designswarm {thoughts}

I laughed and cried in the 2 days at LIFT but the best things were the quotes i can still remember… “…now with fewer desirable features” – Cory Doctorow “there needs to be terms of abuse for everything because otherwise nothing gets done” – Bruce Sterling “Europe has been more connected by EasyJet than by… Continue reading LIFT quotes…

As i was live-blogging this whole conference i went back to my posts to correct the spelling mistakes and unfinished sentences… apologies for those of you who may have felt insulted :-)

The famous Microsoft blogger is talking about corporate blogging.

Talking about the working environment and efficiency in the workplace. He used an online forum called talk.gateway to tap into the company and what the employees were interested in. When decisions get questioned within the business. eg. The 3D weather graphics in England. The decision was really discussed and criticized and the person responsible for… Continue reading LIFT: Euan Semple: Working in a wired world

Goes into talking about the relationship between advertising and blogging. How would you make money out of blogging and making a career out of it. What are the advantages in terms of business to blog, to talk about other competitors, to be transparent, honest and informative about your field. The presentation is basically here

From arthesia.com When theme parks, think tanks, and companies collide. innovation has become a crucial success factor for companies but they are facing challenges: silos, “play” is still not questioned and there is no time to focus. When theme parks and think tanks come together, they are creating “instant”. Theme-parks are a unity of space… Continue reading LIFT: Thomas Sevcik:InnovationLab

An interesting comment was just made after this presentation about the fact that there is a sacrifice that is made between buying an object to which you add a layer of personalization and participating in the provision of a service because you may have an emotional bond developed between you and the people involved in… Continue reading Emotional vs personlisation

Important agitator of the swiss economy. In the world of the internet we went through 3 phases: the years of the pioneers 1997 then the golden rush till 2001 and then the ordinary people’s revolution. The open economy is made by ordinary people and who are trying to bring change. What are the key factors… Continue reading LIFT: Xavier Comtesse: Internet & the ordinary people's revolution

The concept of identity is evolving and so has its metaphor. Identity is 0.0 (a driver’s license for example) relies on a trusted third party has an asymmetric relationship because the government is not aware of what i am doing, scalable because the government can produce it, it is optimal for privacy. I can also… Continue reading LIFT:Marc Bresson : Identity Revolution

Talking about his new book