Geoff Jones

The Intention economy at work?

Posted on March 18, 2006May 28, 2019

Is this is an example of Doc Searls intention economy at work? Rogier Mulder’s Apple magSafe power connector burnt up so he posted pictures onto Flickr. Apple apparently saw the pictures ,asked for them to be taken down. But here is the good bit “Apple support responded very well (thanks Klaas) and fast. Before I
called our local Apple support line, the dutch engineers were already
contacted by their US collegues (who saw the pics)”

commoditization or Decommoditification

Posted on March 17, 2006June 13, 2015

Two takes on commoditisation one by Hugh
“And selling commodities is hard. If you don’t give the customer exactly what she wants” and one from Geoff Moore
“What you want to do is overcome the force of commoditization, which works to your disadvantage, eroding your margins.”
Interesting reads

Clinically Famous Bellydance

Visited my Pilates Teacher Daphne on her second night of the play chronicling her time in Cairo as a bellydancer. An excellent performance with some great bellydancing as well.

The second part was by Caroline Ann Gold called Clinically Famous and was a dramatised version of her stay at The Priory with agitated depression coupled with a critique of soap operas. Very amusing with excellent acting.

Both plays were directed by John Voce

They are intending to take both plays to The Edinburgh Fringe if they can raise the few thousand quid it takes. Maybe I can get Euan Spence interested in helping out…

When will they learn….Ski Hire Les Gets France

Posted on March 14, 2006

My friend Thierry who runs Nevada Sports, a really passionate person dedicated to ski/snowboard/mountainbike sales and rental in Les Gets, France. Thierry is keen to raise his internet profile. I’ve suggested to him blogging but to no avail. His latest attempt at a web site is using Clic online to implement a flash effort.
Running a spoof googlebot supplied by Smart IT consulting gives this result on his home page:-
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Louer vos skis et votre snowboard, payer moins cher avec Nevada Sports, station de ski Les Gets
meta name=”description” content=”Louez, Reservez votre materiel en ligne, et economisez sur la location. Des packs (skis, snowboard, casques..) adaptes a tous types de glisse, du debutant au confirme. Un moniteur national de ski a votre service pres des pistes des chavannes, station de ski des gets. Portes du soleil, liaison, avoriaz, morzine, nyon.”
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Which to my way of thinking is awful. Your first page should be text rich, maximising your google opportunities. How will a UK person typing in ski hire Les Gets, ever find him? Maybe this post will help a little.