Creating a webapp is so much easier these days!

Keeping things simple, sticking to conventions by default, not repeating oneself… These are the keys to making software development (relatively) fun, easy and quick. Powerful frameworks for webapp development have appeared in recent years and apply these key principles. Read the full post…

Connecting Research and Web Entrepreneurship

Here’s a suggestion for researchers looking to commercialise the technologies they develop: release an API, let other people package your tech into a product that addresses a need, and deliver value out of it. Read the full post…

New technologies to change people’s lives: the Siri case

Siri is a ground-breaking Virtual Private Assistant that runs on iPhone and was recently acquired by Apple. It is of particular interest to me as it builds on years of research in machine learning and intelligent systems. It is also a success story of “research meets entrepreneurship” and a great example of how the commercialisation of new technologies can change the world. Read the full post…

More feedback: which tools are available?

This is the follow-up to my previous post, “Feedback, feedback, feedback”, focusing now on tools available to gather feedback. Get spontaneous feedback and create user-generated content. Run surveys. Observe and hear what your users say about you. Gather visual and technical feedback.