Paul Gillin

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My Favorite Productivity Apps – Multimedia & Web

Paul Gillin

I keep my photo library in Picasa , which has terrific features for organizing and tagging images. It’s fast and it includes editing features that I haven’t seen anywhere outside of PhotoShop. It’s fast and it includes editing features that I haven’t seen anywhere outside of PhotoShop. What a waste.

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Content Curation on Steroids

Paul Gillin

In the same way that museum curators choose which items from a collection to put on display, content curators select and publish information that’s of interest to a particular audience. That’s one of the coolest features of inference engines: they get better the more you use them.

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Five Lessons From the Web 2.0 Summit

Paul Gillin

Rather, the plunging price of flat-panel displays will make PCs more of a dashboard for a user’s business and entertainment needs. One memorable point he made is that “social” is a powerful feature of software. Loading up on features quickly reaches the point of diminishing returns. . <p

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Attack of the Customers: The Pampers Dry Max Crisis

Paul Gillin

The new Dry Max line featured an absorbent gel that improved diaper efficiency while cutting materials and costs by 20%. A change in a store display at a local Walmart was evidence that P&G was undertaking a stealth recall. If you’d like to be notified when the book is available, please comment below or drop me a line.

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How Twitter Amplifies a Customer Attack

Paul Gillin

Twitter’s simplicity and accessibility are it strongest features. People can share anything and they do. The power of Twitter comes from filtering out the junk and focusing on what’s important to you. Messages can be sent and received on nearly any cell phone. Updates are instantaneous, which makes Twitter a valuable news tool.

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