Potholes In My Digital Experience! Is The Solution A New Mobile App?
Driving home from the Boston Logan airport in the winter can be an adventure. Fortunately, local governments have set up a means for reporting one of the perils — potholes. I know this because an...
View ArticleMobile Development: The 2015 Crystal Ball
Mobile developers change people's lives every single day — they create innovative experiences, reshape how we spend our time, and give us continual access to Facebook and Twitter (the latter being...
View ArticleCustomer-Obsessed Technology Platforms: If You Don’t Know, You’re Doing IT Wrong
"I don't know about you people, but I don't want to live in a world where someone else makes the world a better place better than we do." — Gavin Belson, Silicon Valley Writing software to make the...
View ArticleThe Breathtaking Future of Software Development — It’s Already Here!
"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed" — William Gibson I recently drove a Tesla for the first time. As a kid that grew up in a car dealership (my father and grandfather...
View ArticleBackend-as-a-Service: Bring Out Your Dead!
Appcelerator was acquired by Axway. Parse (once acquired by Facebook) closes up shop. It’s been a busy week in the BaaS world. It all reminds me of the “Bring out your dead!” sketch in Monty Python and...
View ArticleBots: The Next Big Thing In Mobile? Not So Fast.
Everyone is buzzing this week about bots with Facebook/Messenger’s anticipated launch of bots on its messenger platform. What is a bot you ask? A bot is a chat-based interface that helps consumers...
View ArticleGoogle’s Next Play: Your Assistant For Everything – Not Just Answers
This blog post is co-authored by VP and Principal Analyst Julie Ask and Analyst Andrew Hogan at Forrester. Google held an event in San Francisco this week to announce several new consumer products – a...
View ArticleMobile Experiences Just Got Better
Oh, hello friends, it's been too long! But I couldn't let today's news stay this far under the radar. With a relatively small announcement on its blog, Google announced that the first Instant Apps have...
View ArticleFuturology Episode 4: The Future Of The Connected Workplace
This post was authored by Claudia Tajima, Researcher at Forrester. On the second part of the forth episode of our Futurology webinar series, Mike Facemire, Julie Ask and James McQuivey convened to...
View ArticleBuilding The Web? If It’s Not Progressive, It’s Not Right!
Web apps or native apps? For a long time, that was the choice we had for building mobile experiences. And we all know the tradeoff: Native apps are really expensive but give the best experience. Web...
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