Comments on: innovation, what a show… http://www.rawspinach.org/2007/05/24/innovation-what-a-show/ Jeff Pabian's blog about technology, music, humor and life. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:52:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: what’s your inspiration http://www.rawspinach.org/2007/05/24/innovation-what-a-show/comment-page-1/#comment-747 what’s your inspiration Fri, 11 Jan 2008 14:57:41 +0000 http://www.rawspinach.org/2007/05/24/innovation-what-a-show/#comment-747 [...] written in the past about things that get my creativity going. I think in my last example, I went on about Mel Brook’s History of the World, Part I. What a great movie. There are [...] [...] written in the past about things that get my creativity going. I think in my last example, I went on about Mel Brook’s History of the World, Part I. What a great movie. There are [...]

]]> By: Bob Peatman http://www.rawspinach.org/2007/05/24/innovation-what-a-show/comment-page-1/#comment-380 Bob Peatman Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:34:33 +0000 http://www.rawspinach.org/2007/05/24/innovation-what-a-show/#comment-380 Jason's article was good and that does seem to be what makes everything spread like crazy. Super simple for everyone to use so they adopt it after using someone elses instance of it. The netscape history was interesting. I didn't know any of that except the free explorer part which we all witnessed first hand at early MSPG. Jason’s article was good and that does seem to be what makes everything spread like crazy. Super simple for everyone to use so they adopt it after using someone elses instance of it.

The netscape history was interesting. I didn’t know any of that except the free explorer part which we all witnessed first hand at early MSPG.

]]> By: Jason Spears http://www.rawspinach.org/2007/05/24/innovation-what-a-show/comment-page-1/#comment-349 Jason Spears Wed, 30 May 2007 21:18:46 +0000 http://www.rawspinach.org/2007/05/24/innovation-what-a-show/#comment-349 The thing about cool tech is, are you doing it because you can, or because you are filling a need? I built a mythtv machine mostly for my own use, even though we already had a perfectly workable ReplayTV. When the Replay stopped working, the "adoption rate" if you will of the mythtv box accelerated. Now we use both fairly equally, because they each bring their own set of nice features to the table and allow better coverage of recordings. Another example is presented in one of my favorite jwz entries: http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html In the end, all anyone can do is throw stuff out there and see what gets the bites. Nobody ever saw a Myspace or Twitter come out of high-level design committee and get vetted by focus groups, etc. You do what you think is cool, and if a bunch of other people say "Hey, yeah it is" then you have a winner. The thing about cool tech is, are you doing it because you can, or because you are filling a need?

I built a mythtv machine mostly for my own use, even though we already had a perfectly workable ReplayTV. When the Replay stopped working, the “adoption rate” if you will of the mythtv box accelerated. Now we use both fairly equally, because they each bring their own set of nice features to the table and allow better coverage of recordings.

Another example is presented in one of my favorite jwz entries: http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html

In the end, all anyone can do is throw stuff out there and see what gets the bites. Nobody ever saw a Myspace or Twitter come out of high-level design committee and get vetted by focus groups, etc. You do what you think is cool, and if a bunch of other people say “Hey, yeah it is” then you have a winner.

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