Tag: over-innovation

Evernote on how not to improve your product Backdoor advertising

In a rather curious article Nieman Lab wonders why users do not like Context, Evernote’s new research feature. Hidden in the article lies the answer. Context is advertising cleverly disguised as generic search results. Evernote is an app for digital note taking, that synchronizes itself between your various gadgets. For most people Evernote is a […]

Over-innovation limits Facebook’s future

Facebook has an innovation problem for which it compensates by “over-innovation” of existing products. That strategy backfires, hurting the company’s reputation, making it hard to expand into business software with its recently announced Facebook@Work, a tool for messaging and collaboration, The company is successful because of its first mover advantage, networking effects and the backing […]