InnerVentures

  • New adventures in Generative AI

    This post is about two new services launched by Microsoft and Google. The first is a reworked AI companion for consumers: Copilot but not as you know it. The other is NotebookLM by Google, a cool new AI powered research assistant. The space is hotting up. I’ve only just toyed with both tools so this…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • OuterVentures and travel Apps

    As I wrote in my last post, the importance of getting out into nature cannot be exaggerated. Fresh off a week on the West Highland Way in Scotland I can definitely verify the benefits. Whilst on the walk I made use of several travel Apps. This post covers two of the most useful. So first…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Features that delight and distress when switching tech tools

    Normally I talk about the former, features that delight, when I review any new use of technology or features I’ve come across. But there is most definitely times when distress is the case. And so in this post I have examples of both. Spike in delight First up is a new email app I tried…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Features that delight – reminders in context – Microsoft Teams

    One of the big bets on Microsoft Teams that the CEO himself has articulated (see this post) is that it becomes a “platform as significant as the internet browser, or a computer operating system”. One key outcome of this is that if Teams does become as pervasive as this suggests and the tool where all…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Features that delight – congratulations Outlook

    I’m not normally one to getting too caught up in features as I have written about many times before. But sometimes they are so delightful and unexpected that, not because they have any intrinsic value, but purely because of the delight they create, they should be celebrated. This is one such feature. Details below.

    Stephen Danelutti