr 2008
Games are changing the TV landscape by altering distribution platforms, content programming and, finally, production environments.
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How Games are Changing the Channel on TV - Part 1

John Gilles

15 Apr 2008
I will tell you without hesitation that interactive TV (iTV) is here today - we've just been looking at the wrong boxes.
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Design-Led Innovation

Evelyn Wang

15 Apr 2008
If at the heart of design is the endeavor to solve a problem, then in theory, there are as many opportunities for design as there problems to solve.
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Brand Strategy Is Broken

Steven Spieczny

13 Apr 2008
It may sound entirely self-evident - "focus on the brand, stupid" - but I'm increasingly thinking that proposition is flawed, or at least in need of some retrofit.
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Why Getting Rid of Your Car Doesn't Sound So Scary...

Adam Dole

11 Apr 2008
Americans love their cars. So what would it take for people to actually get rid of their vehicle?
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Finding Gold in the Dark, Dangerous Cave

Jennifer Ng

09 Apr 2008
People are willing to go through the dark, dangerous cave, fighting monsters and digging through the dirt just to find the gold.
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What does "Brand Experience" mean to a technologist?

Fiid Williams

07 Apr 2008
To me, the shining example of how brand experience and technology intersect is Apple.
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Pragmatic Creativity

Chris Tacy

04 Apr 2008
"I don't remember being forced to accept compromises, but I've willingly accepted constraints." - Charles Eames
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Strategists Watching TV

Chris Tacy

30 Mar 2008
How can I tell if someone is going to be a good strategic thinker?