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Reading Bytes for Mar 15

March 15, 2010

Daily updates on what I’m reading

All This ChittahChattah | I Need You to Need Me – Needs vs Wants – which is the better research question?<br />
CLIPs: "The need statement (“People need… blah blah”) is a cornerstone of user research. Observations, patterns and insights (all our hard work!) distilled into succinct statements neatly pointing to [...]

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Bytes for Mar 3

March 3, 2010

Daily updates on what I’m reading

Putting people first » Internet on mobiles: evolution of usability and user experience. PhD dissertation. – Overview and Article Downloaded. http://lib.tkk.fi/Diss/2009/isbn9789522481900/article11.pdf and http://lib.tkk.fi/Diss/2009/isbn9789522481900/<br />
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Clip: "Anne Kaikkonen, a UI product manager at Nokia, recently presented her doctoral dissertation on the usability and user experience of the mobile internet. [...]

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My laptop, my MBA! Commercial Mobile Innovation for SME’s

August 31, 2009

This is the last post in the series on Mobile Innovations based on a learning journey that I was a part of. Here’s the full series:

Mobile Innovations – Introduction
Nokia Life Tools – Agriculture Service – “The Internet for the next million” – mobile innovations in rural India
Nokia Life Tools – Education Service – “Raju [...]

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Mobile Innovations

July 23, 2009

For a few days over the next two weeks, I’m going to be a “scribe” where I will visit with people who’s lives are being transformed through mobile innovations. This will be in rural Maharashtra and Kolhapur, and the two projects we are covering in India are Nokia Life Tools and Nokia Tej.  This is [...]

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The Future of Social Networking?

September 11, 2008

This morning, I set up an Open Phweet around the Future of Social Computing, triggered by Jan Chipchase’s paper called Future Social, and my subsequent feeling of reinforcement and validation around a study we recently did around the future of Mobile Social Computing.  It’s been an interesting day, talking to a few people who [...]

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Mobile Phones, Emerging Markets and Stuart Henshall

May 13, 2008

Stuart’s becoming quite the expert on mobility in urban India!! He was here end-April for a little over a week and we did a lot of learning around the mobile phone space in Mumbai. Next time, small towns too!! Its really cool to see how he can really get to some deep [...]

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Morphing from a qualitative researcher to a mobile phone industry expert?

December 22, 2007

It’s funny – in the last month, I have been interviewed as an ‘expert’ on the mobile phone scene and its future in India by representatives of companies like Nokia and some large telcos (NDA’s prevent me from naming them!). Moni Kivirauma from Finland was here a few weeks ago and she gifted [...]

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Somewherein using SMS to raise funds for Sidr Victims

November 23, 2007

Aparna Ray, in a post at Global Voices Online links to several blogs that are trying to garner aid and resources to help victims of Cyclone Sidr. [Image on right courtesy BBC News]. Towards the end of the post, she shares this simple yet cool use of SMS to get people to donate:
Bangla blogging [...]

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