Archive for 2008

The True Promise of the Mobile Society – Access, Communication & Business

Friday, October 3rd, 2008 I am speaking at an event in Slovenia in November and I was asked to write something about my presentation. I thought it was worth sharing It is often said that that what works in one country, does not work in ...

The Black Gold of the 21st Century – refined data

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008An interesting piece/rant from Bob Garfield - SMLXL has written a whitepaper on Social Marketing Intelligence - the black gold of the 21st Century - please contact me alanm (AT) smlxtralarge (DOT) comWe've stipulated already that display advertising as a ...

You’ve come a long way, but you ain’t seen nothin’ yet

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 Says Vint Cerf in his Op-ed piece about the Internet I have no doubts that its social repercussions will take decades to be fully understood, but it has already done much to benefit the world. It has provided access to information ...

Co-creation of a business

Friday, September 5th, 2008 Threadless is an example of the Generation that is networked, participatory, and co-creative. It is a great example of the combination of Engagement In the The Customer is the Company  an in-depth look at the company Threadless - one can ...

Now you know what to do with your To-Do Lists

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008By Jeff Chiba Stearns

The anthropology of YouTube [2]

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008last night I went and had a good dig into the blog led by Dr. Michael WeschI was intrigued initially by his amazing films first sparked by The machine is Us/ing usIn a section of his presentation to the Library ...

The anthropology of YouTube

Friday, August 1st, 2008Dave Cushman wrote a very engaging piece The great disruption of social networks reaches its tipping point which accompanies this very well.

What is advertising?

Friday, August 1st, 2008Say the word advertising and people will imagineTV spots Bill Boards Classifieds Banner ads Direct Mailand so on. I think these are but the furniture of advertising.Robin Good has made a great post on the Brand AmbassadorRobins treatiseThe brand ambassador is an advertising model ...

The link economy vs. the content economy

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008Some interesting thoughts from The imperatives of the link economy1. All content must be transparent: open on the web with permanent links so it can receive links. It?s not content until it?s linked.2. The recipient of links is the party ...

Festival – technology and We Media aka social networking

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008I am in the process of reading John Thackara's book In the BubbleHe writesThroughout the modern age we have subordinated the interests of people to those of technology, an approach that has led to the unthinkable destruction of traditional cultures ...

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