Hi Folks,
If there's one guy whose philosphy towards customer support and evangelism I love; it's Ron Liechty from Nokia... surfed to his blog after benefitting from his help at Nokia developer's forum.
Not sure about how many of you have read Po Bronson's "The Nudist in the Late Shift"- that talked of how the internet and the dotcom boom created new lifestyles... including the story of the guy that would work late at night... after everyone had gone home... and he'd work in the office naked!!!
So anyways... couple of days back; I saw a interesting entry on Ron's blog--- touched upon a future where we'd see a possible class of lifestyle apps aimed at folks that like working naked...
https://blogs.forum.nokia.com/view_entry.html?id=390
And that blog entry had a link to a computerworld interview with Tom Mullhal- who with his wife runs a clothing-optional SPA.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9009365&pageNumber=1
and Tom, in the above interview talks of the impact of how 9/11 and the layoffs that followed it led people to work longer hours and telecommute-- and hence the very real possibility of folks that check into a nude-spa bringing their work with them.
Check it out Folks!!!
Interesting reading and interesting thinking.
And check this space again; because I have some heavy thoughts on what folks like Nokia need to do to usher in and profit from newer and newer classes of lifestyle apps!!!
-Gizmobuddy
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