Archive for the ‘Data’ Category

Mobile futures

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 I was asked whether I would like to make a few predictions around mobile, networks, commerce and culture by Rudy de Waele. I joined a very interesting collective to share my views and I was fascinated by what everyone of ...

Networked television – we’ve only just begun

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010 Sang the Carpenters, all those years ago. The next decade will see the continuing transformation of television, with video becoming more personal and democratic as new networks subvert and transcend the broadcast model. Dr William Cooper of the convergent communications consultancy ...

What do magazines look like?

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

Straight line thinking stops here @ INSEAD

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009 Its planes, trains and automobiles as I travel to day to speak at the Web 2.0 symposium which takes place at INSEAD as from tomorrow. The topic: Inter-Organizational Learning and Competence Development: Web 2.0 Experiences and Trends From e-Learning to Web 2.0 ...

Ahem google in case you don’t know sharing drives commerce

Saturday, December 5th, 2009 [caption id="attachment_4768" align="aligncenter" width="379" caption="http://www.flickr.com/photos/16230215@N08/4066005402"][/caption] WHY is Google winning? And what does it tell us about the future?A fortnight ago, Rupert Murdoch told Australian Sky that he would stop Google from indexing all of his content, preventing it from becoming a ...

SoftBank Mobile – Not Your Typical Telco Operator

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 As a result of a recent conversation with Alan he kindly invited me, in an evil 'dare ya' challenge sorta way, to submit this post focused on what I had casually called a unique operator approach by SoftBank Mobile here ...

Mandleson, ethics, culture, commerce and copyright law

Saturday, November 21st, 2009 [caption id="attachment_4715" align="aligncenter" width="310" caption="The architecture of authority (photograph Richard Ross)"][/caption] Just as the leaks predicted, the UK government has offered up its Digital Economy Bill, which includes massive changes to copyright law, including the power of the government to effectively ...

Squaring up to the networked society

Friday, November 20th, 2009 Right on the heels of Foursquare’s API release, the location-based mobile application and game is announcing another big rollout to cities across the world. Just one month after releasing Foursquare () to 15 new cities in the US and Canada, ...

When data flows things happen

Friday, November 20th, 2009 A cartographer out and about while mapping for the Ordnance Survey The government is to explore ways of making all Ordnance Survey maps freely available online from April, in a victory for the Guardian's three-year Free Our Data campaign. The move ...

Piracy thrives because it meets an unmet demand

Thursday, November 12th, 2009 The Economist writes there is growing evidence that the plethora of new services adds up to an attractive alternative to piracy for many (see article). In June a poll of Swedish users of file-sharing software found that 60% had cut back ...