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random projects

a short presentation of some of the projects that I have been involved in and a few interviews with random publications

recent posts

some random thoughts about innovation, user behavior, product development, entrepreneurship and other random stuff

Why big retail will be the Internet’s next victim

New technologies regularly change the rules of competition. When a fundamental shift happens, companies that seemed unassailable flounder and newer firms quicker to grasp the changed rules take their place: if it’s big enough we call it an “Revolution”. If it small, we call it innovation. If we go back 200 years ago, the shift ...

Three reasons why email still rules the Internet

Email is, besides all its flaws, still the cornerstone of the Internet. If you look at new successful services that are gaining traction, many of them are companies that use email in a smart, new way. The past couple of years, we’ve seen this from daily deals startups, like Groupon, GiltCity and Living Social. These companies take ...

Rethinking how people interface with computers

How three events this past week, involving Microsoft’s Kinect, a trip to a bio lab and a brainwave headset, have made me certain that we will soon have to say goodbye to the mouse and keyboard. There is great book called The Singularity is Near. It discusses, among other things, the interesting fact that we ...