Posts Filed Under nyc
77 Madison Ave
77 Madison AVE is a legitimate address in NYC, but what is 77 Madison AVE curbside?
Filed Under: location, mobility, navigation, nyc, sedentary
A good idea
While I was in New York last November, I was surprised to see that Strand borrowed, literally, a feature from e-commerce websites.
I am not interested, per se, in social recommendations; I just find encouraging e-commerce technologies and innovations start to transfer to high street and specialised retailers. It is a sign that e-commerce user experience is maturing and desirable. It also suggests that HMV, Virgin, Strand, etc. could use their e-commerce websites as an experimenting space – design, implement, iterate, repeat until acceptable, to improve their high street retail experience. As Gennaro Castaldo (HMV) put it in a BusinessWeek article, “You have to give people an added reason to come into your store, something that makes the act of visiting a shop as rewarding as acquiring the good itself.” The crazy thing here is that Strand does not even offer customers reviews/recommendations on their website for Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami.
PS: If you have other examples, feel free to post them.
PS: You can also bet on the next idea… tagging? Customers who bought that book also got…?
Filed Under: nyc, repurposing
Where's the Phone?
In 2004, I participated in a series of studies to understand where people carry mobile phones. Fumiko Ichikawa presented the first public results of this research in a paper entitled Where’s the Phone – a Study of Mobile Phone Location in Public Spaces (pdf – 343KB) at the Mobility 2005 conference in Guangzhou, China. This paper draws on data from the first 3 studies – Helsinki, Milan and New York.
I recommend you read Jan Chipchase detailed blog post about this and the follow up studies in Korea, China, Japan, etc.
