It’s an exciting day for us today here at Nextpoint. We’re excited to be announcing our new product lines and the pricing.
But more important than that, we’re excited because we believe these products represent a breakthrough set of technologies, offered at a breakthrough price. The same great technology we’ve been developing for and providing to [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Breakthrough Technology Means Breakthrough Pricing
Posted in Electronic data in the law on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Technology Madness Is A Time Suck
Posted in Electronic data in the law on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I love the articles about lost productivity during the NCAA tournament. First off, I love the tournament, we turn it on here at the office and don’t think twice about hanging out with our colleagues for few minutes watching it. But every year there is a spate of articles about how productivity gets crushed by [...]
Changes in Law Firm Management
Posted in Electronic data in the law on March 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A good first-person point of view from a practitioner that hits on the top level impact of technology and why law firm management should be interested. A quick disclosure that McDermott is one of our customers but we haven’t worked with the author of this article.
And really this good set of values for evaluating any [...]
The Jetpack Is Back
Posted in Electronic data in the law on March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Jetpack: An Idea Whose Time Has Never Come, but Won’t Go Away – WSJ.com
One of my favorite analogies is comparing the legal technology market to people waiting for a jetpack. But jetpacks clearly aren’t a feasible technology. And that’s the funny thing about technology, a good idea is just that – a good idea. [...]
Values We Cherish
Posted in Electronic data in the law on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I love technology and the values they represent, here’s my quick laundry list (but not a checklist!)
Nextpoint – let lawyers be lawyers
FlipVideo – super easy video capture
T-Moblie G1 (Google Phone) – stay connected to the internet on the go
Directv – content, content, content timeshifted to when I want it
MacBookPro – i feel so cool
Canon Elph [...]
Features and Checklists
Posted in Electronic data in the law on March 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
A technology decision about to go awry can always be identified by one really pervasive tool of feature driven technology choices — the checklist. The checklists of what features a technology has, what protocols it abides by, where it fits into particular boxes.
Check lists are good for getting things done. Check lists are horrible evaluation [...]
Values Are More Important Than Features
Posted in Electronic data in the law on March 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Nextpoint is better bells and fewer whistles, in the words of our brilliant communications maestro Mike Beumer. But how should people who are evaluating our product interpret this, and what does it mean about if Nextpoint’s web application is going to deliver what you need out of your legal technology.
I’ve noticed two divergent approaches to [...]
