Herb Gilliland Articles

You Generation: How Big Business Turns You Into Asset - Click To Read Article
Article reprinted from the book "A Universe of Interactions", by H. Elwood Gilliland III, edited by Ziva Borlja

What's Missing from Object Oriented Languages: Plurality - Click To Read Article
Something has been forgotten when we made C, Java and their cousins. Find out how the idea of plurality extends object oriented programming in the Ecere SDK.

The New PayPal Anti-Fraud Model - Click To Read Article
Reprinted with permission from the book "A Universe of Interactions", by H. Elwood Gilliland III, edited by Ziva Borlja

The Easiest Way to Make a Million Dollars - Click To Read Article
The easiest way to make a million dollars: ways to market an idea, build a sales team, and automate your business.

The Idea Harvester - Click To Read Article
A short article on how usability evolves products; how exploitation of customer brains moves innovation within industry. This article deals with the basic principles of "usability" -- the new computer science buzzword of the past two decades. Remember when people actually owned the things they made? Not anymore...

Scientist Seeks Seed Capital for Life Perpetuating Device - Click To Read Article
Interaction Designer Herb Gilliland announces that he is seeking capital for investment into his brain-perpetuating product idea.

Optimizing Your Bank Account: How to Protect Yourself Against Greedy Analysts - Click To Read Article
Reprinted with permission from the book "A Universe of Interactions", by H. Elwood Gilliland III, edited by Ziva Borlja

In the Darkest Hour: Start Something New - Click To Read Article
Starting a business was always a dream; so much in fact that it grew and grew in its importance to me as I progressed through college. Parkinson's Law came into effect here: the longer I waited, the bigger the burden seemed to be. Why start a business? I had a plan: an idea that would make me an instant millionaire, but I lacked the desire to endure it alone. It's hard being an intellectual in the working world, knowing full well the guy sitting next to you has never thought out of the box and the secretary is more concerned about when the bagels are coming. But I didn't just want a business, I wanted a really great job. Well, guess what folks: there's only a few, and tens of thousands of people are vying for them.

Idea Versus Execution - Click To Read Article
An article that addresses the common issues of "idea versus execution" and getting the credit you deserve. This article is partially a response to the Tech Crunch article, "If Execution is What Matters, Where Does That Leave Ideas?"

How I Invented YouTube - Click To Read Article
A controversial article about how YouTube really got started from the mouth of its inventor. Highly criticised and viral, the video "I Invented YouTube!" is featured mainly in Europe. Why? The American status quo of course! Failure? Victim? Hoax? Crackpot? You be the judge.

Exploitation as Empowerment: On YouTube and User-Generated Content - Click To Read Article
Reprinted with permission from the book "A Universe of Interactions" by H. Elwood Gilliland III, edited by Ziva Borlja; this article deals with exploitation and its changing role.

Designing for Power: Rapid Development, Scale and Usability - Click To Read Article
You want to be able to control power. You want to wield it like a weapon, or perhaps a tool, against beyond-human forces (forces of nature, commerce and the meta-human). How can we extend business into space? When will our organizations evolve to provide us with the depth needed to evolve further? What is the role of customer, organization, capitalist, super-capitalist and human being? Does negative marketing help or hurt? Some people say it does both. What are the psychological factors of failure? Why do we need organizations?

Convert an Asteroid into a Think Tank - Click To Read Article
Today's business leaders need to focus on what's above their head. Set high standards and reach for the stars.


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