UX

Amazon Prime Air by Gavin Lau

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos took to 60 Minutes to reveal the company's latest delivery method: drones. In what is likely a cunning reminder of the e-tailer's upcoming Cyber Monday sales, these bots will apparently be capable of delivering packages up to five pounds (86 percent of orders are apparently less than that), with the aim of getting them to your house in under half an hour...  

http://www.engadget.com/2013/12/01/amazon-prime-air-drones/

Hands-on with Jolla by Gavin Lau

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Jolla, a splinter group of former Nokia employees, has taken on the task of keeping the N9's legacy going. It's a project that immediately engenders goodwill through its refusal to simply abandon all that good work in favor of economic practicalities — but that same bravado is also what makes it distinctly utopian. A small and unheralded startup aims to succeed where the formerly giant and resource-rich Nokia didn't dare tread... http://vrge.co/1goJyAG

How Mobile Alters Traditional Network Effects In Marketplaces by Gavin Lau

On the web, marketplaces are the stuff of legend. With properties like eBay and Amazon, among many other, an online marketplace harnesses the openness of the web, more efficiently matches supply with demand without too many intermediaries, and leverages network effects to capture economic value during each transaction.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/10/the-mobile-first-impact-on-the-marketplace-network-effect