{"id":15529,"date":"2012-01-03T14:21:37","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T21:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=15529"},"modified":"2012-02-05T10:48:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T17:48:24","slug":"product-idea-sarah-heidis-helper-in-the-real-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15529\/product-idea-sarah-heidis-helper-in-the-real-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Product idea: Sarah, Heidi’s helper in the real world."},"content":{"rendered":"

The big buzz in the mobile computing biz is augmented reality, your phone or tablet takes in a scene and then echoes back to you what it can infer from an image and its GPS coordinates, compass direction, etc. This may be cool, or it may be cool like a QR-code, an idea whose time will never come.<\/p>\n

Augmented reality will be that much cooler when it’s like Arnold-the-Terminator’s eyes, but that illustrates the key defects of the idea, as it is currently implemented:<\/p>\n

Augmented reality is not done continuously but only on demand, and only in static and affected ways.<\/p>\n

And, in consequence, it’s not doing anything terribly useful, except possibly in vertical market applications.<\/p>\n

But reflect that an iPad can run continuously for 10 hours without recharging. Next year’s models may double that number. Soon you will get reminders to plug in, or your devices will find ways to provide for themselves while you’re asleep.<\/p>\n

So instead of a truly amazing augmented reality presentation on the Black Hills of Dakota, how about a piece of software that watches you and your life all the time, and augments your activities however it can.<\/p>\n

This harkens back to an idea I’ve brought up before, a hypothetical self-maintaining CRM called Heidi:<\/a><\/p>\n

An email comes in over the transom. The spambot says it’s not spam and the sender is not already in your CRM database, so let’s extract as much information as we can from the email. With a name and an email address we can probably get the sender’s full contact information, and possibly a whole lot more.<\/p>\n

Make that first contact a phone call instead. Caller ID is lame, but Google is not. From the phone number, can you get back to a name? A location? From those, can we effect the same kind of searches discussed above?<\/p>\n

There’s more: Once your CRM knows a name, it should be watching for any changes in publicly-available databases that should be reflected in your private CRM database. That is to say, your CRM should be maintaining itself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sarah’s going to monitor every phone call, of course. She or Heidi should be doing all Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The big buzz in the mobile computing biz is augmented reality, your phone or tablet takes in a scene and then echoes back to you what it can infer from an image and its GPS coordinates, compass direction, etc. This may be cool, or it may be cool like a QR-code, an idea whose time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[325,212,29,379,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-crm","7":"category-flourishing","8":"category-group-therapy","9":"category-innovation","10":"category-technology","12":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12176,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/12176\/html5-demo-standards-arent-add-ons-to-the-web-they-are-the-web\/","url_meta":{"origin":15529,"position":0},"title":"Apple HTML5 demo: “Standards aren’t add-ons to the Web. 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