If you're an iPhone (or iDevice) user you probably have a lot of applications on your phone. In fact, if you're a typical iPhone user, you probably have way too many applications on your phone. Happy to encourage your app addiction, many popular websites like Facebook and Wolfram Alpha offer native applications through the iPhone App Store. However, others like Gmail and Google Voice are only available as web applications.
Is Google "Lost"? Are its failures part of a spaghetti-against the wall approach? Or is it an intra-company version of creative destruction? Let's look at three recent Google efforts that didn't end well and see what we can see...
I've gotta admit: I don't have an iPhone. Apple and I have some karmic disconnect, I've learned through the years, and every day that I wake up (or at least every time I grab my phone) I thank my lucky stars that Google exists. Because without Android, I might have an iPhone... and that just seems wrong.
"I never knew my full potential until I got here."
Mahcaiyah Wearing-Gooden, School of the Future Graduate, Class of 2010
After opening its doors for the first time in 2006, School of the Future (SOF) graduated its first senior class last week on June 15, 2010. This 750-student high school, a collaboration between the School District of Philadelphia and Microsoft, was built with a vision to challenge the education status quo. The school partnered with Microsoft to plan, build and support a new model for 21st-century learning communities, applying new approaches in curriculum, teaching methods and staffing. All 118 students, who are called "learners" at SOF, have earned acceptance to at least one postsecondary institution–a commitment they made to each other as ninth graders.
Our own Devin Liddell, Director of Brand Strategy, had the opportunity to fly out to Philadelphia to interview several of the first graduating students profiled for the Graduates piece and press materials PBDH designed for the SOF graduation...
categories// Community, Design, Inspiration, New Work, Technology
