Archive for the ‘Distribution’ Category

Thou shall not share

Monday, August 31st, 2009My good friend Gerd Leonhard, has published a great post on the UK's desire to disconnect those that illegally fileshare. As companies struggle to shore up the thinning value of their analogue business models.[caption id="attachment_4328" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Culture lock down. ...

The glittering allure of the mobile society: destination Japan

Friday, August 21st, 2009Last year I wrote The glittering allure of the mobile society for Microsoft, which you can download hereFrom Japan, we get an interesting service that fits into what the mobile society is all about from infinita TVAs #5 in our ...

Surviving, and thriving in this wired up world

Thursday, August 13th, 2009Early this year,  I co-wrote a book called Social Media Marketing: How Data Analytics helps to monetize the User Base in Telecoms, Social Networks, Media and Advertising in a Converged Ecosystem. (Futuretext 2009).This book is important because, the 4 ...

Traditional media must “engage” or die

Thursday, August 13th, 2009Half the country's 1,300 local newspapers will close between now and 2013, destroying 20,000 media jobs. There will be a decline of original content across the board that will have enormous consequences for democracy.Its not that journalism, news and newspapers ...

Networked economics comes to the music industry

Friday, August 7th, 2009Richard Wray writes,It has finally sunk in that there will not be one single replacement for the ongoing drop in "physical" music sales - in other words, the perpetual decline in CD buying. Instead, a host of new services will ...

Social media but an element of Engagement

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009Tim Harrap, very kindly pointed me to lessons learn't in social media by Dirk Shaw, (Great name)Its good sound advice, common sense and obviously hard won. My view however is that Engagement as a principal co-joins social media with other ...

Communities Dominate Brands – prescient

Saturday, August 1st, 2009Tim Harrap in a twitter post mentioned a conversation @ Marketing in Australia that identifies Communities Dominate Brands as being – prescient. We have become linked to what is now commonly called Social Media - thought I still prefer the ...

True knowledge in the semantic network

Thursday, July 30th, 2009Rennee Blodgett writes about her recent visit to Cambridge and interviews the CEO of True KnowledgeTrue Knowledge improves the experience of finding known facts on the Web. Think: semantic search. Their first service–the True Knowledge Answer Engine–is a major step ...

Digital Britain loses the plot

Monday, July 27th, 2009Recently a conference took place to discuss Lord Carters report on Digital BritainA while ago I asked David Bollier who had worked with the Aspen Institute for 15 years to help draft a response to the Digital Britain report - ...

television channels are history

Monday, July 27th, 2009says Time Berners LeeThe man credited with creating the web says that television channels will be history and that the internet should be able to offer a random access library of anything that has ever been broadcast. Twenty years after ...

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