Archive for the ‘Convergence’ Category

The blog in the corporate machine

Monday, February 13th, 2006 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Participation, Social Networks, Strategy, Web/Tech, Weblogs | No Comments »

The spread of "social media" across the internet - such as online discussion groups, e-mailing lists and blogs has brought forth a new breed of brand assassin, who can materialise from nowhere and savage a firm's reputation. Often the ...

As IBM jumps on board, there’s just no stopping AJAX now

Friday, February 10th, 2006 Posted in Convergence, Darwin, Data, Media, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech, Weblogs | No Comments »

Ajax threatens software incumbents and its free "We've seen the Web moving from a publishing paradigm to an e-business paradigm to an AJAX paradigm." That is the considered verdict of IBM Software Group's CTO of Emerging Internet Technologies, ...

Boston developing plan For citywide Wi-Fi

Friday, February 10th, 2006 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Engagement Civil Society, Generation C, Government & Politics, Health, Media, Search Econmics, Society, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »

The City of Boston, long conspicuous by the absence of any municipal-wide effort to supply Wi-Fi access, is moving to support a citywide rollout of the wireless technology that is expected to be outlined in a report next week ...

Not just another column about blogging

Thursday, February 9th, 2006 Posted in Advertising, Broadcast, Citizen journalism, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Link Economy, Marketing, Media, Newspapers, Participation, Philosophy, Quotes, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Television, Trends, Web/Tech, Weblogs | No Comments »

Inflamatory stuff from Jack Schafer in What newspaper history says about newspaper future. I'm not about to predict what the collapsing cost of media creation will ultimately do to the news business, if only because my track record at ...

The end of TV as we know it: A future industry perspective

Thursday, February 9th, 2006 Posted in Broadcast, Citizen journalism, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Data, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Mobile, Generation C, Link Economy, Marketing, Media, Mobile, News, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Television, Trends, Uncategorized, Web/Tech | No Comments »

I picked this up via Peter Bates mentions a report recently published by IBM The end of TV as we know it: A future industry perspective Peter says; according to a recent report the broadcasting industry is confronting ...

Nielsen study highlights growing power of online communities

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Civil Society, Generation C, Link Economy, Marketing, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Television, Trends, Virtual Worlds, Web/Tech, Weblogs, iPTV | No Comments »

The power of online communities is growing rapidly, according to new research, which highlights why traditional media firms such as News Corporation and ITV are snapping up community websites. According to Nielsen NetRatings PDF almost 1.8bn web ...

Conversations on Convegence

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Broadcast, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Data, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Mobile, Gaming, Generation C, Law, Link Economy, Marketing, Media, Mobile, Music, Networks, Newspapers, Participation, Quotes, Retail, Search Econmics, Society, Strategy, Television, Trends, Web/Tech, Weblogs | Comments Off

Conversations on Convergence Monday's International Herald Tribune had a fascinating article with views from several directions on convergence in the media space. The IHT quoted EA (Entertainment Arts the video gaming giant), Star the Asian satellite broadcaster, and SK Telecom Korea's ...

Communities and web 2.0

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Education, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Mobile, Engagement Organisations, Engagement Politics, Engagement Research, Engagement Sciences, Generation C, Government & Politics, Health, Link Economy, Marketing, Media, Mobile, Music, Networks, News, Newspapers, Participation, Philosophy, Politics, Retail, Science, Search Econmics, Second Life, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Television, Trends, Virtual Worlds, Web/Tech, Weblogs | No Comments »

What's accelerated Web 2.0 ideals more recently are new technologies. Implementing the movement's basic principles is less expensive and easier than it was several years ago because of the evolution of data storage and software, plus the wider adoption ...

Super-localised communities

Monday, January 30th, 2006 Posted in Convergence, Data, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Organisations, Generation C, Media, Networks, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Trends, Web/Tech | 2 Comments »

I found this on techcrunch talking about the E27 summit Place site add their software to a standard wifi router and distribute them to cafés, events, etc. The result is a portal that all users of the network see ...

Terry Semel and Social Anthropology

Monday, January 30th, 2006 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Data, Economics, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Marketing, Mobile, Networks, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »

Like most media executives of a certain age, he looks to his kids for inspiration. In his speech, mainly concerned with plugging a new service called Yahoo to Go that works seamlessly across a variety of devices ...