Archive for the ‘Data’ Category

Piracy thrives because it meets an unmet demand

Thursday, November 12th, 2009The Economist writesthere 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 ...

Transparency and the web a rolling debate

Thursday, November 12th, 2009Lawrence Lessig raises what will be a increasingly intense debate, and the perils of openness in governmentIf health care reform ever emerges from Congress, it is certain to spread nationally a project to require doctors to reveal to an Internet-linked ...

Navigating in the networked society

Friday, November 6th, 2009Howard Rheingold gives us a short lesson on how to build aggregated, filtered, personalised information

Making sense of the world we live in through micro narratives and data

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009Cognitive Edge

Google in 5 years time: an apps company

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009And Microsoft will reinvent itself through gaming.Even though Eric Schmidt might have a different point of viewThe reason for this is that the networked society is people powered, and its complex - in fact there is a term called complexity ...

Music + emotion + context + discovery = networked economics [2]

Saturday, October 31st, 2009SoundCloud is fast becoming the preferred streaming host for big name musicians writes Chris Salmon. Moby is using it to air his new album. Sound cloud allows people to listen and comment to the track but also specific parts of ...

Music + emotion + context + discovery = networked economics

Friday, October 30th, 2009The interest in both the prospect of Beatles downloads and the big sales of their re-released CDs highlights an increasingly important back-catalogue business within the embattled music industry. Struggling to earn money on new artists, record labels are mining their ...

African film and networked economics

Friday, October 30th, 2009The African Film Library is an initiative showcasing the best of the African film industry – making the movies easily accessible for movie aficionados around the world.The African film industry is one of the oldest – with its roots in ...

mobile marketing and communications training day

Friday, October 16th, 2009Don't forget to book your place @ Mobile: My Remote Control for Life 28th October 2009What are the deliverables of our mobile marketing day?1.Achieve a comprehensive understanding of how to drive business success – by better understanding; the logic ...

The end of TV as we know it: hyperland

Friday, October 9th, 2009[caption id="attachment_4521" align="aligncenter" width="413" caption="TV the culture hearth of the family home?"][/caption]If found this post over at Russell Davies's gaff online. Russell has such a lovely turn of phrase dontchya think? Although as someone also said to me. 'sometimes Alan ...

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